What is the goal of Window on the World? Is that goal different from Operation World?
It’s pitched at a completely different section of the Christian population. Jill’s original vision was that children can understand the gospel just as well as adults, and they can be just as involved in prayer as adults and change our world. But it has to be put in a way that is meaningful to them. Really, Window on the World is to help children and families to be involved in praying for the world. It’s a home devotional tool. In a sense, Operation World is too, but at a different level. But you can get children involved in a presentation that’s pleasant for the eye, and is interesting. Children take it to bed, and they don’t want to put it down. Just to give another example, with the children’s Operation World [titled You Can Change the World in its previous edition], the first country on which Jill wrote in 1990 was Albania. At that time, it was still tightly closed to the gospel, with a communist regime in power and every religion totally suppressed. She shared the chapter she had w
