Fr. Brian Welter is the executive director of the Institute for Priestly Formation (IPF), based in Omaha, Nebraska. The mission of IPF is to help seminarians, priests, and bishops in their ongoing spiritual growth so they may better lead others to Christ. Fr. Welter is a priest from the Archdiocese of Chicago and has been affiliated with IPF as an adjunct faculty member since 2010. Since his ordination to the priesthood, Fr. Welter has accompanied a group of dentists from several parishes in the Chicago area each January to a small village in Mexico, where they set up a free dental clinic.