Despite gloomy predictions for Thailand at the onset of the global pandemic, an evangelical church-planting mission in the Southeast Asian country has experienced dramatic growth.
According to Christianity Today, church members of Free in Jesus Christ Church Association (FJCCA) celebrated the baptisms of 1,435 people in a single day, nearly three times larger than 2019 when 520 people were baptized.
“It is truly a mystery to the world as to why Thailand has been spared during the COVID pandemic,” said Bob Craft of Reach a Village ministry. “We believe it is the merciful hand of God to allow the gospel to spread at this crucial time.”
COVID-19’s warpath first hit Thailand and several experts believed recovery would be overwhelming and slow. However, at the beginning of September, Thai authorities celebrated 100 days without a new COVID-19 case.
FJCCA focuses on “word of mouth conversations, house gatherings, and in-person testimonies” to spread the gospel. For this record-breaking baptism, Christians from 200 villages in five provinces traveled to Chon Daen, the headquarters of FJCCA. Twenty ministers dunked new believers into waist-deep reservoir waters for two hours. Many of these new believers had never heard of Jesus until this year; more than 75,000 villages in the majority Buddhist country have no churches.
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