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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Central African Republic
| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,513,000 | 80 people groups | 73 | 76.4% | 32.2% |
Prayer
The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the world’s poorest countries and faces immense physical human needs. A long series of coups, counter-coups, and civil conflicts devastated the economy and infrastructure. Muslim rebel groups (Séléka) and mostly Christian militias (anti-balaka) fought with government forces and each other. Hundreds of... Read More
Central African Republic
| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,513,000 | 80 people groups | 73 | 76.4% | 32.2% |
Prayer
Widespread evangelism, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, yielded massive numbers of converts but a shortage of disciples. This has slowed the momentum of growth and is evident in the following challenges needing prayer.
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 […]
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.
Oswald Smith