Why Bangkok?

As we reach the leaders of tomorrow, through the universities in
Bangkok, we can impact not only Thailand, but send laborers into the
closed countries surrounding Thailand (ie - Cambodia has language schools that
many times will teach 2 main languages - English and Thai.) Many doors are
open for Thai who have college degrees, throughout Asia. Often, it is easier
for them as Asians to spread the gospel in those situations than it would be
for a westerner.

Bangkok is the only mega city in the 10/40 window where there is
freedom to share the gospel. This means that one (even a
westerner) can have a large visible ministry here and train Asians from all over the
10/40 window who live in this cosmopolitan city, to impact the 10/40
window with the gospel. For example, the largest baptist church is a Burmese church, to
impact Bangkok is to impact Burma with the gospel.

Our desire is to eventually have church planting teams on every
university campus in Bangkok, that can multiply churches
from the campuses
into the community of Bangkok and
into the people groups/cities of the 10/40 window.

Bangkok is landlocked by countries closed to missionaries, it is
not by chance that Thailand is the most free and developed of them. It is no
chance that Bangkok is like a hub for education and business in Indo China. I
believe God wants Bangkok to be a base for Christian mission. The
universities can supply the missionaries, once they are reached.

Each campus needs a critical mass of people to begin a work:

> >1. A full time missionary - to oversee the work on up to 2 or 3 campuses
as long as those campuses are fully staffed with teams.

> >2. To have 2 journeymen on each campus as minimum. If an English Center
were started next to a campus to facilitate the evangelism, a single campus
might need up to 4 or 5 journeymen.

> >3. To have short term teams from abroad that can develop
momentum during their short term trip, which the journeymen and missionary, along with
Thai believers, follow up after the summer is over.