Reaching Bangkok - Engaging an Urban Megacity

Rattana* is a local church member deeply burdened for her neighbors. She sensed God calling her to take a bold step of faith and open her home to gather for worship.

She recognized that many in her impoverished community could not travel to church, as they face both financial and physical barriers.

Over the past couple of months, Rattana’s pastor and fellow church members have joined her in monthly outreach efforts in her neighborhood, including glasses clinics.

Rattana’s neighborhood is just one of many areas around Bangkok where God is using your generosity to this ministry to impact lostness.

In another area, the local church is faithfully stepping beyond its walls to bring the hope of the gospel directly to people who might never otherwise encounter it. Rather than waiting for people to come, this church is going to them.

Your gifts helped train church members to host eyeglasses clinics, a simple but powerful outreach that meets real, practical needs. God is already at work:

• One person has accepted Christ.
• Several others in the neighborhood are showing online interest in the gospel.
• The new church is meeting each Saturday night for worship in Rattana’s home.

Thank you for giving and praying for this ministry, our team, local believers, and the lost of Bangkok. These clinics not only restore physical vision but also open doors to meaningful conversations about Christ.

Please continue joining us in prayer:

• Praise God for Rattana’s obedience in opening her home for worship. Pray for this new congregation to grow spiritually and numerically.
• Ask Him to raise up a godly pastor to shepherd these new believers.
• Pray that believers in this new church deepen in their walk with Christ and grow even bolder in sharing Jesus with those around them.
• Ask the Lord to continue using eyeglasses clinics to draw people to Himself.

Your “partnership in the gospel” equips local believers and multiplies gospel presence in hard-to-reach communities (Phil. 1:5). Thank you for your faithfulness.

*Names changed

When Chantana* accepted Christ, she was excited to share her newfound joy with her neighbors. She wanted them to see Jesus as a loving Savior instead of following the religious rituals into which they were born. Because of your gifts, Chantana was able to invite 40 of her neighbors to come to her house to have their eyes checked by reading a gospel tract. Seven of the 40 became believers! Together, they started a new Bible study in their remote community, with 14 attending regularly.

Your generosity provided four optometry lens sets for missionaries and national partners to use as an outreach tool. A local church began using them to check people’s vision. The nearby Muslim community appreciated that the church was helping them, and many are now open to gospel conversations. Previously, numerous efforts to build relationships and establish trust were attempted in that district, and national believers were frustrated at the lack of response. Nothing they tried led to interest from even a single person, but the lens set arrived and opened doors for the gospel.

“These [lens] sets opened doors like never before,” said the local pastor. “Many spiritual conversations resulted from using gospel tracts to measure their eyesight.” Most of those who attended the clinic had never heard the gospel. Because of your gifts, the gospel is moving into areas previously closed to hearing the good news.

Please join us in prayer:

• Pray for Chantana and the Bible study in her community to grow in number and spiritual maturity and continue reaching out in Jesus’ name to other Muslims living there.
• Ask the Lord to provide a fifth lens set so each region can use these for outreach.
• Thank God for the Great Commission vision of these national believers who long to share the gospel with Muslims in a neighboring district.
• Ask God to continue blessing these eye clinics as connection points with unreached people groups and opportunities to communicate God’s love and hope.

Thank you for joining us in addressing the world’s greatest problem: lostness. Your gifts and prayers to the Reaching Bangkok ministry enable us to share the good news with those who need the hope of Jesus. You are a co-laborer with us in the gospel. We value your partnership!

*Name changed for security

Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and the Thai people God calls us to reach with the gospel. Because of your prayers and sacrificial giving, we bring Christ’s love to university students, which number more than one million in Bangkok alone.

Reaching Bangkok’s Students. Over the past few months, our team has been working to revive the ministry of the Baptist Student Center with a singular focus on church planting. Four weeks ago, we began gathering students interested in Jesus into a Bible study group that we pray will become a church. Over the last four weeks, we have been teaching through the gospel during our Bible study time.

A Life Transformed. On a recent Sunday afternoon, a Thai believer talked with a girl named Flo*, one of the students attending the group every week. Flo recognized her need for Jesus and turned to Him in repentance and faith. Flo gave her life to Jesus! , and our group now has its first new believer! The beginnings of what we pray will change many lives through the church plant! Praise the Lord!

Because of your generosity, we are seeing ministry at the Baptist Student Center revitalized as it hosts a Bible study in one of the rooms. Because of your support, Flo heard the good news for the first time and turned to Christ!

Please Join Us in Prayer:

• Please pray for Flo to grow and mature in her walk with the Lord.
• Pray that many others, like Flo, will give their lives to Jesus and form a new church in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.