Our Work
Five programs, one aim: bringing Christians to veganism through Scripture.
Why this work exists
Roughly two-thirds of Americans identify as Christian, and most vegan advocacy never reaches them. The usual arguments — ethics, climate, health — land differently in a church than they do on a campus, and secular messengers are ill-equipped to reach this demographic. It is an enormous audience that most of the movement is structurally unable to talk to.
Vegan World Mission exists to close that gap. We are Christians ourselves, working from inside the tradition and from the text, making the case that veganism is not a modern invention laid over Scripture but something the Bible has pointed toward from Genesis to Revelation. We are insiders talking to our own people, which is the only way this conversation ever goes well.
Our programs
Program 1
Swords to Plowshares — Vegan Christian Discipleship School
Led by Craig Wescoe
A training school that equips Christians to bring other Christians to veganism. Participants work through the biblical case passage by passage, then learn how to hold the conversation in real life — in churches, at the door, on the street, and in public debate. The aim is not only to convince people, but to multiply people who can convince others.
- Who it reaches: Christians who are already persuaded and want to be equipped to persuade others.
- Where & how often: Online, monthly for the past three years.
Program 2
Wholly Fitted 4 Life — Vegan Cooking Classes
Led by Jill Ellington
Hands-on vegan cooking classes that answer the question that stops most people the moment they are convinced: “but what would I actually eat?” Conviction without a practical path collapses within a month. These classes are where a change of mind becomes a change of habit.
- Who it reaches: Christians who have been persuaded in principle and need the practical skills to follow through, plus newcomers who arrive through food rather than argument.
- Where & how often: Southern California, in person, monthly and by invitation.
Program 3
Vegan Heretic — Video Teaching & Apologetics
Led by Steven Lee August
Video teaching that takes on the hardest objections directly — the flood, the law, the fish, Peter’s vision — and answers them from the text rather than around it. This is the arm of the work that scales past the reach of any room, and it is usually where skeptics meet us first.
- Who it reaches: Christians anywhere with objections they have never heard answered, and skeptics who came to argue.
- Where & how often: Weekly videos online and weekly street outreach in Las Vegas.
Program 4
Creation Care Church — Talks & Bible Studies
Led by Tracy Ford and Craig Wescoe
Preaching and weekly Bible study inside a local congregation, making the case for veganism from the pulpit and around the table. This is the work at its most patient: not a one-off talk to strangers, but the same people returning week after week, in the setting where a community of successfully outreached vegans gain support from an established community of vegan followers of Jesus.
- Who it reaches: Practising Christians in an ordinary congregational setting, including those who would never attend a vegan event.
- Where & how often: Creation Care Church, weekly for the past five years.
Program 5
Following Jesus Podcast — Conversations on Following Jesus
Led by Bailey Jo Hall and Craig Wescoe
Long-form conversations by two longtime vegan followers of Jesus on what it really means to follow Jesus — from our individual choices to how we live together — especially where faith and compassion for animals meet. It is where many listeners hear the case for veganism for the first time, inside a wider conversation about the life of faith.
- Who it reaches: Christians and seekers anywhere who want to think through what following Jesus asks of them.
- Where & how often: Online, on YouTube and podcast platforms. Ongoing.