Patrick Johnstone

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Patrick Johnstone (* 1938 ) is a British evangelical theologian and missionary , Bible translator , researcher and author of Operation World , which has been translated into 16 languages ​​and published in more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.

Life

Johnstone is the eldest son of a Northern Irish father and a Dutch mother and has five younger siblings. In 1959 he began to study chemistry at Bristol University. At a Christian meeting, he heard Glyndwr Davies talk about his work in the Dorothea Mission in urban churches in southern Africa. He then wants to have become a Christian and wanted to work as a missionary and evangelist. In 1962 he went to South Africa , where he completed his theological training at the Bible College of the Dorothea Mission in Pretoria .

He then worked as an evangelical missionary in Kenya , South Africa and Zimbabwe . He learned various African languages ​​such as Afrikaans , Nambya , Shona and Sindebele , which are spoken in southern Africa. Johnstone joined the leadership team of WEC International , an evangelical mission and church planting society , in 1980 . His duties there were strategy and research of evangelical mission. He was also deputy international director of the WEC for six years. He also participated in the Lausanne movement . In the 90 years he was co-director with John Robb of World Vision for AD2000 . He also worked closely with David Barrett, Todd Johnson, and other WCE researchers, which resulted in the Joshua Project.

Operation World

As early as the 1960s, Johnstone began to systematically collect and process data about the world that were also related to evangelism and mission. A first printed 30-page brochure called Operation World came out in 1965. A second, more comprehensive edition appeared in 1973. Ralph D. Winter of the US Center for World Mission (USCWM) and George Verwer of Operation Mobilization (OM) brought about a new edition in 1978 and promoted its worldwide distribution. Since then, more than 2.5 million copies have been printed and distributed worldwide in seven editions and 16 languages.

Publications

  • Operation World: A Day-To-Day Guide to Praying for the World. Multnomah 1987. ISBN 978-0-90082-842-3 , (many editions, including OM Literature, ISBN 978-3-10204-046-0 )
  • Prayer for the World: The Unique Handbook: Comprehensive information on over 200 countries. Hänssler Verlag , Neuhausen 2003. ISBN 978-3-77513-722-5
  • The Church is bigger than you think. Structures and Strategies for the Church in the 21st Century . Geanies House, Bulstrode 1998
  • The Future of the Global Church: History, Trends and Possibilities. Authentic Media, 2011. ISBN 978-1-85078-966-6

Private

In 1968 Johnstone married Jill Amsden from Britain, who also worked in the Dorothea Mission. They had three children together. Jill fell ill with cancer in 1990 and died in 1992. In 1995 he married Robyn Erwin, an American who worked for WEC. You live in Cambridgeshire, England .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.operationworld.org/
  2. ↑ Johnstone in AD2000
  3. ↑ Johnstone as an author at The Future of the Global Church ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thefutureoftheglobalchurch.org
personal data
SURNAME Johnstone, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnstone, Pat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British evangelical missionary, Bible translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938