Long-Term Missions
Animals create an open door for the gospel around the world.
Relationships built around animals can take you into places where animals play a significant role in cultures, into agricultural communities dependent on their livestock for survival, and even into cities where pet ownership is a growing part of society.
Christian Veterinary Mission exists to facilitate veterinary professionals and their families in sharing the gospel through their work; equipping you to impact communities through veterinary medicine and challenging you to share your faith through your profession.
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CVM places veterinary professionals and their families on ministry teams around the world with a vision to see communities and lives transformed through Jesus Christ. Our priority is to match families to ministry locations where both spouses can fully engage and utilize their unique gifts for ministry.
Each worker uses their skills to serve and reach others through a variety of ministry models. Examples include student ministry at veterinary and agricultural schools, facilitating community development programs, and using clinical medicine to build relationships in communities as part of church planting teams.
Scroll through some of the open ministry opportunities below to see examples of where and how you might serve. Click on each country to see a description of the work needed there. For more information, contact [email protected] or Apply Now.
Long-Term Missions Opportunities
Central Asia
Poultry Practitioner
Train small-to-mid-scale poultry farmers (layers and broilers) in improved practices; potential to teach poultry medicine at local universities. Many farms are run by local believers using Business as Mission (BAM) as a tool to build relationships and strengthen their welcome in the community.
Uganda
Livestock Development Practitioner
Work through the local church to provide livestock care and training to marginalized and unreached communities of Batwa people.
Taiwan
University Ministry
Work with students at a vet school, building relationships by teaching veterinary English and providing one-on-one mentorship as they prepare their final year case presentations.
Work with students at a vet school, building relationships by teaching veterinary English and providing one-on-one mentorship as they prepare their final year case presentations.
South Asia
Livestock Development Practitioner
Join an existing Christian community development agency to facilitate livestock programs.
Japan
Community Development Trainer
Join an existing ministry to teach livestock husbandry skills as part of a demonstration farm and ministry training center with a focus on Christian community development using participatory techniques.
Tanzania
Livestock Development Practitioner
Use community development programs as part of an existing church planting team.
Ghana
University Lecturer
Teach subjects or clinical medicine (small or large animal) with practice management while mentoring vet students. Help establish new program to impact the nation. Take students on outreach into countryside. Coordinate short term vets and teach Continuing Education as a witness.
Peru
Livestock Development Practitioner
Support animal health training of local trainers for alpacas and small ruminants, develop marketing program for alpaca program.
Asia
Business as Missions Veterinarian
Start a veterinary related business, in hard to access places, thus allowing opportunities to minister to staff and clients.
Burundi
Livestock Development Practitioner
Join another family starting an outreach to the marginalized Batwa people. Initiate agricultural training and development programs in the rural mountains with the goal of discipleship and planting a church.
South Asia
Business as Mission
Support goat production efforts being used to engage unreached people.
Support goat production efforts being used to engage unreached people.
South Sudan
Livestock Development Practitioner
Use community development programs as part of church planting team in the rural hill country.
Nigeria
Livestock Development Practitioner
Contribute to the development of a Fulani church through your veterinary skills. Join an existing team working to promote rotational grazing and dairy production in addition to their Christian schools.
Central Asia
Livestock Development Practitioner
Join an organization working in water projects to help them implement livestock husbandry training and community development programs for greater opportunities to share the gospel in communities with no known believers.
Moldova
University Lecturer
Part-time faculty teaching or clinics and engaged in student ministry. Work with national vets to organize outreaches into rural villages.
Central Africa
Rural Veterinary Practitioner
Join a new ministry team in an underdeveloped rural area, working with large populations of nomadic people and their cattle, sheep, and camels who seasonally move in and out of this region.
Central Asia
Rural Veterinary Practitioner
Evangelism and animal health training with nomadic and semi-nomadic people on an existing team.
Argentina
University Ministry
Work with vet school to establish a student outreach and encourage national Christian vets as they form a fellowship group. Lead Bible studies, coordinate outreach activities, and mobilize nationals for ministry.
Guatemala
Community Development Trainer
Join a Guatemalan organization implementing community development projects with indigenous people (Quiche and Mam). Focus on livestock husbandry training and animal distribution in addition to opportunities for a non-vet spouse to serve.
Namibia
Rural Veterinary Practitioner
Help support outreach efforts to the Bushmen of the rural NE part of the country, providing clinical services in a underserved area and/or facilitating community development programs. Mainly work with cattle.
Eastern Europe
Business as Missions
Join a new team working in the rural mountains. Working with sheep farmers will allow opportunities for discipleship in a region completely unreached by the gospel.
West Africa
Church Planting Team
Join a community development team to use animal husbandry programs to reach the Fulani people.
Paraguay
Rural Veterinary Practitioner
Use Veterinary services as part of rural church planting team.
Nigeria
Church Planting Team
Join a team focused on outreach to the Fulani people, using clinical medicine, partnership with national vets, training of veterinary workers, and/or community development projects.
Mozambique
Livestock Development Practitioner
Join a family running a dairy and yogurt shop, using veterinary care to further their outreach efforts among an unreached people group.
South Africa
University Lecturer
Teach animal health curriculum, serving racially and politically marginalized students through veterinary education and discipling; also village outreach. Need for small animal and large animal instructors.
Bolivia
University Lecturer
Part-time faculty teaching or clinics and engaged in student ministry.
Honduras
University Lecturer
University ministry at private vet school, either large or small animal.
Ethiopia
Livestock Development Practitioner
Livestock based community development with potential to teach in local veterinary school.
Papua New Guinea
Livestock Development Practitioner
Join an existing church planting team to establish veterinary services in underserved area and provide livestock husbandry and project management. Mainly swine but also poultry and a few goats.
Malaysia
Livestock Trainer
Join the work of an existing ministry operating drug rehabilitation centers. Assist with the management of the facility's livestock (goats and poultry), teach agriculture skills, and engage in discipling relationships with the program participants.
Lesotho
Rural Veterinary Practitioner
Join a team working with the shepherds of Lesotho, some of the least-reached people of the country. They are often marginalized from mainstream village life and live in transient all male small communities in the mountains with their sheep, goats, and cattle.
Jordan
Small Animal Practitioner
Experienced small animal practitioner needed for work in a newly developed clinic, with special emphasis on surgery, referrals, and working dogs.
South Asia
Rural Veterinary Practitioner
Work with a Christian community development organization to help support the operation of their dairy.
West Africa
Livestock Development Practitioner
Join a community development team to use animal husbandry programs to engage unreached nomadic people.
Ethiopia
Livestock Development Practitioner
Livestock projects combined with other community development work (such as clean water projects).