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741 Entries found for Keyword(s) "Ralph Winter"
Dialogue on the Frontiers
…Winter: I'm delighted to be able to introduce a man and the book he produced which is probably the biggest bombshell in terms of mission theory and practice in this century. Dr. Donald McGavran has traveled the world to discover causes and hindrances to the growth of the church. Tell…
Toward the Edges: What Next
…Winter. One of the most famous of Dr. Winter’s contributions to frontier missiology is the theme of this edition of MF: mobilization. Background Even before coming here, I began to study Dr. Winter’s thinking more thoroughly, and one of the most notable aspects of his mind was the way in…
A New Kind of Evangelism
…Winter. Thankfully, I took the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Winter for many hours of interviews and discussion before he died in May 2009. In the process of that study, I continue to discover insights I believe will be of great interest to those of us who are committed…
Perspectives
…Winter has significantly shaped the priorities and practice of many mission agencies and even more local churches around the world. One of the well-known avenues of influence for Winter’s ideas has been the Perspectives course. Everyone is Called: Advanced Missiology Informing Strategic Obedience What is often overlooked about Ralph Winter’s…
Reviewing the September-October Mission Frontiers
…Winter: I have read with care your two-page letter on our Insider Movement issue. I can honestly say that I completely agree with your concerns. But at the same time I honestly don’t believe we intended them to arise from the text. Corwin: [Your own commentary] seems clearly intended to…
Letters to the Editor
…Winter’s editorial comment in Mission Frontiers (January-February 2004 issue). At present, there is no cure for autism. Nor do children outgrow it (see http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/autism.cfm). There are a host of diseases and maladies in this world that are incurable. How does God view the incurable maladies, and how does He view…
Where Are We Now? A New Mobilization Era
…Winter has helped the Church immensely with a third grid analyzing mission history since 1792.3 Winter points out there was a progressive mission emphasis bringing new understanding and strategic focus to the mission endeavor, highlighting three successive mission eras of modern Protestant mission history. Each era was catalyzed by a…
Which Way to the Front?
…Winter of William Carey International Unioersity and Rick Wood of Mission Frontiers. MF: What would you say are keys to help a person maintain her or his mission commitment? Rob Antonucci: I work with Caleb Resources in the Follow-Through Department. Two keys in maintaining commitment are discipleship encouragement from someone…
EFMA confronts ‘Third Era’
…Winter gave an historical perspective on the past eras in missionary outreach. Whether considered "epochs", "cycles", or "eras", Winter pointed to the success pattern of the planting, watering, and harvesting of missionary enterprise. The withdrawal of missionaries from the Hawaiian Islands in 1865, according to Winter, symbolized that an era…
The Remaining Peoples with no Chance to Hear about Jesus
…Winter realized that thousands of people groups were being completely overlooked by mission agencies and churches around the world. Due to the great success of outreach in places like Korea, sub-Saharan Africa, and island and jungle tribes, some were in fact insisting that missionaries were no longer needed. Others were…
Innovation Lab
…Winter. He created new ministries and looked for the missing pieces in our efforts to fulfill the Great Commission. The Ralph D. Winter Launch Lab was then proposed to fill this need. The Ralph D. Winter Launch Lab exists to discover and help implement ways to bring kingdom breakthroughs to…
What Have We Learned From 200 Years of Doing Missions?
…Winter. In a voice that rarely rose above a whisper, Winter answered the question in a way that rocked the Christian world. Drawing on the work of Cameron Townsend, founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators, and of Donald McGavran, the discoverer of people movements, Winter pointed out that most of the…
A Fundamental Change Needed in Missions Education
…Winter believed that ministerial schools both at home and abroad tend to go wrong in three ways. First, they attract the wrong students. Second, they offer the wrong curriculum. Third, they present their course work and diplomas in the wrong package. He saw that the real leaders, the gifted people…
A Timely and Providentially Guided Transition
…Winter, Founder and General Director of the Frontier Mission Fellowship (FMF), named his successor. The Frontier Mission Fellowship is the evangelical missionary order which oversees and staffs such projects as the U.S. Center for World Mission and William Carey International University. Dave Datema became the second General Director in the…
A Field Worker Speaks Out
…Winter and the fledgling USCWM first began to wave the flag for the unreached peoples. The long-awaited thrust to the final frontiers is now a major movement. The Adopt-A-People (AAP) movement including the Joshua Project 2000 (JP2000) has generated enormous interest and enthusiasm among local churches and missions around the…
The Anatomy of the Evangelical Movement
…Winter, of the USCWM. A recent visitor to the campus of the U. S. Center for World Mission was Mr. Bruce Nicholls, veteran missionary from New Zealand to India. Mr. Nicholls is currently chairman of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship, and is the chairman of the world-level…
The U.S. Center for World Mission
…Winter had been teaching History of the Christian Movement for a number of years at Fuller Seminary. But each time he wrote the numbers on the blackboard, picturing in a graphic way the availability of the gospel for the world's population, he grew more troubled. Finally, on one spring afternoon,…
Waving the Flag for ‘Hidden’ Peoples
…Winter seems quite humble and unpretentious. He speaks in soft tones, and his clothes are simple and not expensive. He works at an old wooden desk which is scratched and piled with books and papers. Upon meeting him, you might not realize the strategic contribution he is making to world…
What if?
…Winter had not presented the vision for reaching the unreached at Lausanne, my life would have been very different. I first heard Winter share that same vision at a weekend event for students, two years after he and Roberta returned from Lausanne. The Winters were days away from founding the…
Tribute to David J. Cho, 1924–2020
…Winter. They were peers in missions – born weeks and worlds apart.1 David Dong-Jin Cho was born near the Korea-China border before there was a “North” Korea. He was saved as a young boy, received theological training, planted a church and then pursued more training in missions and evangelism. At…