When outgoing ASM president Ralph D. Winter was asked to tailor his address to the special circumstances of a joint meeting between the ASM and a sister organization, the International Association of Mission Studies, he decided to present a large canvas interpreting the overall phenomenon of Protestant missions in American experience. The special focus of this address, now in the form of an article, is characteristic of a recurring emphasis in his writings: a comparison between Protestant and Catholic structural mechanisms of mission. His historical summary attempts to explain both how and why the number of overseas missionaries sent out by member denominations of the NCCCUSA is now less than 71/2% of the U.S. Protestant total.
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