if you have already your lmo under your name and you still got 3 months before expiration of your religious visa, find in the cic website applying work permit inside canada. to encounter your case as religious visa converting into work visa is new to me. my impression is it has technicality that it must undergo the right processing, approach and application. considering consulting immigration lawyer for guidance i believe will really put you in right path. now if you chose not to, speed up the time to research further in this forum how things going on becoming a foreign worker. hopefully you will get all the necessary info when you push thru your LMO and work permit. i hope all the best for you!