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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56,000 | 3 people groups | 3 | 96.6% | 4.7% |
Almost every settlement in Greenland has a Lutheran church – but many lack real spiritual life. Pray for renewal. Modern culture clashes with Greenland’s old ways, and many now battle with immorality, sexual abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, and suicide. Some indigenous believers and foreign missionaries serve in counselling, healing, and... Read More
| Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117,000 | 5 people groups | 4 | 93.7% | 19.6% |
Hurricane Beryl's damage in 2024 was a repeat of that done by hurricanes Ivan and Emily in years past. These hurricanes destroyed or damaged up to 90% of the island's buildings. The agriculture and tourism sectors were virtually annihilated. Both sectors were rebuilt, but at the cost of crippling external... 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 succeeds when all else fails. Prayer has won great victories and has rescued, with notable triumph, God’s saints when every other hope is gone.
E.M. Bounds