Family members’ ‘cluster around the Rev. Charles Petty of Ogden’ s Second Baptist Church, as he christens infant Ted LivingsRig. Panty Says the congregation welcomes three or four newborn members each year. Left to right, Ros McDaniels, Deacon Leroy Miller, Darias Jones, Karen Kn Cynthia Knox and Melissa Knox. it Even now, more than seven years after the Rev. Charles Petty delivered his first sermon, nervous thoughts interrupt those few moments before he ascends the podium of Ogden’s Second Baptist Church. But he settles himself, he says, by “taking my eyes off the ways of men and women.” With that reassurance, he adds, “the shakiness of the wind has a — way of calming itself.” The same might be said for America’s black churches. THese churches look beyond today, this street, that stereotype. And in so doing they build a spiritual strength that saturates not only the hours of Sunday school but all chapters of life. A strength that calms the shakiness inherent in this world. As American attention turns this week to Martin Luther King Jr., the black leader perhaps best and most widely identified with African-American religion, the Standard-Examiner in today’s Horizons section takes its own look at how the black churches in Northern Utah have heartened and unified the area’s African-Amencan community. Xavier Smith, 3, plays with Lionel Pigott, 9, during a lull in services at Ogden’s Griffin Memorial Church of God in Christ. P re’ ~ » s 8 ey OD a3 eSee SE 2.9 So Baoeer € ee22. B 2 ao S 2 Sew 2 afer. Oy oe m = 5 Cc a -Of cs Le > J oo 2. @ £85 oS SaeLxe SS Rae s S8Fs v as epr Do p> GS3968Us 253285 aS ad ea e 6 eH8o8 £0 a os ee A SS 3 > Fo- E> ee S8eese & s nrvew. Go oe A a.5) a a-2gouwer eos 5 22ar_ so 2 3 Be S 3 a te 8 © 858 Se eo: Se & > 3 eS oS So08Rs y “S852 2 2 bSonrEg oe stele ee . S & E £18 © a oc OBB ES BS rE = oe s =a Se D 3ssan “eS8igeae _—Sm t Saa. : F2 So C's Ww +g OC (mw: aa cS BLS o3 OL = “ OES: Events ge Pastor's | From : Secon bes. 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Let us think fully about what this nation and its leaders are doing,” said Leander Coates, a district superintendent of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Coates was one of several speakers at a Tuesday evening peace vigil and birthday celebration for the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The event, sponsored by several area churches and community organiSee PEACE on 2A