It is the first Catholic church

in Fayette County and is now one of three.

The Holy Trinity Catholic Church,

Peachtree City, began in 1973 with 55 families and now is a church home

to over 3,000 families.

The current senior pastor is

the Rev. John Walsh, who serves as its eighth church leader.

Just over two years ago the

church rebuilt a sanctuary, office facilities, an all-purpose social/education

hall and a rectory with a basement chapel to help meet the needs of a

growing congregation.

Also in that time, a First

Communicants ceremony has grown to 171 young people taking part and 180

taking part in each Confirmation class.

An adult group of about a dozen

has just returned from a medical mission to Guatemala. A doctor in the

congregation and a number of nurses oversaw the medical needs of 700 people.

This summer there will be a

Vacation Bible School for several hundred children. About 20 youths will

be heading to Jamaica during the summer to an orphanage, The Mustard Seed,

and assist in taking care of children who have one kind of disability

or another.

As in the case of many Fayette

County churches, enough space is yet again a growing concern. Consequently,

a fund-raising effort has just begun to purchase the land and medical

building behind Holy Trinity.

A new road is expected to be

built, allowing another way in and out of the church property as well

as turning the medical building into a rectory that will accommodate four

priests.

Church members also look forward

to increasing the number of classrooms and to creating a "drop-in

room," which would give teenagers a spot to come to after school.

The church's attention to its

Spanish members has grown. There are two part-time employees who help

conduct a Sunday School class in Spanish at 11:30 each Sunday morning

and also at a mass in Spanish at 1:30 p.m. afterwards.

Other church services are:

Rosary, said every Monday at 7:30 p.m. and every Wednesday evening in

Spanish at 7:30. Sunday Mass schedule is Saturday Vigil at 6 p.m., Sunday

at 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon. A Life Teen Mass is Sundays

at 6 p.m.

The church is at 101 Walt Banks

Road, just before the McIntosh High School, and can be reached at 770-487-7672.

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