Unknown - Pray for the World: A New Prayer Resource from Operation World

PRAY

FOR THE

WORLD

Abridged from Operation World, 7th edition,
by Jason Mandryk

Advising editor: Molly Wall

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2015 by Molly Wall and Operation World Abridged from Operation World, 7th edition, 2010 by Jason Mandryk

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CONTENTS

INDEX OF COUNTRIES

Bougainville see

Britain see

Burma see

Canary Islands see

Caribbean see

Caroline Islands see

Channel Islands see

Christmas Island see

Cocos (Keeling) Islands see

(Also Congo-DRC or DRC) (Kinshasa)

(Brazzaville)

East Timor see

Eastern Samoa see

England see

Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) see

Gaza Strip see

Gilbert Islands see

Great Britain see

Holland see

(Vatican City State)

Hong Kong see

Ireland, Northern see

Irian Jaya (now [West] Papua) see

Isle of Man see

Ivory Coast see

Jan Mayen Islands see

Johnston Island see

Kashmir see

(North)

(South)

Kosovo see

Leeward Islands see separate states

Macau see

Malvinas, Islas see

Marshall Islands see

e

Midway Island see

(Moldavia)

Netherlands Antilles see separate states

New Guinea see ([West] Papua)

Niue see

Norfolk Island see

North Korea see

Northern Cyprus see

Northern Mariana Islands see

Palau see

Pitcairn Islands see

Sahara, Western see

Scotland see

South Korea see

Svalbard see

Taiwan see

Tibet see

Timor Lorosae see

Tokelau see

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus see

UAE see

UK see

US Virgin Islands see

USA see

Vatican City State see

Virgin Islands see

Wake Island see

Wales see

West Bank see

West Indies see separate states

Western Sahara see

Western Samoa see

Windward Islands see separate states

Zaire see

Notes:

1. Territories without permanent inhabitants have not been listed, including Antarctica.

2. States under the occupation or jurisdiction of other states are included under the latter. For instance, the Western Sahara is under Morocco; Tibet is under China; Kosovo is under Serbia. This is to represent the de facto situation, and is not an expression of a political opinion.

A NOTE FROM PATRICK JOHNSTONE

It was 50 years ago in 1964 that I wrote the first edition of Operation World. That first edition was followed by six subsequent editions. The 2010 edition was the first one after the hand-over to my successors. The first edition was just 30 pages long, but each edition has grown in the quantity of information provided. By the 2010 edition, Operation World was almost 1,000 pages long and no longer a handbook! Molly Wall and team have courageously tackled the task of preparing a paraphrased edition. We believe this will enable many more to obtain a copy and for this edition to be translated into other languages. The aim is to multiply passionate, informed prayer for the evangelization of our needy world, and for the readying of the Church, the Bride of Christ, for the soon return of our King Jesus.

I look back over these 50 years with awe and astonishment at all God has done through the prayers of His people. When I went out to Africa in 1962, evangelical Christians were a marginalized minority in the worldwide Church. There had been 50 years of sowing the gospel seed in times of war and difficulty, but the global harvest had not really begun to be reaped. Then followed a further 50 years of astonishing growth. It began first in Africa during the 1960s, then in Latin America in the 1970s, East Asia in the 1990s, and in recent years came the first significant people movements to Christ in parts of the Muslim world. Few realize that this was a global awakening of staggering size and extent because it was also a time of stagnation and decline especially in Europe and also in the wider Western world. I believe the massive increase in intercession for the world from Africa, Asia and Latin America is a major factor in this Awakening. Evangelical Christianity has moved to centre stage in the world of the 21st century.

Yet how needed such a book as this is today! There is still much to be done if we are to see the fulfilment of the words of the Lord Jesus that this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world to all nations so that He may return with the global Church complete with people from every race, tribe, people, and tongue who will worship Him. We will never reach every part of humankind unless there is passionate, urgent, Satan-binding prayer to raise up, sustain, and enable harvesters to have the right strategies and close walk with Jesus to bring in the lost. This book gives a picture of every country of the world and the state of the Church and the lost. May it stimulate much-informed prayer that receives answers!

Patrick Johnstone
12 June 2014

PREFACE

Even before the latest edition of Operation World was sent out the door to the printer, author Jason Mandryk had a growing vision to see this information placed in the hands of the rapidly expanding Church around the world.

He knew that throughout its 50 years God had used Operation World (OW) to transform the prayer lives of people, families, and churches. Many were called to a lifetime of ministry and mission as they prayed through its pages. Earlier editions of OW played a significant role in the formation and growth of Protestant mission-sending movements in countries like Brazil and South Korea.

Could this prayer handbook have a similar impact, on an even wider scale, if more people had access to it in their own country or even language? Would we dare to believe God might use it to fuel the fires of intercession around the globe, and even to give rise to a new wave of global mission?

Jasons vision for Pray for the World took hold within the Operation World team. We imagined a prayer handbook a paraphrased or abridged version of the 2010 edition of Operation World. The shorter length, written with simpler English, would be designed specifically for non-native English speakers and for translation. As a publishing project, OW is large, complex, technical, and costly.