{"id":393843,"date":"2026-09-08T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393843\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:14:10","slug":"luke-tillman-9-year-old-kid-pastor-releases-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393843\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Tillman, 9-year-old &#8216;Kid Pastor,&#8217; releases new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3myr9eev9w3eyw0m.jpg\" alt=\"Kid Pastor Luke Tillman visits Orlando\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3myr9eev9w3eyw0m.jpg\" alt=\"Kid Pastor Luke Tillman visits Orlando\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-5173a8d8=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/video\/fmc-52ilmrpeti9wners\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kid Pastor Luke Tillman visits Orlando<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">Kid Pastor Luke Tillman, who went viral on social media, is in Orlando this week for the National Baptist Convention. FOX 35&#8217;s Alexus Cleavenger talked with the 9-year-old pastor about his new book and about being a viral sensation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Luke Tillman is known as the Kid Pastor Luke.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The 9-year-old became a viral sensation a few years ago after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/CmxMglnhoIx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">video of him baptizing his stuffed Paw Patrol toy<\/a> was shared online.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In the years since, he has appeared several times on TV, including on &#8220;The Jennifer Hudson Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Luke is attending the National Baptist Convention this week and promoting his new book &#8220;Finding God Every Day,&#8221; a 90-day devotional for kids.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just a blessing, and I&#8217;m grateful to God that he gave me the opportunity to be an author that&#8217;s 9 years old,&#8221; Luke said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Luke says he hopes the book helps kids know that they don&#8217;t have to be a grown-up to have a relationship with God.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;s for kids, by kids, so they can understand my real kid&#8217;s perspective on how you can get a relationship with God,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written from an interview with Luke Tillman at the National Baptist Convention in Orlando.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/orlando\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando News<\/a> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kid Pastor Luke Tillman visits Orlando Kid Pastor Luke Tillman, who went viral on social media, is in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-393843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}