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Healing, activism promised at Sunday services

Activist and television show host Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at Greater Grace Church in Florissant on Sunday (Aug. 17), during a rally for justice for an unarmed teen shot by Darren Wilson, a Ferguson police officer. Protests and anger have broken out in the Ferguson Community since Michael Brown, an unarmed teen, was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson last Saturday. Photo by Christian Gooden, courtesy of St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sally Morrow

(RNS1-aug18) Activist and television show host Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at Greater Grace Church in Florissant on Sunday (Aug. 17), during a rally for justice for an unarmed teen shot by Darren Wilson, a Ferguson police officer. Protests and anger have broken out in the Ferguson Community since Michael Brown, an unarmed teen, was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson last Saturday. For use with RNS-FERGUSON-PRAY, transmitted on August 18, 2014, Photo by Christian Gooden, courtesy of St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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