Thailand

Field Office Information

C&MA Field Entry in 1929

Field Director:

Janice Quinlan

Mailing Address:

28/2 Pradipat Rd Soi 13
Bangkok 10400, THAILAND

Phone:

011-66-2-618-3596

Email:

fielddirector@siammission.org

Website:

http://siammission.org

National Church

The Gospel Church of Thailand: 90 organized churches, 22 unorganized groups, 18 ordained ministers, 3,965 baptized members, and 5,331 inclusive members

Team Initiatives

• Plant reproducing national missionary churches using a variety of methods.
• Train national leadership, both formally and informally, to plant churches and to lead them to maturity in Christ.
• Assist the C&MA national church in becoming self-supporting, church-planting, and missionary-sending.
• Partner with the C&MA national church to demonstrate the love of Christ wholistically and to respond to specific social needs, resulting in healthy churches, effective evangelism, and dynamic church planting.
• Develop an exit strategy that identifies criteria to be met for U.S. mission personnel to be redeployed to other ministries in Thailand and around the world. Acquire local and global prayer support for these objectives.

Second Chance

2013-05-22 14:11:20

By Sue Danneker, serving in Thailand

Pet, a young man who was baptized in January, visited relatives with his family for a few weeks. When he came to church, he mentioned that he was worried about his grandmother, who is dying of cancer. He was shocked to see her so thin and frail.

A year ago, we had visited her with Pet to share the gospel. She was cordial but not ready to pray with us at that time. Pet wanted us to go again in hopes that she would be more receptive this time. Lek, one of the older men in our congregation, heard Pet’s plea and immediately offered to drive Pet, Pastor Sukprasan, and several others on the two-and-a-half-hour trip. I excused myself from a church-planting workshop to meet the group at Pet’s grandma’s house in Suphan Buri.

Praise God! This time she asked Jesus to be her Savior. Pet was relieved, but he is still praying that God will physically heal his grandma as well. Please join us in interceding for her healing.

Demographics

Population

Population--65,444,371 Infant mortality rate--20.5/1,000 Life expectancy--71.6

Capital City

Bangkok (8,838,500) pop.

Geography

A little more than twice the size of Wyoming, Thailand (198,455 sq. mi.) has a plateau in the northeast, a fertile river valley in the center, and rain forests in the south.

Languages

Thai, English, ethnic/regional dialects

Ethnicity/Race

Thai--75%; Chinese--14%; other--11%

Economy

Per capita income--$8,100 Inflation--2.8% Unemployment--1.5% Literacy rate--96% (2003 est.)

Government/Political Climate

Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy. Thailand is currently facing armed violence in its three Muslim-majority southernmost provinces.

Religion

Buddhist--95%; Muslim--3.8%; Christian--0.5%; Hindu--0.1%; other--0.6%