NRVC Awards

NRVC awards 2024

The NRVC presents awards at its biennial convocation. These may include the NRVC Harvest Award, the Lifetime Member Award, the Mustard Seed Award, and the Recognition Award (for members who have demonstrated outstanding service within the field of vocation ministry). 

Recognition awards

At its September 2024 meeting, the NRVC board selected three NRVC members to receive its Recognition Award, which honors members who have provided outstanding service to vocation ministry as a whole. Congratulations to each of them for their commitment and expertise in this important ministry. The awards will be given during the 2024 convocation.

• Mr. Greg Darr, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers vocation team member
• Brother David Henley, Glenmary Home Missioners vocation director
• Sister Lisa Laguna, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent DePaul, Province of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton vocation director

Mustard Seed Award

For the NRVC  biennial Mustard Seed Award—also to be given during the 2024 convocation—the board selected the University of Mary Vocations Jamboree. This North Dakota annual event began in 2016. It is carried out through a partnership between the University of Mary, the Diocese of Bismarck, Annunciation Monastery, and Assumption Abbey. The Vocations Jamboree is described by proponents as a “welcoming and dynamic vocation event.”

Lifetime Member Awards

At its April meeting, the National Board selected Ms. Marge Argyelan and Sr. Josita Colbert, SNDdeN, to receive the NRVC Lifetime Member Award. This significant award is given to those who will receive all the benefits of membership for the rest of their lives. Past recipients include: Brother Paul Bednarczyk, C.S.C., Sister Catherine Bertrand, SSND, Rev. Raymond Carey, Sister Charlene Diorka, S.S.J., Sister Maryann Hamer, O.S.F., Sister Charlene Herinckx. SSMO, and Miss Delores Orzel.

Harvest Award

At its spring meeting, the National Board selected the National Conference of Vicars for Religious (NCVR) to receive NRVC’s highest award in vocation ministry, the Harvest Award. The NCVR serves the vicars and episcopal delegates for religious serving in dioceses across the United States. At the annual NCVR conference, the NRVC liaison is invited as their guest to provide an update on the resources available and the endeavors of the NRVC mission to promote vocations to religious life. This mutual relationship between the two organizations has grown through the years. To assist in this collaboration, every vicar and delegate for religious receives the monthly NRVC newsletter, Focus on Vocation Ministry.