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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.
Apr 10, 2015 · Ralph D. Winter was 49 years old when he walked onto the platform and gave a plenary talk at Billy Graham's Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. It was July 1974, when 2,430 participants with 570 observers from 150 countries descended on Lausanne, Switzerland.
Winter’s strategic insights and endeavors have helped transform the evangelical mission movement since the 1970s. Mission leaders, missiologists, and Christian leaders around the world have recognized Winter’s many significant contributions to the evangelical approach to the Great Commission.
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.
In an address given to the All-Asia Mission Consultation in Seoul, Korea, in August 1973 (the founding of the Asia Missions Associa-tion), Ralph Winter describes the forms that God’s two “redemptive structures” take in every human society, and have taken throughout history.
One expects a charismatic, riveting figure, a man to mesmerize crowds, Ralph Winter is instead a bookish mild mannered professor who wears neat coats and ties he salvages from the missionary storeroom at Lake Avenue Congregational Church in Pasadena, where he grew up and still attends.
Without Ralph Winter, thousands of Christians would never have attended a “Perspectives” class (perspectives.org) to gain a new appreciation for missions as the overlooked key to Scripture and church history.
