Service Opportunities

As Christians, we are called to “be doers of the word, not merely hearers…being not hearers who forget but doers who act” As St. James also explained it:

“What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.” (Jas 2:14-26)

Service is a facet of what we do as Christians. Join fellow students at the Alibrandi Catholic Center in the following service ministries:

Sandwich Ministry

Twice a month on specified Sundays, students gather after the 10:30 Mass at Alibrandi Catholic Center to make sandwiches. The 300 hundred sandwiches are taken down to The Assumption Food Pantry and are given out to those in need in the inner city of Syracuse.

The dates for the Fall Semester are:

September 12th

October 3rd & 24th

November 7th & 21st

December 5th

Giving Tree

Every year, the Alibrandi Catholic Community donates needed essential items to families in the Syracuse area. Gift tags are taken from the Giving Tree by students, the gifts are purchased and then wrapped and returned to the Tree. Through the generosity of the students and parishioners of St. Thomas More, we bring needed winter clothing and thoughtful support for those in need.

Wrapped in Love

During the harsh winter months in Syracuse, the students gather to make blankets for those in the local nursing homes. The Newman Assoc. donates the money to purchase the material and students then get together to tie and knot the fringed fleece throws. The blankets are blessed at Mass and then delivered to the nursing homes. The best part of the gift is the visit with someone who needs a smile, who needs an ear to listen, who needs to feel cared for.

Katrina Mission Trip

Katrina Mission Volunteers with the Bishop

Each January, for a week during the Christmas break, a group of our students journey to the New Orleans area to help those who lost everything because of Hurricane Katrina. College students from across the country gather at Camp Hope , New Orleans. Our students will be working with the St. Bernard’s Project, helping low and moderate income families to rebuild their homes following a devastating loss of nearly all of their property in that storm of 2005. In helping to rebuild homes, our students help to rebuild lives. Each young adult is forever changed by this experience.

Planting cyprus trees

Katrina Mission Volunteers plant saplings

Our St. Thomas More volunteers helped to plant cypress saplings in the bayou and marshes of St. Bernard’s Parish. They planted 3000 trees in two days. Environmentalists determined that Hurricane Katrina was able to push the massive storm surge into St. Bernard Parish due to the absence of a cypress forest.

For many more Service Opportunities, please click here for our Volunteer Opportunities Brochure.

Service Opportunities

Campus Ministry