"Hartsfield Airport Chapel Offers Comfort"

Friday, December 24, 2004

Airport Chapel Offers Comfort 
By Bill Liss 
WXIA-TV Ch 11 (NBC), Atlanta (GA)


On Christmas day at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, for just a
moment, travelers can forget the stress of travel and seek comfort at an
interfaith chapel.

It's took Raul Fontaneres two days to get to Atlanta from Manila to join his
family in Greensboro, NC., for Christmas day.

"It was like a light. I was outside. I was circulating just going around and
I got up to this little door and to my amazement here is this place -- an
interfaith chapel," said Fontaneres.

The Reverend Chester Cook supervises ministerial duties at the airport. 

"There are 40 chaplains from every denomination. We try to have chaplains in
the concourses, in the pilot lounges, in the flight attendant lounges,
upstairs in the executive lounge. It's a ministry of well being," said Rev.
Cook. "We just try to remind people of the value of faith and the spiritual
side of life."

On Christmas, as troops deploy to Iraq, the role of the chaplain takes on a
special meaning.


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