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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Exposition is Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Do you have one hour to pray before the Blessed Sacrament? Your commitment to a specific day and hour is requested.  All are welcome.   Key Contact:  Kay Warthman, 770-493-1345, Warthman@bellsouth.net.

Altar Servers: Boys and girls in the 4th grade and above who wish to participate in this ministry by assisting the priests at Mass.   Training is held in July.  Rising 4th graders may attend this training.  Servers are required to be practicing members of the parish who have received First Communion. Key Contact: Kris Chatfield, 770-414-9338, krischatfield@bellsouth.net or Angela Perry, 770-496-1535, perry5fam@comcast.net.

Altar Society: Provides special care and maintenance of altar linens, altar cloths, priest’s vestments and sacred vessels used for all liturgical celebrations.  We also maintain both sacristies and order liturgical supplies.  Key Contact: Penny Lampe, 770-939-6149, pennylampe@bellsouth.net.

Centering PrayeR: A method designed to facilitate the development of contemplative prayer by preparing our faculties to cooperate with this gift. It does not replace other kinds of prayer; it simply puts other kinds of prayer into a new and fuller perspective. We meet on Thursday mornings at 10:00 a.m. in the Conference Room except for the 3rd Thursday of the month when we meet in the evening at 7pm. Key Contacts: Barbara Emerson, 678-406-0125, blemerson@peoplepc.com or Marilyn Boulware, 770-837-3094, smboulware@comcast.net.

Children’s Liturgy of the Word: During the 9:00 a.m. Mass each Sunday, children between the ages of 3-1/2 and 10 are invited to the Chapel area to hear the Liturgy of the Word proclaimed at their level in terms that are easier for them to comprehend.   They return to the main assembly before the Eucharist at the time that the gifts are brought forth.   Adult volunteers are responsible for preparing the space/environment, accompanying the children from the main Church to the Chapel, greeting the children, providing music, and preaching/presiding. Key Contact: Ilsa Mendoza-Jackson, 678-612-3336 or 404-847-0531, ilsa.mendoza@verizonbusiness.com.  

Church Adornment: Volunteers provide the liturgically correct altar appointments for the sanctuary and decorate the church for the Easter and Christmas seasons.   Key Contact: Martha Murphy, 770-934-1464 mgmsmark@bellsouth.net.

Eucharistic Ministers: Lay persons who help the priests serve the Body and Precious Blood of Our Lord during liturgy, and/or take the Eucharist to the homebound. Volunteers must be trained and certified. Key Contact:  (vacant).

Lectors: Lectors proclaim the Scripture readings at Mass.  Initial and recurrent training are required and a guidebook of readings is available.  Lectors are assigned to read approximately once each 5 weeks.  Expand your participation – more fully enjoy the Scriptures – join the Lector Ministry. Key Contact: John Bohan, 770-939-1542, j.bohan@comcast.net

Music Ministry: Key Contact:  Gail Goodman, Music Director, 770-939-3501 ext. 228, gailgoodman@holycrossatlanta.org
Piano/organ and cantor at 5:30 p.m. Vigil and 7:30 a.m. on Sundays.   Other Sunday Mass music:

9:00a.m Celebration Choir Mark & Colly Mitchell 770-934-3420
11:00a.m Adoration Choir Gail Goodman 770-939-3501 x228
5:30p.m Crossfire (Youth Mass) Jim Walsh 770-982-7054
  Children’s Choir Gail Goodman 770-939-3501 x228

Ushers: Adult parishioners who greet and assist in seating people, take up offertory gifts, assist in the orderly flow of the Communion procession and distribute bulletins after Mass. Ushers also help handicapped persons and will provide headsets for the hearing-impaired. Key Contact: Bert Steele, 770-491-3152, bsteele30@yahoo.com.

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