I went to a 9am Mass here this morning. The building looks more like a school than a church from the outside. Its best feature is an adoration chapel open three days a week, which I unfortunately didn't know about until I got home and looked at the bulletin. I can't tell how big the parish is, but it does have several active ministries, such as a food closet, a youth ministry and a prayer line.
The interior of the church is fairly sparse, with plain white walls and red carpet, though there is one shrine area in the back and a large free book and pamphlet table. The crucifix in front has a huge corpus on it. There is no balcony, with the music area up on a platform in the back of the sanctuary. The altar is way out in the middle of the sanctuary. Everything in the altar area is on different levels, so the priest has to constantly walk up and down steps to get anywhere, which must get old pretty fast. The tabernacle is in the back way behind the altar, up still more stairs.
According to Wikipedia there are six Saint Williams, and none of them stand out as the clear namesake for the parish. It's worth reading about all of them, because they're a pretty diverse bunch. Somewhat alarmingly, the one who's the patron Saint of adopted children was robbed and murdered by his adoptive son as they were on a pilgrimage to visit the Holy Land.
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