Baldwin Park : Rally Targets Gangs, Crime

As many as 300 people are expected to march Saturday morning during a church-sponsored anti-gang, anti-crime rally in a hard-core gang neighborhood in Baldwin Park.

Richard G. Moran, street ministry director for Faith Fellowship Church, organized Baldwin Park, Azusa and El Monte pastors from six other churches to participate in Operation Gang Reach Out.

Pastors and singers will address the crowd at 11 a.m. at Merced and Garvey avenues before the five-block march along neighborhood streets.

The rally was designed to expose gang members and others from the community to an alternative to violence, drugs and gang-banging, Moran said. Church members from Faith Fellowship spend one night a week in the area trying to persuade gang members to take a different path, he said.