Throughout Church history, God has raised up mission mobilizers who helped awaken people to their role in His global purpose.
In this installment, we highlight Ralph D. Winter (1924-2009)…a visionary, teacher, and mobilizer whose influence helped reshape mission thinking around unreached peoples and inspired generations to pray, give, go, and mobilize others. He was the founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission, and known for his transformative work on unreached people groups. In 1974 he made a presentation at the Congress for World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he introduced the concept of unreached People Groups, shifting global mission strategy from targeting countries to focusing on distinct cultural and linguistic groups.
His life reflects several important mobilizer functions: Prophet-Mobilizer, Evangelist-Mobilizer, and Teacher-Mobilizer…reminding us that God uses different types of mobilizers to move the Church forward.
Here at The Waiting World, we want to encourage you learn more about at least one of the thousands of unreached people groups in the world today. That’s why we created our unreached people group prayer series and you can view at thewaitingworld.net