Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter

Abstract

  I first met Dr. Ralph Winter through the pages of his books in the early 1980s when I was a young seminary student; finally meeting him in person two decades later in a large missions gathering.  Though my face-to-face encounters with him were brief, he impacted my life profoundly both as a student of missiology, and as a missions practitioner.  Dr. Winter was to me, a distant mentor, a gracious brother in Christ, and an affirming leader.