By Brandon Lingle, Missionary to Thailand

Greetings from Thailand!

It’s a joy to give you an update on the work here in Thailand and let you know how you can pray for us and the people here. In August we will celebrate ten years of living and serving in Thailand. So I want to briefly share what we have been doing and what the Lord is leading us to do next.  

We moved to Thailand in 2013 and focused on language learning during the first two years. Since then we have worked to start North Bangkok Church with Jo and Jessie Yaebeang. During those eight years we played a role in publishing books, videos, and other consumables for the Thai people. What a joy it has been to help create those Christian resources, and we hope to produce more. Our main focus and desire is to share the gospel with those here and live life with people in our church and grow in maturity with them.  

North Bangkok Church is now at the point that we can start transitioning out. We will miss the people there so much, but in the next year or so we will make sure everything is ready for us to move on to the next work by installing and equipping more elders and deacons and helping find a place for North Bangkok Church (NBC) to meet. Right now they are worshiping in the conference room of a hotel. In addition, we will work to register NBC with the government if the church is ready. We have lots to do, so please pray for us and the church. 

So where are we going? Not exactly sure . . . Recently we went to Buriram, a province five  hours east of Bangkok, to visit our intern Rot in his hometown. It was good to see some of what life there would be like and the needs there. Brittney asked some of the children if they had ever heard of Jesus. They said no. Rot is the only Christian in his village. Even if we don’t move to Buriram we definitely want to visit frequently and help Rot as he shares the gospel and plans to start a church. Buriram is one option and place we have in mind where we can begin serving.

The other possible place for planting a church is in a province called Ubon, eight hours east of Bangkok. We are looking at this area/village because a member of our church is planning to return there to her hometown and her husband is interested in doing ministry. We are also interested to serve there because it is a very unreached part of Thailand as well. So that’s where we find ourselves. There are actually a few other places we have been invited to go and serve in, but we are not sure yet. To be honest it can feel a little uneasy not knowing what province/house/village that we will be in someday. I like to plan. But times like these make us slow down and pray and seek wisdom and guidance. Please pray for us as we try to exit NBC well and start serving somewhere else someday. Thank you!