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National Data
as of January 2012 |
Population
63,878,255
Total Christians
372,251
Thai Christians
220,633
Tribal Christians
151,618
Total Number of Churches
4,244
Thai Churches
2,886Tribal Churches
1,358
Average Thai Church Size
76 members
Average Tribal Church Size
112 members
Annual Growth Rate of Church in Thailand
5.22%
Annual Growth Rate of Thai Christians
4.22% (1)
Annual Growth Rate of Tribal Christians
8.0% (1) |
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What is a Church*?
A church is three or more Christian believers meeting together on a regular basis to worship God and is not a cell group of a larger church body.
*only Protestant churches
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How we count Christians?
Of course God is the final judge. For our purposes we count Christians as anyone who is a member of a church. No matter if it is a large city church or a small house church.
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Dear Fellow Christian,
This email's focus is on the worship languages used in the churches of Thailand. To find out what groups of people make up the Body of Christ in Thailand we ask pastors the language used in their church’s worship service. From this information we can determine what percentage of the Church in Thailand uses a particular language. It is not an exact representation because many churches have members from different langauge groups and as a result use Thai as the common language in worship services.
The following table shows the top ten worship languages used in Thailand. It also shows the percentage of the Christians in Thailand that uses that language and the average church size of that language group.
| Worship Language |
Percentage of Christians in Thailand |
Average Members per Church |
| Thai * |
59.27% |
76 |
| Karen, Sgaw |
19.11% |
132 |
| Lahu |
7.80% |
111 |
| Akha |
6.41% |
126 |
| Hmong |
2.40% |
91 |
| Lisu |
1.90% |
107 |
| Lawa |
1.08% |
168 |
| Karen, Pao |
0.87% |
91 |
| Iu Mien |
0.69% |
65 |
| Khmu |
0.31% |
99 |
(*) Some of these are tribal churches but use Thai in their worship service.
As you can see from this list, after Thai, the nine remaining groups are the hill tribes people, primarily living in the North and the Western parts of Thailand. Even though they make up less than two percent of the population of Thailand, they make up more than 40% of the Christians.
Over twelve percent of the tribal people in Thailand are Christians whereas only 0.31% of the Thai speaking people are Christians. (1)
Pray that more Christians from the tribal groups in Thailand would get a vision to reach out and become missionaries to their fellow citizens in the unreached parts of the country.
So you can pray more specifically for the peoples of Thailand we have added a language layer to the Christian Presence Map. This layer can be turned on or off by clicking the "
Languages" button on the right top corner of the screen. By default the language layer is turned off. (You can also turn on or off the
"Christian Presence" layer.) Click inside of each colored shape to find out what languages are spoken in a given area. Note: To get to the map enter
http://e-star.ws/ws/index.php/en/christian-map-of-thailand in your browser’s address bar or just click on the above link and it will take you there automatically.
For God’s Glory,
Dwight Martin
Research Coordinator
Thailand Evangelism & Church Growth Committee
(1) Visser, Marten, Conversion Growth of Protestant Churches in Thailand, Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, Zoetermeer (The Netherlands), 2008.
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