ST. PATRICK, SPRING FORK MO:
"Built in 1918, St. Patrick in Spring Fork MO is located in a rural area of the Diocese of Jefferson City. Regular mass ended at St. Patrick in Spring Fork in 1980, and the church was not cared for regularly after that. Following a lightning strike in 2012, the cost of needed repairs led the Diocese of Jefferson City and the Parish that owned St. Patrick’s Church to plan for the permanent closure of the church and its sale. I helped a group of parishioners form a nonprofit group that raised all of the funds needed to restore the church, and which continues to pay all of the expenses associated with its existence as a Roman Catholic church, available for occasional mass." ----Brody Hale
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