YWAM Phuket
Church Planting
Are you looking for a place to serve that would challenge and change your group? Are you looking for a place where you can change lives and leave a mark after you leave? Calvary Chapel at the Bridge is an evangelical church located only twenty minutes from the Phuket airport in a small village called Thachatchai. Thachatchai was one of the many villages devastated by the 2004 tsunami. Calvary Chapel Baan Nam Khem ministry sent a team to Thachatchai in 2006 to start a church plant there. Pastor Dana, his wife Cindy (who are both YWAMers) and the folks at Calvary Chapel would love to have your team come and partner with them as they seek to bring the Gospel and disciple the people of Thachatchai and the surrounding communities. There are opportunities for your team to help this new church to begin a nursery and children’s ministry programs. We also need your help with street cleanup, the streets are overgrown with weeds and other vegetation and littered with trash. Your team can do prayer walking and evangelism, teach English at the Community Center and local school. We also have a radio program, God’s Word for Today, on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday mornings. 
We share the Gospel giving out tracts, Bibles, and Jesus videos in the local market every Friday afternoon and at least once a month we share the Gospel with the bar girls and prostitutes in Patong, about an hour away. On Saturdays your team can also hold a fun day for local area kids and on Sunday your team can participate in church service by sharing testimonies, dramas, and proclaim God in a part of Thailand that is coming to know Him more and more everyday! For more information please visit the Calvary Chapel at the Bridge website.
Vision
To see God build His church in the village of Thachatchai and the nearby communities in Phang Nga province. To give every person an opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel. To disciple existing believers. To network with all the churches of Phuket. To offer training including YWAM-DTS, evangelism, children’s ministry, and hospital ministry.
Current Needs
- Committed prayer partners
- Monthly financial supporters for Calvary Chapel at the Bridge (for our Thai staff as the church is not self supporting yet)
- Construction project – we need to build two partition walls and two doors to separate men and women dormitories in our building
- Volunteers for construction, for community clean up, for children’s ministry, for worship and for evangelism
- Short term teams (no minimum stay)
- Yard maintenance equipment/lawnmower $1000
- Church partition walls $500 more needed
Contact Information:
Dana and Cindy Bratton, Calvary Chapel at the Bridge
93/101 Moo 5 Soi Thachatchai 9
Mai Khao, Thalang
Phuket 83110
THAILAND
Mobile: (66) 8 6267-1370
Skype U.S. Voice mail: (951) 643-8641
Telephone: (66)-76-348-523
For US donations
Make checks payable to YWAM Montana
with a note "for Thachatchai Community Center". Or project number 3601
Mail to: YWAM Montana
501 Blacktail Road Lakeside, Montana 59922
Donations to that account will go for either the wall or Thai staff salary, support for Dana and Cindy Bratton can be sent to the same address but with a note “for Dana and Cindy Bratton” or project number 3454.
For direct Thai bank transfers:
Account name: Dana Bratton
Account number: 788-213580-3
Siam Commercial Bank, Khok Kloy, Phang Nga
(Please notify us by email when donations are sent and specify purpose)
