United States Center for World Mission. An evangelical foreign missions center in Pasadena, California. Begun in 1976 by Ralph (a professor at Fuller Seminary’s School of World Mission) and Roberta Winter, the United States Center for World Mission (USCWM) was conceived as a strategic center from which the world’s 17,000 distinguishable people groups would be reached with the gospel. In order to provide facilities for the Center, the Winters negotiated the purchase of the thirty-five-acre campus of the former Pasadena College for $15 million.
An innovative plan called for one million people to donate $15 each, thus avoiding competition with donations to mission agencies and creating a wide base of support for the vision of the USCWM. The down payment for the property was raised and soon dozens of evangelical mission agencies had bases at the Center, carrying on research and training and mobilizing people for missions. By 1986 there were three hundred full-time workers on campus representing more than seventy mission agencies. By 1988 Winter’s fund-raising plan, adjusted to solicit 8,000 pledges of $1,000 “advances” against later small donors, had virtually paid for the property. With renewed dedication, the dozens of specialized mission agencies based at USCWM were sparking efforts to engage the whole church in the task of establishing reproducing congregations in every people group on the planet by the year 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. R. H. Winter, I Will Do a New Thing (1987).
D. G. Tinder
D. G. Tinder D. G. Tinder Tinder, Donald G., Ph.D., Yale University. Christian Missions in Many Lands, Belgium.
Daniel G. Reid et al., Dictionary of Christianity in America (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1990).
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