THAILAND
I Want This City
Have you ever met someone who has never even heard the name of Jesus? If you’re looking in New York City, that person might be hard to find, but hit the streets of Bangkok, and you’ll find yourself surrounded. 12
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Doug prayed for God to inspire him with a big dream. He gave Doug the dream of reaching Bangkok for Jesus.
issionary Doug Venn spent five years looking for ways to share Jesus in Thailand’s capital, arguably one of the planet’s most unreached cities. The opportunities were breathtaking. The limitations were heartbreaking. One of his most trying moments came when leaders of a slum area offered land and invited Adventists to establish a church. Doug was excited until he discovered that the $30,000
it would take to build it would require two-thirds of the Thailand Mission’s annual budget. There would be no church. There simply wasn’t money. He was challenged again while looking for Bible studies to share with unreached friends. He discovered that the only lessons available to reach the millions in this unreached city were photocopies of photocopies, so many generations out that the blotchy print was hard to read. “The literature rack
