Winkie Pratney
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winkie Pratney (born 3 August 1944) 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. Winkie Pratney calls Auckland, New Zealand, home, but is rarely there. Winkie Pratney is often called the world's oldest teenager due to his precise knowledge and understanding of the current youth culture, even though he is 62 [1] [2]. His technical background in both science and pop music culture has given him a unique insight into the particular needs of a media-dominated technological society.
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.
Pratney is the author of several books including Youth Aflame: Manual for Discipleship, which is used by many youth movements as their primary training manual. His most recent book is Ultimate CORE: Church on the Radical Edge. He is also the primary author of a completed but not yet published, Revival Study Bible.
Pratney's life long study of Biblical Revival has lead to the opening of the Winkie Pratney Revival Library located on Youth With A Mission's largest mainland-US base in Lindale, Texas. The library contains many rare volumes, some considered to be priceless and comprises more than 10,000 volumes, the library offers a unique look at the lives and teachings of historic revival leaders such as John Wesley, Charles Finney and William and Catherine Booth.
He currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife, Fae.
[edit] Books
- Youth Aflame: Manual for Discipleship, Self published, 1964.
- A Handbook for Followers of Jesus, Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, 1977.
- Doorways to Discipleship, Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, 1977.
- Star Wars. Star Trek And The 21st Century Christians, Bible Voice, 1978.
- Youth Aflame: Manual for Discipleship, Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, 1983.
- Revival, Whitaker House, 1984.
- The Nature and Character of God , Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, 1988.
- The Thomas Factor, Chosen Books Pub Co, 1989.
- El Joven Y Su Mundo, Nelson Group, 1992.
- El Joven Y Su Amigos, Nelson Group, 1992.
- Guía Para El Discipulado: Tomos 1, 2 Y 3, Nelson Group, 1992.
- Healing the Land: A Supernatural View of Ecology, Chosen Books Pub Co, 1993.
- El Joven Y Sus Dilemas, Nelson Group, 1993.
- Revival: Its Principles and Personalities, Huntington House Publishers, 1994.
- El Joven Y Su Dios, Nelson Group, 1994.
- Dealing With Doubt: When the Light Goes Out, Fleming H Revell Co, 1998.
- Fire on the Horizon: How the Revival Generation Will Change the World, Gospel Light Publications, 1999.
- Fuego en el horizonte, Nelson Group, 2000.
- Revival: Principles to Change the World, Christian Life Books, 2002.
- Ultimate CORE: Church on the Radical Edge, Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, 2004.
