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Pray for the World: A New Prayer Resource from Operation World
For decades, Operation World has been the world's leading resource for people who want to impact the nations for Christ through prayer. Its twofold purpose has been to inform for prayer and to mobilize for mission. Now the research team of Operation World offers this abridged version of the 7th edition called Pray for the World as an accessible resource to facilitate prayer for the nations.
The Operation World researchers asked Christian leaders in every country, "How should the body of Christ throughout the world be praying for your country?" Their responses provide the prayer points in this book, with specific ways your prayers can aid the global church.
When you hear a country mentioned in the news, you can use Pray for the World to pray for it in light of what God is doing there. Each entry includes:
Timely challenges for prayer and specific on-the-ground reports of answers to prayer Population and people group statistics Charts and maps of demographic trends Updates on church growth, with a focus on evangelicals Explanations of major currents in economics, politics and society
Join millions of praying people around the world. Hear God's call to global mission. And watch the world change.
The Operation World researchers asked Christian leaders in every country, "How should the body of Christ throughout the world be praying for your country?" Their responses provide the prayer points in this book, with specific ways your prayers can aid the global church.
When you hear a country mentioned in the news, you can use Pray for the World to pray for it in light of what God is doing there. Each entry includes:
Timely challenges for prayer and specific on-the-ground reports of answers to prayer Population and people group statistics Charts and maps of demographic trends Updates on church growth, with a focus on evangelicals Explanations of major currents in economics, politics and society
Join millions of praying people around the world. Hear God's call to global mission. And watch the world change.
337 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 5, 2015
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About the author
Jason Mandryk
11 books1 followerJason was born in Winnipeg, Canada and grew up and studied there, gaining a Masters in Global Christian Studies at Providence Theological Seminary.
He has lived in England for 15 years, working on the past two editions of Operation World, initially as co-author with Patrick Johnstone and now as author.
The Operation World team has for decades served the global church by researching the salient and strategic issues in each country, and communicating these through statistical information and prayer guides. Jason's own interests directly related to this include the demographics of religious and ethnic populations, the challenges of communicating the gospel cross-culturally, theologies of prayer and ethnodoxology.
Outside the immediate confines of Operation World-related work, he enjoys the outdoors, ethnic cuisine, progressive rock music and the Arsenal.
He has lived in England for 15 years, working on the past two editions of Operation World, initially as co-author with Patrick Johnstone and now as author.
The Operation World team has for decades served the global church by researching the salient and strategic issues in each country, and communicating these through statistical information and prayer guides. Jason's own interests directly related to this include the demographics of religious and ethnic populations, the challenges of communicating the gospel cross-culturally, theologies of prayer and ethnodoxology.
Outside the immediate confines of Operation World-related work, he enjoys the outdoors, ethnic cuisine, progressive rock music and the Arsenal.
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September 7, 2015
All Nations
I have the best of intentions.
I’ve backed them up with a nifty notebook:
divided into sections for the days of the week;
pages of personalized prayer requests;
an alphabetized list of missionaries (Can I make it through the list from memory at 3 a.m. on a wakeful night?);
even a few answers to prayer, dutifully recorded with the date.
I have the best of intentions, but how does one pray for the whole world,
for the advance of God’s kingdom in every nation and tribe and people and tongue?
Pray for the World: A New Prayer Resource from Operation World is a resource for this very purpose. Various editions of Operation World have been around since 1964, and our family has owned at least two of them. We’ve used them as references in teaching our children about people groups and world evangelization; we’ve used them to keep our church family informed about missions and the countries where our missionaries serve. Pray for the World is an abridged and paraphrased version of Operation World that is accessible and affordable for use by Christians all over the world. More concise, its 313 pages (compared with nearly 1,000 in Operation World 2010) feature simple English for non-native speakers and for ease of translation.
This is an exciting development, because I’m picturing more informed readers of missionary prayer letters, magazines and newspapers. I’m envisioning dining room tables and mini-vans, Sunday school classrooms and church sanctuaries where we’ll be growing our missions I.Q. with fun quiz questions and a methodical building of a heart for missions. I’m imagining people around the world who listen to the news or who watch international sporting events satisfying their curiosity about other lands and cultures with the stats and facts in Pray for the World:
Where in the world is Guinea-Bissau?
How do people in Tajikistan make a living?
Are they free to vote and to worship?
How can I pray for them?
From page 310 to the end of the book, a Daily Prayer Calendar invites readers to join the huge concert of prayer around the world for each specific country.
Rejoicing together in answered prayer, sharing burdens together — this is the work and the privilege of the world-wide body of Christ with our eyes on the fulfillment of His Great Commission and our hearts longing for the glory of God to be revealed.
Parents of younger children will be happy to know that Operation World has an edition designed to engage younger children in learning about and praying for the world. Windows on the World is an A-Z collection of brightly illustrated and winsomely presented data and prayer challenges for kids. We used it with all four of our boys in homeschool and family devotions.
This book was provided by InterVarsity Press in exchange for my review. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
I have the best of intentions.
I’ve backed them up with a nifty notebook:
divided into sections for the days of the week;
pages of personalized prayer requests;
an alphabetized list of missionaries (Can I make it through the list from memory at 3 a.m. on a wakeful night?);
even a few answers to prayer, dutifully recorded with the date.
I have the best of intentions, but how does one pray for the whole world,
for the advance of God’s kingdom in every nation and tribe and people and tongue?
Pray for the World: A New Prayer Resource from Operation World is a resource for this very purpose. Various editions of Operation World have been around since 1964, and our family has owned at least two of them. We’ve used them as references in teaching our children about people groups and world evangelization; we’ve used them to keep our church family informed about missions and the countries where our missionaries serve. Pray for the World is an abridged and paraphrased version of Operation World that is accessible and affordable for use by Christians all over the world. More concise, its 313 pages (compared with nearly 1,000 in Operation World 2010) feature simple English for non-native speakers and for ease of translation.
This is an exciting development, because I’m picturing more informed readers of missionary prayer letters, magazines and newspapers. I’m envisioning dining room tables and mini-vans, Sunday school classrooms and church sanctuaries where we’ll be growing our missions I.Q. with fun quiz questions and a methodical building of a heart for missions. I’m imagining people around the world who listen to the news or who watch international sporting events satisfying their curiosity about other lands and cultures with the stats and facts in Pray for the World:
Where in the world is Guinea-Bissau?
How do people in Tajikistan make a living?
Are they free to vote and to worship?
How can I pray for them?
From page 310 to the end of the book, a Daily Prayer Calendar invites readers to join the huge concert of prayer around the world for each specific country.
Rejoicing together in answered prayer, sharing burdens together — this is the work and the privilege of the world-wide body of Christ with our eyes on the fulfillment of His Great Commission and our hearts longing for the glory of God to be revealed.
Parents of younger children will be happy to know that Operation World has an edition designed to engage younger children in learning about and praying for the world. Windows on the World is an A-Z collection of brightly illustrated and winsomely presented data and prayer challenges for kids. We used it with all four of our boys in homeschool and family devotions.
This book was provided by InterVarsity Press in exchange for my review. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
June 25, 2018
Great resource for those who want to know what is happening throughout the world, good and bad, and make praise and supplication over it. Its only drawback is that it is now somewhat dated - only slightly though!
December 21, 2018
Heartbreaking
July 9, 2020
This informative, challenging, and inspirational book provides the best prayer guide for world missions I have found.
June 11, 2017
I cannot even begin to tell people how wonderful this has been to pray for. It opened my eyes once again to this big world!
Here is my review (I wrote it quite a while go because I was so excited to tell people about it):
http://carolhomeschool2.blogspot.com/...
Here is my review (I wrote it quite a while go because I was so excited to tell people about it):
http://carolhomeschool2.blogspot.com/...
April 6, 2017
Ultimately, I prefer the more thorough Operation World book, but for someone who doesn't want to tackle a 1000 page book this is a good source of global prayer information.
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