Current Ministry Volunteer Needs
Adult Choir Members Needed
Looking for a way to serve at Mass? Searching for a community to get involved with? The OLA Music Ministry cordially invites all adults to join the choir in preparing for Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter Sunday! Rehearsals will be held starting this Wednesday from 6:30pm-8:00pm in the upstairs music room.
A complete schedule can be found by clicking here. It is easy, educational, and fun! Contact Jake Mappes, Director of Music at jmappes@olachurch.org for more information.
Middle School Missions Camp: Help Teach the Next Generation to Serve
Our Middle School Youth Minister, Nick Ables, is looking for a co-leader to help him with the Middle School Missions Camp next year.
Do you have a passion for service and want to share it with to middle schoolers in our parish? We are seeking parents of 5th-7th graders to assist in keeping our annual Middle School Missions Camp (MSMC) going to help give many more middle schoolers this opportunity each summer! The goal of MSMC is to encourage middle schoolers to spend a week experiencing the Holy Spirit's call to serve those in need in our community. The current Missions Camp team would like to share the joys of working with this age group as they learn about social justice and how they can make a difference! The camp is very hands-on so the campers are able to interact with the agencies that serve the homeless, the elderly, children with special needs, and other service opportunities. If you have children in this age group, please prayerfully consider becoming part of the Missions Camp team and helping the camp continue at OLA.
Intersted? Email Nick at nables@olachurch.org.
Adoration Guardians
Wednesdays from 8am - 5pm (during Lent) in the Daily Chapel
Adoration Guardians offer an hour of prayer each week before the Blessed Sacrament. The Blessed Sacrament can never be left alone. Guardians have a scheduled hour each week where you arrive on time and remain in prayer until the next Guardians arrive. We need at least 2 scheduled Guardians each week.
Guardians are needed for the following hours:
12-1pm, and
3-4pm.
Sign up at www.olachurch.org/adoration
Welcome Table Greeters
Welcome Greeters! Please join this fun ministry and be the smiling face representing our OLA parish. For the Greeter Ministry you arrive 10-15 minutes prior to Mass, and stay 10-15 minutes after to greet new and active parishioners, and answer any questions they may have about our Parish. What a great way to participate in your parish (and receive 'Active' Parishioner
status). Feel free to reach out to lbroniec@yahoo.com with any questions.
Click here to sign up to serve!
Sunday Nursery
The Sunday Nursery is open on Sundays for the 9am Mass.
The Nursery is available for children 1- 4 years of age throughout the school year. The Nursery is located in the OLA Preschool classrooms - follow directional signs on Sunday. For more information, please contact Laura Kleiman at nursery@olachurch.org.
We are always looking for volunteers who have gone through the safe environment training.
Wedding Guild
We are looking for happy people to welcome the Bride and Groom to this Sacrament. We work in pairs and aid the couple on the night of the rehearsal and the day of the wedding.
For more information please contact Cheri Felton at cherifelton3@gmail.com.
Life Teen Band
All adults and teens 6th grade and up are invited to participate in the Life Teen Band and Choir that leads music at the 5:30pm Sunday Mass each week. With an emphasis on modern praise and worship music as well as contemporary arrangements of classic hymns, this group rehearses one hour before Mass begins at 4:30pm in the upstairs choir room.
Interested individuals should contact Jake Mappes, Life Teen Worship Leader and Coordinator, at jmappes@olachurch.org for more information.
SPRITUAL LIFE MINISTRIES
Elijah Cup Vocations Ministry
Every other weekend at one of the Masses, a different family takes the Elijah Cup home to pray for vocations to the religious life and priesthood - especially to the Society of Mary (Marists), the religious society that serves our parish.
For more information, please email Katie Schermerhorn at ktschermerhorn@gmail.com
Christian Outreach Ministries
Adopt-a-Cop: Serving Those Who Protect
Adopt-A-Cop assigns law enforcement officers from the Brookhaven Police Department to a family, group, or individual who will pray for them and send notes of encouragement, support, and gratitude. New officers of the Brookhaven Police Department have signed up for our Adopt-A-Cop Program - and it looks like there will be more in the near future! We need individuals and families to sign up to adopt an officer! Contact Anne at astephens@olachurch.org to adopt.