Christopher & Shannon Sorensen

Career Missionaries since 2003, serving the Central Thai people of Thailand.

Christopher and Shannon Sorensen launched to Thailand to begin their church-planting efforts among the Northern Khmer people in January 2003. They spent 15 months learning the Central Thai language in Chiangmai. After studying N. Khmer language and culture with Brian and Melissa Mitchell, Margie Jones, and Kelli (Biggs) Doss in Surin, Christopher and his team, along with local Thai pastor Wanlop Intachai, began working on a Bible curriculum to reach the Northern Khmer people and plant an SDA church in Surin province. With the help of a great bunch of student missionaries and local Thai laymen, they also started New Life Radio, Surin. Later Robbie and Kelli Doss joined the team for the Bible study field testing and evangelism phase of the project. In 2014 AFM’s Northern Khmer team merged with AFM’s Central Thai team to jointly develop and publish music and Bible study materials for use throughout the Thailand Adventist Mission. Other major objectives have been 1) the establishment of Peace Music Academy as a joint “Center of Influence” with the General Conference of SDAs and AFM, and 2) the planting of an SDA church in Khon Kaen, Thailand. We praise God for each person brought to Jesus through these projects, and for every one of our faithful friends and supporters who have given so generously over the years to make it all possible!

Frontier Stories

A Greater Role and Growing Team for an Expanding Work

Thank you for your prayers and ongoing support as we expand the ministry with a growing team of workers that God has placed under our care!

By: Christopher Sorensen
August 01 2023, 9:18 am | Comments 0

I Will Go

As always, thank you, our friends and mission partners who have faithfully helped make it possible for us to say again and again, “I Will Go!”

By: Christopher Sorensen
June 01 2023, 3:40 pm | Comments 0

The Chronicles of Khon Kaen: A Brief Pastoral and Missionary History of the Khon Kaen SDA Church in Thailand

Dear friends, Shannon and I and our children have been so privileged to be a small link in this long chain of God’s grace that has been at work here for more than 28 years

By: Christopher Sorensen
January 01 2023, 9:55 am | Comments 0

The Milestone

Be patient and persevering in your witness—realizing that some fruit grows fast, and some fruit develops slowly—but if we are faithful, we will someday see a beautiful harvest!

By: Christopher Sorensen & Kyle Tumberg
August 01 2022, 10:32 am | Comments 0

A Hospitality Blessing

Twenty years ago, this month, Shannon and I were just ‘kids’ out of college, with hearts full of love for God, a belief that there was a big world to reach for Him, and a faith that He desired and was able to do something great through little people like us in some small corner of His harvest field.

By: Christopher Sorensen
March 01 2022, 9:14 am | Comments 0

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