Dr. Leroy Dorminy, CVM Founder
In 1976 Dr. Dorminy realized that veterinarians could play an important role in alleviating hunger and hopelessness in the Developing World.  With this goal in mind, he founded Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM).  Dr. Dorminy currently serves as Director Emeritus and is heavily involved with CVM's Endowment Fund and overseas special requests for CVM Educational Materials.  missionvet@aol.com  Ocilla,GA-H-229-468-7898  Camarillo,CA-H-805-445-8731  Cell-229-424-3253

Dr. Kit Flowers, President
Dr. Flowers has served as CVM's President since 1994 and plays a pivotal role as the direct contact to the CVM Board of Advisors as well as our donors.  Since coming to CVM as Executive Director, Kit has led the ministry in a direction of serving through educational programs and response to the needs of under developed countries.  Together with his wife Jan, Kit serves CVM's board, state reps, fieldworkers and staff faithfully. 
kflowers@cvmusa.org    206-546-7226
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Dr. Brad Frye, Program Director & Latin America Director
Dr. Frye serves to provide leadership and direction to the CVM Long Term, Short Term and Goods In Kind Program of CVM.  This includes developing and administering programs of recruitment and mentoring potential candidates, developing personalized training and orientation programs of support and encouragement for Long Term workers serving on the field.  This role is carried out in team ministry with other members of the CVM staff.
bfrye@cvmusa.org  206-546-7248
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Dr. Karen Stoufer, Director of Training & Asia Regional Director
Dr. Karen Stoufer and family served as fieldworkers in Nepal for 13 years where they trained village animal health workers, facilitated projects in drinking water, women’s empowerment and literacy, and worked with the local church. Since 2003, she has been the Director of Training based in the Seattle office. Her passion is to facilitate training related to Christian rural community development, participatory training, raising of missionary kids, and cross-cultural skills so that long-term and short-term fieldworkers can be effective. 
kstoufer@cvmusa.org  206-546-7308
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Dr. Fred Van Gorkom, CVM International Partners Director & Africa Regional Director
The The Lord blessed Fred and Vicki with 25 years as CVM fieldworkers in Ethiopia, teaching them many vital and cool lessons about Himself and working in His Kingdom.  Now they use that background and experience to multiply their ministry on a more international scope.  Fred is part of the team to recruit, train, send and mentor long term and short term fieldworkers, especially in Africa.  Fred loves to encourage missions and share what God has done and is still doing.  His responsibilities also include international partners, special projects, fieldworker alumni and donor development.
fvangorkom@cvmusa.org  206-289-7953
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Diana Baker, Development & Marketing Director
Diana brings her past experience as an artist and graphic designer to her work managing and creating CVM's marketing and fundraising materials such as the quarterly CVM journal, The Christian Veterinarian.  In addition she maintains the CVM website and oversees the production of CVM's e-newsletters: The Outreach Herald, Send-a-Vet, Prayer Time and The International Animal Health News.  Diana's interest in missions has motivated her to serve on the Missions Board of her church and participate in short term trips to Mexico, Sierra Leone and South Africa.
dbaker@cvmusa.org  206-546-7368

Dr. Vicki Van Gorkom, CVM Donor Services
Vicki and Fred were CVM fieldworkers in Ethiopia until June 2008, when they returned to the U.S. to work in the CVM home office.  Vicki is involved with all aspects of donor services: check processing, gift receipting, reporting on deputation giving to fieldworkers and serving as a communication link between the deputation audience and the fieldworkers.
vvangorkom@cvmusa.org  206-546-7574
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Colleen Conroy, Resource Development Administrative Assistant
Colleen Conroy serves as CVM's Resource Development Administrative Assistant. Colleen's career as a marketing specialist, fieldworker liaison with many years spent supporting directors in administration has successfully prepared Colleen for this busy position. Colleen directs CVM's Loveline program. She also coordinates fieldworker prayer letters and assists in all aspects of donor services. Colleen is a national champion ice skater with a degree in Fitness Management.
cconroy@cvmusa.org  206-546-7238

Malia Drennan, International Missions Administrative Assistant
Malia has a background in international development as well as experience in and a heart for cross cultural ministry.  Malia’s interest in missions has motivated her to participate in short term and long term trips to Ireland, Argentina, Guatemala and Malawi and Uganda.  Her focus is to support the mobilization of mission volunteers and staff through the CVM international Programs office. Her primary responsibility is to manage the application process for short term volunteers, maintain an active volunteer data base and coordinate the necessary trip paper work. She is also responsible for coordinating the benefits process and assisting with the application process for long term staff.
mdrennan@cvmusa.org   206-546-7472

Krista Forseth, U.S. Ministry Administrative Assistant
Krista coordinates veterinary professional and student conferences where CVM has a presence. This includes meeting logistics, booth space, fellowship breakfasts and evening seminars. Other responsibilities include support to Region Representatives and State Representative, student leadership trainings and support, and overall communication regarding these conferences & trainings. 
kforseth@cvmusa.org   206-289-7811

Melissa Sims, Online Marketing Coordinator
“Within each of us rests the desire to do something bigger than ourselves, to accomplish something that will impact the world.” –Donald Miller
Melissa has a passion for working towards something greater than herself. She desires to work in avenues that provide an opportunity to better the community, people's lives and the world. She has a deep love for working with nonprofit organizations as well as companies that have models that give back to others. Melissa specializes in event coordination, marketing, design and photography and has her Bachelor of Fine Art in Visual Communication with dual majors in Design and Multimedia. She enjoys being able to blend her artistic skills with the heart and goals of Christian Veterinary Mission. Her primary focus is to manage and enhance the online presence of the organization, and serve as a creative mind for design and marketing. 
msims@cvmusa.org    206-289-7954

Tracy Stone, Short-Term Missions Coordinator
Tracy has a background serving as the Global Mission Coordinator for a local church and as the co-founder of a ministry to widows and orphans in Rwanda.  Having experienced first-hand the life-changing impact of cross-cultural ministry through short-term trips to Rwanda, Austria, Mexico, and the Yakama Reservation, Tracy’s primary focus will be to coordinate the short-term volunteers and trips through CVM.  This includes developing and maintaining relationships with host partners and veterinary volunteers, coordinating the promotion and marketing of mission needs to the Veterinary profession, and providing orientation, encouragement, prayer and training materials to team members about STM opportunities. Her desire to see people’s lives impacted by the truth and grace of the gospel, as they experience life in another context, will serve her well in this new role.
tstone@cvmusa.org | 206-546-7344

Sarah Lewis, Short-term Administrative Assistant
Sarah has a passion for international ministry and missions mobilization. She graduated from Multnomah Biblical Seminary in 2012 with a Masters of Divinity in Intercultural Studies. Her role at CVM is to assist short-term teams through accounting. In her spare time, she reads voraciously, plucks around on a banjo named Rosie Mae, & drinks copious amounts of coffee.
slewis@cvmusa.org | 206-289-7812

wjcant7767@aol.com | 940-765-2837
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Dr. Denise Ward, Northeast Region Rep
Denise was introduced to CVM as a veterinary student at Iowa State, amazed that God could use her vet skills to serve Christ in missions. After graduating in 2001 she practiced two years in Iowa, then in Ethiopia for 7 years then in Seattle as the short term missions coordinator for 2 years. She is now privileged to walk along those in the east/northeast USA as they discover God’s calling in their practice & beyond.
daward@cvmusa.org  319-217-8841
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Dr. Barry Schwenk, Southwest Region Rep
I began my relationship with CVM as a student at Kansas State University in 1995.  I was challenged in ways that have forever changed my life.  I have had the privilege of participating in short term missions, CVM short courses, and student leadership ministry.  After practicing in the US for 7 years, my family began service in Ethiopia.  We began with veterinary ministry and then, over the next 6 years, God used us to establish schools, drill wells, plant churches, develop curriculum, and disciple leaders. 

bschwenk@cvmusa.org | 206-794-2930
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Dr. Glenn Gaines, South Central Region Rep
My background is being a Texas A&M 1982 graduate and having been in private practice for 25 years with most of it being in Brenham, Texas. I started 17 years ago traveling on short term trips with CVM. I have been blessed to have traveled in 8 different countries with several being multiple visits. My wife and I left the private practice career in 2007 and were long-term fieldworkers in Mongolia from 2007-2010. We returned to the states and have been doing the region representative position since.

ggaines@cvmusa.org | 979-277-4150
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Dr. Roy Coolman, Midwest Region Rep (volunteer)
My association with CVM dates back to when it was first started by Dr. Leroy Dorminy.  I eventually became a state rep for Indiana.  I retired from a small animal surgical referral practice in Jan of 2007 after responding to the call to help an organization called Project Mercy develop and expand a dairy cattle breeding program in Ethiopia, East Africa.  Since 2006 I have traveled to Ethiopia 9 times as a CVM Associate to help get that project initiated.  This has been a time of stretching with many rewards and challenges.  Prior to that I had been active in missions in our church and had traveled to South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Kenya, Mexico, and Guatemala on short term mission trips.

rcoolman@cvmusa.org | 260-433-6496
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Dr. Lauren Spears, Southeast Region Rep
Dr. Lauren Spears grew up in Louisville, KY and is an Auburn University grad. After seven short-term mission trips to three Latin American countries, she served for three years as a long-term fieldworker with CVM in Bolivia where she worked with university students in the capital city of Santa Cruz. After completing her time in Bolivia over the next several months, she will return Stateside to assume the role of CVM Southeast Region Representative.

lspears@cvmusa.org | 502-612-1357
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