Thailand
The Kingdom of Thailand is a popular tourist destination known for its crystal clear waters and ornate Buddhist temples and monuments. Eighty-eight percent of the country’s 70 million people are Buddhist, and Buddhism is tightly interwoven with national pride.
The Thai people are kind, friendly, and peace-loving, yet difficult to connect with spiritually. They see religion as a method to develop right behavior while simultaneously fearing and vindicating spirits. God has been opening doors to connect with the Thai as we have changed our focus to the spiritual warfare happening in the country.
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Love for Asia Foundation
The Love for Asia Foundation is Jesus for Asia’s organizational presence in Thailand, providing the legal means for our missionaries to stay and work there. The Love for Asia team is also involved in community outreach. God raised up this foundation at just the time that it was needed. Otherwise, many missionaries and their families would have had to return home.
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Thailand TV Studio
God provided a studio and office for our Love for Asia team in Thailand in 2021. God has expanded their work so much that they are already outgrowing their new space. Funds for this project will go toward building a second building next to the current office to hold an audio recording room, more offices, and additional storage.
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Sukhothai Project
Hundreds of cities and towns in Asia have no Adventist congregation, not even a believing member. For many years, Sukhothai, Thailand, was one of these cities. The Norton Family landed on Thai soil in August 2019 and moved to Sukhothai shortly after. Within the first 12 months, God had sent them six children in need of a safe and loving home.
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Sukhothai Medical Needs
A few of the children in the Nortons' care have developed urgent medical needs that require hospitalization and special procedures. This fund is to help cover these unexpected medical costs for these precious children.
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Sukhothai Children's Home Property
The Norton family is running a children’s home for at-risk kids in Sukhothai, Thailand; they need to build several new buildings on their Children’s home’s property to continue to meet the needs of the children they serve.
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Bible Workers: Thailand
Thailand is a majority Buddhist country. Most Thai people actually associate being Thai with being Buddhist. Our Bible Workers in Thailand work with our other missionaries to minister to the towns, villages, and cities where they serve. Because they deeply understand local languages and customs, these Bible Workers enhance the effectiveness of the missionaries’ efforts. Their witness helps to show that following Jesus is not just for Westerners.
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Bible Worker Training
Many of our Bible Workers have a strong heart for Jesus and a desire to serve Him but need Bible training. With so few pastors in the work force compared to the number of people that need nurturing these simple but wonderful workers are often…
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Gayle's Jungle Mission
Gayle Haberkam is a missionary nurse in the jungles of Thailand. Although she originally planned to stay in Thailand for three months, she fell in love with the Karen people and has served them there ever since. As Gayle cares for the people’s physical needs, she teaches them about the One who can fulfill their spiritual needs.
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Assisted Wellness for Thailand
Specializing in total health lifestyle education, this is for projects in Thailand that Mike and Marilee Kier are assisting in.
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Audio Bibles
We all know what a blessing the Bible is for those who can read God’s Word. But what about all those who never learned to read or are blind? How can they be built up in the faith? The answer lies in today’s technology. Cheap MP3 players with audio Bible recordings in local languages do more to build up the church in poor places than almost anything!
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Bibles and Literature for Asia
Asia is where the least reached peoples of the world are living. Many do not have access to the Gospel. There is no Christian bookstore on the corner, and there are no Bibles in the local stores. This fund allows Bible workers in various countries to give Bibles to baptismal candidates so they can read the Word in their own language.
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Bicycles for Bible Workers
Many of our Bible Workers, especially in the North, find transportation extremely difficult due to the high cost and irregular public transportation in the rural districts. Each bicycle costs approximately $100.
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Border Light
Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people live on the Thailand-Myanmar border. These people have many needs. The “Border Light” project, with Harvey and Brenda Steck, is working to...
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Emerald Hill School
The Emerald Hill School offers elementary, middle, and high school classes. They provide traditional courses such as reading, writing, and math with a strong spiritual emphasis. They teach the value of the Scriptures in their morning and evening worships, where they read the Bible together. They also teach the health message and other lessons from the Spirit of Prophecy.
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Humanitarian
Jesus exemplified reaching out to those in need. Through this fund, Jesus for Asia seeks to follow His example. Gifts will be used for disaster relief, blanket distribution, food distribution, and other humanitarian projects.
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JFA Foreign Correspondents
Since Asia seems distant to most people in Christian countries, Jonathan and Hannah Hill have been sharing the needs and experiences of missions there through videos so more people can be informed about what is happening and learn how they can help meet the needs.
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Jungle Village Outreach
Jason and Shoshana are a young couple who met and currently live in the mountain jungles of northwestern Thailand. Together, they have built housing in the jungle and provided Bible studies and medical training to locals through JEMMS, short for Jason’s Education Medical Missionary School.
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Kantharalak Project
Ric and Jane, with their 4 children, recently launched to Thailand with the vision of entering a city and province where there is currently no Adventist presence. No believer, no missionary, no church.
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Light Asia Publishing
The Rogers Family is working, with God’s help, to establish a publishing House for South East Asia. The purpose is to provide Christ-centered literature, Bible study guides, and books in native languages to share through the printed page a knowledge of the love, joy, and peace that God gives.
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Nakhon Sawan
Until recently, the city of Nakhon Sawan,Thailand, had no Adventist presence: no church, no missionaries, and no believers. Jonathan and Hannah Hill now live in this city as a foothold for the Lord...
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Phrao Thawikhun Home
This is a home where poor kids from the mountains can stay and go to school. There are currently 25 children in total, 17 male and 8 female, and 4 adult caretakers. Some children are of the Lahu tribe, and some are of the Akha tribe. These children come from poor, divided, and drug-filled homes, homes that could not meet their basic needs and
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Sharon Family Projects
Leroy and Lisa Sharon are missionaries to Thailand. Lisa is currently raising two young girls for the Lord. This focus has turned out to be the best witness to the local village, which had never seen a Christian before. Leroy travels to various towns and schools and connects people with the Savior through language teaching using Bible stories.
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Something Better for the Central Thai
Matthew and Rachel Leffler and their three children moved to Thailand in 2023. The live in Nakhon Sawan to work alongside Jonathan and Hannah Hill to expand the foothold they have gained for the Lord in this city.
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Sowing in Thailand
Jim and Irene Hill moved to Bangkok in Feb 2019. Now, they are serving at a school in western Thailand, where Jim has started an agriculture program and a work program for the students.
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Thai Media Outreach
Thailand is a least-reached country, with very few spiritual resources available to the believer. There are very few Adventist TV ministries in Thailand. Our two JFA Media Teams in Thailand recording sermons, testimonies, and other programs in four languages: Thai, Hmong, Karen, and Burmese.
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Thai Media Outreach: Translation and Literature
Thailand is a least-reached country, with very few spiritual resources available to believers. There are very few Ellen White books in Thai. In fact, in 2011, no Thai EGW books were available in the country. Our translation department has been translating Spirit of Prophecy books into Thai, Hmong, and Karen for the upbuilding of the Church and the proclamation of the Gospel.
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Unreached People Seed Fund
So many groups of people in Asia have not even heard the name of Jesus. Gifts to this fund will allow Jesus for Asia to start new projects in areas where there are no believers.
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Volunteer Ministry International
Mike and Marilee Kier have been church-planting amongst the Thai for over a decade. They have seen God, in His amazing grace, transform the lives of people who were steeped in Buddhism and devil worship. They are earnestly praying for more lives to be changed for God.
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Where Needed Most
Your donation will go to where the need is greatest at the time, as well as enabling Jesus for Asia to continue to provide support for all its projects. By giving to "Where Needed Most," you make sure no project gets left behind.
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