Who We Are

Our Guiding Principles

We at Zion’s Mission Animal Rescue are committed to giving attention to our goals as a rescue as well as why and how we aim to reach them. Giving equal attention to our processes, motivations, and outcomes is essential to building accountability and integrity in our work. Zion’s Mission has been and will continue to be committed to making positive change for the animals. We have developed a set of guiding principles to align our rescue with our core values.

COMMUNITY-BUILDING by deepening communication between all stakeholders in the rescue; building trust, respect, and kindness between like minded individuals as well as our supporters; and strengthening our sense of belonging and appreciation for one another. We do not discriminate against race, gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, national origin, physical or mental disability or religion.

COLLECTIVE PURPOSE builds commitment and creates motivation to drive our animal rescue and justice work.

COMMUNICATION should be clear, consistent, and respectful across the rescue.

CARE requires each person to be aware of, and responsive to, the needs and feelings of our volunteers, fosters, board, local community, stakeholders, and selves when it comes to the dogs in our care. Care requires self-awareness and an ability to receive what others are trying to express. In doing so, we uphold a spirit of generosity rooted in the understanding that each individual is called to educate, listen, and share for the collective good for the rescue and dogs, and that we are each deserving of care and actively extending care to one another. 

COURAGE is needed for all of our community members, volunteers, and fosters to step outside of their comfort zone and confront their biases and blind spots within conversations and actions on animal rights. Similarly, courage helps us use productive methods when confronting the prejudices presented by others. By leaning on courage, we will build trust in ourselves and one another to do the hard, and necessary, work of shaping a rescue that can make a better future.

FREEDOM is essential for all animals.  We believe that ALL animals are sentient beings who experience love, fear, pain, and hope, just like humans, and that they deserve freedom from hunger, abuse, neglect, pain, injury, fear, and distress.

LOVE is essential for running a rescue. Each and every sentient living being (pig, chicken, dog, cat, etc) deserves to be loved, respected, and one cannot work in rescue if they do not hold love for all animals. Every act of kindness given to an animal from the moment we intake it to their last day is given with love and compassion in our heart. 

RESPONSIBILITY to the wellbeing of animals is a necessity. It is our duty to make sure that the physical, mental, and behavioral wellbeing of an animal is fully met under our care and in their adopter’s care. This also requires a level of self-awareness in the rescue to know what our limitations are and how to navigate with them. We will partner with local rescues that hold our same values during challenging situations to combine resources, knowledge and strength.

VEGAN for the animals. All the humans who run Zion’s Mission are vegan because we would never want to harm an animal, and that includes for our consumption. 

Together, we at Zion’s Mission Animal Rescue will  do everything in our power to rewrite their future, one dog at a time.