President Barack Obama received an enthusiastic welcome Sunday at the Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in Southeast Washington, where he attended an Easter service with his wife and their daughters, The Washington Post reports.
"This is a monumental moment for us as a community," Pastor Michael E. Bell Sr. said during the service, the Post reports. He called Obama "the most intelligent, most anointed, most charismatic president this country has ever seen," and then looked at him and said: "God has his hands all over you."
Post reporters Eli Saslow and Hamil Harris described the scene: