CORE stands for Church On the Radical Edge and is a challenge to young people to gain a dynamic new perspective on faith while experiencing a new heart commitment to Christ. Ultimate CORE is filled with lessons from the Sermon on the Mount and is written by two youth ministry and evangelism experts.
Winkie Pratney ( - )
After more than three million miles of global travel and sometimes speaking to more than half-a-million annually, Winkie has wide experience in motivating leaders, ministers, educators and young people. Winkie is a mavin, a researcher and public communicator with ability to take existing ideas, break them down to simpler forms and make them practical and freely available to others. His technical background in organic research chemistry and lifelong involvement with musicians and in the arts, has helped him analyze the bottom line of many key areas as diverse as popular youth culture, music, movies, classic and modern revival history and emerging communication and information technology.Having spoken in annual leadership training seminars for over four decades, and to young people for at least five, Winkie has worked with many leading international youth movements including, Champions For Christ, Chi Alpha, Operation Mobilization, Masters Commission, Teen Challenge, Teen Mania, Youth With A Mission, Youth For Christ, Young Life and Youth Alive. A featured speaker at major conferences, conventions, festivals and other gatherings, his "scholarship on fire" approach has impacted multitudes around the globe, and resulted in the creation or formation of new works to effectively reach, encourage and train young people. You can access more materials and resources by Winkie Pratney on his official website.
Winkie Pratney is a youth communicator, Christian apologist, evangelist, and writer from Auckland, New Zealand. With a mostly teenaged audience, Pratney speaks world wide to over 500,000 annually in churches, universities, high-schools, and Christian-oriented festivals.
Pratney's leadership seminars encourage young people to live a Christian lifestyle. He also facilitates training seminars in conjunction with other Christian organizations such as Campus Life, Champions For Christ, Operation Mobilization, Masters Commission, Youth With A Mission, Young Life, Youth Alive, and Teen Challenge.
Pratney is the author of several books including the most recent Youth Aflame: Manual for Discipleship and Ultimate CORE: Church on the Radical Edge and is the primary contributor of the Revival Study Bible.
Winkie Pratney is a youth communicator, Christian apologist, evangelist, and writer. He regularly travels America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific speaking to more than 500,000 young people per year. Pratney is known to speak in Churches, but more usually universities, High-schools, and Christian festivals.
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 currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife, Fae.
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