The active life of this parish was short-lived, as many of the people who had settled in the area for land left as they realized that the conditions of northern Minnesota only make for marginal farming. The church fell into disuse in the 1930s, but the early 1960s Paul Berg, an Episcopal priest in Grand Rapids, discovered the church and organized an effort to restore it. Father Paul contacted the office of the late Archbishop John (Garklāvs) of Chicago, they learned that there was no record of the parish's existence. The building was rededicated in 1968. The discovery of the church generated much interest, and the property subsequently was refurbished. Until the early 1980s, faithful from Minneapolis and Minnesota's northern Iron Range would gather at the church every July for
