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Remembering a Life Well-Lived: Tributes from Around the World
…Winter was a man of God who gave a vision to many Christians of a world in need of the gospel. I used to meet with him on many occasions, often in small group prayer. Some of my vision for world evangelization came from my interaction with him, and I…
Ralph Winter
…Winter was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, someone pointed out that the chapel was 200 years old. "Oh, well," he replied. ''in California when a building is 20 years old we tear it down and build a better one," His remark went all over the seminary campus as an…
Celebrating the Work of God Through the Life of an Innovator
…Winter, born December 8, 1924. I’ll focus this biographical sketch on Winter’s earlier life and on aspects of his story that our readers may not know. Upbringing Ralph Winter’s grandfather was a butcher who had emigrated from eastern Germany in the 1860s. His father, Hugo, was a self-trained engineer. Hugo…
Ralph Winter’s Mission Center Forges Ahead; Money Still Tight
…Winter's missions push toward the frontiers seemed destined to die at the loan desk. But last minute funds rolled in, much as they had in several previous crises, and past due payments on the center's campus were made. The Pasadena, California, missions complex remains very much alive, and its priority…
Book Review of Ralph D. Winter
…Winter had a penchant as a youth for re-engineering and re-building firecrackers? Or that one of his main professors during his doctoral work threatened to remove him from the program because of Winter’s constant attempts to change how he taught? Or that the World Council of Churches played a significant…
Introducing the First of Two Final Chapters of Roberta H. Winter’s Book
…Winter is adding two more chapters of faith-stretching events leading up to the day when the campus mortgage was burned. But this epilogue to her book does more than give glory to God for what He has done in the past. Mrs. Winter also honors God by expressing expectation that…
Welcome to the Ralph D. Winter Research Center Website
…Winter Research Center has just launched a new website! Check it out at: rdwrc.wciu.edu. The website is specifically designed for two things: First, we will be a source of current missiological reflection to serve both the newest globally interested believers, as well as mission leaders and engaged practitioners around the…
Ralph Winter Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
…Winter, renowned missiologist and founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission, with the 2008 Lifetime of Service Award at their joint meeting in Denver, Colorado. The award ceremony was part of the North American Mission Leaders Conference, co-sponsored by the two organizations. Before an audience of more than 300…
Family Tributes
…Winter family, just a few months before he would take on the purchase of the Pasadena campus. As a missions professor he had managed to spawn numerous mission organizations by moonlighting after hours and each of these was screaming like a little orphan for a home. I worked alongside a…
Ralph Winter & the American Society of Missiology
…Winter undertook many strategic initiatives during his eventful life. One of these was the founding of the American Society of Missiology. By the 1960s, mission studies in North America were in transition. Mainline Protestant missions were declining as was mission studies in their seminaries. Evangelicals had depended on Bible institutes…
An Interview between Dr. Paul Cedar and Dr. Ralph D. Winter
…RALPH: Paul, I'm astonished and pleased that you would take time away from the heavy burdens and pressures of a huge congregation. What can I tell you? PAUL: We've recently begun a Frontier Fellowship in our church and are very excited about it. I heard someone say that your Frontier…
Response to Ralph Winter
…Winter’s piece, “The Future of Evangelicals in Mission” which appeared in the Sept.–Oct. 2007 issue of Mission Frontiers. One could comment on many aspects of his article, including the details of his historical overview. But that is not my concern here. What I want to underline—and celebrate with Ralph Winter—is…
How One Man Dared to Shake Up World Missions
…Winter Story: How One Man Dared to Shake up World Missions is a fantastic primer into the abiding impact of the founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission. Its slender 180 pages are quickly and enjoyably read and filled with insights into not only Winter’s life, but also the…
A Wartime Lifestyle
…Winter's self-assessment. Dr. Winter is founder and general director of the U.S. Center for World Mission, a Pasadena based organization which focuses on bringing the gospel to the 'Hidden Peoples' of the earth those populations which are being bypassed by other Christian outreach. His wife. Roberta H. Winter, is assistant…
Core Issues and Interesting Characters
…Winter, half joking, would reply, “four to five,” pause for a shocked reaction, and add, “but we have 100 teachers” (referring to the “associates.”) He would say he was not sure what the students learned, but he and the other faculty learned a great deal about the world where the…
For God’s Glory in All Peoples
…Winter, at the 25th Anniversary of the USCWM There are turning points in history where certain people and events dramatically alter the direction of human history and the destiny of millions. Ralph Winter and the founding of the U.S Center for World Mission (now Frontier Ventures) played a major role…
Four North American Centers for World Mission Spread Frontier Mission Vision Throughout Continent
…Winter put the finishing touches on the document he was working on, handed the paper to his secretary to retype and photocopy, and then sat back in his chair. Looking out the window, he continued to think about what he had been writing. Only six months earlier he and his…
What is a Religious Order?
…Winter and R. Pierce Beaver, The Warp and the Woof, Pasadena CA, William Carey Library). So God has two aspects of the church to make it grow. Dr. Winter has entitled these two forms sodalities (the voluntary orders) and modalities (the local congregations or churches). (In "Two Structures of God's…
RALPH D WINTER LAUNCH LAB
…Winter Launch Lab (WLL) is not a center for win- ter sports. Named in honor of Dr. Ralph D. Winter, this dynamic team operates within Frontier Ventures and serves as a dedicated laboratory for mission innovation. Who We Are Comprised of a diverse group of innovators, each member contributes their…
Catalyzing Kingdom Breakthrough
…Winter, I became even more convinced of the need to re-emerge. “Intercession” was not simply about prayer, but also about standing in the gap between what is and what could be. Eventually I was asked by our leaders, whom you will hear from in a moment, to serve them directly.…