Saint Elizabeth Seton Mission, Warm Springs

Mission of:	Saint Peter, LaGrange
Established:	April 1969
Address:	2904 Judson Bulloch Road P. O. Box 638 Warm Springs, Georgia 31830
Phone:	706-846-5223
Web site:
City:	Warm Springs
County:	Meriwether
Deanery:	Southwest

Photo by Michael Alexander, The Georgia Bulletin

Under Father Joseph Ware's pastorate, beginning in June 1975, Meriwether County Catholics selected the name of St. Elizabeth Seton for the mission the year the saint was canonized. They also began the work of trying to establish a church, purchasing the land where it was located in 1982. Numerous setbacks occurred, preventing the project from going forward. At one point only a prayer service was available in Meriwether County on weekends because of the lack of a priest to serve the mission. The nearest Catholic church, St. Peter's, is 35 miles away. Finally in 1994 the mission applied for assistance from the archdiocese, a fund drive was started and groundwork began.

The church was dedicated in 1996.