Thailand Media Network Meetings

 

This is the Thailand Media Network, a Christian network which aims to collaborate and help each other in various Christian media projects.  The network meets once every 2 months in Chiang Mai.  We have the meeting at our different organisations and this time I hosted the meeting at the OMF Mekong Centre.

This month we saw the preview of the new movie, "Soul Prison" which looks great.  It will be released in cinemas in Bangkok and Chiang Mai later this year.

I shared a video from the Bible Project Thai. 

Bible Project Thai

I am the local project co-ordinator overseeing the team that is taking the BibleProject videos from English into Thai.  We have finally been able to launch the first two video after a series of unexpected setbacks some of which may have had a spiritual element to it.

We have a team of 5 Thai illustrators and animators, as well as a language adviser, translators and voice artist team. 

There are 73 videos to complete in the Read Scripture series, 9 in the Luke-Acts Series and potentially others in their 140+ video collection.

You can view the BibleProject Thai youtube channel by clicking on the link. 

May God use these videos for his Kingdom for many years to come.

The Bible Project in Thai

The Bible Project Video: "What is the Bible?"

I don't know if you've come across one of The Bible Project videos, but they are fantastic.  The two creators, Timothy Mackie and Jonathan Collins wanted "to help people read through Scripture while avoiding these common pitfalls and misunderstandings. How could complex themes of the Bible be presented in a way that was real and unapologetic, but approachable?  Combining Tim’s deep biblical understanding and Jon’s passion for visual story-telling, they created their first two videos in 2014 and put them online for free.  Less than 5 years later, we have over 130 videos and 200 podcasts which can all be viewed on our website, The Bible App, YouTube, Vimeo and more. We have over 100 million views across all of our media channels in over 200 countries, and have over one million subscribers worldwide." https://thebibleproject.com/about/

I will be heading up the Internet Evangelism and Digital Media ministry of OMF Thailand when the current leader returns to his home country in the middle of the year.  Our current major project in partnership with Campus Crusade and Create Thailand is to make The Bible Project videos available in Thai.  The team is working on the first video "What is the Bible?" now and we hope to have that finished within the next month.  After that, the aim is to translate 2 videos per month.

I believe that this will be an invaluable resource for Thai Christians and the Thai Church.

You can see the English version of the Thai Bible Project here:- https://thebibleproject.com/

50 great Christian books online for free

John Piper through his Desiring God website has 50 great books at the following website downloadable for free here. Many of John Piper's own books but others as well such as biographies of people such as Wilberforce and Edwards. I've download, "Don't Waste Your Life" by John Piper and have been struck by his call in the opening pages and pray that I may not indeed look back at my life and cry at how much of it I had wasted. I also heartily recommend, "The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern world" and in particular Tim Keller's article.