Christopher & Shannon Sorensen

Career Missionaries since 2003, serving the Southern 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. Today, we sense God’s leading to join our colleagues Brian and Duang Wilson in reaching the Souther Thai Buddhists for Christ in the province of Surat Thani. 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

Tone:  A Man with a Plan

I’m also very excited to see Tone casting this vision for continual strategic growth and development of our current and future students! By God’s grace, this visionary leader’s dream will come true! 

By: Christopher Sorensen
December 01 2019, 8:03 pm | Comments 0

More Kids for the Kingdom

We now feel more strongly than ever that the time is at hand when we must enlarge our tent.

By: Christopher Sorensen
February 01 2019, 9:19 am | Comments 0

From Darkness Into Light

It’s especially awesome when we get to take city kids from Khon Kaen into the wild outdoors and learn together from God’s first and second books.

By: Christopher Sorensen
October 01 2018, 9:37 am | Comments 0

The Flooded Cave and God’s Great Rescue

May God help us all not to grow weary in this rescue mission, wasting our time on worldly distractions or, worse yet, fighting among ourselves. Our mission is urgent!

By: Christopher Sorensen
September 01 2018, 1:35 pm | Comments 0

Wanted: Musical Missionaries!

The call for mission-minded, Spirit-filled musicians is growing louder all over Thailand.

By: Christopher Sorensen
March 01 2018, 8:26 am | Comments 0

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