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Victory Chapel pastor Larry Gregory exhorts his members to join the 'altar call,' an opportunity at meeting's end to leave the safety of one's seat and become prostrate publicly in uninhibited, highly emotional prayer.

Guitarist Cleon McKenzie, whose extended family plays many roles in the daily operation of Bethany Community Church, plays a bittersweet, ongoing blues accompaniment to the several ritual parts of a two-hour Sunday service.

At the Victory Chapel on Gaffey Street in San Pedro, CA, Alfred Sanchez, center left, and Kenneth Crook pray with passion for the health of a sick visitor, foreground, to their little storefront church.

Narbonne High School student Mike Chavez, who in March won the Southern California District USA Boxing Championship in the 139-ound weight class.

Joe Sulentor, batting champ and all-league catcher for Mary Star of the Sea Catholic High School in San Pedro, CA.

Though police and prosecutors join Haruko Ahearn in the conviction that her daughter Joan Brooks was in 1988 murdered and secretly buried by Joan's husband, their without a body to make a case with, and so Haruko weeps everyday for her lost child.

James Ellroy, celebrated author of hardboiled crime novels, contemplates his checkered past from the vantage of an LA street corner where once he was homeless.

On his first-ever visit to the Pacific Ocean, desert denizen Yancy Fulson does back flips at the shoreline under the pier at Manhattan Beach, CA.

Michael Eggleston searches for his mother , Carol, in the sea of blue-robe graduates seated for Los Angeles harbor College's commencement ceremony in June.

Betty Sharp, a 78-year-old substitute teacher in Lawndale (CA) Unified School District, conducts a spirited story-time session for a class of otherwise fidgety third-graders.