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Response to Urbanization and Measuring the Remaining Task
…Winter was defining “hidden peoples” more broadly: “Any linguistic, cultural or sociological group defined in terms of its primary affinity (not secondary or trivial affinities), which cannot be won by E-1 methods and drawn into an existing fellowship.”2 Here the word “sociological” broadens the types of grouping possible far beyond ethnicity…
HUP
…Winter through the University of Wales. As many PhD researchers do, when I found the specific book I was looking for, I poked around on the shelf nearby to see if anything else under that subject would contribute to my research. You never know what rabbit trails that might lead…
“Beyond Christianity” 10 Years Later
…Winter’s classic 12 “frontiers” of mission, one that he referred to as “Beyond Christianity.” This frontier comprised movements towards Jesus taking place outside the borders of widely recognized, authentic, biblical Christianity. Winter’s examples included African independent (or indigenous) churches, Jesu Bhakta (Jesus devotees in India), and later, followers of Isa…
Challenging the Death Industries: Duty or Distraction?
…Winter asks, “if we cannot recognize evil in our own cultures, how can we adequately engage in the global kingdom task of wrestling with principalities and powers and rulers of this dark world?” (Eph. 6:12) How Do People Become Apathetic to the Mass Killing of Human Beings? Apathy toward mass…
Tribute to Jim Downing
…Winter invited him to visit the USCWM to regularly disciple its young leaders. Jim seemed to take special notice of me as Ralph Winter’s personal assistant, and we forged a lasting friendship. Almost two decades later Jim traveled to invest in my life again. I was studying and praying about…
24:14, The Best Hope for Reaching All Peoples. Are You In?
…Winter pointed out the uncomfortable reality that we would never complete world evangelization at the rate the global church was going because the Church was sending the vast majority of its mission resources to the areas and peoples of the world where there was already an existing church, i.e. they…
The Call to Obey the Great Commission Remains Before Us
…Winter and others who with vision and passion in their hearts for God’s glory in all peoples, risked so much and worked so hard to launch the USCWM/Frontier Ventures and the unreached peoples movement. They made all the progress of the last 40 years possible. We stand on the shoulders…
Perspectives
…Winter gathered a small number of Urbana Mission Conference students at Wheaton College. Who knew that what started there would turn into a mobilization movement that would still be going strong today? The longevity and impact of the Perspectives Course is nothing short of miraculous. Today it’s grown into a…
The Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies
…Winter Research Center, will conduct at training institute at the USCWM in Pasadena, California. This 35th anniversary institute will be led by renowned scholars and missiologists—who will convene for an historic week of training. Presenters featured during the week will include Don McCurry, Robert Douglas, Dudley Woodberry, Warren Larson, Jim…
Further Reflections
…Winter had the idea many years ago. Back before there were missions that mobilized a bunch of really young people to go out there early—like OM and YWAM—Winter talked about it with people like Clyde Cook. Cook was the president of Biola at the time, and had served as a…
Further Reflections
…Winter was 22 years old, already a graduate of Cal Tech. About ten years before, he had become friends with Dan Fuller, son of popular radio preacher Charles E. Fuller. He had also spent a year at Westmont, after returning from Navy pilot training when World War II ended. During…
Will Tokyo 2010 Be Remembered Like Edinburgh 2010?
…Winter, recognizing the tremendous contribution of the International Missionary Council that resulted from Edinburgh 1910, brought together a small group of mission leaders from around the world in 2005 to discuss how to develop a global network of mission organizations that could foster the inter-mission cooperation that is essential in…
Reaching Peoples
…Winter changed the course of mission history and world history with his address to the first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, where he revealed that we would never complete the task of world evangelization if we continued with the same strategies and methods. Dr. Winter clarified that the global Church…
YWAM’s Transformation
…Winter). In 2001, “Transforming Cultures through Kingdom Thinking” was the title of the YWAM North American Leaders Conference in 2001, with Darrow Miller as the sole speaker. Unlike colonial and paternalistic models of the past, the philosophy behind “kingdom thinking” is to enable people to “achieve all that God has…
Deja vu All Over Again
…Winter’s seminal presentation at the 1974 Lausanne Consultation on World Evangelization. In that presentation, titled “The Highest Priority: Cross-Cultural Evangelism”, Winter emphasized a basic point that had been overlooked: until a church movement has taken root in a culture, the gospel doesn’t spread among that people. In other words, without…
Letters
…winter suggested by the Dec. 20-Jan. 18 dates. Joseph Miranda Thank you for your astute observation. The Islamic calender consists of 12 months, with the start of each month beginning at the sight of a new moon, so that each month is 29 or 30 days and the span of…
Diplomatic Savvy for the Sake of the Unreached
…Winter, founder and general director of the U.S. Center for World Mission, recognizes the challenge of creating these partnerships: "Painstakingly and with incredible diplomacy he has been able to very patiently pull together what is now 45-55 strategic partnerships." This painstaking process is understood better when it is recognized that…
Horizon Seven: Microscopic Spiritual Warfare Massive Blind Spot?
…Winter, Ralph D. Interview with the author. 1998. 2 Pollock, John. The Apostle: A Life of Paul. Victor Books, 1985. Pg. 15. 3 Hodgkin, Thomas. Theodoric the Goth. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1891. Pg. 179. 4 Villari, Pasquale. The Barbarian Invasions of Italy. T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. Pg. 43. 5…
World Evangelism
…Winter Called everything from genius to visionary to impractical agitator, Ralph Winter has had an impact on world missions like few others in this generation. His U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena is a beehive of activity, stirring people and organizations to reach the world's hidden peoples with the…
A Bold New Step
…Winter's basic thrust - a marvelous integration of the best missions thinking ever, with the lives of people who know how to penetrate new people groups, cultivate disciples and plant churches. We believe there are agencies that will want to encourage their young people to get a "better" B.A. training…