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.
Check It OutJoin 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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| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,835,320,060 | people groups | 2322 | 8.8% | 3.5% |
Praise God for the indigenization of Christian ministry and leadership in Asia. The recent growth of the Church has largely been through the work of national workers, local evangelists and ordinary believers. These churches are, more than ever, Asian in structure, style and leadership - taking forms relevant for those... Read More
We've produced a set of slides for every country, including maps, flags, statistics and prayer points. Download them for free here.
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 […]
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 […]
Prayer needs no passport, visa or work permit. There is no such thing as a ‘closed country’ as far as prayer is concerned…much of the history of missions could be written in terms of God moving in response to persistent prayer.
Stephen Gaukroger