Five Inroads. One Organization.
Vegan World Mission is what happens when several vegan outreach efforts decide they are making the same case and may as well make it together.
We are Christians who believe the gospel is good news for every creature. We are not asking anyone to set the Bible aside — we are asking people to read it again, carefully, from the first chapter to the last. We teach in person and online across Southern California, Las Vegas, and New Jersey, and everywhere else through video, writing, and debate.
How the five fit together
The programs are deliberately sequential, and each one covers a failure point the others cannot. Video teaching reaches people at scale and answers the objection keeping them stuck. The podcast meets people in long-form conversation about the life of faith, where the question often comes up for the first time. Congregational preaching does the slow work inside a church, with the same people week after week. The discipleship school takes those who are convinced and trains them to carry the argument to others. The cooking classes make the change survivable in daily life, so a conversion lasts longer than a month. Reach, depth, multiplication, and retention — in that order.
Between us we have published three books, run an established discipleship school, a recurring cooking class series, a weekly congregational ministry, an ongoing video channel, and a podcast — alongside public talks, debates, and street outreach across Southern California, Las Vegas, and New Jersey.
The people
Five people, five approaches, one mission: a vegan world.
Craig Wescoe
Swords to Plowshares
Jill Ellington
Wholly Fitted 4 Life
Steven Lee August
Vegan Heretic
Tracy Ford
Creation Care Church
Bailey Jo Hall
Following Jesus Podcast
What we believe
- Jesus Christ is Lord, the Scriptures are God’s word, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation.
- God’s original creation was without bloodshed, and God called it very good. (Genesis 1:29–31)
- The prophets describe a restored creation where predation has ended and nothing is harmed. (Isaiah 11:6–9)
- “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” is a prayer we are meant to participate in, not merely recite. (Matthew 6:10)
- The righteous man regards the life of his animal. (Proverbs 12:10)
We would rather persuade one person carefully than shout at a thousand. We hold our convictions strongly and hold people gently.