Ralph D. Winter Research Center

Register here: https://www.wciu.edu/all-events/the-2025-ralph-d-winter-memorial-lectureship

You are all invited to join us (in person or virtually) for the Annual Ralph D. Winter Memorial Lectureship. This year we will be gathering at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, USA. We have special rates for Students and Frontier Ventures members.

This year we are discussing the dynamics of mission among the Urban Poor, new directions for incarnational ministry, developing strategic concerns, and how being disconnected from the land impacts the lives of the urban poor.

Sessions will be recorded, so if you register we will send you recordings.
Session times (all times are in the Eastern Time Zone):
Thursday 7:00-9:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM-9:00 PM*
Saturday 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Announcing an event this week, to which you are all invited to participate virtually or in person if you are in the Pasadena, California region! Feel free to share with your circles! Thank you:

Wisdom for Cross-Cultural Service: Journeys in Missiological Anthropology Join us as we learn from the reflections of seasoned anthropologists, their dialogue with one another, and our attendees.

Dear Friends,
Forgive me for taking so long to remember to post the link here to our new website! It went live in early September. Please visit the Ralph D. Winter Research Center online at:
https://rdwrc.wciu.edu/
Enjoy and thank you for keeping up with our latest posts! Blessings to you.

Ralph D. Winter Research Center Current and historical missiological discussions, particularly on frontier missiology, are the focus of this site. Historical missiological materials are primarily from the legacies of Ralph D. Winter and Donald A. McGavran. Ralph Winter pushed the edges of missiological discussion, always under the...

Hello Viewers and Followers! I am posting this note to let you know that we at the Ralph D. Winter Research Center are building a new website! We have been working on developing it for months and we are aiming for it to go live this summer! This is why I have not posted since I returned to my newly renovated house in late May. My scanners were just restored to my home office in late June. So, thank you for your patience as we finish the website, which will have a pictures section. I will be sure to post the link to it here after it goes live. And thank you for your interest in the personal papers and images of Ralph D. Winter and Donald A. McGavran!

Blessings, the Ralph D. Winter Archivist in Pasadena, California, United States

Dear Viewers and Followers of this Page,

My home is about to be renovated and remodeled significantly, so my home office situation will change and I will lose access to my scanners that I use for this page until my house is ready and I can move back in! It will be sometime this spring of 2023, at which time I will begin posting weekly here once again. Thank you for your continual interest in our visual archives collections!

Blessings to all, the Ralph D. Winter Archivist at the Ralph D. Winter Research Center in Pasadena, California, United States

Dear Readers and Followers of this Blog, My home is about to be renovated and remodeled significantly, so my home office situation will change and I will lose access to my scanners that I use for this blog until my house is ready and I can move back in! It will be sometime this spring of 2023, at which time I will begin posting weekly here once again....

Posts to Resume This Spring! Dear Readers and Followers of this Blog, My home is about to be renovated and remodeled significantly, so my home office situation will change and I will lose access to my scanners that I use for t…

The first and second images show how diverse the speakers were at this global event in Edinburgh, Scotland way back in July of 1980. There was music, as in a choir singing accompanied by a piano, in addition to all of the speeches. Numerous meetings like this have been held in the decades since in various locations and with greater diversity!

How to Understand These Others

How to Understand These Others Visit the post for more.

We always appreciate images with captions written on them originally because most in our visual collection do not have them. This scene is identified to be of a leader in the Philippines sharing a teaching from God's Word with his listeners as part of the Tapilon Development Program in August of 1982!