In 1904, the Rev. John Sinnett was commissioned by his superiors to locate a settlement in the vicinity of Saskatoon, where there was a flurry of homesteading and railroad building. He set out by oxteam from the railroad at Rosthern, following the Middleton-Humboldt trail and decided on a location for an Irish coloniey near the proposed town of Lanigan.
The first log church was built in 1906 on the homestead of William Knaus. A frame building was built in 1912 and served the congregation until January 24, 1966, when it was officially closed, in a move to consolidate the efforts of the clergy to serve the growing uban centres and to deploy aid to Latin America.