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The church has focused more on religious education. For many years, two Benedictine sisters from Guthrie or Tulsa would come to teach a two-week vacation Bible school, but this was the only formal instruction provided to the children.
In the 1970s, three houses adjacent to the church were purchased to serve as classrooms for religious and educational teaching and were used in the 1980s. Due to deteriorating houses, two were razed to the ground. the 1980s, and one remained to be used for lessons.
In 1985 the church purchased the First Baptist Church property on the corner of 3rd and A streets and a two story hotel, The Barrett Hotel. First Baptist Church had just completed construction of a new building. The old hotel was razed due to extensive water damage and the church building was used for religious education.
By 1988 it was obvious that the church needed a bigger facility. The religious education center was sold to Skiatook Auction, and a new parish hall was built to the west of the presbytery.
In the 1990s, longtime parishioner Tom Murray passed away, leaving a large sum of money to the parish. The donation allowed the parish to repay the debt for the construction of the parish hall, to pave two parking lots, to renovate the interior, including the addition of toilets, to purchase a new organ and new benches and to renovate the presbytery.
In 1991, the church was ordered to remove the statue of the Sacred Heart in front of the church or to change the name of the parish to Sacré-Cœur. The parishioners were overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining the status and returning to the original name.
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