Operation World

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Operation World is a book by evangelical Christians Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk from WEC International. It is aimed at informing Christians about every country in the world in order to encourage the church to pray for the world and to engage the world in Christian mission. Operation World is widely regarded as the definitive volume of prayer information about the world and is the recipient of the ECPA Gold Medallion Award for Excellence in Evangelical Christian Literature. It also was on the list of the 50 most influential evangelical books in Christianity Today magazine.

Operation World has had seven editions published. The most recent is from 2005, which is a revision of the 21st century edition, released in 2001. The previous edition was published in 1993. The original edition was produced in 1964, from South Africa, and was a mere 32 pages of basic information about 30 countries. Operation World has been translated into several other languages: German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Korean, Chinese, Russian, and in part into Indonesian and Italian. The cumulative number of copies printed in all languages exceeds 2 million. A new edition is being prepared for 2009 publication.

[edit] External links

• Operation World online
• Operation World team site