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With a Grammy-winning gospel singer, CeCe Winans and a CNN documentary crew on hand, CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien and her producers are devoting the entire third installment of their documentary series, “Black in America,” to the members of the Somerset church and their activist pastor, the Rev. DeForest B. Soaries Jr.

The program, titled “Churched,” will explore the role churches play in contemporary black America by focusing on three families in the congregation. It will air on Oct. 14.

A crowd of 1,200 packed the sanctuary for the 9 a.m. service, along with another 1,000 who came for an 11 a.m. service. CeCe Winans, accompanied by the church’s choir and band, made the sanctuary ring with a rousing rendition of the hymn “The Blood Will Never Lose its Power.”