On today’s episode of The Evangelism Podcast, Evangelist Daniel King and Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul of Thailand about the “Everyone Thailand” vision to reach 7 million people in Thailand with the gospel, which would be 10% of the country’s 70 million population. They discuss the strategic location of the city of Pitsanulok (where Daniel King is doing a crusade) as a crossroads of Indochina, with China building infrastructure like roads and railways connecting the region. We are targeting a strategic location for our upcoming crusade in the middle of Southeast Asia.
Learn More About Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul: https://www.sadudee.org/
Transcript:
Evangelist Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King, and I’m excited about telling people about Jesus. I’m so excited to be here in the nation of Thailand with Pastor Pu. Can you say your full name, please?
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (00:13):
Yeah, my full name is Pastor Poom. I serve the Lord as Pastor in the prayer church, Bangkok, Thailand.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:23):
And you are part of the National Committee for Everyone Thailand.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (00:30):
Yes.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:30):
Tell me a little bit about the vision of Everyone Thailand.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (00:35):
Yeah. The vision from everyone. Thailand. We would like to bring the gospel to the unsaved people. At least 7 million in the whole country in Thailand? Yes.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:48):
What’s the total population of Thailand?
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (00:51):
The population is 70 plus.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:54):
70 million people.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (00:56):
Yeah, 70 million.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:57):
And so the goal is to reach at least
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (01:00):
10%. 10%,
Evangelist Daniel King (01:01):
And to see at least 7 million people come to Jesus. And this would be a huge miracle because of course at this time, Christianity is, I’ve heard one or 2% of the
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (01:13):
Nation in the Christianity is lesser than 1%. If you in include with the Catholic, yeah. Is a little bit 1% plus a little bit.
Evangelist Daniel King (01:26):
And so the goal is that at least 10% of the nation
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (01:30):
Would
Evangelist Daniel King (01:30):
Hear about Jesus and respond with faith in Jesus.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (01:35):
Yes.
Evangelist Daniel King (01:36):
What a great vision. It comes from the Lord and it’s so beautiful to see what God is doing in many different provinces and areas around Thailand. Today we are in the city of Piston law, which is a region right in the middle of Thailand.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (01:57):
Yes.
Evangelist Daniel King (01:58):
And so many different evangelists are coming and each evangelist is assigned to a different area of Thailand,
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (02:03):
Of
Evangelist Daniel King (02:04):
Course. But my assignment is this city of
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (02:08):
Pilo
Evangelist Daniel King (02:08):
And we’ve been having a Jesus camp and it’s so beautiful to see all the people
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (02:14):
That
Evangelist Daniel King (02:14):
Have come that are hungry to learn how to share about Jesus. What do you see that God is doing here in Piston low this week?
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (02:21):
It’s amazing. You see, piston law is a strategic province. Is a province is like the Indochina intersection.
Evangelist Daniel King (02:34):
It’s the intersection
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (02:35):
Intersection
Evangelist Daniel King (02:36):
Of Indochina
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (02:37):
Indochina. So that is mean that the mainland China, the Chinese, they will built up the road from the China cross to this city and then from the China down to Malaysia and Singapore, and they will build up one more line from Vietnam, Cambodia across this city to Myanmar and to India.
Evangelist Daniel King (03:07):
Wow. So really this is a very strategic place. The city of PIs Lo. So you’re saying that the Chinese government is building roads and infrastructure from China
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (03:20):
And also railway
Evangelist Daniel King (03:21):
In a railway down through Lao Laos, the nation of Laos. Into
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (03:28):
Thailand. Into Thailand,
Evangelist Daniel King (03:29):
All the way down to Bangkok and then onto Malaysia.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (03:33):
Yes, of course.
Evangelist Daniel King (03:34):
And then with the harbor and Malaysia, then you have access to Singapore, to Indonesia.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (03:39):
Indonesia.
Evangelist Daniel King (03:40):
And then from Cambodia
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (03:42):
And
Evangelist Daniel King (03:43):
Vietnam. So Vietnam come through Cambodia
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (03:46):
To
Evangelist Daniel King (03:47):
Piston law and then onto Myanmar in India.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (03:50):
India.
Evangelist Daniel King (03:51):
And so this city is very strategic. It’s the crossroads of Indochina. And I think it’s so special that God has assigned me to come here. The committee was praying which evangelists was supposed to go to which place, and God brought me here to this city. And I really believe that we will see a spark of revival here in this place that is going to spread all over Southeast Asia.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (04:21):
Yes, yes. It’s really amazing. You see, since that we have Dr. T Osborn came to Thailand two, three times. The last one that I was the director Cru for.
Evangelist Daniel King (04:35):
So you were the director,
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (04:37):
Director for
Evangelist Daniel King (04:37):
Dr. TL O Osborne, the great missionary evangelist. Yes. He came to
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (04:42):
Thailand. Yes. Yes. He came to Thailand the last time that he came to Bangkok on the 2003 after the Cru, then he finished in Bangkok. We brought him to go to the Northeast Conan province and he make the two province for the crusade. And each cru is filled with over 20 20,000 in the
Evangelist Daniel King (05:10):
Ade. And
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (05:10):
The people got saved and people got healing. And the people, so many people, it’s amazing on those times.
Evangelist Daniel King (05:18):
Well, I remember when I was a young man,
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (05:21):
I
Evangelist Daniel King (05:21):
Was going to victory Bible college in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And TL Osborne was one of our teachers. And he came and he talked about Thailand and he talked about all the miracles that God had done here in Thailand. He told one story about a man who was a leper, who was healed many years ago in the late 1950s, early 1960s. And then he became a pastor and planted many churches. And it was so neat here at the Jesus camp yesterday, the son of the leper who was healed at a Tia Osborne crusade. He was my translator. And so Tia Osborne, he told that story. And I remember when he told it, I began to pray and say, God, I pray that someday that you would send me to preach the gospel in Thailand. And I began to pray for Thailand. And now here I am. Yeah. It’s amazing. Yeah. God has sent me here. And it’s so neat with that one miracle that God did in the life of the leper many years ago, it now extended into the next generation, in the next generation. And even that story inspired me to be an evangelist. And so that shows the power of one miracle. When God does a miracle in someone’s life, it can change the entire family. Of course it can change the entire destiny
(06:51):
Of an entire region. And God can bless multiple generations, all because of one miracle,
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (06:58):
Praise God. And we will believe that the Lord will do more, not just only for this event that you coming to this event this time. So the cruise said here in the city of epi, the law, it’ll go on and on and on and on. Last night when I got back to my hotel and I keep praying and the Lord saying to me is so many words, one of the confirmation that he going to use this piece of the law inside a strategic province. That many, many speaker, many evangelists will come to this place. It is over and over many years in the next 10 years, many, many times. And they will bring the people from this city and the city, the unserved people from the outside country, they will come and see what happened in this area. And then they will bring the good news from this city back to their own country as well. So last night, I keep praying, Lord made you do it in your ma way. Yeah.
Evangelist Daniel King (08:10):
Amen.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (08:11):
Amen.
Evangelist Daniel King (08:11):
Well, you are one of the key pastors here in the nation that has invited everyone Thailand. And it’s so beautiful because different nations from around the world are sending evangelists and pastors
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (08:26):
And
Evangelist Daniel King (08:27):
People to help disciple
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (08:29):
Here
Evangelist Daniel King (08:29):
In Thailand. And really this vision of everyone, Thailand is to call the entire body of Christ from around the world to pray for Thailand
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (08:38):
Praise,
Evangelist Daniel King (08:39):
To come to Thailand, to join with the church of Thailand in the vision that God has given you to reach people for Jesus here. And so we are very honored to be a part. It is such a privilege to join with the churches of Thailand. You have been praying for so many years
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (09:00):
For
Evangelist Daniel King (09:00):
Thailand to be saved, for Thailand to come to Jesus. And God has heard your prayers. And now he is sending people from all over the world to participate. And so I am very grateful to the Lord, to be one of the evangelists who is participating in this. And we are going to be having a gospel truck for this province of piston low. It arrives today. It’s God has provided the money for the gospel truck, and we are going to send it from village to village, from place to place doing gospel truck outreaches. And we’re going to be doing youth campaigns and music festivals, and then we’ll have a big crusade here. And so we believe that many thousands of people will come to Jesus through these efforts.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (09:53):
Yes. So I would like to ask many of your team and also the leader and the pastor and also the church member in your city, Oklahoma, and also everywhere in SA or any country in the world keep praying for Thailand. So we would like to see the believer will increase from the very little bit percentage will growing up more than 10% or 20% and 30%. So our goal is if the Lord will, we would like to have seen Thai people God saved in South Africa. Yeah. We would like to see on that. So that why we keep praying. Please keep praying for us for the next 10 years. Yeah, please.
Evangelist Daniel King (10:41):
Amen. Tell me again the story of Tal Osborn when he first come.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (10:46):
Oh,
Evangelist Daniel King (10:48):
Just tell me.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (10:52):
So
Evangelist Daniel King (10:52):
When Tia Osborne first came to Thailand, the people saw Jesus. Tell me about
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (10:57):
That. Okay, so the first time Dr. T Osborne came to Thailand at the South City name is drunk. On those time that during that he pushed on the nighttime, the Lord Jesus appeared himself on the top, on the loop of the church, close to the coconut tree,
Evangelist Daniel King (11:17):
Next to the coconut tree,
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (11:18):
Next to the coconut tree, and the people that saw the Lord Jesus and the new bar, and they cry for help. That is a marvelous thing that the Lord appear himself for them.
Evangelist Daniel King (11:30):
Wow. What a great testimony. Thank you for sharing. Thank you. Well, let’s finish with a word of prayer for Thailand and let’s pray that God would pour out his spirit upon this nation
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (11:44):
And
Evangelist Daniel King (11:44):
We would see a great harvest.
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (11:45):
Thank
Evangelist Daniel King (11:45):
You. Would you lead us in a prayer for the nation of Thailand?
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (11:49):
Yeah, please. Yeah. Okay. May I pray in Thailand?
Evangelist Daniel King (11:52):
Yes, please pray under
Pastor Phumiwanet Methiakrakul (11:54):
Language. Every Father, right now, I pray you made send your mighty power of the Holy Spirit through every area, every province, and every soul, every heart, Lord made you open their eye that they can see open their eye. Hope opened their eyes at the as Dr. T Osborn, that he came to Thailand on the first time in the beginning that he start ministry at the south. The people they can see you at the coconut tree and the people that knew down and they cry and they ask for help. Lord Jesus, may you live yourself to the whole country, every province, every city. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord, I believe that the new believer will come up and rise up, hallelujah. From the very little of the percentage, maybe just only one percentage. Lord, will you increase to five percentage, 10 percentage, 30 percentage and 60% percentage. And Lord, and more and more increase up, hallelujah, until before that you come in. Thank you Jesus. We pray in your mighty power name, in the name of God Jesus. Amen.
Evangelist Daniel King (13:40):
Amen. And so please pray with us for the nation of Thailand. Pray that God would pour out his spirit on this nation. Thank you so much for being on the Evangelism podcast. Praise a lot. Thank you. Amen.
