CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION

Programs

1. Cvm long-term projects involves sending veterinary professionals and their families internationally. The cvm long-term missions department partners with other ngo's, universities, and churches internationally to provide training, community development, veterinary services, christian fellowship, and discipleship. On june 30, 2025, cvm had 45 veterinary professional employees working internationally in 19 countries spread across latin america, africa, and asia. We had 22 veterinary professionals volunteering and serving as cvm associates in 12 countries. Examples of some of these programs include veterinary and continuing education training in mongolia, and bolivia, veterinary technician training in s africa, se asia and haiti, livestock projects in nicaragua, asia, and tanzania, and veterinary service projects and farmer training in many under accessed communities in africa, asia, and latin america. In addition to providing support to individuals and families to better care for animals, our staff are often engaged with training individuals and small groups to study the bible, evangelism, and church planting.

   $4,861,830 spent
   67% of program spending

2. The cvm workplace and student ministries seek to challenge, empower, and facilitate veterinary professionals to live out their faith through the profession. Cvm cares for and encourages veterinary students and professionals and provides tools for them to share christ's love through veterinary medicine. During fye 6.30.25, the workplace and student ministries mobilized many volunteers across north america. Cvm had approximately 225 student leaders of campus fellowship chapters in 50 veterinarian, pre-veterinary, and technical colleges and universities. About 60 faculty advisors and student ministry advocates served as volunteers to support those campus fellowships. Approximately 100 veterinary professionals volunteered their time to share their stories at 10 real life real impact retreat weekends for students and professionals. Along with cvm staff, approximately 10 volunteers served to represent cvm at 40 professional veterinary conferences and 2 student conferences. In total, workplace and student ministries mobilized approximately 335 volunteers to support veterinary professionals and students in fye 6.30.25.

   $1,262,034 spent$38,370 earned by the program
   17% of program spending

3. The cvm short-term missions volunteer program seeks to make a long-term impact through short-term missions by recruiting, training, sending, and debriefing cvm short-term volunteers, instructing them in missions and ministry models. Cvm short-term mission volunteers provide christian veterinary support to cvm long-term missionaries, as well as the local partners and community. In fye 6.30.25, the cvm short-term missions program mobilized 777 volunteers to 31 different countries on 97 short-term mission trips. These volunteers donated a total of 51,544 hours of their time, which translates to roughly $2,680,288 in donated wages (based on current average vet professional salaries. In addition to mobilizing short-term volunteers, the cvm short-term missions team helped to facilitate four mission apprenticeship trips, where vet students are paired with a cvm international long-term fieldworker for a minimum of 30 days to experience mentorship, training, and guidance on what a potential future in international vet missions may look like. In fy25, the short-term dept mobilization system helped engage 576 new volunteers with the ministry and promote short-term trip opportunities.

   $1,059,997 spent
   15% of program spending

4. The professional development and spiritual wellness (pdsw) department prioritized programs that promote (1) workforce education and growth, and (2) holistic wellness of cvm supporters (those engaged in prayer, giving, and service) and cvm staff (both cvm usa and international field workers). A significant accomplishment in fy25 was the transition of the cvm elearning platform from learnupon to moodle by grow2serve. The elearning platform has more than 4000 users with 83 courses hosted. The new platform, moodle, is simpler for the end-user to learn and for the staff to upload and manage materials. It is also much less expensive, which was an added advantage. Moodle was launched in late fy25. A second major achievement was the enrichment of the cvm wellbeing program. Short-term mission leaders received training for their team members to write their personal testimonies and to share them. The training was recorded and posted on the cvm elearning platform to equip other ministry leaders with this valuable evangelism resource. Wellbeing also launched a 7-month re:generation course that met weekly online with 18 participants completing the course materials. The course culminated in a…

   $75,590 spent$267,498 earned by the program
   1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,259,451.