{"id":19111,"date":"2026-04-17T00:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:08:15","slug":"chicago-mass-choir-visits-friendship-baptist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/chicago-mass-choir-visits-friendship-baptist-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mass Choir Visits Friendship Baptist Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19112 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6677-2-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6677-2-300x146.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6677-2-370x180.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6677-2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By Alexandria Leatherberry<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Truth Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Easter weekend the Chicago Mass Choir ignited the holiday celebration at Friendship Baptist Church. Mike Huggins has organized group trips to Chicago, DC, and other neighboring states for affordable leisure travel. He decided for the holiday to reverse the travel expenses back into Toledo with an empowering Easter celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Mass Choir quickly rose to prominence with their powerful blend of traditional gospel and contemporary praise, gaining national attention through recordings and appearances on major gospel platforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19113 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6823-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6823-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6823-370x246.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_6823.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Reaching beyond the church walls the choir has appeared on programs such as <em>BET\u2019s Bobby Jones Gospel<\/em>, <em>Windy City Live<\/em>, and the national <em>Allstate Gospel Super Fest<\/em>, They became especially known for original songs like \u201cI Will Bless the Lord,\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s My All and All,\u201d and \u201cGod Is My Everything,\u201d which helped define their signature sound. The Chicago Mass Choir has maintained an active touring presence for over two decades and continues to travel to support faith-based initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the performance were to benefit the Friendship Baptist Church that is under the leadership of Senior Pastor Bishop Duane C. Tisdale and alongside First Lady Thelma Tisdale.\u00a0 The church continues to expand its mission of faith, fellowship and service. Their dedication to empowering the community made the Easter weekend celebration not only a musical event, but a meaningful opportunity to support the church\u2019s ongoing ministries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexandria Leatherberry The Truth Reporter On Easter weekend the Chicago Mass Choir ignited the holiday celebration at Friendship Baptist Church. Mike Huggins has organized group trips to Chicago, DC, and other neighboring states for affordable leisure travel. He decided for the holiday to reverse the travel expenses back into Toledo with an empowering Easter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[343],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19116,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions\/19116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}