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Month: December 2024

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Celebrating 60 Years – Observing the Great Shifts in Global Mission

  • Post author By Jason Mandryk
  • Post date December 16, 2024

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 […]

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Celebrating 60 Years – The First Operation World

  • Post author By Jason Mandryk
  • Post date December 11, 2024

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 […]

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