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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The Americas
| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,055,416,955 | people groups | 993 | 86.3% | 20.24% |
Prayer
People movements are growing among the Amerindians, who have long been resistant or indifferent to the gospel – understandable given that Christianity mostly followed in the wake of the devastation of disease, conquest, and colonialism. Church growth is occurring among Quechua and Aymara churches in the Andes, Mayan peoples in... 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
God’s World to Win: The Story of Operation World
For over fifty years, Operation World-the first survey of the spiritual needs of every nation-has inspired Christians worldwide to pray for countries and peoples. But how did this expansive prayer resource come to be? In God’s World to Win, Patrick Johnstone shares his personal story-from bullied schoolboy with an undiagnosed learning disorder to global missions […]
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 […]
I have but one passion – it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field, and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.
Count Nikolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf