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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| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51,662,148 | 200 people groups | 134 | 5% | 2.5% |
The gospel spread through these many years of upheaval. Although the conflicts created terrible suffering, they made the Church more mature. The wars scattered Christian refugees throughout the country, so even through suffering the good news spread. Churches formed in places and among peoples that previously had no Christians! Praise... Read More
We've produced a set of slides for every country, including maps, flags, statistics and prayer points. Download them for free here.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above all that we ask or think’.
Andrew Murray