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A TRIBUTE TO DR. RALPH WINTER 

 

 

 
 

Tetsunao Yamamori 

 

 

What can I say about Ralph Winter? My dear friend of 50 years was a 

missiological genius who, in brief articles and editorial columns, could suggest 

innovative ideas and course corrections of great importance for missionary 

endeavors.   

He was also a missionary statesman who helped engineer a paradigm 

shift from going to all the countries of the world to people groups without 

which the Great Commission mission would not be accomplished. Ralph was all 

these things and more.   



 

He was a soft-spoken gentle person who always found time for you as 

though you were the only person that mattered. He will be greatly missed. 

 

Tetsunao Yamamori 

President/CEO, WorldServe Ministries  

and 

Research Consultant, PCRI  

 John Templeton Foundation and Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the 

University of Southern California 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Published in the July 2009 issue of the multi-lingual online journal www.GlobalMissiology.org