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Former IMB VP says fired communicators ‘grossly undervalued and maligned’

February 24, 2016

By Joni B Hannigan, Christian Examiner

RICHMOND, Va. (Christian Examiner) – A former high ranking administrator at the International Mission Board cried “foul” in an online posting last week following a statement by IMB President David Platt that 30 communications missionaries let go last month were downsized as the result of their failure to keep current in the digital age.

Calling Platt’s statement about the team “patently inaccurate,” Ken Winter said the team’s “stellar efforts have been grossly undervalued and maligned.”

Winter, who a year ago stepped down as vice president of church and partner services, in a Feb. 19 blog entry in which he spoke fondly of about 200 “gifted and godly” men and women who accepted a “voluntary retirement incentive” offered by the IMB, but had choice words about the suggested deficiencies attributed to the 30 others who were involuntarily “removed.”

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