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Contextualization Among Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists
…Winter 1999, Travis 1998 and 2000). Yet in spite of concerns that some may have on this issue, the fact remains that in a number of countries today, there are groups of Muslims who have genuinely come to faith in Jesus Christ, yet have remained legally and socio-religiously within the…
Are You Ready for Purpose-Driven Mission?
…Winter and the U.S. Center for World Mission, and his team is leaning heavily on the International Mission Board’s tally of “unengaged” peoples awaiting pioneer efforts. Second, Warren is eager to “turn an audience into an army,” to actively mobilize the “worldwide distribution network of millions of local churches” for…
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…
Letters
…Winter for his statements concerning "missionaries from afar." We've seen the things he has stated, graphically, at work in the Indian tribe here in Canada we're working with. Tucker Grose NAIM MINISTRIES I just forwarded the "Where we are in World Evangelism" to our head pastor. I am on the…
Planting the Church in One Week
…Winter, are concerned about the amateurism that may accompany Congregational-Direct missions. No one would deny that the local church should get involved in global outreach, nor would they contest the value of short term missions as a mobilization tool. But if we proclaim a too-rosy view of missions in order…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, A little girl, still alive, at the bottom of an abandoned well, people rushing around drastically working to get that little girl out before it’s too late, the whole community helping… Don’t you recall this? This has happened twice in my recollection. And, in fact, the whole USA…
GCOWE ’97 Mission Executives Consultation Pretoria, South Africa, June 30—July 5, 1997
…Winter who had talked about the Edinburgh 1910 and 1980 gatherings of mission executives. Winter said, "Let's don't just have popular meetings about completing the missionary task; let's get together the people who have the resources, the authority, and the position to follow through on specific suggestions and initiatives." With…
Letters
…Winter: Just to prove that I did read at least one of the October MF articles: you say, "The tell-tale early symptom of the disease being the need to wear nametags!" But in a growing church, nametags are almost essential for the new members to know who everyone else is.…
Caught by the Vision!
…Winters. The week covered the Center's goals, history, covenant, policies, and ministry team development. Three kinds of people usually attend S.O.W.: 1) those already committed to working with us (in Pasadena or at a Regional Center); 2) those needing to know what this might mean for them; and 3) those…
“Expecting Great Things…”
…Winter called a meeting at Fuller Seminary. The point of the discussion was: Is it possible that we could have a place where a number of mission organizations would be drawn together so that they could share facilities, share some staff and other services, creating a critical mass that would…
AMA ‘86
…Winter.) There was an Indonesian working in Surname. A Japanese working in Pakistan. A Japanese woman born in Tokyo who works with Africa Inland Mission in Newark, NJ among the blacks. But while many participants exhulted in the growing vitality of mission vision and activity among Third World Christians, others…
Bright Hope for Tomorrow
…Winter From the 49 Families. Several weeks ago I wrote to the 'One Third Times Three' participants asking them to tell our readers how and why they were able to give a third of their income to missions. Here are extracts from the letters that have come back. Ifound them…
The Father of Church Growth
…Winter and Ed Dayton particularly, is one outgrowth. American church growth, elaborated by Win Arn and Peter Wagner, is making a powerful impact on the North American scene. The latest horizon is "power evangelism" - the use of signs and wonders as a means whereby the church grows. For generations,…
SIM’s Faith Goal: Double by ‘93
…Winter, founder of the Center, reported on their financial plight relative to that obligation. The Center has recently passed a maior deadline and agreed to a schedule for paying off their mortcmaqe. Their current debt servIce costs are very high. Ralph has developed a program among the Christian public that…
Letters
…Winter, I happened to read Mission Frontiers the August/September1983 issue, the report on the Diharis of India fascinated so much as I am a resident of Orissa. This saga tine is an eye opener to any Christian. May the Spirit of God touch each individual as he reads through the…
Perspective
…Winter changed my thinking on that point. He pointed out that the New Testament Church consisted both of stable congregations and mobile missionary teams. Both essential. Both "Church." MF: But some churches today are sending out their own missionaries. They don't need a mission agency. Isn't this becoming a trend?…
“Frontier Missions” vs. International “Domestic Missions”
…Winter, facing this major stop page in world evangelization, has recently projected a new terminology. This, he thinks, will help direct missionary effort past the ethnically encircled young churches to the multitudinous unreached peoples. I agree with Dr. Winter. General acceptance of this terminology would help everyone see the task…
Letters
…Winter's tremendous articles in those 2 books again. Then I did something today that I should have done long ago; I set aside a whole hour (60 minutes) to look through those amazing lists of Tribes and People Groups. I tried to make it a time of agonizing intercession for…
News
…Winter's presentation of the theme, "Gateway to the Year 2000", all who are working on the staff or had been involved in the development of the Center during the last three years were recognized. To begin the celebration, the mood was set by the Good News Messengers, a vocal and…
The Astonishing Power & Progress of God’s Promise (Part 2)
…Winter’s analysis and advocacy4 led to a new wave of workers to Frontier ethne. By 2018 however, most pioneer work to “unreached” ethne was again shifting to partnership with new believers, just as Winter had foretold two decades earlier: Frontier [pioneer] Mission outreach will dwindle to the extent that church-planting…