As a WPA project during the 1930's, a gymnasium was added to the complex. Eventually, a central Catholic high school was established. St. Benedict's Grade School operated until the parish centennial year in 1989. Also available are professional photographs of the church, post cards, buttons, and cookbooks. A free brochure on the church is also available.
Visitors are welcome at the church, and guests are encouraged to sign the guest book.
Mass is celebrated at Sts. The story of the Welk family goes back to Moritz Welk who married Magdalena Arth in 1802, in the village of Winzenbach, located in Lower Alsace, France. In 1808, Moritz and Magdalena, along with a hundred other German-Catholic families, immigrated to southern Russia. They founded the village of Selz in the Kutschurgan distric near Odessa and the Black Sea. He married Marianna Schweitzer from the colony of Strassburg, Kutschurgan District, Black Sea Region.