Pink areas are districts with NO church
I realize not everyone has an interest in numbers. But numbers can help us get a better picture of the growth of the Thai church. I saw this excerpt of missionary Dwight Martin’s findings on 2009 Thai Church growth over at Karl Dahlfred’s blog recently and thought it was worth reposting here for my viewers and prayer partners. There. The hat tips are out of the way.
“At the end of 2009 there are 339,048 Christians, which is 0.54% of the total population. Even though this is a very small percentage, the good news is that the percentage of growth is seven times faster than the biological growth rate of the country. The number of churches continues to grow as well. There were 170 new churches started last year (2009).
The need is still great in Thailand. Over 47% of the sub-districts in Thailand have no Christian presence at all. This means there are 21,814,049 (about 1/3 of the population) people who have very little opportunity to hear the Gospel Message. Please pray that God’s word will penetrate this whole nation.”
Now, these “Christians” were counted based on church membership numbers. If you’re the type of person that would like to see more about 2009 church growth in Thailand or how these statistics were found, check out this PowerPoint presentation or see maps of churches numbers for each province at http://www.thaicrc.com.
And may it be our prayer that increasingly more Thai people come to experience the saving grace of Jesus!
