OW60
We are celebrating 60 years since the first edition of Operation World!
Christian leaders and intercessors from around the world share the impact of OW on their lives.
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Join people from every nation, praying for people in every nation. Operation World equips believers to respond to God's call for his people to pray.
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South Africa
| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64,747,320 | 66 people groups | 11 | 75.2% | 21.1% |
Prayer
Prayer initiatives begun in South Africa went on to impact the whole world! The Global Day of Prayer started in Cape Town (2001), and Christians from almost every country joined in this event on Pentecost Sunday. Other prayer movements like Transformation Africa and Jericho Walls also influence many nations. Large... Read More
PowerPoints for Prayer
We've produced a set of slides for every country, including maps, flags, statistics and prayer points. Download them for free here.
Latest News
OW60th Celebration Recording
To commemorate 60 years since the publication of the first Operation World, we hosted founding author Patrick Johnstone in a video call along with the OW team and some friends. Patrick shared stories about the origins of OW and insights about how the worlds of prayer, mission, and research have changed over these past decades. […]
Celebrating 60 Years – Observing the Great Shifts in Global Mission
Following on from the first post that looked at the foreword of the original Operation World, we now dig into the preface. PREFACE We pray that this little booklet, so limited in its scope, will help the readers to see the great spiritual need of this world. The day of mission work is far from […]
Celebrating 60 Years – The First Operation World
The first-ever edition of Operation World was a tiny A5 booklet of 32 pages, locally produced on a hand-cranked Gestetner machine in South Africa in 1964. A bigger print run was done in Germany in 1965. Attached below are a few photos of that 1965 edition. It is remarkable to think that this humble but […]
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.
Oswald Smith