IBCM Guidebook (Fourth Edition)
OMF training guidebook for helping missionaries consider how to encourage an Indigenous Biblical Church Movement (IBCM)
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Marburger Background
Few short articles about the Marburger Mission in Thailand as of 1950
Methods of Church Planting and Means of Promoting Church Growth in a Buddhist Society
A Comparative Study of the Mission Work of South Laos and Northeast Thailand
Multiplying Churches through Prayer Cell Evangelism
Manual For Church Planting Movements aimed at teaching Christians at the grass roots level to spread the Gospel to relatives and friends, and to multiply churches across the lands.
One-Way Missions in the Age of Global Christianity: A View from Thailand
This article outlines the rapidly increasing level of missionary activity by Thailand’s Protestant churches and then notes a tendency for missions to flow from groups of higher prestige and socio-economic power to groups of lower prestige. Noting that the same pattern is observable among Christian missions worldwide, the author calls for greater attention to the patterns of church-mission partnerships, greater openness to spiritual leadership from groups of lower status, and greater attention to the work of non- Western missions worldwide. He also notes that failure to correct these patterns could sometimes lead missions to overlook the very kinds of movements among less respected peoples that had given rise to the churches in which their own personnel had been raised.
Pastoral Care
Few short articles about pastoral counseling in the CCT, the CCT's struggle with pastoral care and self-support for churches and rural groups.
Pauls Methods & Northern Thai Church History
Short article comparing Paul's method with methods used by presbyterian missionaries in Northern Thailand
Religion and Community Formation in Northern Thailand: The Case of Christianity in Nan Province
Paper studying trends in communal seperation for 18 Christian groups and communities in Nan Province over the course of the three periods of the founding, initial movement, and long-term development.
Report on the 2011 Thai Congress 7.5
A report describing the Thai Vision 2015 - "I will be one of a 100,000 to lead a million to Christ by 2015"
Researching & Mapping to Reach a Nation - Thailand
An article presented at Lausanne 2010 describing the work of the Thailand Evangelism Committe and what they are doing to reach the nation for Christ
Strategy To Multiply Rural Churches
One of the major tasks facing the Church of Jesus Christ today is to effectively plant self-propagating churches in the rural areas of the world, especially across the heavily populated plains of Asia. The objective of this study is to describe the actual rural situation as regards evangelization in Central Thailand, and to design a workable strategy to multiply churches there.
Syncretistic Thai Religion and Church Growth
Study consisting of a synopsis of an M.A. thesis written at the School of World Mission and Institute of Church Growth in 1970. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part One is analysis of the syncretistic nature of Thai Buddhism as practiced by the Thai peasant. Part two consists of the implications of this analysis for the growth of the Church in Thailand.