Mar 4, 2024
Today, I’m talking to Chester and Sirikit Umaguing (Ooh-MAH-Ging). Chester and Sirikit went on the Manila Mission team together, went into the professional ministry, witnessed 400 baptisms in the first year of that planting, got married and returned to the states in 2004. They started successful careers in real estate and restaurant ownership. They then returned to the paid ministry in 2016, leading the Colorado Springs church. Two years ago they took another step forward in faith and returned to the Asian mission field, this time in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok has historically been a difficult mission field for Christian missions. Nevertheless, Chester and Sirikit, at the age of sixty, are baptizing and bringing revival to the college and young professional ministries in this Buddhist country. Find out what they are doing to make this life count.
More about Chester and Sirikit:
Chester and Sirikit Umaguing are church builders known for their
love
for God, people and missions. They were baptized in San Diego
(1986) and New York (1988) respectively. They were part of the
mission team planting in Manila, Philippines in 1989 and later
helped
prepare and plant 5 more churches, including one in the Middle
East.
While they’ve served for over 25 years in the full time ministry,
they
felt blessed to work for 10 years out of the ministry as owners in
the
restaurant and real estate business. They went back into
full-time
ministry and served as church leaders in Colorado Springs
Christian
Church for 8 years. They also served as Regional Family Chairs,
Global Missions Society Chair and Women’s Service team and HOPE
Board of Directors (2020-present). They currently lead the church
in
Bangkok while overseeing all the churches in Thailand &
Laos.
They have been married for 32 years and been blessed with two
loving children, Joshua and Alexa. They love life and
adventure.
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