Thailand United Methodist Churches Leadership Training

 We have been through a storm in the short life of our United Methodist churches, pastors, leaders and members of the Thailand. However, we thanks God that the “Eye of the Storm” has passed and we are not concentrate on our mission and ministry of the Church now.  We have now re-grouping after our split, and have our first leadership training for pastors and lay leaders of our church on April 25th to 27^th.

There are 18 pastors, pastor’s spouses and lay leaders from our eight congregations gathered in the Mission Center in Chiang Mai for this training. Thailand Methodist Church is very new and therefore with this training we have learned the basic structure of the United Methodist Church and the concept of the local church, the ministries of the local church and plans for growth in their churches. This is a good gathering for our Thailand Leaders, because besides the training we also have the opportunity to regroup and building a supporting community to support each other through prayer and ideas for ministries. We have committed ourselves to this kind or gather at least twice a years and possible an annual revival for all our United Methodists in Thailand.   We are also expecting our first annual meeting with our area Bishop this coming September, when we will have the opportunity to meet our bishop for the first time and for our pastor receive their appointment from the bishop to serve their local churches they are now serving. All of our local pastor who are now serving in our Thailand United Methodist church has finished their Bachelor from either a secular college or for most a bible college.  We are now working to get all of them to a Course of Study so that they can work their way to become ordain in the United Methodist Church.