The Catholic residents of Penns Valley, in rural central Pennsylvania, had to travel 25 or 30 miles to go to Sunday Mass in either Bellefonte or State College. This book tells how a small group of devout Catholics, who were concerned about a religious education for their children, planted a seed which they nurtured; and it grew into St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church which was built in a largely Protestant area of Centre County.