Missions

2010-2011 MISSIONS:

This year, the CVF is sending a 9-person mission team to Honduras over Christmas break and a 4^th year vet student to join a veterinary mission team in India in January.

A message from the Honduras Team:

This Christmas, a group of veterinary students from Texas A&M will be giving up one week to serve the people of Honduras and to be a part of something greater. Through our passion and talents for Veterinary Medicine, we will have the opportunity to share the Way, the Truth, and the Life with those who don't know while also providing for the physical needs of their livestock. The Gospel is moving and growing in the entire world, and we are ready to be a part of His work!

The trip will be from December 11-18, 2010. We will be trekking into some of the poorest villages surrounding Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. Between veterinary work, children's ministry, and relationship building with the local people we will be part of a short but life-changing week!

If you would like to be a part of what we are doing, please join this group! Your support and prayers will make a way for us to share the greatest love we could ever know and to give back with what we have been so richly given.

Sincerely,
Stephanie Grissom, 2VM
Heather Wiese, 2VM
Katherine Maples, 2VM
Susan Bender, 2VM
Stephanie Buntain, 2VM
Amanda Mills, 3VM
Preston Stone, 2VM
Beau Schilling, 2VM
Bethany Schilling, DVM

"From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised!" ~Psalm 113:3

A message from Kelly Robinson, 4VM:

"I am excitedly preparing for a short-term missions opportunity in India this winter through Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM). I plan to depart January 5 to serve with other CVM volunteers in association with the India Gospel League (IGL) in Salem, India. IGL participates in rural and community development as part of its outreach; one of the components of this outreach is animal husbandry. During last year's trip, a team of one vet and 3 students treated 72 dogs, 7 rabbits, 21 chickens, 26 water buffalo, 516 sheep and goats, and 297 cattle in just seven days. We will be assisting IGL in animal husbandry as well as complementing the evangelism and church planting efforts carried out in local villages in the surrounding area. I will return to the United States on January 14.

You may be asking yourself why I want to do this. I attended a conference called 'Passion 2010' in Atlanta, GA this past winter. It opened my eyes to the world around me and showed me the great need that this world has for people who live to glorify God. I was no longer content to simply carry out the goals I had planned for my life, but was instead challenged to go beyond what I had previously thought possible. I have been praying that I could live a life outside of myself, bigger than my own personal goals. I believe God gave me the opportunity to go to vet school and I want to use my skills for His glory. I couldn't ask for a better opportunity that unites the passions in my life: serving God and practicing veterinary medicine. He has filled me to overflowing with a love and compassion for His people. I truly feel called to this opportunity and look forward to what God has in store for me on this trip."

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." - Acts 1:8

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We Need Your Help!

If you'd like to make a donation in support of either of these missions, you can do so online through Christian Veterinary Missions by clicking on the button below or by contacting them directly. Please make sure to mark your donations for 'Texas A&M University Students'. All donations made through CVM are tax-deductible.

If you would like to donate medical supplies for our teams, please contact Stephanie Grissom at SKGrissom@cvm.tamu.edu.

Please keep our missionaries in your prayers as they work to share God's love through the power of the human-animal bond.