Speaking at a Vatican conference in late 2018 on what to do with churches that are no longer used for worship, Pope Francis said that those buildings can be, “witnesses to the faith of the community that produced them in the past and for this reason, they are in their own way instruments of evangelization.” Stillwater is in Payne County, the fourth poorest county in Oklahoma and a natural location for the newest Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma’s outreach mission.