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 […]
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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. […]
Read More ›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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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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Some friends of Operation World are part of a very strategic prayer initiative regarding the war in Ukraine. There is some well-established history in recent decades of “special operations” of prayer, intercession, and repentance that bring breakthrough in the ending of conflicts and the forging of peace – even reconciliation. This is one of them, […]
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John P Jones was a Welsh-born Congregationalist missionary who served in India for many years around the turn of the 20th Century. He was involved and influential in the epochal 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. Looking for a particular quote in a digital copy of his world The Missionary Problem (also written in 1910), […]
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With the eyes of the world focused on Gaza and Israel, and with so much energy expended globally on protests and arguments (along with counter-protests and counter-arguments), the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Sudan, fuelled by war and violence, is largely being ignored. There are several reasons why I believe this is so. Many Christians are […]
Read More ›On 16 August, a mob of Muslims attacked churches and Christian homes in Jaranwala, a district of the city of Faisalabad in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Local clerics mobilized crowds of men and boys following allegations against two Christians accused of desecrating the Quran. Pakistan’s volatile and violent religious environment, exacerbated by the rise of Islamist […]
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Greetings friends, users, readers, critics, and intercessors! We bless you in the name of Jesus. Thank you for joining us in unceasing prayer for the nations. We get many emails coming to us through our website that range from spam (plenty of that!) to encouragement, from pointed criticism to requests for help, from ministry invitations […]
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Did you know that Operation World has been hosting an online prayer time every week for the last two years? After a brief pause, we are looking at resuming this – but with some changes. We wanted to hear from our user community (that’s you!) about what you might be looking for in such a […]
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