The Serra Club of Evansville is a member of the USA Council of Serra International, an organization of Serra Clubs, named in honor of the Spanish Franciscan missionary priest Junipero Serra, who established several missions in Mexico and California.

 

First established in 1935, Serra Clubs are made up of lay men and women and permanent deacons with the following two objectives:

 

1) To foster and promote vocations to the ministerial priesthood of the Catholic church as a particular vocation to service, and to develop appreciation of the ministerial priesthood and of all religious vocations in the Catholic church, and

 

2) To further Catholicism by encouraging its members, in fellowship, through education, to fulfill their Christian vocations to service.