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William Carey International University
…Winter: Why WCIU is Needed William Carey International University (WCIU) a brainchild of the U.S. Center for World Mission, and major user of the campus being purchased by the Center, Is envisioned as a special laboratory in the educational firmament. Dr. Ralph Winter, General Director of the Center says, "We…
Breakthrough in Central America
…Winter has stated that the bold new thrust in missions today must be dominated by third world missionary outreach. Only the mobilization of the total resources of the church of Jesus Christ in frontier missionary penetration will produce the establishment of a church for every people group by the year…
News
…Winter during a concert tour in Southern California earlier in the summer. Green had become impressed with the need for missions following a tour of Youth With a Mission bases in Europe this summer. His concerts and speaking appearances had increasingly stressed the need for individual commitment and involvement in…
Vote of Confidence
…Winter, General Director of the U.S. Center for World Mission. "But even this time the Lord has undertaken for us." For one month the staff had been in agonizing suspense wondering if the college would foreclose. A staff prayer and fasting retreat had brought confidence that God was in control.…
Rediscovering the Hidden Peoples
…Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission (now Frontier Ventures) to raise awareness in the global Church of thousands of “hidden” people groups that had no access to the Gospel and had been overlooked by the Church and its mission workers. Winter mobilized the global Church with a vision…
People Groups 50 Years Later?
…Winter introduced the concept of what would become known as “unreached peoples” (he used “hidden people”), it would have been impossible to gauge the impact this concept would have on mission thinking and strategy. Almost 50 years later we can look back and see how profoundly a few simple insights…
Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough
…The English intellect C.P. Snow asked the now-famous question, “Can we do ‘good’ when the foreseeable consequences are evil?” No, but what if the evil consequences are not easily “foreseeable?” During and after the Korean war, American agencies raised money for Korean “orphans.” This was a major opportunity for Americans…
Remembering Don Richardson
…Winter, then a professor at Fuller Seminary’s School of World Mission, heard Don speak at a church service. “You’ve got to write a book,” Ralph urged Don afterward. “I’ll contact a publisher for you!” Back in the jungles of Papua, Don documented the Gospel’s breakthrough among the Sawi people in…
Good Intentions Are Not Always Good Enough
…The English intellect C.P. Snow asked the now-famous question, “Can we do ‘good’ when the foreseeable consequences are evil?” No, but what if the evil consequences are not easily “foreseeable?” During and after the Korean war, American agencies raised money for Korean “orphans.” This was a major opportunity for Americans…
Representing Jesus Faithfully to Refugees
…Winter, the founders of Frontier Ventures, often taught about four Go-Come “mission mechanisms” at work in the Bible and history: (1) the people of God going voluntarily to bless the nations; (2) going involuntary without missionary intent; (3) the peoples coming voluntarily, attracted by God’s blessing-relationship with His people; and…
School of World Mission AT 50
…Winter. Fuller had hired me to teach anthropological and African subjects. I had come to Los Angeles for a “look see” year at UCLA, to teach the Hausa language and related African language subjects. We had been missionaries to Nigeria but had broken with our mission over cultural issues. In…
Perspectives Global
…Winter had convinced David Howard to allow him to organize the first class as a follow-up for the card signers at Urbana 1973. We had recently completed the major revision of the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement curriculum in 1999 (the 3rd Edition). We knew we had an opportunity…
An Interview with Dr. David Howard
…Winter came to me after the conference, noting the change in attitude and interest. He was desperate to follow-up this fresh interest in world missions. By the summer of 1974 he had designed a two-week seminar for students, the Summer Institute of International Studies (SIIS), to explore the biblical basis,…
Blogging from Tokyo 2010
…Winter was at the 1974 Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland, where he signed the Lausanne Covenant. That Covenant explicitly reforged the bond between evangelism and social justice as equal partners in mission. This reparation was in response to the 20th century, so often dichotomized by schisms like the…
Further Responses to Paul Hiebert
…Winter and Bruce Koch Ralph Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission and served as a co-editor of the Perspectives Reader. Bruce Koch is an Associate Editor of the Perspectives Reader. The following is excerpted, by permission, from an article by Winter and Koch, “Finishing the Task,” in the…
Perspectives & College Students
…Winter to action. “God cannot lead you on the basis of information you do not have,” Winter famously said, as he crafted and launched the Summer Institute of International Studies (the original name of Perspectives). In the early 1980s Perspectives coordinators were encouraged to get churches involved by hosting classes.…
His Kingdom Come
…Winter’s life was focused on this issue. Having spent three decades getting the church refocused on the final frontiers, he felt that the most productive use of his time in the last decade of his life was to look at strategy issues of how we can best reach the major…
Discipling All Peoples
…Winter, spent over three decades getting the church focused on those “unreached” people groups in which the gospel had yet to be established. The second insight of Donald McGavran was just as revolutionary, but more difficult to grasp, and in many ways we are still struggling to get it. Going…
An Example of Local Church Impact
…Winter has had on Bethlehem Baptist Church. During the summer of 1983 both John Piper and I were confronted with the “statistics of missions” as outlined in the Hidden Peoples Pie Chart. We were thinking of adding another full-time pastor to our staff when a young couple from Bethlehem sent…
Letters to the Editor
…Winter’s response: We agree with Savage that sending funds and not missionaries is not always wrong, and apparently he would agree that Christian Aid Mission ought not to incessantly preach that sending missionaries is wrong. Dear Dr. Winter, Thank you for inviting dialogue regarding the issue of supporting “native” or…