30 resources
Written by a Korean missionary in Thailand. Gives an excellent background on the history of the Thai church and advocates the need for discipleship traning among Thai church members to further advance the Gospel in Thailand
A study of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of the Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT) as it was in the 1950s
Relatively few Korean missionaries have been sent to Thailand and this is due to the fact that they lack a clear strategy and vision. They have sought to impliment the Nevius method in their church planting but have failed due to a misapplication of the principles in the Thai context. This Doctor of Ministry dissertation suggests a modified version of the Nevius method for use in Thailand
"The purple line in the middle shows the national average for Percentage Christian which is 0.60 percent. Provinces listed above the purple line have a Percentage Christian that is greater than the national average. Provinces listed below the line have a Percentage Christian less than the national average. If your goal is to plant churches in provinces where there is the greatest need for churches you would plant churches in the provinces listed towards the right edge of the graph. The province of Bangkok has the greatest need for churches by a large margin. The next five provinces after Bangkok are: Nakhon Ratchasima Ubon Ratchathani Khon Kaen Buri Ram Udon Thani If your calling is to evangelize and make disciples in locations where there are very few Christians than you would consider serving in the provinces listed towards the bottom of the graph. The six provinces with the fewest Christians as a percentage of the population are: Narathiwat Pattani Samut Songkhram Nakhon Nayok Lop Buri Yala Finally, you may want to consider working in a province where there is a great need for churches as well as having few Christians. In this case you would look for a province located in the right bottom corner of the graph. Provinces to consider would be Surin Si Sa Ket Nakhon Si Thammarat Ubon Ratchathani Nakhon Ratchasima Please pray that God would send laborers to these needed areas."
This research proposes and evaluates a model of church structure for saturation church planting in Bangkok that will overcome or minimise obstacles such as the property barrier and the full-time professional leadership barrier.
A strategy for Baptist church planting in Bangkok
Article about the difficultly explaining the gospel to a Thai Buddhist. One of the author's key point is focusing on the exclusive differences between Theravada Buddhism and Christianity will not be fruitful in a Thai context
A trip through Isaan leads the author to many isolated Christians, highlighting the need for more church planters
Short articles about churchmodel within CCT in north Thailand and approach to leadership shift to local people.
This thesis is a must read for every missionary who wants to understand the Body of Christ in Thailand. It is the most comprehensive overview of the Thai church written since Alex Smith published "Siamese Gold: the Church in Thailand" in 1982. This study is a statistical analysis of hypotheses about conversion and church growth, and therefore takes the study of church growth one step further than is usually done in missiological studies.
This book gives the reader a proper understanding of the country, its culture and religion, which help to show the barriers of resistance that have been erected to the Gospel and ways in which these walls of resistance can be brought down. Even though it was written over 20 years ago it is just as applicable today as it was back then.
This report seeks to explore some of the reasons for the rapid growth of the Hope of Bangkok Church, and the lessons that we can learn from both its rapid growth and some of the problems it has experienced.