Patrick Huang

Interview: Kawtorpai Church

Patrick Huang
He is a fresh-faced young man with curly hair. If I had not known that he was a pastor, I would have thought he was a highly energetic office worker who works in a high-rise in the central business district of Bangkok. He is, in fact, pastor Prachan Noimung, a man of the Karen ethnic group from Maehongsorn Province who now serves as head of the Kawtorpai. This can be translated as the Move Forward Church...
April 2024EnglishSocial MovementsYouth Movements4 min read
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Patrick Huang

Patrick Huang is a born-and-bred Thai writer who hails from Bangkok. His childhood luxuriated in naiveté; little was he aware that his fellow human beings had been lobotomized in the dungeon of class system and injustice.

Sometime in his mid-twenties while at a cafe sipping a coffee, he caught a glimpse of a booklet whose cover read: Prisoner of Conscience. He went through it and it was a turning-point. Bespectacled Huang replaced the then rose-tinted glasses with true-to-life ones,
He started to write. Write for liberation. Martin Luther King had a dream, as does Patrick Huang. His dream is simple. His dream is ‘create the world as a single family’.