The New Create Labs
Create Labs is expanding, and needs room to grow! We want to join a local artist community, but we need to build the studio by turning a foundation and a roof into a space perfect for our work, training, and community outreach.
A New HomeCreate Labs
From Open Shelter
To Working Space
We're building within an existing artists community; it's called "The Space Collective". Within the community, they have an existing structure solid enough to build on. The foundation, the roof, and the loadbearing pillars are already there. No demolition needed!
What we need are the walls, windows, lights, aircons, paint, and a whole lot of love to see this thing studio-worthy! Drag the slider to see where we're headed.
Meet The Space Collective
Four Stages
The build here can happen in stages, depending on how much we raise changes what is possible for our team. Every stage here meaningfully changes the studio, from adding a much-needed kitchen space, to a restroom for guests. Then, our big stretch goal is to build on the final two plots to create a dedicated training area for schools, seminars, and workshops.
Markers are spaced for legibility, not to scale.
We're Growing!
Create Labs helps to develop media that provides an opportunity for people to hear the Gospel in a form they clearly understand. This means films, animation, still media, apps and books, made with and for the communities they serve. More recently this has included the creation of games as well! We've done this out of a studio that was the perfect size for our small team.
But we're growing, and God is calling us to do more! This building gives us the ability to do that. An enclosed, air-conditioned, properly powered space means editing suites that work in the heat, a meeting room for team meetings and online calls, a training room where teams can be trained, storage that keeps equipment safe and dry, and a kitchen and bathroom that let us work comfortably while hosting our guests well. We would be going from a single room to multiple.
But that's really just half the story here. By jumping into the Space Collective community, we gain access to an onsite cafe and restaurant (perfect for hosting), a dedicated prayer room, a large multi-use space that can be used for larger trainings, community events, and YWAM gatherings, as well as a dedicated co-working space for other artists to work alongside our own. This extended community, which already hosts a dance studio, a performing arts ministry, and a counselling ministry, is a huge reason why this move works well for our team — it's not only a larger space to work in.
What We Create
Create International makes films, animation, illustrated storybooks, and games that tell people about the Good News. We create these in a people group's heart language and in ways that are honouring to their culture, so that they understand that the Gospel is for them. Here is some of that work. You can find more at:
Create InternationalBuild With Us
Gifts received through this portal are given to YWAM Montana, a registered 501(c)(3), and are tax-deductible for US donors. By giving through here you express that your gift should go towards our support, and all of it will make its way to the build.
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You can transfer directly to the build if you're in Thailand by using the following QR code.
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Tell us what you intend to give and when. Pledges show on the tracker straight away in the lighter shade, so we can see the road ahead. We'll follow up with you personally. No payment is taken here and nothing is binding. This is particularly helpful if you can't give through the giving portal or straight to the Thai bank account.
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The Actual Numbers
These figures come straight from our contractor's quote, dated 9 June 2026. Costs are contracted in Thai Baht; US Dollar figures are approximate at roughly ฿32.4 to the dollar.
Walling in the open structure and making it a finished, working room.
- 176 m² of lightweight block wall, plus 318 m² of concrete plastering inside and out
- 10 aluminium windows and 5 doors, including a separate office partition
- Insulated gypsum ceiling across 108 m², sealed against birds, ready for air conditioning
- Electrical: 20 power outlets, 24 downlights, 3-phase meter and new breaker board
- Installation of 3 air conditioners, tiling to 96 m² of floor, full interior and exterior painting
A 12 m² lockable store built onto the end of the building — where cameras, lighting and equipment live safely between shoots.
- Ground beam, poured concrete floor and 34 m² of block wall
- Teak door and frame, one power point, two ceiling lights
- Painted inside and out; floor left untiled and ceiling open to keep the cost down
A bathroom is something that makes our lives quite a bit easier, but a small kitchen to make coffee and tea in while hosting… that's almost compulsory!
- A 3 m² tiled bathroom built behind the office, with a drywalled ceiling
- Complete water and sewer system: septic tank, field drain, holding tank and water pump
- All in-wall and in-floor piping, plus installation of toilet and basins
- A built-in polished concrete kitchen counter with open shelving and a sink
These are the items that go into the building that we'll buy directly. This is the one part of the budget with any real range in it, as we'll have a variety of choices when it comes to fixtures, lights, tiles, doors, that sort of thing. The low figure is a functional build, the high figure is one that will last longer.
- 3 air conditioning units (2 × 24,000 BTU, 1 × 18,000 BTU)
- 110 m² of floor tile, plus grout and adhesive
- 27 downlights, door hardware and a digital lock on the main door
- Toilet, basins, taps, shower, water pump, holding and septic tanks
- Kitchen sink, mixer tap, water heater and electric stove
An additional dedicated training space beyond the studio room. This will allow us space to teach media skills through seminars and schools. It will also allow us to host weekly community events like game nights, provide space for our church-planting team to do their weekly training and Bible studies, as well as allow us to bless the rest of the Space Collective with another multi-use space.
Good To Know Info
Yes, for US donors. Giving is processed by YWAM Montana, a registered 501(c)(3) organisation, and you'll receive a receipt from them directly. Funds designated to this project are then released to the build after a couple of weeks.
Yes. Giving through the Montana portal means you are giving to YWAM Montana. All donations that go through there are processed with the understanding that YWAM Montana has complete discretion and control over the use of all donated funds. However, by using this portal you express your preference that the funds be used for supporting Create Labs. It is YWAM Montana's policy and intent to honor that preference as to how your donation will be used.
A pledge is you telling us what you intend to give and roughly when. No payment is taken and nothing is binding, so you can change your mind if you want to. It simply helps us plan, because knowing a stage is likely to be reached lets us book contractors before the money physically lands in our accounts.
Pledges are always shown separately from money received, in the lighter shade on the tracker. We never count them as raised until they show up in our accounting.
Because a building can be genuinely useful before it's finished. The main building is usable for us. The addition of a kitchen makes it so much better, but we can get by with a coffee pot plugged into the wall. A bathroom and a proper fit-out make it a studio that will last a long time and be able to host and run training well. Each stage is a complete, finished thing rather than a fraction of one, so no gift sits idle waiting for a total to be hit.
Gifts are logged in our own budgeting system and this page reads from it. Because funds pass through YWAM Montana before reaching us, there can be a short delay between you giving and the total moving here. The "updated" date in the header always tells you how current the figures are.
We're going to build as far as the funding takes us. If we don't hit the first marker, then we don't build. The stages are deliberately ordered so that stopping at any one of them still leaves a finished, usable building, just a simpler one.
Anything beyond $44,800 goes towards furnishing and equipping the space (desks, chairs, editing equipment and the training room fit-out), upgrading our existing equipment, or helping us through rent over our first few months. We'll close off the fundraising when we get to that stage.
The giving page is described in US Dollars, but the contract itself is in Baht, so exchange rate movement is a real factor in what we can build. We've used roughly ฿32.4 to the dollar on this page. We can receive funding in a variety of ways though, so for Thai baht we would recommend using the direct transfer with the QR code above. For everything else use a Pledge, and we'll get in touch.
A local contracting team that The Space Collective has worked with before. They also provided the itemised quote these figures are drawn from. Payment follows a three-stage schedule tied to work completed, not paid up front. We've watched them build for a different ministry right next to our building, and they do wonderful work for a very good price!
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