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741 Entries found for Keyword(s) "Ralph Winter"
Indigenous Movements
…Winter had guided 1,000 experienced missionaries in studying—globally, and in their own fields: “How are peoples reached?” Answer: indigenous movements. However, few outside their direct influence saw either: the biblical model and mandate for indigenous movements, or the historic significance of indigenous movements. Yet McGavran, Winter and their colleagues concluded:…
Venture Center
…Winter stepped out from his faculty position at Fuller to purchase the campus—putting in a bid against a cult with a lot more money—in order to launch this center for world mission. Winter had a vision to use this campus to awaken one million evangelicals to the cause of the…
Joining the Discipleship Revolution
…Winter, Dave replied immediately, “It looks to me like you were discipled by Ralph Winter.” Dave’s reaction stirred me to realize that Dr. Winter’s pattern of discipleship with peers around a task, was much richer than my superficial stereotype of discipleship as a weekly meeting focused on my own spiritual…
New Insight From the Three Eras of Mission History
…Winter into an update to his classic article on the Three Eras of Protestant Mission. (See the November–December 1997 edition of Mission Frontiers for a summary of the earlier chapter.) That updated chapter compares the roots and results of two alternate approaches to mission, concluding that as the Church pursues…
The Mission Training Division
…Winter, is it true that the Mission Training Division is the largest division of the Center and involves the largest number of people? Winter: Yes, more people by far than you see in the photo. We have left out almost 50 employees. Mission Frontiers: Why is this division so big?…
Sending the Pastor Away
…Winter. “I don’t remember what he said specifically,” says Joel. “I just remember being impressed that we each have an obligation to examine our personal missions involvement before God. It struck me to think the church will have to give account for our deplorable use of (human and financial) resources.”…
Pressing Forward to AD 2000
…Winter, director of the U.S. Center for World Mission, had written, “Why would I call this the ‘meeting of the century’? Simple. Never before has so broadly-backed a global meeting of mission strategists been proposed for the single purpose of evaluating what could be done specifically by the end of…
Frontier Mission Consortium Gears Up
…Winter, general director of the United States Center for World Mission headquartered here, said 40,000 members are sought by the end of 1981 and one million by the end of 1982, reached via a collaborating consortium of evangelical organizations. Although the four year old center faces a financial crisis with…
Missions in the Bible
…Winter 16 Miss Vivienne Stacey 17, 18 Rev. Phil Elkins 21, 22 Dr. David Howard 24, 25 Rev. Don Richardson February 4 6 Rev. Don McCurry 12 14 Dr. Dale Kietzman 19 21 Dr. Ralph Winter 26 28 Dr. James Engel March 4 6 Dr. David Moore 11 13 Dr.…
Glimpses through the Fog
…Winter estimated that, in 1900, 7.5% of Christians[14] were committed believers. Between 1900 and 2000 the Evangelical, Charismatic and Pentecostal movements renewed the faith of many, so that by 2000 about a third of the world’s Christians[15] were committed believers.[16] Distilling field workers’ insights In the 1960s, Donald McGavran launched…
Spreading Global Insight
…Winter! In this column, I will describe our learning process, how it has served the mission movement and how it can continue to do so into the future. How does Frontier Ventures gain insight? In 1976, when Ralph and Roberta Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission (now Frontier…
I Will Do a New Thing
…Winter said, “It is clear that the sodality, as it was recreated again and again by different leaders, was almost always the prime mover.” And today, the School of Intercultural Studies, is a leader in global and cross-cultural evangelism. Dr. Ralph Winter came to describe the difference between Fuller and…
New Era: Embracing a New Era in the Frontier Mission Movement
…Winter launched a daring effort to change the world by purchasing a $15 million college campus in Pasadena, California. His goal was to foster a collaborative movement of mission agencies, churches and students to bring access to the gospel to the then estimated 16,500 “hidden peoples,” now referred to as…
The Emergence of the One World Project
…Winter speak. I had come to greatly admire Dr. Winter after being introduced to the wealth of resources made available through the U.S. Center for World Mission. In Minneapolis I asked Dr. Winter about a statement that had appeared earlier in the year in his Mission Frontiers editorial: “The need…
Letters to the Editor
…Winter and Patrick Johnstone (in response to “The Missing Piece in Global Mission Strategy?” and “The Case for a Global Inter-Missions Network”, May-June 2003) I am hesitant to write as I have been, and continue to be, mentored and discipled through the writings of you both. However, after reading the…
Patrick Johnstone
…Winter and Patrick Johnstone, with these comments: "I do not have the materials--you may have--I ask that you please review this and provide me such observations as you believe are appropriate." Act Four: Ralph Winter did not actually see his letter in his mail--but would have been glad to respond.…
Christianity Today
…Winter, head of the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, California, told students that Christianity must be taken out of its Western context if the gospel is to reach Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists effectively. "We're reaching closure in taking the gospel to all the nations," Winter said at one…
GCOWE Mission Executives Meeting
…Winter) It took 191 years, but William Carey’s dream of a global missionary meeting in South Africa became a reality at GCOWE ’97 in July. With high hopes for increased cooperation and coordination in reaching the unreached peoples, 557 mission agency executives from 367 ministries and 65 countries met, July…
Urbana 96 Focused on the Unreached Peoples
…Winter, head of the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, California, told students that Christianity must be taken out of its Western context if the gospel is to reach Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists effectively. "We're reaching closure in taking the gospel to all the nations," Winter said at one…
Working Together to Reach Muslims
…Winter's dream. Perhaps Winter was naive to believe mission agencies would in fact interface and solve problems together by utilizing the gifts and strengths of each agency. Winter's motive is to accelerate getting pioneer missionaries to people groups still without a church.But as chairman of the USCWM board, it is…