Your child’s college experience will launch them into a whole new world of opportunities and challenges.
You’ve given them the love and the support they’ve needed to make this step.
College is an incredible experience, yet also filled with challenges and temptations. Students often find themselves without a community of faith and support.
As young people seek their identity, they’re faced with countless lies and influences from our culture. As they try to fit in with peers, the temptation arises to let go of their faith and settle for less.
Without a community of support, it’s nearly impossible to live out your faith in college.
This is where we come in.
Since 1980, the Brotherhood of Hope has engaged with students through Bible studies, retreats, formation programs, and outreach events. We lay down our lives to show students that Jesus Christ is enough to satisfy their deepest desires. In doing so, we continue to cultivate the seeds of faith you planted within them.
Our campus ministries provide a home away from home.
These are places where faith can grow; a place to go when things get difficult; a place for genuine friendship.
"Our model of evangelization is ultimately relational, so we try to build that bridge, that relationship, that leads them towards Christ and his church, and there's a hunger there that you're just tapping into, it's already there. You don't have to make them hungry."
-Br. Parker Jordan
Parent testimonies
As parents we know that the care and guidance the Brotherhood of Hope provides is outstanding – we have experienced this through our daughter’s eyes. If [the Brotherhood] had not been there for her on this secular campus, it would have dramatically changed her college experience. We are forever grateful to the Brotherhood.
Connie & Doug SterbenzParents of Rachel (Northeastern University ‘17)
I will be forever grateful for the Spiritual guidance your Brothers provided my son during his 5 years of college and the 2 years he served in Boston; you Brothers were a huge part of his formation for life discernment and is a wonderful husband and father to his wife and son - thanks be to God for being there for him!
Dolores HendersonMother of Tim (Florida State ‘16)
My daughter was influenced by the Brothers while attending Northeastern from 2006-2010. Br. Joe was instrumental in meeting her where she was and helping her discover her own faith. Since then, my husband and I have hosted many Brothers in our home as they travel cross country during the summer. Each time they leave us with so much more than we gave them.
Connie SterbenzParent, Topeka, KS
My relationship with the Brotherhood spans four decades. Through my college roommate, Br. Ken Apuzzo, I met the Brothers in 1980 and became an associate in 1981. Although the Lord called me to married life, the time with the Brothers helped me grow as a Catholic man. My wife Christina and I worked with the Brothers in the late 1980s to form University Christian Outreach (UCO) at Rutgers. Last year our son Br. Martin professed first vows with the Brothers. We couldn't be happier.
Marty BuganskiSenior Coordinator of the People of Hope; parent of Br. Martin
The Brothers were always available to any need I had raising my sons and I will always be eternally grateful for being blessed by our God to have the Brothers in my life. I was never blessed to have a brother in my family but instead God gave me the "Brotherhood." Who could ask for more?
Carol PawlowskiHillsborough, NJ
I will say that for the past 23+ years, the Brothers have remained important members of our family, each special in their own way. Br. Ken Sr. was there for me when my own father passed and became a second father/friend I would turn to. He was a compassionate, loving friend and mentor. Br. Stephen, wise to the ways of teens, prayed for us and our girls as they faced their challenges of growing in faith and into young adults. He taught me the meaning of "place them in the hands of God" and believing it! Fr. Paul and all the Brothers I was blessed to work alongside during their years of ministry at Boston University played an important role in my life and were a wonderful example to my girls during family visits! We remain blessed to still refer to them as family and friends. May God continue to place you in the lives of many families young and old! We thank you!
Frances BoucherLitchfield, NH
As parents we know that the care and guidance the Brotherhood of Hope provides is outstanding – we have experienced this through our daughter’s eyes. If [the Brotherhood] had not been there for her on this secular campus, it would have dramatically changed her college experience. We are forever grateful to the Brotherhood.
Connie & Doug SterbenzParents of Rachel (Northeastern University ‘17)
I will be forever grateful for the Spiritual guidance your Brothers provided my son during his 5 years of college and the 2 years he served in Boston; you Brothers were a huge part of his formation for life discernment and is a wonderful husband and father to his wife and son - thanks be to God for being there for him!
Dolores HendersonMother of Tim (Florida State ‘16)
My daughter was influenced by the Brothers while attending Northeastern from 2006-2010. Br. Joe was instrumental in meeting her where she was and helping her discover her own faith. Since then, my husband and I have hosted many Brothers in our home as they travel cross country during the summer. Each time they leave us with so much more than we gave them.
Connie SterbenzParent, Topeka, KS
My relationship with the Brotherhood spans four decades. Through my college roommate, Br. Ken Apuzzo, I met the Brothers in 1980 and became an associate in 1981. Although the Lord called me to married life, the time with the Brothers helped me grow as a Catholic man. My wife Christina and I worked with the Brothers in the late 1980s to form University Christian Outreach (UCO) at Rutgers. Last year our son Br. Martin professed first vows with the Brothers. We couldn't be happier.
Marty BuganskiSenior Coordinator of the People of Hope; parent of Br. Martin
The Brothers were always available to any need I had raising my sons and I will always be eternally grateful for being blessed by our God to have the Brothers in my life. I was never blessed to have a brother in my family but instead God gave me the "Brotherhood." Who could ask for more?
Carol PawlowskiHillsborough, NJ
I will say that for the past 23+ years, the Brothers have remained important members of our family, each special in their own way. Br. Ken Sr. was there for me when my own father passed and became a second father/friend I would turn to. He was a compassionate, loving friend and mentor. Br. Stephen, wise to the ways of teens, prayed for us and our girls as they faced their challenges of growing in faith and into young adults. He taught me the meaning of "place them in the hands of God" and believing it! Fr. Paul and all the Brothers I was blessed to work alongside during their years of ministry at Boston University played an important role in my life and were a wonderful example to my girls during family visits! We remain blessed to still refer to them as family and friends. May God continue to place you in the lives of many families young and old! We thank you!
Frances BoucherLitchfield, NH
As parents we know that the care and guidance the Brotherhood of Hope provides is outstanding – we have experienced this through our daughter’s eyes. If [the Brotherhood] had not been there for her on this secular campus, it would have dramatically changed her college experience. We are forever grateful to the Brotherhood.
Connie & Doug SterbenzParents of Rachel (Northeastern University ‘17)
I will be forever grateful for the Spiritual guidance your Brothers provided my son during his 5 years of college and the 2 years he served in Boston; you Brothers were a huge part of his formation for life discernment and is a wonderful husband and father to his wife and son - thanks be to God for being there for him!
Dolores HendersonMother of Tim (Florida State ‘16)
My daughter was influenced by the Brothers while attending Northeastern from 2006-2010. Br. Joe was instrumental in meeting her where she was and helping her discover her own faith. Since then, my husband and I have hosted many Brothers in our home as they travel cross country during the summer. Each time they leave us with so much more than we gave them.
Connie SterbenzParent, Topeka, KS
My relationship with the Brotherhood spans four decades. Through my college roommate, Br. Ken Apuzzo, I met the Brothers in 1980 and became an associate in 1981. Although the Lord called me to married life, the time with the Brothers helped me grow as a Catholic man. My wife Christina and I worked with the Brothers in the late 1980s to form University Christian Outreach (UCO) at Rutgers. Last year our son Br. Martin professed first vows with the Brothers. We couldn't be happier.
Marty BuganskiSenior Coordinator of the People of Hope; parent of Br. Martin
The Brothers were always available to any need I had raising my sons and I will always be eternally grateful for being blessed by our God to have the Brothers in my life. I was never blessed to have a brother in my family but instead God gave me the "Brotherhood." Who could ask for more?
Carol PawlowskiHillsborough, NJ
I will say that for the past 23+ years, the Brothers have remained important members of our family, each special in their own way. Br. Ken Sr. was there for me when my own father passed and became a second father/friend I would turn to. He was a compassionate, loving friend and mentor. Br. Stephen, wise to the ways of teens, prayed for us and our girls as they faced their challenges of growing in faith and into young adults. He taught me the meaning of "place them in the hands of God" and believing it! Fr. Paul and all the Brothers I was blessed to work alongside during their years of ministry at Boston University played an important role in my life and were a wonderful example to my girls during family visits! We remain blessed to still refer to them as family and friends. May God continue to place you in the lives of many families young and old! We thank you!
Frances BoucherLitchfield, NH
Fruit Of The Mission
Our campus ministries change lives.
Over 100 alumni are in the priesthood, seminary, or religious life, many of them serving as leaders in their dioceses and communities. More than 150 graduates have embraced a missionary call, whether on campus, in full-time youth ministry, or overseas. More than 5,000 alumni have been sacramentally married in the Church.
The Brotherhood has been invited by bishops to serve at: Northeastern University, Rutgers University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Minnesota, and the University of South Florida.