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Wijit – From Monk to Missionary

Your generous donation funds frontline missionaries like Wijit and creates a lasting legacy of gospel advancement.

The Future of Gospel Access

This new base of operations in Chiang Mai stakes an irrevocable ministry presence in the heart of the unreached world and scales our outreach efforts by creating an explosion of gospel access.

The Access Campaign multiples the number of foreign and indigenous Christian workers and creates a long-term model for self-sustainability for Within Reach Global and its missionaries.

Phase 1 North Campus (2022) Total: $2,900,000

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Stage 1: $900,000
Land & Initial Development

Purchasing land secures an irrevocable ministry presence in Thailand and gives a lifetime of gospel access. Watch the video.
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Stage 2: $1,500,000
Siam Sports Center

Siam Sports Center builds inroads into the community while financially supporting indigenous missionaries. Watch the video.
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Stage 3: $300,000
WRG Office Headquarters

The Within Reach Global Office will become the headquarters for our global outreach centers throughout Southeast Asia.
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Stage 4: $200,000
Residence Hall

The Residence Hall provides on-site housing for missionaries who kickstart the initial wave of soul winning. Watch the video.

Urgency & Impact

Urgency: Secure Investment

Thailand is the only country in the 10/40 Window with religious freedom protected by the constitution, securing your investment into Within Reach Global. Registered as a legal foundation recognized by the Thailand government, we are free to continue Christian ministry without hindrance and security threats—a privilege few surrounding nations offer.

This unique opportunity compels us to extend gospel access to the millions of Thai people who exist without a witness of the good news. The Fusion Center and its facilities will unlock gospel access in this city and beyond, into the 10/40 Window.

Urgency: Max Capacity

We are currently operating at full capacity in our ability to evangelize, disciple, and church plant. We’re unable to facilitate more ministry without adequate space and control of facility ownership. By regularly renting spaces for meetings and trainings, we lose the ability for self-sustainability.

We need a place to host short-term teams without bleeding finances into rental facilities. Housed in one location—the new Within Reach Global headquarters—we are able to grow and expand our reach through our internship and short-term trips.

The new development will ease security concerns, planning, travel, scheduling, and overhead while creating new streams of ministry, extending the gospel’s reach.

Urgency: A Ripe Harvest

In the last ten years in Thailand, more people have come to Christ than in all the previous 184 years (since the first protestant missionaries arrived) combined. We must act now because the harvest is riper than it’s ever been, as every passing day, the gospel dead zone expands. Our outreach continues to see an explosive response.

We are seeing people come to Jesus every week through Compassion Ministries like food distribution and relief response.

Our ongoing evangelistic efforts in unreached villages are impacting entire families and communities.

Discipleship groups (among Thais and the Chinese diaspora living in Thailand) are raising new believers to find their God-given callings.

Additionally, Within Reach Global's Church Planting arm is making inroads into unreached areas. Two of our churches—Chose Generation, our Thai/Karen fellowship and Agape House of Prayer Church, our Chinese church—are growing in impact and scope.

Urgency: Real Competition

A strong Buddhist foothold and rising Muslim influence threaten to steal Thai souls away from God’s kingdom. Similarly, Mormon and Jehovah’s Witness evangelistic plans to make new converts jeopardize the witness of authentic Christian missionary efforts.

We need to act now to pen the future of gospel presence on the blank slate of ready Thai hearts.

Urgency: Ready Workers

Committed indigenous leaders are waiting on stand-by for opportunities to serve in ministry when the WRG base launches. It is imperative that we don’t lose momentum with these newly formed relationships and laborers for the harvest.

Impact: Doubles the Missions Force

The Access Campaign doubles the number of Within Reach Global's full-time staff—missionaries committed to reaching unreached people groups. This allows us to host short-term teams and interns who have a passion to extend God's kingdom in gospel-deprived areas.

For every short-term team member who joins us in Thailand, a portion of their trip cost goes directly toward supporting an indigenous missionary.

In essence, the Access Campaign and new WRG base of operations multiples the number of Christian workers dedicated to taking the gospel to places without access to the message of Jesus. Presently, without a base of operations, we are unable to scale the ministry for such an impact. Your giving multiplies the number of ready Christian workers waiting for an opportunity to serve as full-time missionaries to their own people.

Impact: Provides Facilities for Ministry Expansion

We are currently operating at full capacity in our ability to evangelize, disciple, and church plant. Your giving swings wide the opportunities to host ongoing Bible studies and discipleship groups on the new campus.

Our TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) classes are facilitated by trained missionary educators. The campus' facilities allow us to use the tool of language training—a high-demand need in Chiang Mai, Thailand—to share the gospel with people open to spiritual matters. Presently, our online classes have between 400-700 online attendants. In-person training takes gospel advancement to a whole new level of Spirit-led ministry.

The new development provides the spaces needed to host pastoral training for Christian leaders in nearby provinces who are longing to study God's word and impact their communities.

Additionally, these facilities allow us to host more short-term teams and interns, multiplying gospel inroads among unreached people. They also provide a house of prayer for WRG staff and missionaries serving in Thailand.

Impact: Multiples Indigenous Missionaries

At the heart of all Within Reach Global's ministry efforts is the focus on raising up indigenous missionaries who reach their own cities, provinces, and countries with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We've seen this success firsthand over the last two decades of ministry in China. Within 8 Outreach Centers in operation in China, the ministry is locally-led and is seeing tremendous impact where the gospel was previously virtually unknown.

After nearly 200 years of Protestant missionary work in Thailand, we believe the key to reaching this nation is through indigenously-led compassion ministries, evangelism, discipleship, and church planting.

The new base of operations allows us to impact the Thai people through Spirit-filled, gospel-centric outreach.

FAQs

Where is the Fusion Center located?

Stages 1 and 2 share the same location—a five-story building and sizable plot of land in the center of Chiang Mai, Thailand. This strategic location is within a two-mile radius of five major universities, allowing us to impact the next generation of Thai people. Stages 3 and 4 will be located at alternate locations throughout the city, each targeting different demographics. The Siam Sports Center focuses on Thai, Chinese, and Foreign clients; the Pre-K Learning Center focuses on Thai, Chinese, Korean, and foreign families in need of early education for their children.

The multiple locations in targeted areas of Chiang Mai, Thailand continue Within Reach Global's history of going to the places of need and filling the void with the gospel.

Chiang Mai is a city of 1.5 million people. For perspective, if Chiang Mai was a US-based city, it would be the 6th largest in the country. This area is home to the heaviest population of the Chinese diaspora living in Thailand, middle to high-class Thais, and the expat missionary community.

This strategic location gives Within Reach Global a gospel foothold in the heart of the unreached world.

How is the Access Campaign unique?

Chiang Mai is home to a number of Christian organizations. Most ministries focus widely on children’s homes, youth outreach, human trafficking alleviation, and more. Historically, popular missions agencies and denominations have focused on educational, medical, and other humanitarian efforts. Sadly, much of these efforts were devoid of intentional discipleship and church planting strategies.

The results of a failed disciple-making focus is evident. After nearly 200 years of missionary presence (the first missionaries arrived in 1828), Thailand remains 0.77% Christian—the lowest percentage of Christians in all of Southeast Asia.

This project integrates the highly synergistic aspects of a church, training center, mission trips, internship, and sports ministry to impact local culture. Our central focus on indigenously-led, rapidly-multiplying disciple-making movements (DMM) brings a time-proven, gospel-centric approach to ministry.

We believe the Access Campaign is poised to mobilize the next wave of Thai church planters and missionaries through this self-sustainable model.

How does the sustainability aspect work?

Our for-profit Business as Mission (BAM) models—SIam Sports Center’s CrossFit, Ninja Warrior, and Gymnastics Academy—work to remove reliance on Western-based financial donations to fund indigenous missionaries. The blend of multiple businesses operating out of a single property will provide multiple streams for generating funds throughout the year.

The profits from these businesses generate the capital to fund the next wave of Thai church planters and missionaries going to gospel-deprived areas.

BAM initiatives are a strategic and effective way of planting relevant, desired businesses in a community to increase connection with the people living in the area. Operating a legitimate, for-profit business expands our reach into the community, through staff and customer relationships, which opens up more opportunities for the gospel. We’re not doing this on our own.

We’re recruiting managers and foreign missionaries in each area of business expertise. These long-term staff serve both as missionaries and business leaders who produce revenue to support indigenous church planters. We believe that by harnessing the passion of these leaders, we can both engage communities in a relevant way while producing self-sustainability for Within Reach Global.

Phase 2 South Campus (2024) Total: $3,300,000

Stage 5: $960,000
Land & Initial Development

Purchasing land secures an irrevocable ministry presence in Thailand and gives a lifetime of gospel access.

Stage 6: $1,000,000
Fusion Center

The Fusion Center is a house of worship and missionary training hub for all our ministry programs. Watch the video.

Stage 6: $800,000
Fusion Church

Fusion Church is the heart of the campus, with services in Thai, Mandarin, and English, housing multiple ministry ventures. Watch the video.

Stage 7: $550,000
Residence Hall Expansion

The Residence Hall provides on-site housing for missionaries who kickstart the initial wave of soul winning.

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Within Reach Global Board


David Joannes
Founder / CEO
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Lorna Joannes
Founder / Executive VP
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Jacob Smith
President / COO
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Chris Abeyta
Treasurer
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Mark Tawlks
Access Campaign Manager
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Advisors to the Board


David Ward
Sr. Private Wealth Advisor at Ron Blue Trust

Sara Pond
Assistant VP of Pipeline Development at Colorado School of Mines
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Daniel Williams
Faith Ambassador for the KCAC and the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) and Founder of Go To Nations
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Sharon Williams
Executive Director of Act 4 the Nations and Founder of Go To Nations
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Jurrian van der Straaten
Independent Board Consultant and Governance Coach
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Thanakorn Viwatronakit (Joe)
Internationally Acclaimed Lawyer and Legal Representative
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