Missionary Promise 
in an Uncertain Age

March 21, April 25, and May 30, 2024, at 2 pm ET
Cost for the series is $75 for members, $125 for nonmembers

BONUS SESSION
June 13, 2024 at 2 pm ET
From Promise to Plan
Surface key insights from Fr. Aaron's talks
Address how to apply these concepts
this fall and winter with mission stakeholders

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Series Outline

March 21, 2024 at 2pm ET
Mission in a Secular Age: Engaging the "Haunted" Individual
Session One: Explore how the secular trends of individualization and pluralization in American culture have missiological consequences. Then consider the need for cultivating missionary "curiosity" and evangelical "authenticity" in the practice of engaging others.

April 25, 2024 at 2pm ET
Mission in a Technologized Age: Cultivating Sacred Spaces for Deep Discernment
Session Two: Explore how the secular trends of technologization and differentiation in American culture have missiological consequences. Then consider the need to provide "sacred spaces" for deep discernment and encounter.

May 30, 2024 at 2pm ET
Mission in a Polarized Age: Being Pilgrims with the "Other"
Session Three: Explore how polarization in American culture has missiological consequences. Then consider the need to cultivate a spirituality of "crossing over."

June 13, 2024 at 2pm ET
From Promise to Plan
Bonus Session: USCMA will host a conversation to surface the key insights from Fr. Aaron's talks and apply them to fall and end of year encounters and communications with our mission stake holders.

Our Presenter, Fr. Robert Aaron Wessman, G.H.S.

Fr. Robert Aaron Wessman is the vicar general and director of formation for the Glenmary Home Missioners. Glenmary missioners serve the spiritual and material needs of people living in mission counties in Appalachia and the South. A native of Iowa, he made his final vows in 2011 and was ordained in 2012. Before his election to leadership, Fr. Aaron earned a PhD in Systemic Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

In 2023, New City Press published Fr. Aaron's book, The Church in a Polarized World. Currently he serves as a guest lecturer at St Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. He is also an at-large board member for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men Religious.

More Details

The cost for the series is just $75 for USCMA members and $125 for nonmembers. The sessions will be recorded and available through a dedicated webpage for registered participants. 

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