Founded in 1987 with the goal of helping young adults who were considering life as a sister, brother, or priest, VISION is published by TrueQuest Communications on behalf of the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC), who currently holds the copyright.
VISION's mission is to provide readers with a broad picture of religious life through first-person accounts, profiles, photo stories, and articles about discernment, community life, vows, ministry, and Catholic teachings. The religious congregations who advertise in VISION provide additional information about their ministries and requirements in a community index and Vocation Match profile .
VISION is free. The printed guide is produced annually in August. Articles appear online in English, Spanish, and French. New content is posted daily.
If you are a journalist working on a story concerning Catholic vocations, the publisher and editors of VISION welcome the opportunity to speak with you. Please call 312-356-9900 or email us to request an interview.
VocationMatch.com is a unique discernment tool provided by VISION Vocation Guide to help men and women considering religious life focus their options and narrow their search for the right vocation and community. After completing a series of questions about interests and spiritual orientation, the participant's answers are matched against the profiles of hundreds of religious communities, institutes, and organizations in the VISION database. The discerner receives the results of potential good fits and may choose to send a personal profile on to them.
VocationMatch was featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and in Time magazine.
Press Releases:
2009 Vocation Match Success
2009 Vocation Trends Survey
2008 Vocation Trends Survey
2008 Vocation Match Success
2007 Vocation Trends Survey
Vocation Match featured in Time
TrueQuest Communications publishes VISION and its multilingual websites on behalf of the National Religious Vocation Conference. TrueQuest was founded in 2001 to provide high quality publications and services to spiritual seekers, religious communities, churches, and faith-based organizations.
TrueQuest publications include the award-winning online preaching resource Prepare the Word: Complete preacher's toolkit and Take Five for Faith: Daily formation for busy Catholics.. TrueQuest provides publishing services to numerous organizations. Current and past clients include Abbey Press, Loyola Press, the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, and hundreds of religious communities.
The National Religious Vocation Conference, founded in 1988, is a professional organization of men and women committed to Catholic vocation awareness, invitation, and discernment to life as brothers, sisters and priests. It has approximately 1,300 members, most of whom are vocation ministers for Catholic congregations of sisters, brothers and priests.
The NRVC provides its members with education, resources and other supportive services for personal and professional growth. With publishing expertise from TrueQuest Communications, NRVC publishes VISION Vocation Guide, VocationMatch.com, Focus on Vocation Ministry monthly newsletter, and the professional journal HORIZON.
VISION editors welcome manuscripts and encourage authors to email the content editor with story ideas or submissions.
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VISION Content Editor
TrueQuest Communications
53 W. Jackson Blvd., Ste. 520
Chicago, IL 60604-3433