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 |
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527,326 | 5 people groups | 2 | 94.6% | 6.6% |
Economic and ecological problems must be wisely addressed. The arid islands lack adequate fresh water and arable land. Scant resources were poorly managed in the past, intensifying Cabo Verde’s poverty. Pray for government leaders who will make good decisions and develop the economy for the betterment of the whole nation.
Population | Peoples | Languages | Christian | Evangelical |
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75,844 | 10 people groups | 3 | 77.1% | 21.3% |
Christianity is numerically strong. There are more than 90 churches, many of them evangelical. With one church for approximately every 500 people, Christian faith and values should (and do) have a significant influence on society - pray that this might continue to be the case amid the materialism and hedonism.... Read More
Population: | 210,000 |
Language: | Bengali |
Religion: | Hinduism |
Status: | Unreached |
We've produced a set of slides for every country, including maps, flags, statistics and prayer points. Download them for free here.
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 […]
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 […]
If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.
Nina Gunter