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Africa
| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,494,993,924 | people groups | 2110 | 48.77% | 17.7% |
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Islam is the major external challenge for Christianity today — both the 230 million Muslims north of the Sahara and the 325 million in sub-Saharan Africa. The "race" to win peoples to Christ from the traditional religions in West Africa and across the Sahel has largely been lost; most have... Read More
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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 […]
The weakness of much current mission work is that we betray the sense that what is yet to be done is greater than what Christ has already done. The world’s gravest need is less than Christ’s great victory.
P.T. Forsyth