Liturgical Ministers & Choir Info

If you have received First Communion and have not yet graduated from High School, there’s an opportunity for you to serve at Transfiguration. There is a three-day training process after which you will be rated as a Novice or Junior Altar Server.  Those exhibiting exceptional skills will be invited to an additional 2 hour training session to become Senior Altar Servers.

Our adult choir members lead the singing at the 5 English Masses each weekend. Mass attendance is flexible – they can sing at any Mass each week.  Rehearsals are also flexible.  They attend one of the three rehearsals each week – Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday at Noon or 7:30 p.m. – whichever is most convenient any given week.  Our Noon rehearsal allows people who have kids in school or who work in the area to keep up to date with the choir without giving up one of their evenings.  In addition to Sunday Masses, the choir is welcome to sing for Holy Day Masses and funerals.  Membership is from 9^th Grade up.

This choir is open to all who enjoy singing in Spanish from 9th grade and up.  Rehearsals are 7:30pm on Wednesdays in the Church.  The Hispanic Choir leads the singing for the 2:00 Spanish Mass.

Looking for a great opportunity for your child to get involved in church ministry and experience the joy of music and singing? Then, look no further than the Transfiguration Youth Choir!

Youth Choir is open to all kids in Grades 2-8 who love to sing and are willing and able to commit to participating in the Fall and/or Spring sessions. All members of Transfiguration are welcome. No auditions required!

This year, our Youth Choir will have the exciting opportunity to participate at new and different Masses throughout the year. We will be singing approximately once a month, either for special anthems combined with adult choir or as the featured choir as part of a new Children’s Mass, scheduled at a variety of times throughout the year. We are hopeful that this will give the greater congregation an opportunity to experience the beautiful sound of the Youth Choir, outside of special Children’s only Masses, as in the past. Below is the schedule of all Masses we will be participating in for the 2024-25 year:

Rehearsals will be most Sunday afternoons, 3:30-4:20 in the Music Room (end of the downstairs hall, by the restrooms). No rehearsals on the first Sundays of all scheduled Cobb County breaks. Children will be allowed to sign themselves in at the beginning of rehearsals, but you will need to be there to sign them out at the end each week.

We will be holding a parent’s meeting at the beginning of our first scheduled rehearsal on Sept 8th. Please plan to stay for the first 10 mins before we begin for important information regarding this new schedule. For any further questions, please contact the Youth Choir Director, Sara Rodriguez: 305-951-8611. Email youthchoir@transfiguration.com

This is the one ministry at Transfiguration for which volunteers must be chosen. Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist at Transfiguration Masses are people who are involved in one or several activities or ministries at Transfiguration.  They make Christ present to the community during the week, and so we want them visibly presenting the Body and Blood of Christ at our Eucharistic Feast.  After a staff recommendation and pastoral approval, you will be invited to a training session. 

Welcoming sisters and brothers in Christ as they arrive for Mass is an important ministry here at Transfiguration.  We gather as a family to celebrate a meal and being welcomed at the door is the beginning of that celebration.  However, hospitality extends beyond handing out programs at the beginning of Mass.  There are late-comers to be seated, a collection to be taken up, medical emergency and emergency evacuation procedures to be handled, and bulletins to be handed out.

Drummers, bass players, and guitarists play at every Mass.  We have a need for other instruments (flute, violin, cello, trumpet, saxophone, etc.).  The ability to read chord charts and improvise is very helpful.

Proclaiming the Word of God is an integral part of our weekend liturgies.  If you feel called to read at Mass, you will be invited to attend a Lector Workshop. Following the workshop, prospective Lectors are videotaped and evaluated.  Adults serve at the 5:00pm Mass on Saturday and the 8:00am, 10:00am and Noon Masses on Sunday.

Hispanic Lectors serve during the 2:00pm Hispanic Mass.

We need 2 soundboard and lighting technicians at each Mass. Experience in recording studios or knowledge of sound equipment is a big plus, but training is offered.

Operates joy-stick-controlled camera during all Masses and some additional liturgical celebrations.

Individuals are needed to assist with developing new liturgical art creations for church decorations, under the direction of the Liturgical Arts and Environment Subcommittee.

Watering and caring for all of the plants in the church is an essential job. We particularly need plant care help during the Christmas and Easter seasons, as well as weekly watering and plant maintenance. There is a rotating schedule of people and hours are flexible.

This ministry is for those who are available intermittently throughout the year.  You would be on a call list for occasional assistance with decorating the church.

Individuals are needed to assist with Christmas decorating a few days prior to Christmas Eve and Easter decorating the afternoon of Holy Saturday.

This ministry launders, presses, and folds purificators and corporals needed for our Masses.  Additionally, volunteers care for robes and vestments, occasionally requiring laundering and mending.  Volunteers are scheduled once every 4 – 6 weeks.