I Will Do A New Thing

Roberta H. Winter

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It all started when Ralph Winter gave an address at Lausanne called “The Unfinished Task,” urging the missions world to focus on a new type of evangelism to reach “hidden” or “unreached” peoples. Soon he and his wife Roberta were founding a center to help mission agencies fulfill that task. Around them gathered a group of experienced missionaries, computer scientists, and unusually dedicated young people in order to buy a college campus. This story, as told by Roberta, of their cliff-hanging prayer meetings and spiritual battles with a cult will reignite your determination to work with Jesus to “finish the Father’s work” (John 4). This new edition includes previously unpublished chapters from her original manuscript, and an updated epilogue inviting you to partner with the USCWM today, as the task remains unfinished. Don’t read this story unless you’re willing to have your horizons stretched, your faith tested, and your future disturbed!

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Growth
• Christian Church

Informations

• Publié par: William Carey Publishing
• Date de parution: 28 juin 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645080299
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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I Will Do A NEW Thing

Unreached Peoples and the Founding of the U.S. Center for World Mission
ROBERTA H. WINTER


I Will Do a New Thing: Unreached Peoples and the Founding of the U.S. Center for World Mission Copyright © 2011 by Frontier Mission Fellowship All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording—without prior written permission of the publisher.
Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Living Bible, copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved.
Published by William Carey Library 1605 E. Elizabeth Street, Pasadena, CA 91104 | www.missionbooks.org
Barbara Winter and Linda Winter Dorr, revision editors Kelley K. Wolfe, copyeditor Melissa McCauley, graphic designer Rose Lee-Norman, indexer
William Carey Library Digital Release 2014
ISBN: 978-0-87808-889-8
Previous editions of this book appeared as: Once More Around Jericho: The Story of the U.S. Center for World Mission (1978), The Kingdom Strikes Back: The Secret Mission (1984), I Will Do a New Thing: The U.S. Center for World Mission . . . And Beyond (1987) and I Will Do a New Thing: The U.S. Center for World Mission . . . And Beyond , 25th Anniversary Edition (2002)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Winter, Roberta H. I will do a new thing : unreached peoples and the founding of the U.S. Center for World Mission / by Roberta H. Winter. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-87808-450-0 1. U.S. Center for World Mission--History. I. Title. BV2360.U553W56 2011 266’.02373--dc22 2010051066

For Tricia

CONTENTS
Forewords
Timeline
Preface
1. Let the Earth Hear His Voice
2. Through the Valley of the Shadow
3. The Twenty-five Unbelievable Years
4. A Missing Link
5. If You Believe . . . It’s Yours
6. Dreams
7. A New Thrust
8. No Turning Back
9. If You Ask Anything in My Name
10. I Signed and Sealed the Deed
11. Stan Petrowski
12. My God Shall Supply All Your Needs
13. Bethlehem’s Star
14. The Church Universal and Triumphant
15. You Fight Against Spiritual Darkness
16. A Power Encounter
17. Barrels of Water
18. Not Many Mighty
19. Mail Time
20. He Does Everything Well
21. The Jericho Marches
22. D-day
23. God Did a Miracle
24. Your Young Men Shall See Visions
25. I’ll Show You Which Ones
26. God’s Arithmetic
27. Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
28. Temptation
29. What Do You Hold in Your Hand?
30. For the Honor of His Name
31. First Forgive
32. Study to Show Thyself Approved
33. Lord, Do It Again!
34. But for the Glory of God
35. Not One Detail Will He Miss
36. Victory in Disguise
37. I Will Give Them Hearts That Respond
38. Deliver Us from Evil
39. His, for Better or Worse
40. I Want You to Trust Me
41. Don’t Throw Away Your Confidence . . . Persevere
42. Together with All the Saints
43. Everything That Concerns You
44. I Will Do a New Thing
45. You Will Have to See It to Believe It
46. You Always Do What You Say
47. The Lord Was Overseeing the Entire Situation
48. I Will Show You What to Do
49. The Lord Longs to Be Gracious
50. In Due Season He Will Honor You
51. COMIBAM
52. Great is Thy Faithfulness
53. I Will Praise You, O Lord
54. To Whom Much Is Given
55. I Am with You Always
56. Let Us Go Up at Once
57. Having Done All, Stand
58. The Power of Powerlessness
59. He That is Faithful in That Which is Least
60. Fitting into His Plans
61. The Kingdom Strikes Back
62. Called to Serve
63. Thy Kingdom Come
Epilogue
Appendix One: The Missionary God
Appendix Two: A Tribute to Roberta Winter
Appendix Three: The Roberta Winter Institute
Index

FOREWORD
(To I Will Do a New Thing, 2011)
It’s the end of 2010 and both Roberta and Ralph are now part of “the great cloud of witnesses” (Roberta on October 28, 2001 and Ralph on May 20, 2009).
Prior to our marriage July 6, 2002, I read both Once More Around Jericho and an earlier version of I Will Do a New Thing to get better acquainted with Ralph and the Frontier Mission Fellowship/U.S. Center for World Mission/William Carey International University. Now, having reread Roberta’s wonderful narrative in preparation for reprinting, I have an even greater appreciation for the history of this miracle campus.
Truly, God honored the initial obedience of faith of the Winters and their continued steadfastness of purpose through the long years of securing the necessary monies to purchase the former Nazarene College campus. Many others seemingly came to their rescue in unexpected ways, but in ways definitely orchestrated by their Heavenly Father, time and time again at the eleventh hour. However, God arranged all the payments and the extension for their good and most of all for His glory. The Winters could not and did not take credit. It was His doing and His property.
Having been married to Ralph for nearly seven years, I have also acquired an increased appreciation for the exemplary man of God that he was. Admittedly, Roberta and I may both have some biased views!
In several places throughout this new edition you will find “Editorial Notes” [set in square brackets] updating facts and figures. The original ones have been left for comparison enabling the reader to see growth in most, if not all, cases. The remaining pages of Roberta’s original manuscript have been included toward the end of the book.
Roberta makes the reader feel right there with her in all the events she so honestly and vividly describes. To her detailed portrayals she adds elements of suspense, making it difficult to put the book down!
Her Bible expository sections are not to be skimmed nor skipped, but rather taken seriously as she freely opens her heart and finds strength, consolation, direction and encouragement time after time from the Scripture. As readers, we can, too.
I count it a privilege and an honor to have been given this task of preparing I Will Do a New Thing for its fourth edition with the help of Linda Winter Dorr and the William Carey Library editorial staff. We are proud of Winter granddaughter, Melissa Dorr McCauley for the cover design and overall layout. My prayer is that it will continue to inspire and mobilize many for the cause of reaching the unreached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Barbara R. Winter December 2010

FOREWORD
(To I Will Do a New Thing, 2011)
We all long for something that captures our imagination and motivates us to action. We desire something bigger than us because we serve a God who is working beyond anything we can imagine. Whether you have discerned God using people to embody a vision before, you will see it in the lives of Ralph and Roberta Winter, founders of the U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM). They would say they were merely serious believers seeking to follow God, whatever He might lead them into. Most would say they were uniquely used of God to envision, direct, and influence myriads of Christ followers—directly and indirectly—toward engagement of the unreached with the Gospel.
Some leaders have a clear focus throughout their lives. As you look into the Winters’ lives, it will seem that they get involved in all kinds of different and disconnected things. But the overarching focus, from the 1970s on, has been on effectively communicating Christ to people in cultures without the Gospel. We’re talking about Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Tribal and other groups, most of whom have not met a Christian of any kind. In fact, 86 percent of Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists have never met a Christian. 1
That fact still drives the USCWM.
But this book is not a biography. It is the story of God working in the lives of many people to raise awareness of these unreached people groups. As you read, you will “meet” some of the hundreds of people God used to further His Kingdom purposes through this ministry. You will read of everyday folk who said, “yes” to the vision and plugged in wherever they could.
My wife Kathleen and I have had the privilege of being part of the USCWM since 1982. Before that, I heard Ralph Winter speak when I was in college in 1976, just a month before the USCWM was officially incorporated. On and off, during the next few years, I tracked with the ministry. We missed out on being in Pasadena during those early days . . . the first marches around the campus and the battle with the cult. Once we arrived, we thought we’d be here for a few years, get our bearings and then go overseas as mission workers. But the vision captured us. God kept us here. And because of that, we’ve been able to multiply our lives into hundreds of others, who, in turn have touched thousands of lives. I am still astounded as I meet people God is using all over the globe. God is still calling people to His Kingdom purposes.
Perhaps a paraphrase of the words of Paul to Timothy is best to describe this reality: “The things you have heard from me, in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful people, who will be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2).
Do you need a fresh wind of God in your life? The vision detailed in this book—which we seek to live out day by day—could give that to you.
Greg H. Parsons Global Director, USCWM December 2010

FOREWORD
(To I Will Do a New Thing , 1987)
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