The Strategy:

1. The Team from the United States helps to develop a broad contact base on a campus, because the Thais like Americans and want to practice English with them. One way to instantly give the USA team the highest visibility is by getting them into some English conversation classes on the campus. The Americans are like magnets, that can draw literally 100’s of students in their sphere of influence.

2. The University sees our team as part of a cultural exchange program, yet, they know we are a Christian organization. The campus usually gives us a room on the campus that is ours the whole time - where they campus will assign their students to come and interview us for homework and learn about our way of life and beliefs. The team can also design daily activities in the room that they can invite students to that they meet every day. The team can also go around the campus and meet students, form relationships and connect them with activities we develop on the campus that meet felt needs.

3. Through connecting with students on the campus, there are many opportunities to share the gospel, and spend time with students off the campus and invite them to the new Church being planted on Sunday. There are many activities on Sunday that appeal to students, such as free English teaching before worship, eating together after worship, playing sports together after we eat - volleyball, basketball, etc.-singing Christian songs inThai and English and having a time where testimonies of how Christ has changed lives are shared. The American team can be at the core of it all. Even during the worship time, those with musical ability can partner with the Thai worship team band, and participate in leading worship.

4. As students come to Christ, they are followed up, and when the summer team comes the next summer, they are paired with the Americans and act as their translator/co-laborer - so the American team can have a part in helping young Thai Christians have on the job training in evangelism, can prayer walk the campus together, and encourage one another through times in the word and prayer together.

5. From these experiences, student workers emerge, that become the core of the ministry on that campus, that we hope will have the values and vision mentioned above. These new believers form new cell groups from the beginning that can worship, apply scripture and reach out to others.

6. For teams that come for 6 weeks or longer, we also have a week’s evangelistic trip upcountry, where the team can work with a Thai Christian team in sharing the gospel in a village where there is little chance to hear the gospel, or where there is a small group of Christians that need a boost in sharing the gospel in their area.

7. The short term teams - from 1 week to 2 months - play a key part in what God is doing here. For example, a one week team can do this: meet students on the campus through the ways mentioned above, but the whole week try to gather a large group of non-Christian students to go with them to a large Bangkok weekend market to do shopping - an all day event- where Thai Christians from the new church being planted will go with them as well. At the end of that day, the Americans tell the Thai non-Christians that the next day they will go to church, eat together and play sports and invite them to come, and many will - who have never been to church before or had a Christian friend. Some of those will connect with Thai Christians who will continue to follow up, all day that Sunday there will be opportunities formally and informally for the American team to share the gospel in a powerful way, and pull in students that we would never have been able to touch on our own!