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Search Results For: Ralph Winter

McGavran’s “Plain Talk:” How It All Began

March 01, 2018 by Steve Hawthorne

Tags: disciple-making movements, donald mcgavran, ralph winter

McGavran’s “Plain Talk:” How It All Began…

In 1981 I was a student at the School of World Mission at Fuller Seminary. At the same time I was working with the incipient Perspectives movement,...

For God’s Glory in All Peoples
Celebrating 40 Years of the U.S. Center for World Mission/Frontier Ventures and the Unreached Peoples Movement

October 31, 2016 by

Tags: frontier ventures, ralph winter, roberta winter, uscwm

This  article  adapted  from  the  25th  USCWM  anniversary  booklet  published  in  2001

"Of all the things Roberta and I have done in our lifetimes, I do not hesitate to believe that the most...

Core Issues and Interesting Characters

October 31, 2015 by Greg Parsons

Tags: history, ralph winter, sis, swm

As outlined in several of the articles in this special issue, the Fuller School of World Mission was an amazing place 50 years ago. Space will not allow me to mention all the “core issues” or...

The Numbers Dilemma
Further Reflections

May 01, 2015 by Greg Parsons

Tags: ralph winter, statistics, unreached people groups

If you go back to the earliest days of our organization, you could say we were founded on a number. Of course, that is way too simplistic, but a number was a driving force. Ralph D. Winter had...

Frontier Ventures
Fulfilling our Legacy to Reach the Unreached

March 02, 2015 by Greg Parsons

Tags: frontier ventures, legacy, name, ralph winter, u. s. center for world mission, uscwm

In 1976 the U.S. Center for World Mission was born. Ralph and Roberta Winter felt compelled by God to step out from the secure and stable environment of a tenured academic position to focus on...

Innovation Lab

March 02, 2015 by Paul Dzubinski

Tags: frontier ventures, innovation, launch lab, ralph winter, venture center

When the leadership of the Frontier Mission Fellowship and the US Center for World Mission decided to rebrand the organizations together, a discovery was made. The rebranding did not fully embrace...

Can We Pray Too Much?
Further Reflections

July 01, 2014 by Greg Parsons

Tags: 24 hour prayer, john piper, prayer, ralph winter

Jesus said to pray without ceasing, but beyond early mornings and late nights of prayer, he demonstrated that prayer was integrated within his life and ministry.

In his prayer recorded in John 17...

Further Reflections
Stewarding A Legacy

September 01, 2013 by Greg Parsons

Tags: archives, donald mcgavran, ralph d. winter research center, ralph winter, research

In October 1976, I first heard Ralph D. 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...

How One Man Dared to Shake Up World Missions
The Ralph D. Winter Story

July 01, 2013 by Chuck Huckaby

Tags: missiology, mission, ralph winter, unreached people group, us center for world mission, world missions

Harold Fickett has collaborated with Charles Colson on several books, including the contemporary classics Loving God and How Now Shall We Live? He has written novels, biographies, and works of...

Book Review of Ralph D. Winter
Early Life and Core Missiology by Greg H. Parsons

March 01, 2013 by Dave Datema

Tags: book review, lausanne conference, legacy, ralph winter

Did you know that Ralph Winter had a penchant as a youth for re-engineering and re-building firecrackers? Or that one of his main professors during his doctoral work threatened to remove him from...

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