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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'