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Family. Born in 1924 in Los Angeles California, to Hugo and Hazel Winter, Ralph was a middle child between two brothers. Hugo was a self-trained engineer, known throughout the Los Angeles planning department as “Mr. Freeway” because he gained approval from more than 70 cities for the specific routes of the Los Angeles-area freeway system.
- Foreign Missionaries Still Needed
- People Groups Sealed Off
- New Structures Needed
- Careers For The Cause
- Awareness of Cultural Distance
- Freedom in Evangelistic Expression
- Expanded Mission Vision
- Increased Understanding & Prayer
- New Expressions of "Church"
- Holy Spirit Planning & Preparation
Winter helped to correct the "missionary go home" mentality by showing that cross cultural missionaries were still needed. Winter did not limit the call to Western missionaries, but also challenged former receiving nations to send as well.
Winter highlighted large swaths of humanity who were being overlooked by the global church. We know them now as "unreached people groups."
Winter hinted at the idea that new mission structures could be created that went beyond existing agencies and this idea challenged certain groups, especially Asians.
Winter articulated a vision for young people who were eager to give their lives for God's global cause and many had their life choices and careers shaped by his input.
Winter challenged people to see the unreached world from a cross cultural perspective and find new ways to effectively present the Gospel so it could easily cross cultural borders.
Winter emphasized the concept of freedom in Christ within cultures new to the Gospel over unity of Christians across cultures with respect to initial evangelism strategies.
Winter challenged us not to simply send more missionaries, but to consider more carefully where they were sent. He also wanted to set the vision high enough that the large needs of the unreached could be met.
Winter help to provide new categories that became a rallying point for new computer data and information systems that increased awareness, understanding, prayer, and outreach for the unreached peoples.
Winter highlighted the need for new culturally appropriate expressions of church from cultures newly reached with the Gospel.
Winter wanted others to see the needs for missionary planning and cultural learning done in conjunction with the power of the Holy Spirit.
When he was asked to give a plenary address at the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelization, he highlighted for himself and others the astonishing fact that at that time 2.4 billion people (over 84% of the remaining non-Christians in the world) were being essentially by-passed by Christian outreach.
Donald McGavran at Fuller Theological Seminary's School of World Mission was so impressed by the TEE education and other writings by Ralph, that he asked Winter to join the faculty with him and Alan Tippett, a noted anthropologist. [8] Winter was a professor at Fuller from 1966 to 1976. During this time, Winter taught more than a thousand ...
An Unlikely Revolutionary. When Ralph Winter was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, someone pointed out that the chapel was 200 years old. "Oh, well," he replied. ''in California when a building is 20 years old we tear it down and build a better one," His remark went all over the seminary campus as an example of what to expect from ...
May 23, 2009 · In 2005, Winter was named by Time magazine as one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals. His speech at the 1974 Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization is credited with focusing ...
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Jul 1, 2013 · Harold Fickett’s recent work The Ralph D. Winter Story: How One Man Dared to Shake up World Missions is a fantastic primer into the abiding impact of the founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission. Its slender 180 pages are quickly and enjoyably read and filled with insights into not only Winter’s life, but also the American evangelical ...
