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741 Entries found for Keyword(s) "Ralph Winter"
Letters
…Winter, I happened to read a newsletter concerning your need for reaching the $6 million for the campus .... I wholeheartedly support world missions, but as a college siticitini I was unsure of how to express my gratitude to God and concern for missions. My donation to your campus is…
The Non-Essentials of Life
…Winter, in this Moody Monthly reprint, goes deeper than motives of fear or guilt, and gives some refreshing, personal reflections on how Christians can withstand the relentless pressures of cul¬ture by engaging in Christ's fundamental purposes for His Church. Scene 4: Winter 1968 (After our second furlough, due to several…
The Non-Essentials of Life
…Winter, in this Moody Monthly reprint, goes deeper than motives of fear or guilt, and gives some refreshing, personal reflections on how Christians can withstand the relentless pressures of cul¬ture by engaging in Christ's fundamental purposes for His Church. Mission Frontiers will carry the article in two parts. Scene 1:…
The Changing Seasons of Life and Ministry
…Winter purchased in 1976. Frontier Ventures has moved to a more decentralized organizational structure, which no longer needs such a large physical footprint in Pasadena. I arrived on that campus in Pasadena in July of 1990 and Dr. Ralph Winter gave me the great honor of selecting me to be…
Hitting the Mark
…Winter offers an insightful perspective on the development and increasing momentum of the concept of “unreached people groups” in the early days of the Lausanne Movement. Let’s look at a few definitions from milestone meetings cited by Winter in Conn’s book. In these, the reader will see the struggle for…
The Numbers Dilemma
…Winter had spoken at the 1974 Lausanne Congress and talked about people groups within which there was no church—of any kind. He later used the figure of 16,750—which was how many cultures needed someone to bring the gospel. He had been working on the statistics behind that for more than…
Editorial
…Winter, who worked together to recruit students from Princeton to go to the first “Urbana.” Also among the 575 attendees from 151 schools at the 1946 conference were Jim Elliot, martyred in 1956 along with four others working to reach the Waodani people of Ecuador, and Elliot’s best friend, David…
How Is Missions Working Out For You? Part 2
…Winter’s Lausanne 1974 presentation that most people remember now is the concept of the unreached. Winter was “raising the flag” of cultures without churches. It became a rallying cry of mission efforts since then. More recently, people have put a new twist on it, in part because Christians want something…
How Is Missions Working Out For You?
…Winter was to speak. As we sat there listening to him—less than one month before the USCWM was founded—we were shocked. Why hadn’t we heard this before? We were the “on-fire” ones—even promoting missions and prayer for the world in our church. I now know that what he shared was…
The Incredible Progress of the Frontier Mission Movement
…Winter and his colleagues at the Fuller Seminary School of World Mission. Leading up to this conference, the first global survey of unreached peoples was also conducted, involving 2,200 questionnaires sent out around the world to mission organizations and field offices. Six years later, the Edinburgh conference in 1980, following…
William Carey Library Publishers
…Winter to figure out how to do that. Dr. Allen Swanson, one of Dr. Winter’s students, recalled: “One day he [Dr. Winter] came into class waving a thesis manuscript in hand (mine) and announced what a tragedy it is to leave such writings to collect dust in library archives, and…
Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship
…Winter saw the need for another organization that could be more focused on mobilizing members of the United Presbyterian Church, USA for frontier mission. In 1975 he started the Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship (PFF). In the beginning it was more informal, but by 1981 he and John had developed enough structure…
Editorial Comment
…Winter is not writing the editorial for an issue of Mission Frontiers. His treatments for lymphoma have forced him to cut back. Mission Frontiers will continue to fulfill the mission with which Dr. Winter started it in 1979. We will seek to be a voice for the unreached peoples and…
Urbana and Perspectives
…Winter pondered: Could this be the beginning of another Student Volunteer Movement? The Student Volunteer Movement of the early 20th century swept across college campuses, producing tens of thousands of mission recruits – the largest student mission movement in history. How, Winter wondered, can we encourage and inform this new…
Singapore ‘02
…Winter gave the first address, titled “From Mission to Evangelism to Mission.” Winter described how areas we consider reached with the gospel might actually be unable to see the gospel spread throughout the culture because the church there is really just a transplant of the church in the West. ...{This…
Reviewing Our Concepts and Definitions
…Winter’s presentation at Lausanne 1974 was the idea that even if the Church all over the globe were to reach out in evangelism as far as it could, there would still be thousands of people groups without a viable church within their culture. Why? Cultural difference. That presentation, called “Cross-Cultural…
Letters to the Editor
…Winter as a man and a missiologist I am curious about his stance on free will. I agree the tobacco industry and gambling are out of whack but don't we as people have the right to choose? The battle then is not fought against these industries but against the darkness…
Ethnic Realities and the Church
…Winter “Don’t be confused,” states Ralph Winter, “This book may seem like just another case study of mission work within a large cluster of hard-to-reach peoples—the Kurds. Rather, it is a handbook of mission strategy, employing the fascinating details of a real people while illuminating many insights which are highly…
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 1970, student interest in missions was quickened. But during the 1960s their commitment to missions sagged. Suddenly, however, in 1973 that…
Lets Go Forward!
…Winter) I Need to ask about your unusual financial policy STAFF MEMBER: you say you cannot ask churches for money, and you cannot ask from Individuals more than a single one time $15 gift. Do you really believe God told you this? RALPH WINTER: Not in so many words. But…