Thailand is a nation ripe for revival, and God is on the move! In this episode of the Evangelism Podcast, we hear from Ryan Aitken, a missionary who has experienced firsthand the powerful work of the Holy Spirit in Thailand. Ryan shares his vision for stadiums filled with Thai people running to the feet of Jesus, and how he has been leading gospel outreaches and crusades across the country, seeing thousands come to Christ. Get ready to be inspired and challenged as we explore how God is moving in Thailand, and how you can get involved in reaching this predominantly Buddhist nation for Jesus. The time is now for a great awakening in Thailand!
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Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:00):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m very excited about telling people about Jesus. And today I have a very special guest with me, Ryan Aiken from
Ryan Aitken (00:12):
South Africa.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (00:12):
South Africa. Married to an American and now we are together in the nation of Thailand. And so God is moving here. Ryan, tell me a little bit about what brought you here to the nation of Thailand.
Ryan Aitken (00:25):
Yeah, so it was 2018 when I came out and did, I was invited out to do ministry in Thailand, actually at a local church here in Bangkok. We did a healing conference and God really moved and in that time I saw a vision actually of stadiums all across Thailand being filled with Thai people. And then I saw them running to the feet of Jesus, hundreds of thousands of people. And God spoke to my heart and said, I want to bring a move of God in Thailand, which is only 1% Christian about, there’s a debate on that, but I want to bring a move of God to Thailand that would be a witness to the rest of the Southeast Asia, what God can do. And so then, yeah, then we made plans as my family now we then left California and then moved to Thailand and so been here since then.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:14):
And so you are also a graduate of the Christ for All Nations Evangelism Bootcamp. And I was one of the teachers there.
Ryan Aitken (01:22):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (01:23):
So I’m so excited about the fruit that God has given you here. I feel like God will give me one or two little diamonds every time you get someone saved in my crown in heaven. Amen. But it’s just so wonderful to see what God is doing through your ministry. You’ve been starting to do gospel outreaches throughout Thailand. So tell me about that. What have you been seeing God do?
Ryan Aitken (01:46):
Yeah, so I was here before Covid and then I was then stuck in America during Covid and I was like, God, wow, am I stuck in America? And so at that time I was coming across a post on YouTube of the advertisement from C Fan for the bootcamp, and the God said, this is why I brought you back to America during Covid. So that’s when I did the bootcamp and then straight after that I feel like I received a grace then to do these crusades in Thailand. And so I came back to Thailand. We purchased a very large gospel truck, kind of like a transformer truck. And we then started doing these large crusades around Thailand. We’ve done numerous, numerous crusades in different cities all across the nation. Were literally thousands of people receiving the Lord. And at that time we also felt burdened to raise up the next generation of evangelists. So we started a school of evangelism here and we now have right now running our sixth school of evangelism up in the northern part of Thailand. So we are both actively really going for it with the gospel from one-on-one on the streets to the large crusades and raising up the next generation of Thai evangelists.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (02:58):
So it was about 18 months ago, we were together in Jakarta, Indonesia at a meeting of the Global Evangelist Alliance, empower 21. And the goal of the Empower 21 is to reach everyone on earth with authentic encounter with Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit before 2033, the 2000 year anniversary of the first day of Pentecost, and then the resurrection, the ascension of Jesus up into heaven. And so this is a massive initiative to reach people all over the world. And so the Global Evangelist Alliance is like the tip of the spear going into different nations and evangelizing. And every year we’re choosing one or two different countries to focus on. So last year we did El Salvador and saw God do amazing things in El Salvador. El Salvador is a small country, 6 million people, but we had 34% of the nation that was actually in our services face-to-face, 250,000 people that got saved and 4,000 plus churches that participated. So we saw God do amazing things in El Salvador, but we were there in Jakarta, Indonesia, and we started to pray what would be the next nation that God would give us to focus on? And Mattias Vander Stein came, he had just come from Thailand and went and visited so many churches and provinces across this nation and he gave us a report and we started to pray about what God would have us do and we felt like the Holy Spirit gave a resounding shout of yes to Thailand.
(04:38):
And you remember that moment? Yeah. It was really a divine moment. The Holy Spirit came into the room, we started to worship God together and the churches here in Thailand have been praying for God to send revival for so many years. And many missionaries have worked here, many ministries have worked here, but I think it’s a new day for Thailand. There is a new openness for people to hear the gospel and the churches have a project called Love Thailand where they are focused on winning people to Jesus over the next decade. And so we really felt like God called us here an answer to the prayers of the churches of Thailand. And that was wonderful. And so immediately the Global Evangelist Alliance started working to develop relationships throughout the country. And then in February of this year, we had a wonderful conference, everyone, Thailand, and I forget all the numbers, but it’s like 2,500 people who came, about 1200 churches represented at everyone Thailand. And the people were just so enthusiastic. We had such wonderful times of worship and praying for Thailand. And so it’s really beautiful to see what God is doing. And you’re very involved in organizing and the setup of it. Tell us some of kind of the anticipation of what you feel God is going to do during this next season here in Thailand. That’s a long story.
(06:15):
Wanted to get through it so we could just celebrate what God is doing here.
Ryan Aitken (06:18):
So the love Thailand one network has really been burden for to reach Thailand, but up until this point they really didn’t know how to do it. And then all of a sudden God then puts it on our heart of the GA to come and then join hands with the local tar churches to see the vision that ultimately God already impregnated the tar people
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (06:44):
With. Really, I think it’s important to point out that we are coming with a spirit of servanthood and not saying this is what we want to do, but to say God has been putting this on your heart. How can we serve the Thai church and be a part of what God has put on your heart to do?
Ryan Aitken (07:02):
Yeah, God had really been working in their hearts. And so us coming now to join arms with them to see their nation turn to the Lord is really something that many say. This is what we’ve been praying for decades, is this opportunity where the internationals and the nationals join arms to see this harvest. And so we are really excited. Our crusade season begins in November this year going through till next year, April. And as of now we have 21 crusades planned all across the nation, every district of the nation. And we really believe that more and more crusades will be added as we go along, but we really feel
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (07:44):
So if you’re listening and you have a heart to come to Thailand, there is something for you to do here. Amen. We want to get you involved, we want to get you plugged in. And so reach out to my ministry, Daniel King, go to the everyone thailand.com for more information about it. But if you want to be a part of it, we want you to be involved. So we are calling the entire body of Christ. There’s place for pastors to be involved, for evangelists to be involved, for discipleship ministries, for prayer ministries. We are calling the entire body of Christ to focus on Thailand over the course of this next year because we believe God’s going to do something magnificent here.
Ryan Aitken (08:30):
Yeah, definitely. All hands on deck. When God highlights a nation like Thailand, we really want to come and do what God’s doing. So if you’re free and available, join us to see Thailand saved. It really is Thailand’s Tom. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (08:45):
Okay, so part of the strategy for everyone Thailand is gospel trucks.
(08:51):
So at everyone Thailand conference in February, you had the first gospel truck built and it was parked right out front in front of the conference, and it’s this truck, it’s like the size of a bread truck and it has the side that transforms into a platform. So you just put the side of the truck down and you can preach from that. And then it has a sound system that’s attached to it with a generator. And so this truck can go anywhere across Thailand to preach the gospel. And I saw people coming into the conference and they were so excited. Everybody wanted to take a picture with the truck. They were so excited. And when they heard the vision of using the gospel truck to go out and witness here, everyone was so excited about it. Here in Thailand, there are many night markets.
Ryan Aitken (09:41):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:42):
So this truck is the perfect tool to pull up to a night market. Everyone’s out there in the cool of the night shopping, you just put the side down, have a band from one of the local churches begin to minister, and people gather together and then you can share the gospel with them. And so there’s one gospel truck and you have already been using it, but we actually need a fleet of gospel trucks to really impact this nation. So tell us kind of what results you’ve seen with the truck that has already been built and what are you doing with it?
Ryan Aitken (10:18):
Yeah, so the one that we’ve already been built has been going literally every week out doing outreaches in different places around Thailand. And it’s been incredible. Just this month alone, we reached over a thousand people with the gospel and with over 250 people receiving the Lord and then being placed into the local churches. And we really feel the wind of the Holy Spirit on this project because the miracles have been incredible. The first ever gospel truck, there was a gentleman there that had a tumor on his neck and he couldn’t speak. He was in a lot of trouble. He couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink properly. And during the very first gospel truck, the power of God touched him and that tumor shrank. And then we did another gospel truck in a different area and he came on the second gospel truck event to come and testify, saying that now he’s speaking, the tumors has disappeared, he’s eating, he’s drinking, and his life has literally been plucked from death.
(11:20):
So we have then been seen a flood of incredible miracles like gland eyes opening, deaf ears opening, all to point to the authenticity of the gospel message that has been preached from these small gospel truck events. This first truck that we’ve launched has been a massive success, really. It has a lot of the, we don’t need many churches, but we just need a few and we can do it year round during the rainy season, and it’s not a lot of preparation to try and put it up. And I would say the big factor is different from a large crusaders in a large crusade, we are inviting people to come to our event and we put on, musicians are playing, we’re giving away prizes, but with the small gospel trek, we go to them and we need both forms of evangelism to reach this nation.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:13):
And this is a great way for local churches to get involved in evangelism. It gives them a part that they can play.
Ryan Aitken (12:19):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:20):
Then we’re training up evangelists. You’re doing schools of evangelism and training up evangelists, and so we need places to send them. So this gospel truck is going to be a tool that is going to be tremendously effective in reaching people for Jesus here in Thailand. And so you have one, but you have more coming. Tell me about what’s coming.
Ryan Aitken (12:38):
Yeah, so we have another four more, actually there’s four more are being modified right now. So
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:45):
The process has
Ryan Aitken (12:46):
Already started. It’s already started. So there will be done by the end of April. And then at the end of April we then we have selected four more evangelists that have a team and strategic places around Thailand to begin to bless that region, those provinces in that region with the gospel truck ministry. So every church in Thailand has the ability to sign up to invite a gospel truck team to come. And as of now, we are in station one in the north of Thailand, the northeast, sorry, the southwest central and then the south of Thailand. So we are spreading out the gospel trucks.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (13:27):
So my province that I’ve been assigned, so for everyone Thailand, we’ve divided the nation up into about 20 different areas where large crusades will take place with evangelists coming. And so I was assigned to the province of piston, did I say that right?
(13:47):
Yeah. We are going to do a gospel truck there. I’m going to be doing an evangelism training school at the end of July. And then we will send a gospel truck there that they will, the churches are going to start using it to evangelize that entire region of Thailand. And so in my province there’s 95, and so I’m going to challenge the local churches to do an outreach in every single one of the 95 Subdistricts between August to February when we’re going to do a big crusade there in that city. And so by the time we do the crusade, we will be able to say that we have done evangelism throughout the entire region, but we don’t have a gospel truck yet built for my region. And so I am praying that God would put it on someone’s heart to sponsor a gospel truck for the region of Pi Lu. And so what does it cost to build and then to run it for equip,
Ryan Aitken (14:53):
Equip
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (14:53):
And equip it.
Ryan Aitken (14:54):
So the cost is $50,000 for the truck and it’s a brand new truck. So there’s longevity that for many years to come, we can use it. And that includes the customizing of the stage and all of the equipment. So obviously you need the sound desks and the musicians need the instruments and everything that needs to the lights, the speakers, everything for the running of the small gospel trucks. So the total is $50,000.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:18):
Okay, so for my district, we’re going to do 95 outreaches and we need $50,000 to build a gospel truck for the province of piston ou.
Ryan Aitken (15:29):
And
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:29):
So I want to ask you to pray about being a part of that. Maybe you could do the 50,000, maybe you could do 10,000, maybe you could do a thousand, but if we had 50 people that would do a thousand each, we can build a gospel truck for piston ou. But if you want to do that, go to my website king ministries.com and donate today for the gospel truck in piston loo. But then we also need more. Right now you’re already working on five, but there’s actually 77 provinces here in Thailand. And this is a big faith goal, but I think the faith goal is that we could have a gospel truck for every single province across this nation. And so maybe you could do five gospel trucks or you could sponsor 10 gospel trucks, that’d be half a million dollars. But this is going to have long-term impact because for many years to come, these gospel trucks are going to be going from place to place sharing the gospel, and it’s going to be a tool that the local churches can use to reach out to the nation of Thailand.
Ryan Aitken (16:39):
Exactly.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:40):
And so we need your help. Please help us to send gospel trucks to Thailand. We need a fleet of gospel trucks. Go check out the website everyone thailand.com. You can see the whole vision there of what God is doing here in the nation, but we want to invite you to be a part.
Ryan Aitken (16:57):
Yeah.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:59):
Okay. And so tell me more about the plans coming up over the course of this next year. What are some of the outreaches that everyone Thailand is going to be doing
Ryan Aitken (17:11):
From, basically from now until October is the, we’re entering into the rainy season. So we’re not doing any large crusade events, but we are focusing now on the large crusade planning and also the equipping of the saints and really the raising of the evangelists in Thailand. So we are now going into the phase of training and you mentioned that you’re going to be doing the training I think in
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (17:34):
July. In
Ryan Aitken (17:35):
July.
(17:36):
And so that is the phase that we are in. We’re going to do evangelism training, discipleship training, Jean-Luc Skel and his ministries. They’re going to be doing the healing and deliverance training and preparation for all the crusades. And then as soon as we hit November, I believe the first crusade is going to be in the city of brewery room with Pastor Henry Ava and Pastor Henry Ava has done many crusades in the past in Thailand. And we really believe this will be a big, big explosion that would hopefully send ripple effects through the nation of excitement for all the next 20 other crusades that would take place. So that’s what we’re looking at. And for the rest of the year, we are now also parallel with that launching the small gospel truck project continuously.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:23):
And so we are so excited about what God is doing here in Thailand and we really feel like this is God’s time for Thailand, that God is opening heaven over this nation and pouring out his glory. And so I want to invite you to be praying for Thailand, pray that God would give us a great harvest of souls here in this place. Pray that many people would be saved, pray for discipleship to happen. Now one of the main questions that evangelists get is what do you do about follow-up? And I really like the follow-up plan with the gospel truck because right on the gospel truck really big, you have a QR code. And when someone scans the QR code, they instantly get access to many resources to help them grow as a new believer, to learn more about the story of Jesus and then will be able to continue to follow up on the people that get saved. And so tell us some about, it’s pretty sophisticated actually, but tell us about the follow-up plan with the QR code.
Ryan Aitken (19:32):
So we have the QR code both at the crusade events and the small gospel trucks. And anybody that’s signs up through it, they go in through a program led by jesus.net. I dunno if you guys are familiar with that ministry, but they’re really focused on then helping people in their new beginnings with Jesus, their first discipleship phrases. But also if the person has not yet made a decision for Jesus, they also facilitate them on a journey till they make the decision for Jesus. And ultimately they link up with a call center where somebody is personally discipling them and then leading them to a local church. So this isn’t addition to the more traditional ways where as soon as the pastors and the churches receive the information, they follow up the new believers. This is an addition to that. So this is something that we are now implementing into the everyone talent project as brand new. Traditionally we only focus on those that receive the Lord, but this actually focusing on those that have not quite ready to receive the Lord. They just need some more information connection and then that would lead them to the Lord. So this is brand new
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (20:43):
In here in Thailand. It’s such a small percentage that are Christian. That is actually a really big decision for someone to decide to follow Jesus. And sometimes it takes a process to get them to that point. And so wherever we are, sometimes we plow the ground, sometimes we sow seeds, sometimes we water the seeds and God is the one who gives the harvest.
Ryan Aitken (21:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (21:06):
So wherever they are on the journey, we want to take people from step to step until they become a follower of Jesus and know the peace that only Jesus can give.
Ryan Aitken (21:16):
Yeah, exactly.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (21:17):
So Ryan, you are living here as a missionary in Thailand. You need people to support you, to help you with the crusades and the outreaches that you’re doing. If someone wants to support your ministry, what is your website? How can they get more information about you?
Ryan Aitken (21:34):
So we have a website called spirit of revival ministries.com. And if you just go onto that website, it has all the information of what we are doing of the schools that we host for the local people. We have an online school, we do evangelism training in India and other countries. And then if you feel like you want to join the team and partner with us, we would be more than welcome. The more that we have partnership, the more we can do as it is with the ministry.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:03):
Amen. Well, let’s finish by praying together for the nation of Thailand and pray that God would send a great harvest here. Would you like to?
Ryan Aitken (22:11):
Yeah, let’s pray. Father, we want to thank you for Thailand and we thank you yes,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:16):
Lord,
Ryan Aitken (22:16):
That it is Thailand’s time and God that your eyes are on Thailand right now and we thank you for all the preparation that has been taking place that the local churches in Thailand are rising up to the occasion and they’re seeing that it is harvest time in Thailand. And so Lord, we just submit this project that everyone Thailand project into your hands, Lord. And we ask, just like the seed that gets sown in different types of soil, we declare that this seed of the everyone Thailand project in Thailand would produce a crop 60, 80, a hundred fold that Lord at the end of, sorry, next April, that we would see something that would be extraordinary above and beyond what we could think or imagine that we would see a nation turning to you. So Lord, we just thank you for this Lord, and we pray that as pastors and leaders and evangelists from around the world link up arms to form a massive net, that we would see millions receive Jesus over the next 12 months, God we love you and we give you all the glory and we thank you for what you’re doing.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (23:22):
Amen. Thank you for being on the Evangelism podcast.
Ryan Aitken (23:25):
Yeah, it’s an honor. Thank you, Daniel.
Mattheus van der Steen leads Harvest Fields International. He is from the Netherlands and he is known as The Flying Dutchman. Today we talk about reaching everyone for Jesus in the Asian nation of Thailand. Mattheus explains how crusades and Gospel trucks will be used to spread the Good News across this nation that is only 2% Christian. Make sure you listen all the way to the end of today’s episode because we will be giving away free scholarships to all my listeners for the Christ for All Nations School of Ministry in Orlando, Florida.
Learn more about Mattheus van der Steen: https://harvestfieldsinternational.com/
Help us purchase a Gospel Truck for Thailand: https://everyonethailand.com/
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Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:05):
Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast. I’m Daniel King. I’m very excited about telling people about Jesus. Today. I have a very special guest with me, Mattheus van der Steen from the Netherlands. Thank you for being with me.
Mattheus van der Steen (03:17):
Thank you so much. Eventually, Daniel, they’re actually calling me the Flying Dutchman,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:22):
The Flying
Mattheus van der Steen (03:23):
Dutch Flying Dutchman arrive here in your studio.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (03:25):
Well, thank you so much for coming to Tulsa and it’s wonderful to see you. A couple of years ago it was so wonderful to be in Amsterdam for the Everyone Conference, which you worked so hard to organize and to set up, and it was so beautiful because people came from all over the world who had a passion for evangelism.
Mattheus van der Steen (03:48):
Yeah, I think that was still until this day, the most significant, I would say, a courageous moment for the church history, that five 6,000 global leaders with impact reaching millions of people with all the networks together came together around the theme, the Great Commission. How can we work together to reach every person with the gospel of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit? I mean, just think about that day, nomination leaders, church leaders talking about how can we work together to see our area, our nation changed. So for us it was supernatural. The Great Commission is of course for us as evangelists, it was like heaven. I mean hearing church leaders talking about winning souls for Jesus. Yeah, it made me cry. I mean they were speaking our language and what for me was the most beautiful thing was that the existing church leaders and fathers and mothers actually are saying, we need needy evangelists. We want to embrace them. When I started 25 years ago, the ministry Evangel Daniel, that was not the case. I mean, most evangelists were, how do you say that? I don’t want to be sounding sad, but we’re lonely,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:11):
Isolated, ignored, ignored. No one understands. You come back from a big event and thousands of people would get saved and come back to a church in Europe or America and they’d just say, oh, did you eat anything weird? No passion for all the people that are coming to Jesus.
Mattheus van der Steen (05:29):
True.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:31):
But I think it’s a new day for evangelism in the world.
Mattheus van der Steen (05:33):
That’s what I say. It’s a courageous moment. It was like literally a new chapter of a book opened for evangelism. So I really think this is the time for a whole generation to rise up in faith. There are a lot of churches around the world who are embracing the great commission but don’t know how to do it. So here we are as evangelists. It’s really time to move forward and to be very radical about this.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (05:56):
And it was at conference that God gave Dr. Billy Wilson a vision to reach everyone on earth and to personalize the great commission to one by one to make sure that everyone has an encounter with Jesus. And the goal is that everyone would have an authentic encounter with Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit before the year 2033, which will be the 2000 year anniversary of the giving of the Great Commission, the death and resurrection of Jesus, the ascension of Jesus up in heaven, and then the day of Pentecost and how appropriate it would be to celebrate the original day of Pentecost by giving God a gift of thousands and even millions of new souls coming into the kingdom of heaven. And so this vision was launched and we are already starting to put it into practice. And so both of us are part of the global Evangelist alliance.
(07:00):
And last year we went to El Salvador and we saw God do tremendous miracles in El Salvador. We actually had 34% of the nation that was with us face, face-to-face in the services, which was amazing and 250,000 plus people that gave their lives to Jesus. But El Salvador is an easy country, many churches there, many Christians already. It’s a small country, only 6 million. And we were praying, we were at a meeting in Jakarta, in Jakarta, Indonesia, and we were praying and saying, God, where should we go next? And you had just taken your entire family on a trip across all of Thailand and you came and you brought a report to us and you said, guys, I think God is doing something special in the nation of Thailand and we could see a harvest of souls in Thailand. And we all began to pray about it. And do you remember when we started to pray, it felt like the Holy Spirit came into the room and when we ask God and say, God, should we go to Thailand, it felt like the Holy Spirit shouted, yes, I want to see Thailand say it was
Mattheus van der Steen (08:16):
Loaded. It was so amazing. It was so amazing. And again, it’s very touching again to hear you speak about everyone vision right now. I really feel like God’s anointing is on this. I mean, what does it mean to personalize the great commission? And when we talk about everyone, we talk about 8 billion people, right? Eight plus billion people, Dr. Billy Wilson told us that around 5.3 billion people don’t know the Lord. Why are we speaking right now? It means like 2.7 plus billion people know the Lord. What if these 2.7 billion people, and some of them they’re listening right now to your podcast, are making a commitment to personalize the great commission in their lives. So imagine with us that in less than it’s 2025 right now, in less than eight years, we have the opportunity of reaching 5.3 billion people all around the world. And we only can do this together. No one is called to run this race alone. It’s too big for one ministry. That’s what I love about this whole vision. So 4 billion people around that number are living in Asia.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (09:26):
We can’t reach the world for Jesus without thinking about Asia.
Mattheus van der Steen (09:30):
It’s say 45% is living in Asia. So if we talk about reaching everyone, I really love that there is a lot of focus right now on Asia. And again, let’s not forget America, let’s not forget Europe and all the other continents, but in Asia there’s a huge harvest. And again, Jesus is the Lord of this harvest. So when you say, I came back with a report and I love that we can talk honestly about this stuff, it’s really in faith like with my natural eyes. So I don’t want to encourage everyone who’s listening with your natural eyes. It was almost impossible. I mean, I saw the biggest giants walking around in Thailand, in any other nation when it comes to disunity, when it comes to networks, when it comes to people having a heart for the great commission. I mean, I really had to choose to look in faith and seeing the spiritually realm what God wanted to do.
(10:30):
But what I kept hearing was the famous word, Matt, it’s kairos time for Thailand. When I walked in Thailand in the south, seeing less than 1% people being a Christian, people getting actually in some of the areas in the south, people are getting persecuted there. Another strong religion, very active. I kept hearing the Lord say, but it’s my car’s time. When eter steps into our time, everything changed. And so I think the Lord was really challenging us to just really step in faith and say yes to talent. Even though there are incredible things happening in Thailand right now. We keep hearing from missionaries working there for 25 years, 30 years, that since two years they feel like there’s an atmosphere shift. So what do I mean with that? There’s a missionary in the north working for so long, they’re plowing, facing a lot of persecution. People are very antichrist resisting now. They have this ministry have lines of people. I saw videos. Benji Morph is very involved in this ministry. They want to stay unknown though, but they say that we saw on the video thousands of people on the monthly base are getting baptized right now in rivers. There is an underground revival happening in Thailand.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (11:53):
And actually I heard that a lot of that is in the district that I’m assigned to Luke. And so I’m so excited. I’m like, wow, I got the best place to go. God is moving in such a tremendous way.
Mattheus van der Steen (12:07):
I make sure eventually it’s Daniel, you do your crusade near the river because this is really a thing they want to get baptized. There has been a new report out two weeks ago and they had one line of three kilometers. Again, I come from Europe, so it’s like 1.6 miles I think of people waiting to get baptized. I
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:26):
Mean, what a miracle. It’s a miracle what a day of Pentecost type the thing to do where they had 3000 people saved in one day. So we just had a wonderful launch event in
Mattheus van der Steen (12:40):
February America itself
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (12:42):
For everyone Thailand. And it was so beautiful. We were at Liberty Church there in Bangkok beautiful church facility and filled the place up with pastors and leaders from across Thailand. And we started to talk about what does it look like to see a harvest here? And I saw so many that just had a great heart and a great passion for seeing God do something wonderful in Thailand.
Mattheus van der Steen (13:15):
And what really touched me about this, because people said before what you want is not possible. Even a Thai pastor said it’s not possible to get so much pastor around the great commission, but when the Lord speaks a word, just obey that. Just follow it. Don’t look and hear what all the critics are saying. Be open for correction of course, but really following the Lord. And I think that’s what we did together in faith. We moved forward and in the end we had around a thousand churches and 2000 plus pastors from every province. We have 77 provinces in Thailand. Being there hearing the vision, how can we work together in reaching talent for Jesus, our vision for the coming 12 months, and I do believe it’s God’s vision, is reaching 10% of the whole population of Thailand with the gospel of Jesus Christ. So there are around 70 million people, 74 million people, some say 72 million people.
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So we keep it like, oh, we say 70 plus million people. That means that the coming 12 months and all your listeners, I want to challenge them to pray about this, to be part of this. Everyone can be part of this through enriching talent with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We want to reach 7 million people through gospel trucks, through crusades, like what you’re going to do through outreaches, through different types of evangelism. The Jesus film, the Jesus film is there. We are working together with the chosen. We try to get the whole chosen series in the Buddhistic nation on national television. Can you imagine that? It’s big. It’s wild. So really I do believe that between now and 12 months, we are going to see a major change in Thailand. While we are speaking, we have 12 young evangelists in Thailand. Right after the launch, they saw 17 and a half thousand teenagers coming to Jesus this morning. I got a report that the last week they saw seven of thousand teenagers surrendering the life to Jesus in schools in Thailand. That’s happening right now.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:15):
Wow.
Mattheus van der Steen (15:16):
So quickly we talk about the last four or five weeks, 25,000 teenagers are rescued for eternity. And that’s great news.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (15:24):
Amen. Well, I’m so excited about what God is doing in Thailand and it’s such a privilege to be a part of it. One of the things that I think is so beautiful is that when evangelists partner together with the local churches, you have these churches in Thailand that have been there for many years and they love God. They’re praying for people to be saved. They love the people of Thailand and they’ve been praying to say, God, do something in our nation. And God spoke to us from outside the nation, from Europe, from the United States, from Africa, all these evangelists and put Thailand in our heart. And really it’s the answer to the prayers of the churches of Thailand,
Speaker 3 (16:09):
A hundred percent.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:09):
And now when we join together, we can dream big and in the natural a dream might look impossible, but with God, all things are possible. And one of the anointings of an evangelist, I think, is to bring people together in unity and to bring different churches. Maybe one church doesn’t talk to another church that they have had a disagreement 50 years ago and so ever since they haven’t gotten along. But we can come and say, guys, let’s focus on the great commission, the words of Jesus to go and to bring all creation to the foot of the cross and to meet Jesus. And that’s something that every single church can agree
Speaker 3 (16:54):
On
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (16:55):
And that we can all can say yes, we may have different theology in different areas, but we agree that everyone needs Jesus.
Mattheus van der Steen (17:03):
That’s right. And I really love what you’re saying. That was a thing. So touching that when we came into Thailand and did a pioneering trip there, we kept hearing from the generals, the fathers of faith there that their desire was to see at least 1 million type people coming to Jesus, at least 10,000 new churches. So it was almost like the Lord already prepared the way. The question was how are we going to do that? The why is very clear, but how are we going to do that? So most leaders felt like that. The whole everyone talent vision was really connected with their vision. And I am pretty sure that if we do a podcast around maybe this time a little bit later, next year, 2026, we can tell the listeners, listen, this is what God has done. Five, 6 million type people surrendered the life to Jesus. Not only that, they are in training schools, they are in discipleship courses. The history of Thailand is going to be changed.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (18:02):
I’m going to be going to Thailand in just a couple of weeks. And so in my city we’ve put together committees of local pastors and they have been talking what is the best strategy for reaching people in our area? There’s many different strategies and we’re not saying you have to do it one way or one strategy, but we’re saying let’s do everything we can to focus on the great commission during this time. And one of the things that was so exciting at the everyone Thailand launch event was seeing the very first gospel truck, which was built, and I saw so many people, they came in, it was parked right beside the front door door and everyone was taking pictures. They’re standing up there pretending like they were preaching. But I think that this gospel truck is a strategy that is going to work because there’s so many villages in neighborhoods throughout Thailand.
(18:56):
How are we going to reach them? Well, let’s take young tie people, teach them how to share the gospel and send them out into the village. And so the truck, it was so beautiful, it has a platform, it comes down out of the side of the truck and then it has a sound system. And in just a few minutes you can set it up, set up the sound system, put some chairs out and invite people to come. And you could have 50 people, you could have 200 people, you could have 500 people just with this little truck. But we realized that one truck is not enough. That’s true. At first, I think we were saying maybe we could do 12 trucks,
Mattheus van der Steen (19:32):
10
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (19:32):
And 10. Let’s do 10 of these gospel trucks. And then we said maybe we could do 50. And then I remember the moment in the conference where you stood up and said, there’s 77 provinces in Thailand. Why shouldn’t we believe God for 77 gospel trucks?
Mattheus van der Steen (19:53):
And the whole thing, like pastors, I never saw pastors. This were not young people. Pastors stood up, it was a holy moment. And they start to cheer and clap. And I felt like to weep, I said, Lord, this pastors really are hungry. What I love Avengers, Daniel is that in Thailand you have to realize that they’re a little bit more, it’s a little bit more, how do you say that? Different than here in the states. So they have night markets. So every night you have night markets in the villages. That means when it’s dark, people are coming out and they’re going to shop in the night market. It’s one place in the city center. So to have a gospel truck there, it’s almost like free advertisement. There are always people in the night market. Normally we do our crusades in the night because it’s more cooler, it’s more effective.
(20:42):
So we can reach 500 to a thousand people per night just through a gospel truck. So right now we are training several hundreds of evangelists. They’re all on the list right now to get trained in Thailand, to be an evangelist for the gospel trucks, there are 80,000 villages all over Thailand. So imagine with us that in five years, if we have 77 gospel trucks and we do two or three small village crusades per week with a gospel truck, because we don’t have to do the weekends. On Monday, there is a night market. And on Sunday and on Thursday we can reach in less than five years every village in Thailand with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (21:27):
So in my district, there’s 95 sub-districts and I’m hoping that we can go and do an evangelistic campaign in each of the 95 sub-districts between this August and when my crusade will happen in February. And so at the end of July, I’m going to go and do a week of training in evangelism. And the pastors have said that they can give me 50 young people to train for the first part of the week. And then the second part of the week will have over 300 pastors and leaders and the people from the churches come and be trained in evangelism. And then each of the churches will take that truck out and begin to do these night markets, going to different villages, going to different places to share the gospel. And the truck will be used every night throughout the week. So a different church will use it each night. So each church will build an evangelism team and then take the truck out and so that the truck will be used full time. But each church is responsible for sending out an evangelism team once a week and say, guys, at least once a week, can you take Monday night? Can you take Tuesday night? And between August and next February, we want to do 95 mini crusades, the truck. It’s going to go from place to place. And I think we’re going to see such tremendous fruit.
Mattheus van der Steen (22:54):
That’s an amazing strategy. I like that a lot. So it would be great.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (22:57):
So I’m already talking to the pastors and they’re already excited about, they saw the truck and now I got to go to them and say, now we need to trust God to provide a truck for us.
Mattheus van der Steen (23:09):
Amen. And I think that’s where your listeners can really pray and consider joining us. What I love about this gospel truck is you don’t need like $10,000 to do a crusade with a couple of hundreds of dollars. You already can do a two, three night crusade with a gospel truck.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (23:26):
Yeah, once you have the truck, because a lot of the expense of doing a crusade is renting a sound system, renting a platform, and getting transportation there. But with this gospel truck, what we’re doing is we’re building the infrastructure of evangelism. So think about a church here in America. A lot of churches will do a capital campaign in order to build a building. Why? Because the building is where all the ministry of the church takes place. And so here in America, a church will raise 15 million, 20 million for building a new gymnasium so that they can reach the youth in their community. And so then every week they bring the youth to that gymnasium to preach to them. Well, think about doing evangelism. The evangelism doesn’t happen in a church building because lost people don’t come to church because they’re lost. So somehow you got to go to them. And so in order to do all of these evangelism trucks, what we need is a capital campaign to invest in the infrastructure of evangelism because the evangelism will take place on these trucks. And so investing in a truck is investing in a church building, but the truck goes from place to place doing evangelism. And so this is a great investment for the body of Christ to say, Hey, we want to reach Thailand for Jesus and 77 trucks. That’s big faith. What was the cost of doing one truck? The first truck,
Mattheus van der Steen (24:59):
50,000 per year. And that’s including also the maintenance and a small celery for an evangelist
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (25:05):
And then paying for some of the gasoline to take it from place to place.
Mattheus van der Steen (25:09):
We have all a whole detailed plan. It’s like an incredible organization to have 77 gospel trucks on the road every day. But there’s a very solid plan for that. We have great contracts and deals with a Japanese company or a building, this gospel trucks. And what I love as well about this gospel trucks is that we all using the same Q air code. Everything in Thai people love. What do we use here? Messenger or WhatsApp group? That’s the lying thing. Everyone is doing lying. That’s how they communicate. It’s like a sort of Instagram. Sure.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (25:45):
It’s like WhatsApp,
Mattheus van der Steen (25:46):
Facebook. So we are all using one QR code. So all over til people scan this QR code and through the chosen and jesus.net, we give them an opportunity to really start a journey with Christ. So I do believe we can reach millions of people the coming years with the gospel through the gospel trucks. And I think this is really important. Kingdom key.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:11):
Okay, so if you’re listening, I want to ask you to sponsor a gospel truck. It would cost $50,000
Mattheus van der Steen (26:19):
Or partly,
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:20):
Or you could do part of it. But I want to go for someone who will do the whole
Mattheus van der Steen (26:25):
Gospel truck. Yes, your logo will be on the gospel truck.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (26:29):
So can you sponsor a gospel truck, give a gift of $50,000, help us do a gospel truck for one year. Now if you’re an evangelist, what I want to challenge you to do is do this through your ministry. You can come and you can do some of the first crusades with the gospel truck and then through your ministry, sponsor it throughout the entire year. And you can be a part of helping us to reach Thailand. If you’re a church, why can’t your church sponsor a gospel truck to go all year long in the nation of Thailand?
Mattheus van der Steen (27:03):
Yeah, five years.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (27:03):
And think about what an impact it will have going every single week, day after day, from village to village, from marketplace to marketplace. I think one gospel truck could be responsible for reaching a hundred thousand, 200, 500,000 people with just one gospel
Mattheus van der Steen (27:22):
Truck. That’s true. And that’s happening when you are sleeping. So example, you’re going to give while you are sleeping in the night. It’s 12 hours difference. Of course in Thailand, just the thought when you’re watching Netflix or you are in your prayer live or you’re on Sunday morning in church, that gospel truck is used to win full-time for at least five years on a weekly base. People for Jesus for eternity. I love that thought. Amen.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (27:50):
Okay, so if you want to sponsor a whole gospel truck or maybe you could do a part of a gospel truck, you can go right now to everyone thailand.com. So everyone thailand.com and donate and give towards gospel trucks. And if you want to sponsor my gospel truck, I need a gospel truck for my area, contact me www.kingministries.com.
(28:17):
We need not just one. We need at least 77 gospel trucks so that we can have one in every single province throughout the nation of Thailand. And I believe right now, God is speaking to you. You need to go and help us to sponsor a gospel truck.
Mattheus van der Steen (28:34):
Yes.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (28:35):
And we need evangelists that will come and adopt a gospel truck and come and you could even do multiple trips to Thailand, get your gospel truck working, get it started in a province, and then you could come back two or three times. Then you’d already have your equipment there. You could be doing crusade after crusade impacting the nation of Thailand. And Vinces
Mattheus van der Steen (28:56):
Daniel. Thailand is beautiful. I mean it is beautiful. I mean incredible islands. The people are I think the most nicest people on planet earth. They’re so humble. So hospital, the hospitality is great. And what I love is the food. The food is the best. People said, are you getting sick when you go to Thailand? I said, no, because everything really is around tourism. You don’t really get sick in Thailand. So the street markets are great. I really want to challenge everyone. Come with us. Go to Thailand. Experience is incredible culture and most important, see, revival. See Jesus moving through your life.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (29:36):
Another thing I wanted to talk about is the Christ for All school of ministry. And so you’re helping evangelist Daniel Kolenda with Christ for All Nations to launch this. And it’s going to be an amazing training center to help train up people who have a passion for ministry, a passion for evangelism. Tell me a little bit about that and how people can find out how they can go and be a student for the school of
Mattheus van der Steen (30:06):
Ministry. Well, I’ve actually very great news because we have some spots available for everyone who is listening right now. And we want to offer you all your listeners a very special deal. That’s a free scholarship for the first year.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (30:20):
A free scholarship.
Mattheus van der Steen (30:21):
Yeah, free scholarship. It’s really worth $5,000. We have the most amazing speakers. You are part of it, of course. Evangelist Daniel Klin and myself will we be teaching every week. We have a lot of C and evangelists coming over, but we also have Cindy Jacobs, Randy Clark, Ben Fitzgerald, Heidi Baker, the list goes on and on and on. We have like 28 international global speakers who’re going to pour out everything they received from the Lord in this school. This school is really based on the fivefold ministry. We want to train people to find their place in the harvest. There are a lot of students, they dunno what to do with their life. We really want to invite every person you’re called by God, not just as an evangelist, but like you are called in a fivefold ministry, including in the business and you want to make a change, please come to the school. We starting August 26th this year in Orlando places of all places, we have already 300 students. We have a cap of around 350 students. So again, I want to give all your listeners a free school leadership. If you’re interested in it, go right now to CFAN. It’s www.cfansom.com.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (31:38):
Yeah, cfan.org. They have information up about it and apply and get your scholarship.
Mattheus van der Steen (31:45):
Yeah, get your scholarship and come to Orlando and we come to train you. You can choose for a one year or a two year. We have even agreements with some of the universities, so it’s also academic. So besides like importation, great opportunities for outreach and great teachings, we have also an academic site in built into the school. So they actually get credits. So when you do our SOM school, we have agreements with SEU, we have agreements with the Oral Robert University and all the Christian universities around the states that you actually can get credits for that school year or you do the two year school.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (32:24):
And if you have a heart for evangelism, it will be fired up by being at Christ for all nations. The great ministry of Reinhard Bonnke and Daniel Kolenda, they have just finished their 50th year. They did 50 crusades across Africa in one year in their 50th year. Just tremendous faith. And to see what God is doing through their ministry. And they’re training up so many evangelists,
Mattheus van der Steen (32:47):
5,000 right now
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (32:48):
Around the world and it’s so amazing.
Mattheus van der Steen (32:51):
And they see around half million people like facts coming to Christ every month right now. So it’s like it’s an amazing ministry where they multiply, train, equip, and give them opportunities. So if you want to be part of this amazing school, please come and see us in August in Orlando.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (33:07):
Amen, Florida. Alright, well let’s finish with praying together for Thailand. Yes, we need your help in Thailand. It’s a big vision. We need people to be involved. We need evangelists to participate. We need churches to come help us with discipleship, to do leadership training. There’s so many opportunities for people to be involved. You can come and sponsor a gospel truck, find a businessman who will go and sponsor an entire gospel truck. I mean, we need your help for Thailand, but let’s just finish by praying together for Thailand and what God is going to do
Mattheus van der Steen (33:43):
There. Yes, let’s pray. Lord, we just want to thank you so much for this podcast and we thank you God for shaking the nations. We thank you Lord that we living in ous moments and we thank you Lord that you have said so clearly. Yes to Thailand. And Lord, we want to say yes to you. And I want to pray together with Aventus Daniel and all our listeners right now to this podcast, Lord, that your will will be done. That every stronghold will be broken over Thailand. That every person who’s living in darkness in deep darkness, Lord is facing eternal hell. We thank you Lord, that Lord your light and your glory and your love and your power and your resurrected power, your covered in blood will invade every person’s life living in Thailand right now. Lord, we proclaim your covenant blood over all the 70 million plus people living in Thailand. We thank you Lord that strongholds and demonic forces will be broken. We thank you Lord that we are going to see your light be is seeing every corner of darkness in Thailand. We thank you Lord for your glorious light. We thank you Lord for eternal life. We thank you Lord for your blessing in your hand upon this nation up into the government and up to the king. We thank you Lord that Thailand shall be saved in Jesus’ name.
Evangelism Coach Daniel King (35:08):
Well, thank you so much for listening to the Evangelism podcast and come work with us in Thailand. Let’s see. Jesus do amazing things. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mathias, for being on the Evangelism Podcast.
Mattheus van der Steen (35:19):
See you next year. I.