The office supports seminarian preparation and assists in final selection for candidacy to the priesthood. The office works with deanery representatives on programs for high school juniors and up, and coordinates with seminaries for weekend visits by interested men. The office arranges Andrew Dinners with Bishop William L. Higi and priests at which they share personal vocation stories with the men invited. This program of the St. Francis of Assisi Newman Center at Ball State University helps students discern their role as Christian leaders, whether to priesthood, religious life or lay ministry in the Church. Young women live at the Newman Center, young men at a nearby cottage.
Participants commit to weekly service and communal prayer.
Central offices are located in Lafayette, Indiana . The Diocese covers counties across the entire mid-Central Indiana.