Thailand

Country: Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At 513,120 km2 (198,120 sq mi) and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th-largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country.

An introductory prayer guide for Thailand can be found at the Operation World website. For a much more extensive guide to praying for Thailand, consider purchasing the Operation World book (see our affiliate disclosure).

Additional items for prayer can be found in this Prayercast for Thailand.

Country description courtesy of Wikipedia. Used by permission. Map image courtesy of ASDFGH. Public domain.

Teaching the Bible to Animists

By Frank Johnson on October 4, 2019 0

Chiang Mai, Thailand — Photo courtesy of Max Pixel. Public domain.

Hans Bär, a missionary with OMF International, has been involved in evangelism and leadership training among the Karen people in Thailand for over twenty-five years. The Karen people have an animistic background and worldview and that affects how they understand teaching from the Bible.

In a December 2018 article on OMF International’s website, entitled Teaching God’s Word to a People from an Animistic Background, Bär identifies several implications of an animistic worldview for Bible teaching.

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Jesus Knows Their Names

By Frank Johnson on October 3, 2019 0

Holy Men in Nepal — Photo courtesy of Sebastian Pena Lambarri. Used by permission.

In a 2010 paper written for the Cape Town 2010 Congress of the Lausanne Movement, S. Kent Parks and John Scott deliver an impassioned plea for the “Forgotten Fourth” — the almost 2 billion people without access to the gospel.

These “separate peoples” are mostly Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist, and include significant urban populations. They have been described as unreached people groups, least-evangelized, least-reached peoples, and in what is possibly the most accurate and unsettling description of all, ignored peoples. Dr. (Ralph) Winter and others after him have tried to generate a global movement of the Church toward these peoples. Yet despite all the papers and discussions and conferences, today, 36 years later, this forgotten fourth without access to the gospel still makes up over 28% of the world’s population and 41% of the individuals in the world are members of a people group with no viable church.

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