A summer service camp/retreat in Syracuse NY, which invites teenagers from area parishes and schools to immerse themselves in the city and serve alongside urban neighbors, right in our own backyard! Participants serve six hours per day at different ministry sites all around Syracuse and participate in a comprehensive program which allows them to reflect and respond to what they are seeing and experiencing. Fun activities, free time, great talks and some special events will ensure that our teenagers’ hearts will be changed and turned toward the joy of a vibrant spirituality exemplified through love and service. If you wish to have a group of teens participate in Summer Servants please contact Nicole Littlepage at nicole@summerservants.org and visit www.summerservants.org

Economic poverty, poor health, deteriorated environments are serious realities for most persons living on the near west side of Syracuse. Our community garden offers an opportunity to impact people in the neighborhood in many positive and life changing ways. First, we offer our garden as a “teaching garden” empowering people to garden on their own, growing herbs, fruits and vegetables and therefore cutting down on food cost. Secondly, by offering fresh, organic and healthy foods from the garden, we seek to improve the health of those in the neighborhood. Thirdly, working in a community garden builds relationships, collaborations and community and offers hands on learning and educational opportunities in a multi-generational setting. Finally, all can find a place of natural beauty and a spirit of calm and peace as they work, rest, or visit our community garden. Contact us to get involved

This primary or core mission centered in the neighborhoods and homes where people live was begun by Father Charles Brady in the late 1940’s.  After his death in 1978, Father John Schopfer was appointed Southwest City Missioner by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse to continue this unique apostolate. Together these two men have faithfully lived out this gospel imperative for over 70 years. Today, just as in the days of Jesus, the Spirit of God is calling lay ministers from multiple church denominations to go out into the byways of Syracuse to continue the mission of spreading the Kingdom of God. Contact Brady faith Center for additional information

In our retreat ministries, we call and invite people into the vision of the reign of God. This reign of God is both a comfort and a promise to the poor and, at the same time, a call to all to be linked with God’s vision of justice and reconciliation. Our retreats challenge, nurture and empower participants to become people who love their way to God by growing in compassion for all people, especially the poor and vulnerable. Through our proclamation of the Good News we hope to continually move ourselves and one another from the world as it is to the world as God is calling it to become. We want to announce and participate in the transformation of hearts and raise up leaders with a vision, people who are vibrant in their capacity for good in the world. For additional information please call the Brady Faith Center at

315-472-9077.