'So that all children could fly'

On the Sunday before his inauguration President-elect Barack Obama and his family attended services at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.

The congregation erupted in applause when Mr. Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters Sasha and Malia walked in and sat in the second row, which had been reserved for them.

During the service, children sang and spoke selected readings that recalled the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Martin Luther King walked so that Barack Obama could run," said one boy.

Added another, standing a few feet away from the first African-American ever elected president, "Barack Obama ran so that all children could fly."