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741 Entries found for Keyword(s) "Ralph Winter"
The Last Frontier
…Winter. He is the General Director of the US Centre for World Mission. The centre is based in a former college campus in Pasadena, California and has a staff of 130. It is the base for perhaps the most concentrated study on mission strategy in the world today. And one…
Reviving the Church’s Vision for the Final Frontiers
…Winter had attended the first “Urbana” student mission convention (held at Toronto that first year) in 1946. Increasing annually from 1,000 that first year to over 10,000 students in attendence in 1970, student interest in missions was quickened. But during the 1960s their commitment to missions sagged. Suddenly, however, in…
The Roberta Winter Institute
…Winter Institute (RWI) sprouted in the latter months of 2001. Just as the world was reeling from the 9-11 tragedy, Ralph D. Winter was reeling from a tragedy of his own: watching Roberta—his wife and companion of 50 years—slowly fade out of this world due to terminal cancer. In her…
The Future is Bright
…Winter’s involvement. I’ve pondered what to focus on in this space, which he filled so many times from 1979 till early 2009. Dr. Winter would not have wanted us to focus on him, so throughout this issue, we decided to emphasize what God has done through the life of one…
The Editorial of Ralph D. Winter
…What is the saddest story in American history? There have been a lot of them. Certainly one of the saddest was the time in colonial Massachusetts when fourteen friendly "Christian Indian villages" were burned and most of the Indians killed. This was so ghastly an event because those very same…
Ralph D. Winter 1924-2009
Missiologist, Educator, Innovator
An Open Letter
…Winter. It would be helpful to have this matter clarified. For us in the MC, the way forward is to work together in convergence instead of perpetuating differences or polarizing sodality and modality. We need to recognize the validity of both dimensions of the Church of Christ and encourage mutually…
A Church in Every People
…Winter [2] McGavran’s Legacy McGavran stirred the mission world by shifting the question from “How does an individual become Christian?” to “How does a people become Christian?” McGavran devoted much of his life to this latter question, publishing in 1954 his landmark book, Bridges of God: A Study in the…
Dr. David Hesselgrave on the World Christian Foundations
…Winter." Winter was one of a coterie of educational leaders in Central America who, in the postwar years, took a long, hard look at pastoral selection and training on the one hand, and the needs of the churches on the other. Jim Emery was another. Actually, Emery was there first…
Frontier Ventures
…Winter felt compelled by God to step out from the secure and stable environment of a tenured academic position to focus on “waving the flag” for the Unreached Peoples. Just two years before, in the summer of 1974, Ralph had given a plenary address at the Lausanne Congress. The Winters…
I Will Do a New Thing
…Winter in her books Once More Around Jericho and Will Do A New Thing has captured the amazing moving of God to establish this center for world mission. The following new excerpt brings us up-to-date. (Share the vision with friends: Order several copies of I Will Do A New Thing…
Exciting News from the Frontlines
…Winter is pursuing with William Carey International University six months in the classroom, six months on the field. Maybe the model we (Food for the Hungry) are pursuing with Warner Southern College is the answer. Maybe all of them are answers." Besides trying to answer the question of whether or…
Reimagining & Re-envisioning People Groups
…Winter, is that from the beginning, the “people group” concept was intended to include “socio-peoples”—groups formed on the basis of other affinities like “shared interest, activity, or occupation.6 Can we really envision these “shared interest” groups in the heavenly throng? While this is evangelistically pragmatic, I suggest it is an interpretive…
The Beginning of Another 40 Years: From 1979 and the US Center to 2019 and Frontier Ventures Centers
…Winter said about the campus and the founding purposes of our movement. Drawing from older Mission Frontiers articles stretching back 40 years to 1979, I have pulled some of Dr. Winter’s reflections about the purposes and vision of our movement. And I will weave around those comments statements about at…
A Significant Time of Germination
…Winter and his family. Dr. Winter was on sabbatical from his professorship at the School of World Mission (Fuller Seminary). He was taking 22 of us, SIIS alumni and his family, on a one-month exposure trip to the places where he and his wife had worked in Guatemala. During that…
Publishing at SWM and William Carey Library
…Winter to try to implement this, which he did with Roberta and their four daughters.[1] William Carey Library (WCL) was established in 1969. WCL produced and published the work of the students and faculty but they were not merely interested in publishing. They also worked with other publishers to produce…
Further Reflections
…Winter speak at a student conference. It was one month before the USCWM was legally founded. I had never heard of Winter before that day, but what he shared that evening changed my life focus. I had a strong missions vision instilled by my home church, but what I heard…
The Non-Essentials of Life
…Winter 1968 (After our second furlough, due to several pressing circumstances, we remained in the States. Ralph became a professor in the recently established School of World Mission, and we suddenly found ourselves in a different world. Ralph had to attend important functions and entertain visiting dignitaries. Because they no…
The Non-Essentials of Life
…Winter 1968 (After our second furlough, due to several pressing circumstances, we remained in the States. Ralph became a professor in the recently established School of World Mission, and we suddenly found ourselves in a different world. Ralph had to attend important functions and entertain visiting dignitaries. Because they no…
Global Lessons from the Worldwide Church of God
…Winter, General Director of the U. S. Center for World Mission, explains how missionaries rarely even attempt to work with such people: “They’re considered hopeless, they’re goners. We prefer to start with ‘unsuspecting innocents,’” who have no tie to Christianity whatsoever. Winter observes that these movements are not usually rebellious,…