The St. Mary University Parish, located on the campus of Central Michigan University, says it's seen a spike in Catholic converts.
The church is attended by home college students, and this year there's been 30 new converts to the Catholic Church.
In the Catholic Church people who have been preparing to convert to are welcomed into the church at the Easter Vigil, held the night before Easter.
Father Matthew Gembrowski is the assistant pastor for the church. He says Catholicism is experiencing an increase of people looking for more in life.
"There has to be a deeper meaning and purpose in life," Gembrowski said.
"College students are right in the thick of that part of their lives, trying to figure out who they are, and I think that the Church really offers them, well we would say, the truth," he added.
There's been a nationwide surge in Catholic converts, as the Archdiocese of Detroit welcomed 1,428 new converts, its highest number in 21 years according to the New York Times.
Gembrowski has been at the church for the past three years. During his first year six converts entered the church and last year it jumped to 16.
Each new convert goes through a class called the Order of Christian Initiation for Adults, otherwise known as the OCIA.
"They learn about the Catholic faith, they live as a Catholic, and then that all culminates at the Easter vigil when everyone receives their sacraments, whether that's baptism, confirmation, and first Eucharist," he said about the OCIA.
Gembrowski says people should not ignore the deep questions of their heart, and they can find them in God.
