About CCCC Announcements

The Chiangmai Christian Community Classifieds (CCCC) is a free community service which makes available announcements of local Chiang Mai events / activities, job opportunities, and community services to help volunteers and Thai workers to navigate living in Chiang Mai. It is a means of helping people help one another -- whether finding a job, sharing useful suggestions about local resources, finding an inexpensive place to live, or locating a helpful service. Many Thai people have found gainful employment through this community service and many expats now frequent our Immigration Help section or our free interactive Chiang Mai Community Maps (used more than 80,000 times) -- a non-profit effort sponsored by Thai foundations and local churches and created using standard Google copyrighted tools). This is open for anyone in the community to use.

Background: In 2001 the original newsletter referred to as the “CMCC Classifieds” mailing list was created by members of Chiang Mai Community Church. In those days, our weekly Announcements, which had been part of a paper church bulletin, had simply grown too large -- so we took it online and made it a listing of web resources/announcements. The list started with about only 200 CMCC members at that time.16 years later, our FaceBook group membership is many times that of our early days. Since we now serve folks from more than forty different language backgrounds, we have adopted English as the international language as the means to communicate. We sometimes will list announcements in other languages as well and we also include tailored national language links to registration sites for many foreign embassies and consulates in Thailand.

In 2015 we started the CCCC FaceBook group for important announcements, and at the same time switched to publishing the CCCC Community Resources to the web, thus opening this online church bulletin to the greater Chiangmai Christian community. We also introduced the new term "CCCC" which stood for the "Chiangmai Christian Community Classifieds". While we are still sometimes referred to as the old “CMCC Classifieds”, we are now officially known as the “Chiangmai Christian Community Classifieds” or the “CCCC". Faithful to our origin, we continue to list content consistent with what one would find in a church bulletin.

We appreciate those special few who began the good work of faithfully making these announcements and Community Resources available to the community, and others, who have also volunteered their spare time to publish these over the years. And we appreciate you, our readers, for standing with us as we continue to make this a free helpful community service open to everyone. It is one way of helping one another as we serve together for the benefit of all.