Logging
some 150,000+ miles a year and often speaking with over half-a-million
young people annually, Winkie has wide experience in youth
work. His technical background in both science and the popular
music culture has given him a unique insight to the particular
needs of a media-dominated technological society, and his
constant monitoring of youth trends combined with continual
feedback from young people themselves has helped him interpret
these for those with a vital interest in the welfare of the
young.
Besides
annual leadership training seminars he has for three decades
helped challenge and inspire young people to holy and happy
living. Winkie is involved with helping and training young
people of all ages and works with many leading international
youth movements including Campus Life, Champions For Christ,
Operation Mobilization, Masters Commission, Youth With A Mission,
Young Life, Youth Alive, and Teen Challenge. He conducts
yearly leadership training for youth workers in Europe, North
America and the Pacific, and has been involved as an advisory
and consultant to church, civic, educational, government and
social welfare leaders on the needs and problems of modern
teenagers. He occasionally speaks in churches, but his primary
call is to students.
A
frequent featured speaker and guest on national television
talk shows, his audio and video-tape lectures are carried
by many effective outreach ministries as part of their training.
Winkie has authored more than twelve books including youth
manuals like the best-selling Youth Aflame!, Handbook
For Followers Of Jesus, books on contemporary and historical
issues like Devil Take The Youngest, Revival - Twenty Centuries
Of Vision and Visitation, Dealing With Doubt and
evangelistic and apologetic works like the contemporary devotional
theology The Nature And Character Of God.
He
and his son Bills' newest training work for GenXers The
Daniel Files and other training materials are available
free on-line via the Internet.* His "scholarship on fire"
approach has resulted in the conversion of multiplied thousands
of teenagers, the creation of powerful new ministries and
the continual encouragement of multitudes of young believers
and their leadership.
Winkie
is a New Zealander and maintains a low organizational profile;
no staff or mailing-list. He does not stock his own books,
videos or tapes so as to encourage Christian bookstores and
other ministries that do carry his materials. He is sometimes
known to reply to mail, (especially from teenagers) but his
frequent travels discourage lengthy correspondence and he
leaves personal counseling to pastors and churches. He with
his gracious wife Faeona and awesome son Billy live sometimes
in New Zealand and visit often Australia, Canada, Europe and
the USA. You can contact him occasionally away from home at:
Box
876
Lindale, TX 75771
USA
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