70 million people. Fewer than 0.5% Christian.
Thailand is one of the largest, most beautiful, and most unreached mission fields in the world. We serve here because we believe the Thai people deserve a clear, patient, faithful witness to Jesus Christ, and because almost no one is offering it.
Field Plate · ThailandThe Thai mission field, in numbers.
Statistics never tell the whole story, but they tell enough of it to wake you up. Every percentage point below represents hundreds of thousands of real people.
- N° 01
70M+
Population of Thailand
More than seventy million Thai men, women, and children. - N° 02
<0.5%
Identify as Christian
Fewer than one in two hundred. Among the most unreached nations in Asia. - N° 03
85%+
Practice Theravada Buddhism
Buddhism is woven into Thai identity, culture, and family life. - N° 04
30+
Years to plant deep roots
Most fruitful Thai churches were planted by missionaries who stayed for decades.
For most of the modern missions era, Thailand has been quietly bypassed. It’s a stable democracy, a popular tourist destination, and not the kind of place that lands on “urgent” missions lists. Visitors come for the beaches, the food, and the temples, then go home with no sense of the spiritual condition of the country they just visited.
But by the standard metric the global Church uses (the percentage of a population that has access to the Gospel and a local body of believers), Thailand is one of the least-reached large nations on earth. Theravada Buddhism is not just a religion in Thailand; it’s woven into Thai identity. To be Thai, in many people’s minds, is to be Buddhist. Conversion to Christianity is often understood as a betrayal of family, culture, and country.
That’s the wall. It cannot be broken with a short-term team, a viral video, or a tract handed out at a market. It can only be worn down slowly, patiently, faithfully, by missionaries who stay long enough to be trusted, learn the language well enough to be understood, and live among Thai families long enough to be loved.
Our work in Thailand looks ordinary from the outside. We live in Bangkok. We eat with our neighbors. We teach a free English class on Saturdays. We attend a small Thai church on the city’s east side. We visit villages in the north and learn from Thai pastors who have been doing this for decades.
The substance of the work is what missiologists call incarnational ministry: being present, building relationships, learning the culture from the inside, and sharing the Gospel through the slow accumulation of trust. It’s not glamorous, and it doesn’t produce viral conversion stories. What it produces, over years, is real disciples. Thai believers who can in turn disciple their own people in their own language and culture.
We do not run a school, a hospital, or a large compound. We are two missionaries living in apartments, walking the same streets every day, slowly becoming part of a neighborhood. That is the work. It is enough.
Long-term missionaries cannot stay on the field without a long-term support base at home. Every gift, monthly or one-time, directly extends our ability to remain in Thailand and continue this work.