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Annual Appeal: Cultivating Ongoing Formation Circles

Imagine

Annual Appeal | December 2, 2024

Dear Members, Collaborators, and Friends,

It is with great excitement that we invite you to imagine the future with us!

Imagine, if you will, ongoing formation groups meeting virtually – across congregations, cultures, and generations – to cultivate the now and new in religious life. 

Imagine these ongoing formation circles harnessing the power of shared prayer, deep encounter, and personal integration. From input and dialogue around key characteristics of religious life (e.g., living the vow of poverty) to opportunities to check-in with others on a regular basis, these online small groups will be a transformative, inspiring, and hope-filled experience in the lives of religious today.

With this letter, we ask your support in helping develop this new program that responds to the ‘signs of the times’ by actualizing the power of small group community to live this prophetic life with greater intentionality, authenticity, accountability, collaboration, and synodal spirit. From contemplative online chapels to virtual book clubs, we know today’s technology affords those in consecrated life meaningful opportunities to deepen our shared life and nurture sacred spaces of justice, love, and peace.

An annual appeal gift would enable us to devote time, energy, and resources into developing virtual communities of ongoing formation circles.

A contribution would invest in the resources needed to do this well:

  • developing a program timeline, goals, and outcomes,

  • crafting relevant curriculum and resources,

  • setting-up necessary technological tools,

  • promoting and launching online peer groups, and

  • assessing input and learnings that incorporate best practices and feedback.

Click to help cultivate ongoing formation circles!

Sister Jane looks forward to coordinating this initiative. We know that ongoing formation is an important aspect of religious life. With your support, we will be able to create new spaces where we can share, learn, and grow together. For more information and questions, feel free to contact her at jaseltyne@relforcon.org.

Please use the link above to make a secure gift online and be part of this exciting new venture for those in consecrated life.

Thank you for helping us imagine the new possibilities that lie ahead and the work we’ve been called to on behalf of the women and men religious we serve. In this season of gratitude, as we take stock of God’s bountiful goodness, we’re especially mindful of benefactors like yourself who animate our work. 

We know that, together, we’ll continue to be ‘holy imaginers’ living boldly and faithfully into the future!

Gratefully,

Ryan Hoffmann, DMin
Executive Director

Sister Jane Aseltyne, IHM
Project Coordinator and Program Assistant 

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The Religious Formation Conference (RFC) is a national Roman Catholic organization serving religious institutes of women and men with programs and services for those in the ministry of initial and lifelong formation, and general congregational membership.

Animated by God’s vivifying presence, the RFC will stand at the forefront of discerning the formative horizon of the emergent in religious life. In concert with members and collaborative partners, the Conference will lead in the areas of initial and ongoing formation and the professional preparation of formators.

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About RFC

About RFC

Mission, Vision, Values

Board of Directors

Staff / Contact

Membership

Congregational Members

Member Areas

Partners & Collaborators

Mary Emil Penet, IHM Award

Formators Network

Get news & notes

News Blog

Privacy Policy

Request More Information

Programs

Attend a Program

Request More Information

ForMission

ForMission 2.0

Life Commitment

Compromiso de Vida

Orientation to Formation

Ongoing Formation Circles

Webinars and Workshops

InterCongregational Collaborative Novitiate (ICCN)

Together

Programs and Initiatives Advisory Committee

Member Areas

Scholarship Funds

Cancellation Policies

Congress

Congress 2025

Congress 2023

Congress 2021

Congress 2019

Congress 2017

Congress 2015

Congress 2013

Congress 2011

Resources

Resources Portal

Online Formators Network

Webinar Recordings

Workshops & Presentations

InFormation Bulletins

Annual Reports

Scholarship Funds

News Blog

Online Store

Cancellation Policies

Request More Information

Members

Become a Member

Member Areas

Online Formators Network

Group Supervision

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