Welcome to the Brady Faith Center

Father John Schopfer is the Pastoral Director for the Brady Faith Center. He has served in this position for many years to meet the spiritual needs of individuals and families in the neighborhoods of Syracuse’s South West Community.

Kevin Frank joined Brady Faith Center as the Executive Director in May 2010. Formerly the pastoral associate at St. Lucy’s Church, Mr. Frank brings extensive experience working in the urban community to this position.

Jessi Lyons is a native of the Pacific NW but has been happy to call Syracuse home since 2006. At the Brady Farm, Jessi gets to combine her background in ecology and community development with her passion for food, agriculture and people. She loves to teach food preservation and experiment with eating and growing.

Michael Songer joins our Brady team with more than four years of experience in faith formation, youth ministry, and administration at All Saints Parish. One of his favorite experiences with Brady is Summer Servants, having been a leader for the past two summers! Michael is currently between Brady Faith Center and All Saints Parish in the same roles, helping our two communities, as well as other faith communities, to discover and implement ways to collaborate in ministry.

Kayo transplanted herself to the US in 2012 from her home country, Japan. She joined the Brady Farm team in 2021, due to her bursting desire to learn land stewardship and cultivating grace from nature in the form of food. She often wonders "how can I create a space for us to connect with ourselves and others (human and non-human) deeper through farming?" while she executes whatever needs to be in the field to get the farm going. She loves drinking tea, reading and writing poetry, and learning ideas that can turn her world upside down.

Julia brings a background in accounting and IT and many years of experience in the not for profit sector to her work at Brady.  Outside of Brady, she loves to cook, volunteer, travel, and spend time with her family.

jnosovitch@bradyfaith.org

Melody E. Holmes is a native Syracusan and a well known community advocate. Her training, advocacy and teaching has centered on community dialogues, political concerns, community change that can help define and educate ourselves and our neighbors all centered around the city and specifically, the SouthSide. She currently is affiliated with the Brady Faith Center, Syracuse City School District, Interfaith Works, and Syracuse University.

mholmes@bradyfaith.org

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