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New 365/24/7 Site Ignites Global Prayer! Imagine…Wars ended, ethnic hatred vanished, global warming and AIDS halted, and poverty reduced to naught, all through prayer! It is true, prayer changes the world, and with that belief, a new site has been launched for the global prayer community.  It is an online site encouraging people around the world and around the clock to interceed for the nations.

The first thing the girl downstairs asked me was if I loved Justin Beiber! Believe it or not, on the surface, most Muslim young people look just like you and me. They listen to the same pop music and often dress and talk the same way. But in another sense they are so very different. For instance we’ve recently been told that our Bible is changed, untrustworthy, and that because we’re Christians we’re going to go to hell.

Jason Mandryk, author of the latest edition of Operation World, reflects on current trends.

The last edition of Operation World came out just days before 9/11. In a few horrifying minutes, we recognized the world would never be the same again. Nine years later we can say that both everything and nothing has changed.

Let the nationals do it

Recent decades have witnessed explosive church growth across regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.  Many countries which used to receive missionaries have increasingly become senders of them.  One curious by-product however, has been the volume of Western churches that now see their primary role in mission as supporting these indigenous missionaries.  Instead of local churches intentionally sending their own people, the tendency for many seems to be short-term personal involvement a