|  | Title: Additional Churches Needed Per Province
Author: Martin, Dwight
Description: "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."
Subject: Statistics & Maps; Church Planting
Type: Chart / Graph
Year Published: 2013
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| | Title: Analysis and Development of a Church Structure to Facilitate Saturation Church Planting in Bangkok
Author: Ware, Anthony
Description: 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.
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 235 Filesize:
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| | Title: Bangkok: An Urban Arena
Author: Chill, Ronald
Description: A strategy for Baptist church planting in Bangkok
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Book
Year Published: 1982
Pages: 33 Filesize:
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| | Title: Bibliography of Thai Christianity
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: The purpose of this bibliography is to provide an extensive list of English-language research materials useful for the study of Christianity in Thailand.
Subject: Church History; Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 2004
Pages: 43 Filesize:
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| | Title: Christians without a church
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: A trip through Isaan leads the author to many isolated Christians, highlighting the need for more church planters
Subject: Church Planting; Isaan
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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| | Title: Christian Theology in a country of temples
Author: Staveren, Karsten van
Description: 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
Subject: Contextualization; Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 15 Filesize:
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| | Title: Churchplanting model and leadership
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short articles about churchmodel within CCT in north Thailand and approach to leadership shift to local people.
Subject: Church Planting; Church History; Leadership
Type: Article
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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| | Title: Conversion Growth of Protestant Churches in Thailand
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: 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.
Subject: Statistics & Maps; Evangelism; Church Planting
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 311 Filesize:
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| | Title: Conversion Growth of Protestant Churches in Thailand
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: Thesis investigating what factors are conducive for church growth through conversion in Protestant churches in Thailand.
Subject: Church Planting; Evangelism
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 311 Filesize:
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| | Title: Dawn Wind
Author: OMF Thailand
Description: 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.
Subject: Church History; Culture; Church Planting
Type: Book
Year Published: 1980
Pages: 112 Filesize:
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| | Title: A Discipleship Model for Missionaires Establishing Churches in Thailand
Author: Lee, Yong Woong
Description: 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
Subject: Church Planting; Church History; Discipleship
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 137 Filesize:
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| | Title: The history and growth of the CCT in Thailand: An evangelistic perspective
Author: Koydul, Virat
Description: Part of thesis about the growth and development in the Church of Christ in Thailand between 1978-1989
Subject: Evangelism; Church History | 1970s; Church History | 1980s; Church Planting
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 1990
Pages: 108 Filesize:
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| | Title: Hope of Bangkok
Author: Linder, Johan
Description: 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.
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 2004
Pages: 20 Filesize:
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| | Title: IBCM Guidebook (Fourth Edition)
Author: OMF Thailand
Description: OMF training guidebook for helping missionaries consider how to encourage an Indigenous Biblical Church Movement (IBCM)
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Handbook
Year Published: 2012
Pages: 91 Filesize:
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| | Title: Marburger Background
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Few short articles about the Marburger Mission in Thailand as of 1950
Subject: Mission Organizations; Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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| | Title: Methods of Church Planting and Means of Promoting Church Growth in a Buddhist Society
Author: Harwood, Alan
Description: A Comparative Study of the Mission Work of South Laos and Northeast Thailand
Subject: Church Planting; Isaan
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 1973
Pages: 80 Filesize:
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| | Title: Multiplying Churches through Prayer Cell Evangelism
Author: Smith, Alex
Description: 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.
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Book
Year Published: 1970
Pages: 45 Filesize:
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| | Title: One-Way Missions in the Age of Global Christianity: A View from Thailand
Author: Zehner, Edwin
Description: 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.
Subject: Church Planting; Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2010
Pages: 9 Filesize:
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| | Title: Pastoral Care
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Few short articles about pastoral counseling in the CCT, the CCT's struggle with pastoral care and self-support for churches and rural groups.
Subject: Church History | 1800-1900; Church History | 1900-1950; Leadership; Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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| | Title: Pauls Methods & Northern Thai Church History
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short article comparing Paul's method with methods used by presbyterian missionaries in Northern Thailand
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 1 Filesize:
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| | Title: The Power of the Oikos
Author: Johnson, Alan
Description: Sharing the Gospel through Relational Networks. If Oikos based evangelism is both a Scriptural methodology and effective then we need to develop an intentional plan and strategy for using these principles and methods in our church life.
Subject: Evangelism; Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 1998
Pages: 13 Filesize:
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| | Title: A Program of Advance for the Christian Movement in Thailand
Author: Cressy, Earl
Description: A study of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of the Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT) as it was in the 1950s
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 1959
Pages: 56 Filesize:
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| | Title: Religion and Community Formation in Northern Thailand: The Case of Christianity in Nan Province
Author: Chinawong, Kummool
Description: 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.
Subject: Church Planting; Church History
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 14 Filesize:
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| | Title: Report on the 2011 Thai Congress 7.5
Author: Nicholson, Gregg
Description: A report describing the Thai Vision 2015 - "I will be one of a 100,000 to lead a million to Christ by 2015"
Subject: Church History ; Church Planting; Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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| | Title: Researching & Mapping to Reach a Nation - Thailand
Author: Nicholson, Gregg
Description: 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
Subject: Church History; Church Planting; Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2010
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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| | Title: Strategy To Multiply Rural Churches
Author: Smith, Alex
Description: 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.
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Book
Year Published: 1977
Pages: 200 Filesize:
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| | Title: Structural And Ministry Philosophy Issues In Church Planting Among Buddhist Peoples
Author: Johnson, Alan
Description: Missionaries involved in church planting among Buddhist populations wrestle with the problem of very slow church planting and church growth among existing congregations. The author response to this has been to deal with issues of contextualization to see how the Gospel message and church life can be made to better fit the local context and thus become more relevant to the people.
Subject: Contextualization; Church Planting
Type: Article
Pages: 20 Filesize:
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| | Title: A Study on Church Planting Strategy of Korean Missions in Thailand
Author: Chung, Chana Seung Hoi
Description: 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
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 1992
Pages: 46 Filesize:
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| | Title: Syncretistic Thai Religion and Church Growth
Author: Gustafson, Jim
Description: 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.
Subject: Buddhism; Church Planting
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 1971
Pages: 19 Filesize:
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| | Title: Teaching Programme for New Believers
Author: OMF Thailand
Description: The goal of this teaching programme is to give sufficient teaching necessary to help a group of people recently turned from animism, move through the embrionic church stage to the beginning of the emerging church stage. The Thai version of this programme is available on the ThaiCRC website.
Subject: Discipleship; Church Planting
Type: Article
Pages: 56 Filesize:
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| | Title: Thai Church: If You Build It They Will Come?
Author: Lambert, John
Description: One of the more interesting things that I have come across in Thailand is the church planting strategy of a group of zealous Asians (not Thai) who have been working to plant churches in the nation. They seem to be operating in a very different paradigm than most others, in that they build tremendous buildings and facilities from the ground up, but many times, don’t even have more than 50 believers to fill them.
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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| | Title: Third World Mission-Church Partnership: A Korean-Thai Model
Author: Kim, Jung Woong
Description: An examination of different approaches to church planting in Thailand, with special attention given to various Korean approaches
Subject: Church Planting
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 1985
Pages: 133 Filesize:
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| | Title: “You Can Be a Christian, but You Can’t Get Baptized”
Author: Dahlfred, Karl
Description: The signficance of ceremony in Thailand is applied to the speed and requirements for baptism in Thai churches
Subject: Evangelism; Discipleship; Church Planting
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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