Global Mapping International

Operation World CD-ROM

Purpose and Use

"When man works, man works. When man prays, God works."

Operation World was written for two main purposes:

1. To inform for prayer. The layout of Operation World both in book form as well as the CD-ROM version is in the form of a prayer diary, with a section of prayer requests assigned for each day of the year. A new feature in this edition is a section, for most countries, on answers to prayer over the past decade, for example:

Answers to Prayer (Albania)

1. The dictator, Enver Hoxha’s, proud boast of eliminating all religion in 1967 has been overturned with over 74% of the population claiming a faith in God
2. Religious freedom was declared in the 1998 constitution despite strong efforts to limit it by the four ‘traditional’ communities
3. Every town and city now has a group of evangelical believers
4. Radio Tirana was built to propagate atheism. TWR now broadcasts from this station 80 hours weekly

2. To mobilize for witness. Information and relevant statistics are given to channel that witness to the least reached parts and peoples of our world. For many Christians this book is their only source of global information. Earlier editions of the book have become an essential resource for the growing missions movement around the world - in a particular way this has been true of the non-English editions.

Operation World is being used by hundreds of thousands of Christians around the world, from intercessors, to pastors, to seminary professors.

If you are an intercessor with a passion to see the completion of the Great Commission by means of prayer so powerful that Satan is crushed in lives and nations, that captives are finally released from bondage, that revival breaks out around the world, that Jesus is lifted up and that God's kingdom literally comes to earth, Operation World CD-ROM will encourage, empower and equip you to stand in the gap for the nations.

If you are a church pastor, prayer leader, or a Sunday school teacher, Operation World CD-ROM is a valuable resource for your ministry.

If you are a high school teacher, or a college, seminary or graduate school professor of missions, world religion, geography, social studies, anthropology, economics or political science, Operation World CD-ROM is an outstanding source of relevant, up-to-date information in an easy-to-use format.

If you are a mission agency leader, a missionary, a missions pastor, or missions researcher, Operation World CD-ROM is a resource that will assist you in strategic planning, reporting and research by giving access to a vast amount of church and missions data.

Intercessor

• Use it as a prayer guide, following the running calendar, perhaps taking only one or two items which the Holy Spirit lays on your heart. Mark items covered in prayer and then later make note of God's answers. Those of special significance are indicated by a highlighted prayer number.
• Use it in connection with current events to guide intercession. When news comes of major events in a far-off land, find out the spiritual dimensions and turn secular news into spiritual dynamite.
• Use it together with other information, such as prayer letters, mission magazines and Internet websites. Often the wider context is missing. This tool will give depth and perspective.
• Use the information in your family to promote a desire to pray globally with understanding. You could read a small section at the meal table and pray for the country of the day, or use the book as a source of informative fun and quiz games.

Sample of daily summary page:

Pastor, Prayer leader, Sunday school teacher

Missions and prayer for the world should be at the heart of every fellowship. Operation World can help to give praise and prayer points that stimulate this.

• Use prayer items during the intercessory period in worship services
• Enhance your prayer meetings and stimulate more informed prayer for the world and for your mission outreach by incorporating the information in Operation World CD-ROM.
• Improve your missions presentations using the full-color maps and diagrams which can be printed on paper or overhead transparencies.
• Use quotes from relevant sections of the CD-ROM in your church publications to gain interest and stimulate prayer. (Please quote the source!)
• Use the information in classes for all ages to teach about missions and to pray for missionaries in an informed way.

Religions in Nigeria:

High school teacher, College, Seminary, or Graduate School Professor

• Use the prayer calendar feature to raise global awareness. Some Bible schools have made praying through the book a core component of their course. Instructors have used it for teaching on missions - many Christians have been led into specific missionary service as a result.
• Provide relevant, up-to-date information for classroom teaching using the available geographical, cultural, economic, political and religious data for every country and region in the world.
• Display and print larger, full-color versions of the maps and charts. All the maps and charts in this book have been recreated in larger, full-color formats on the CD. These, as well as additional country maps and flags of each country, can be easily printed onto paper or overhead transparency film, or incorporated into your own computer slideshow or other graphics applications.
• Create your own customized versions of Operation World text. Within generous limits, you may "copy and paste" portions of the text and graphics into other documents; reformat, print and distribute for Christian ministry use.

Afghanistan:

(information copied, pasted and edited from Operation World CD-ROM)

AREA: 652,225 sq.km.
POPULATION: (2000) 22,720,000 +2.93%AGR
CAPITAL: Kabul 2,700,000

PEOPLES:
Indo-Iranian 86.8%
Turkic-speaking 10.7%
Other 2.5%

LITERACY: 10-31% (much lower for women)
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Pashto (used by 50% of population), Dari (Afghan Persian, 35%). All languages 50.
LANGUAGES WITH SCRIPTURES: 2 New Testament; 3portions
ECONOMY: Shattered by 22 years of war. The most lucrative agricultural
crop is now opium (Afghanistan is the world's largest producer) which has
paid for weapons for the warring factions.

Mission agency leader, Missionary, Missions pastor, Missions researcher

• Take it with you wherever you go. The CD can be easily shipped or carried internationally (a single CD is far smaller than the printed book). And you may even load the entire Operation World CD onto your laptop computer to travel with you.
• Access powerful search tools for pulling together, exporting and printing related information. Quickly find all occurrences of any desired word. Similar to a computer concordance, the CD is fully word-searchable.
• Do in-depth analysis of the church and missions situation - with a tremendous amount of additional information and statistics on every country. The WEC International Research Office collects vastly more data than appears in the Operation World book. On the CD, much of this additional data has been formatted into additional reports and tables for you. If you want to go still deeper, Windows users may view the full research database (with some data altered for security reasons) utilizing the same software as was used to develop the book. You may also analyze the data using your own database manager or spreadsheet (incorporating portions of the data into your own applications), since the database is available as individual .dbf tables.
• Create your own customized versions of Operation World text. Within generous limits, you may "copy and paste" portions of the text and graphics into other documents; reformat, print and distribute for Christian ministry use.
• Display and print full-color versions of the maps and charts. All the maps and charts in this book have been recreated in larger, full-color formats on the CD. These, as well as additional country maps and flags of each country, can be easily printed onto paper or overhead transparency film, or incorporated into your own computer slideshow or other graphics applications.
• Access broader information. The CD includes additional Web links not found in the book. If you have an Internet connection, you can simply click on any link to go the referenced websites for each country.
• Start each day with a simple daily summary, automatically opened when the CD starts up, giving you today's prayer requests along with background information. Click on any item in the summary to take you to the greater detail in the full Operation World text.
• So easy to use! If you've ever used the World Wide Web, you already know how to use the Operation World CD. The content is viewed using popular Web browser software (included on the CD).