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Jul 1, 2013 · Anyone who has ever been invited to pray for an “unreached people group” has Ralph Winter to thank in large part. Had he not providentially arrived on the scene in time, Western missions might have died out by now, wrongly convinced that the missionary task had, by a faulty colonialist definition, been “accomplished”.
Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 - May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who became well-known as the advocate for pioneer outreach among unreached people groups. He was the founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM), William Carey International University, and the International Society for Frontier ...
Ralph D. Winter. Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who helped pioneer Theological Education by Extension, raised the debate about the role of the church and mission structures and became well known as the advocate for pioneer outreach among unreached people groups.
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.
May 24, 2009 · May 24, 2009 12 AM PT. Ralph D. Winter, a Christian missionary who was named one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals by Time magazine in 2005, died Wednesday at his home in Pasadena...
Mar 29, 2009 · He was 84. Winter died Wednesday, May 20 at his home in Pasadena after a seven-year battle with multiple myeloma and after additional struggles with lymphoma since early February.
The result was, The Ralph D. Winter Story: How One Man Dared to Shake Up World Missions. To quote Rev. Chuck Huckaby, The Ralph D. Winter Story "is a fantastic primer into the abiding impact of the founder of the USCWM and WCIU. It’s slender 180 pages are quickly and enjoyably read and filled with insights into not only Winter’s life, but ...
