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These exercises are meant to get your student familiar with the Operation World CD.  There is ALOT of information and it can be overwhelming to your student. Knowing numbers and facts is not the goal. The goal is understanding trends and challenges for the church.  Read The Church is Bigger Than You Think by Patrick Johnstone if you think the news is all bad!  If you have purchased a Valid & Relevant course then you may borrow this great book from our lending library. We highly recommend it.  I would suggest that you, the teacher,  go through these exercises and when you are familiar with Operation World you will see how easy it would be for you to taylor make your own lessons.  You may print this page or keep this window open when run the CD.  For some of the questions you will need to go online.  Answers are at the end.

Exercise 1

1. Find the world population and growth rate.

2. What religion is growing the fastest?

3. Which Christian denomination is growing the fastest?

-for 4-6 Go to the top of the page and click on the word "today"

4. What country is it?

5. Who are its neighbors?

6. How many "career misionaries" are serving in this country?

7. Click on 'web links' under Other Data in the side bar. Find a website that informs you about the persecution of Christians and subscribe to their newsletter. ( Most of these are free )
Name of organization_________________


Exercise 2



-for 1-6 Click on 'Africa' in the side bar. Then in the side bar click on the word Religion. Scroll down to the graph of Religions on the lower left side of page. Using the legend answer the following-


1. What were the majority of Africans in 1900?

2. Has this increased or decreased?

3. What is the largest group now?

4. What is the total of percentage of Christians?

5. Do you think that more animists were converting to Islam or Christianity?

6. How many different Christian denominations are represented on this graph?

-An African proverb says "If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation)."

7. Do we have a similar one in English?

-Find the explanation of this proverb from Ghana by going to 'Africa' on the side bar. Then go to internet links at the bottom of the page or Web links in the side bar. Then find the site for African Proverbs and check out the Sept 1999 proverb of the month.

8. After reading the explanation do you think that this proverb reflects the way it is in Ghana or the way it should be?

9. Find another proverb and share it with your teacher.




Exercise 3


-for 1-5 go to the Appendices found in the side bar then find the Glossary and define the following words.


1. polytheism

2. unreached people

3. Great Commission

4. adherent

5. 10/40 Window

-for 6-7 go to the link for 'World Leaders' and look up

6. What country has an Amir?

7. Who is Tenzin GYATSO?

-for 8-11 who were the colonial powers that controlled the following countries before their independence?

8. Indonesia

9. Vietnam

10. India

11. Phillipines




Exercise 4


1. Check out any country that you are interested in and learn who it's neighbors are. If you can't think of one then choose the one on the page for your birthday! Even if it is an island it has political neighbors.

2. Next go to the factbook by clicking in the left side bar. Find out what are the trans-national issues for this nation.

3. Make a file of this country by cutting and pasting the map from the main page and the map from the Factbook and the flag image and any text that interests you. Most importantly cut and paste some of the prayer needs and put them in you file.



Exercise 5


-Choose a country that is in a different continent than the one in Exercise 4.

1. Where would you look to find the population of this counrty?

2. Draw the flag of the country.

3. Who is the leader and how would you address him/her?

4. What is the HDI index of your country?

5. What does HDI mean?

6. How would you find what country is on the prayer calendar for any given day?




ANSWERS



Exercise 1 Answers

1. pop 6,065,100 growth rate 1.39%, found in world summary ( in side bar) scroll down to chart on lower right

2. Islam is growing at a rate of 2.17%, found in chart on lower right of world summary page

3. Independent 5.5%, found on world summmary page lower right chart.

4. varies

5. varies, get this info from the map

6. varies, found by clicking on 'missionaries to' under OW Data in side bar left column. Then by looking to the bottom of the page for the totals.

7. varies



Exercise 2 Answers

1. Animists

2. decreased

3. Muslims

4. 50%

5. Christianity

6. 6

7. "The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world."

8. vary, but should say roughly that it did not reflect the situation but was used by a missionary to encourage the education of women.

9. many choices from the web page




Exercise 3 Answers

1. Belief in many gods.

2. An ethnolinguistic people among whom there is no viable indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize their own people without outside (cross-cultural) assistance.

3. The final series of commands of the Lord Jesus Christ before His Ascension for His followers to evangelize, baptize, disciple and teach all the peoples of the world.

4. A follower of a particular religion, church or philosophy.

5. The area of the world between latitudes 10° and 40° north of the equator covering North Africa, Middle East and Asia.

6. Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, found by scrolling down and reading middle column OR click on Edit in the menu bar and click on 'Find on this page' type in Amir and click Find.

7. The Dalai Llama of Tibet

8. Dutch, ans. 8-11 are found by going to the page of each country and clicking on 'Politics' in the side bar.

9. French

10. England

11. USA



Exercise 4 Answers


All answers in this exercise will vary but the students should have a file or some document that could be printed. Depending on the students age and interests this could be anywhere from 2 to 8 pages. Encourage them to explore current events too.




Exercise 5  Answers



1. Population numbers of found under the map in the right column right after 'area'

2. the flag is always in the upper right corner

3. to find the leader's name go to the appendices lower left side bar all the way down, then click on 'Leaders of the World's Nations' and scroll down the alphabetical listing to find country and read leader's name across.

4. This is found in the right column under the map under 'Economy'

5. HDI stands for "Human Development Index" and can be found by clicking 'home' in the left and then 'explanation of stats and abbreviations' then scroll down to 'economy' and find HDI.

6. from 'home' go to 'prayer calendar'