Background
Winter, Ralph D. was born in 1924 in South Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Hugo H. and Hazel Winter.
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Winter, Ralph D. was born in 1924 in South Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Hugo H. and Hazel Winter.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, California Institute technical, Pasadena. Master of Arts in English as Second Language, Columbia University, New York City. Bachelor's Degree, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey.
Attended, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. Doctor of Philosophy. in Structural Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Student pastor Lamington Presbyterian Church, 1953—1956. Rural development specialist Presbyterian Church, Guatemala, 1956—1966. Founder, director industrial training for Guatemalan Indian pastors Industrias Técnicas, 1958—1966.
Founder, director adult education extension program Union Abraham Lincoln, Guatemala, 1961—1966. Professor anthropology Landivar University, Guatemala, 1961—1966. Executive director Asociacion Latinoamericana de Escuelas Teológicas, Norte, 1965—1966.
Professor history development of the Christian movement Fuller Theological Seminary, 1966—1976, distinguished missiologist in residence, from 1998. Co-founder, secretary-treasurer American Society of Missiology, 1972—1975, president, 1979—1980. Founder, general director Frontier Mission Fellowship, from 1976.
General director United States Center for World Mission, 1976—1990, director institute international studies, 1990—1997. President William Carey International University, Pasadena, 1977—1980, 1990—1997, 2000—2004, chancellor, 1997—1999, 2005—2009. Editor Mission Frontiers Bulletin, 1977—2009.
Vice president Southwest Evangelical Missiol. Society, 1992—1999.
Founder Institute the Study of the Origins of Disease, 1999, William Carey Library., 1969, Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship, 1975, International Society Frontier Missiology, 1985. Co-founder Associate Church Mission Committees, 1975. Founder Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies, 1973.
Married Roberta Winter, 1951 (deceased 2001). Children: Elizabeth, Rebecca, Linda, Patricia. Married Barbara Winter.