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Wisconsin Gets Ready for Inauguration

By Jay Olstad

MILWAUKEE - At the Christian Faith Fellowship Church, many of these parishioners on this Sunday are actually looking forward to this Tuesday . "I'm excited to see what the future holds," said parishioner Eric Thompson. The immediate future is the inauguration of the first African-American United States President--Barack Obama. "It is something many of us didn't expect to see in our life time. This is America and of course we're seeing some impossible things becoming possible," said Bishop Darrell Hines. Hines is the leader of this predominantly black church and he says Tuesday is big but his message in church Sunday is bigger. "We pray for President Bush, we pray for our Presidents, and when the term is over for Barack Obama, we'll pray for the next President. That's what the church does, we pray," he said. And many of the church-goers prayed for this day a black man would become president. They say after Tuesday they will have a tangible example in Barack Obama that anything in America is possible. "You can do anything, there's nothing that is impossible. There is no excuse. You can do it," said Rachel Branch. Not so long ago, that was a dream proclaimed by Martin Luther King Jr. He will be celebrated on his birthday Monday, and come Tuesday his dream will be too. "I'm so ready, I'm just so ready, " said Branch.