Sacred Heart
 
Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 113, Gardner, CO 81040
Location of Church:  Colorado State Highway 69
Phone:  719 738-1204 *  Fax:  719 738-1206
Administrator: Rev. Christopher C. Adinuba
Summer Mass Schedule:  Sundays:  8:00 a.m. 
Winter Mass Schedule:  Same as summer schedule.
 
STAFF
Rev. Christopher C. Adinuba, Administrator
Deacon John Luginbill
Gloria Payne, Bookkeeper
 
HISTORY
Gardner is a tiny, rural town nested on the Front Range of southern Colorado. Residents here are primarily ranchers or farmers.

The church of Sacred Heart is said to have built after 200 wagons loaded with beams and boards from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains arrived in Gardner. Construction of the church was directed by Fr. Louis Pecorella. In later years, a school, convent and rectory were added to the parish plant

By 1966, the population of Gardner was not sufficient enough to demand a resident pastor. Since then, the parish has been designated as a parish without a resident priest. The main challenge for Sacred Heart has been, and will be, to continue functioning as a Catholic community with the limited presence of a clergy member and a small number of parishioners. The congregation numbers approximately thirty.