Winkie Pratney
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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 also conducts leadership training for youth workers in Europe
, North America
and the Pacific, and has been involved as an advisor and consultant to church, civic, educational, government and social welfare leaders on the needs and problems of today's teenagers.
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 one of the primary contributors, along with Dr. Tamara Winslow (www.tamarawinslow.com) and Steve Hill (www.stevehill.org), of the Revival Study Bible. Youth With A Mission
, one of Pratney's affiliations, has opened the Winkie Pratney Revival Library at its Lindale
, Texas
location. The library houses the biographies and works of Christian revival leaders John Wesley
, Charles Finney and William and Catherine Booth
, among others.
After contracting a serious illness in March 2007, rendering him comatose for 18 days and subsequently hospitalized for months in Seoul, South Korea, Pratney returned to Auckland, where he continued rehabilitation and recovery and has now returned to speaking.
On December 25, 2009, Pratney was admitted to Middlemore Hospital in New Zealand with an aneurysm and superbug infection. He is expected to fully recover.
Christian apologetics
Christian apologetics is a field of Christian theology that aims to present a rational basis for the Christian faith, defend the faith against objections, and expose the perceived flaws of other world views...
, evangelist
Evangelism
Evangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs. The term is often used in reference to Christianity....
, and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
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
Youth With A Mission
Youth With A Mission is an international, inter-denominational, non-profit Christian missionary organization...
, Young Life
Young Life
YoungLife is a worldwide, non-profit, Evangelical Christian organization. YoungLife consists of many branches of ministry , but most commonly the name "YoungLife" refers to the outreach arm of the organization directed toward high school students...
, Youth Alive
Youth Alive
Youth Alive is a not-for-profit multi-denominational Christian organisation dedicated to reaching the youth of Australia with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is run on a state-based structure with offices in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia...
, and Teen Challenge
Teen Challenge
Teen Challenge is a Pentecostal Christian recovery program and a network of Christian social and evangelizing work centers. It is a 12-18 month program that serves drug addicts, alcoholics, gang members, prostitutes and people with other characteristics that the program considers to be...
. Pratney also conducts leadership training for youth workers in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and the Pacific, and has been involved as an advisor and consultant to church, civic, educational, government and social welfare leaders on the needs and problems of today's teenagers.
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 one of the primary contributors, along with Dr. Tamara Winslow (www.tamarawinslow.com) and Steve Hill (www.stevehill.org), of the Revival Study Bible. Youth With A Mission
Youth With A Mission
Youth With A Mission is an international, inter-denominational, non-profit Christian missionary organization...
, one of Pratney's affiliations, has opened the Winkie Pratney Revival Library at its Lindale
Lindale, Texas
Lindale is a city in Smith County, Texas, United States. The town had an estimated population of 5,024 in 2006. It is part of the Tyler, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
location. The library houses the biographies and works of Christian revival leaders John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
, Charles Finney and William and Catherine Booth
William Booth
William Booth was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General...
, among others.
After contracting a serious illness in March 2007, rendering him comatose for 18 days and subsequently hospitalized for months in Seoul, South Korea, Pratney returned to Auckland, where he continued rehabilitation and recovery and has now returned to speaking.
On December 25, 2009, Pratney was admitted to Middlemore Hospital in New Zealand with an aneurysm and superbug infection. He is expected to fully recover.