It had long been the dream of all the Episcopal clergy in Peoria to reopen this historic old church. However, it took the interest shown at the summer church school held at Christ Church in the summer of 1960 to give this endeavor the needed incentive. Christ Church was reopened in charge of the Rev. Canon Gordon Gillett, Rector of St. Paul's Peoria assisted by the Rev. Benjamin Hunter, Vicar of St. Episcopalians and historic minded persons an opportunity to visit this early Christian shrine. Today the church interior looks much as it used to.
Doors are all in place on the walnut pews, hymnals and prayer books on the book rests.
The immediate countryside looks much the same too, still rolling, well tended fields with the main highway too far away to spoil the scene. Only the sod house where lived Father Benson, the first Rector, is gone. And there are many more markers in the church yard now. Candi Horton, Copyright 2000.