St. John's Catholic Church, one of the oldest wood church buildings in Nebraska, was built in 1877 at Table Rock. Originally a simple square structure without a steeple, it later received a steeple and stained glass windows in the 1930s. Peter Miller and Joseph Reuter assumed much of the responsibility for building it, but because of limited funds some furnishings, sidewalks, and other essentials were not finished until 1890. The first marriage there took place in 1881, when Peter Miller married Mary McBride and Father Augustus Rausch officiated, and the last marriage ceremony occurred on July 2nd, 1966, when Roy Stevens married Patricia Mertes and Father Irvin Weber performed the service. Father Rausch, who served the parish from 1881 to 1888, recalled that Table Rock was the only church in his missions that carried debt, totaling $143.54, and that he went house to house, sometimes on foot, to collect money until the final balance was paid on September 27th, 1883; even then the church still lacked plaster and a ceiling, after which Pete Miller bought lumber for the ceiling without Rausch's knowledge, and the building was painted outside, given a chimney, and provided a sidewalk at a cost of $90. Rausch also recalled the furnishings in 1881 as 6 brass candlesticks, 6 bouquets and vases, 1 alter picture, a curtain drawn from wall to wall used as a confessional, one chair, an old clock, two benches, and an old stove, and he added 10 single benches that he made himself from $5.00 worth of lumber as his donation. In 1952, under Father Velasek, a displaced person from Russia arrived in Table Rock and painted a mural in the church intended to strike visitors with the figure of Christ and, magnifying this, the figure of St. John the Baptist with his bearers pointing toward Christ and saying, "There is the Lamb of God"; Velasek called the artist a genius who disappeared without farewell after finishing the mural. Members attended services in the building for the last time on June 31st, 1968, after which the remaining 45 families were officially assigned to St. Anthony's parish in Steinauer, NE. On August 30, 1970, Father Irvin Weber presented the church to the Table Rock Historical Society, and Gordon Bethel, president of the society, accepted it. It is used to display religious items, retains some original pews and church furniture, and its interior remains as it was last seen during religious services. In 2013, major renovations included replacing the original crumbling limestone foundation with funds from the Table Rock Historical Society, the Verlyn Beethe Estate, and USDA Rural Development, helping preserve the church for future generations.