This is not what I need, let me try again
741 Entries found for Keyword(s) "Ralph Winter"
From the Director
…Dear Friends, On page 5 you'll see a sober (but optimistic!) assessment of our financial picture. This, in turn, is based upon a lot of good news about the developing prayer study giving which is being generated by the Frontier Fellowship. By far the most important news in this…
From the Director
…Dear Friends, We have been praying a lot. One prayer has been, "Oh Father, tell us a little more about what is going on. We thank you for helping us pay the June 1st payment four days before the Sept. 1st payment was due. But! We know it would have…
From the Director
…It is my solemn responsibility to face the facts. Then you deserve to know the facts. You have undoubtedly given and prayed for this project. Not again? Foreclosure in a few days? That's what it looks like despite the lavish generosity of many last December. These are tough times for…
From the Director
…May 10, 1982 Dear friends, ( .. Do these editorials "scream" at you? Apparently each issue of this bulletin does appear to "scream for money" a good friend of mine says... like nothing else he gets through the mail. I am embarrassed. I can't believe it! Yet he is being…
From the Director
…Dear Friends, This Center vs. the kangaroo! What is the parallel? That strange animal and this bustling, burgeoning center? We are alike because only God could have invented the kangaroo. We're not big These 35 acres, 100 buildings (mostly residences), 500,000 square feet of floor space, are smaller than most…
From the Director
…Frankly, I don't like that word "director." I tell people sometimes that I am the "janitor" here, just trying to be a good steward of these 100 buildings. Or, I tell people, I am the "observer" here, hardly more than keeping track, in general, of all the things that 200…
From the Director
…Dear People, This year has been the most stressful Mission pressured, confusing year yet. Never before have we made plans for what to do during a 90 day foreclosure process! However, gradually, solidly and now strongly, the appearance "out of nowhere" of Pastor Vuta and 'his fascinating "handful of rice"…
25,000 Frontier minded Christians Jam Stadium
…Imagine the exciting situation whereby all of you good people who've given to us 25,000 of you were enabled physically to gather together in a single stadium face to face, at no expense of time and effort or money, let's say. And suppose we were to spend several hours praying…
From the Director
…Dear Friends: I confess I have always been an activist. My scholarly career may at times have disguised the "zeal to make things happen." I started out an engineer. In a way, I still am. Some people who type me as an academician do not realize how many times I…
From the Director
…Dear Reader, How can I put it courteously? Whoever you are, just about, I feel sorry for you. That is, I don't see how you could possibly appreciate your job as much as I do mine. I am surrounded by the most wonderful people. Keen, smiling, hard working thrilled, loyal,…
Some Unfinished Business
…If you've been around in evangelical circles lately, you know that many people's attitudes towards missions are being shaped by two common misconceptions: Myth 1: Pioneer missions is out of date. Why? There are Christians in almost every country who can now finish the job by themselves. Myth 2: The…
From the Director
…For an urgent reason, our lead article gives you a healthy review of our vision (viz., the reason for the Center). Two exciting reasons for our existence are found there: It is not impossible (!!!) to establish a Christian witness within all the 16,750 remaining nations (people groups) in the…
From the Director
…Dear Friends, Last night I was in the Gobi desert: the temperature was down to 40 below zero. . .80 mph winds blow for four more months. . .minions of Muslims untouched by even China's drastic Cultural Revolution. Then, suddenly the 500 color slides ran out, the lights went on,…
Questions about the U.S. Center for World Mission
…Dear friend, I have something to share with you that is so grave, so staggering, so hopeful, so crucial, that I had better begin with a few of the less spectacular facts behind the scenes here. (Note: this letter does not ask you for money.) Do you have weird religious…
From the Director
…Dear Reader, People were on tip toes, everywhere I went in February. I touched Vancouver, Canada, Washington, DC, Columbia S . C., Decatur, GA, and Wilmore, KY. (That was my travelling month!) This was true for both student groups and all church conferences. Everyone was excited to learn more about…
Three Men, Three Eras
…College students around the reversals, because they "know" world today are being bowled over that time is in their favor. by Marxist thought. One powerful reason is that Communism has a Recently, evangelicals, too, "long look." Communists claim to have thought alot about trends in know where history is heading,…
From the Director
…Dear Busy, Burdened, Typical Believer, Other people around me in this plane are watching a movie called "9 to 5" and I collect snatches of it without sound. I think I've got a much more exciting, rewarding job than either the people on the big T . V. screen or…
From the Director
…Dear Friends, Our next issue will dazzle you with the flood of exciting events and accomplishments here at the U.S. Center during 1980. This issue highlights the Edinburgh meeting, surely one of the most significant events in this century: a new world level coalition of mission agencies focused on frontiers,…
Missions in the Bible
…The Acts of the Apostles. Surely after the resurrection the disciples now understood what Christ's coming was all about. Yet one of the very first episodes (1:6) portrays their continued grasping for power, stated now in terms of "are you now [at last] going to set up your kingdom [where…
From the Director
…How else can I say it we are in a very tight spot. Let me tell you honestly our situation. Fact One You have been rejoicing with us that we were able (just barely to make the down payment on the essential second half of the campus and at half…