{"id":513457,"date":"2010-04-04T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelleobamawatch.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2010-04-04T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T21:32:22","slug":"first-lady-obama-and-weemichelles-celebrate-easter-at-allen-chapel-ame-in-southeast-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/513457","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Obama and weeMichelles Celebrate Easter At Allen Chapel AME in Southeast DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Gina. Found this fabulous photo of the First Family at Easter services at Allen Chapel AME in Southeast DC. Love this photo.<\/p>\n

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Why was Marion Berry there? Here is the pool report. I’ll let it speak for itself. The writer needs to get out more:<\/p>\n

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President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Melia and Sasha and Mrs. Marian Robinson, mother of Mrs. Obama, attended 11 a.m. Easter services at the Allen Chapel, African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Southeast Washington\u2019s Ward 8.<\/em><\/p>\n

The motorcade left the North Portico at 10:45 a.m. (The South Lawn was set up for the Monday Easter Egg Roll), rolled down 15<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> Street, past the Tidal Basis where throngs were examining the faded cherry blossoms, to the church at 2498 Alabama Av. SE. The Church\u2019s subtitle is “The Cathedral of Southeast.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

The overflow crowd of congregants was standing, clapping and singing “Alleilua\u2019\u2019 when the first family entered via a side door at 11:05 a.m. and walked along the edge of the sanctuary to sit far stage right in the second pew, setting off applause, cheers and cell-phone cameras. The altar was flanked by the American flag, in front of the Obama\u2019s pew, and the Episcopal Church\u2019s flag on stage left.<\/em><\/p>\n

The pool was positioned at the back of the church, 20 pews behind the Obama family. Ten badged ushers in dark suits and bowties and white gloves lined the two aisles.<\/em><\/p>\n

A 50-person choir arrayed on three rows in the sanctuary facing the congregation sang several gospel songs, clapping and waving to the beat of a key-board ensemble. The president swayed gently to the strong beat and the amped-up sound system.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A number of speakers referred to the president\u2019s attendance. “The president of the United States and his family,\u2019\u2019 “our black president,\u2019\u2019 “the commander in chief,\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

The Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell Sr., pastor of the church, referred to the president as the “most intelligent, most anointed, most charismatic president of American.\u2019\u2019 He called Mrs. Obama “his beautiful wife \u2013 TV cameras don\u2019t do her justice.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

“God has His hand all over you,\u2019\u2019 Pastor Bell said, referring to the president. “Anyone would be foolish to come up against him.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Pastor Bell called Mrs. Robinson “a true AMEer\u2019\u2019 who was “born an AMEer.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Pastor Bell said it “was no accident that he (Obama) is here in light of what happed here last Tuesday,\u2019\u2019 referring to the drive-by shooting deaths of four people in the African American community in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in recent Washington history. The president\u2019s presence was “helping our community heal,\u2019\u2019 Pastor Bell said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pastor Bell said attendees included Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his famly\u00a0 and Marion Barry, D.C. Council Member from Ward 8.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mrs. Obama wore a cream-colored scooped-back elbow-length dress. The president wore a dark suit. Melia<\/strong> wore a pink desk and Mrs. Robinson wore a bright rose-colored dress. Your pooler could not spot Sasha.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pastor Bell announced that the Obama family would leave after they receive communion. The first family kneeled at the communion rail, far stage right, as the Rt. Rev. Adam Jefferson Richardson, Jr., presiding bishop, recited the Lord\u2019s Prayer and then distributed communion, starting far stage left and working his way to the first family. Communion consisted of wafers and individual thimble-size glasses of grape juice.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mortorcade departed church at 12:50 p.m., back to the White House at 1:04 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is Gina. Found this fabulous photo of the First Family at Easter services at Allen Chapel AME in Southeast DC. Love this photo. Why was Marion Berry there? Here is the pool report. I’ll let it speak for itself. The writer needs to get out more: President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Melia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}