An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian religious service. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell and so on.
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“You need make for me only an altar of earth and sacrifice...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 20:24.