The Herald Wednesday, October 3, 1979, Page § Terry Winter comes across as sincere By DON SCHAFFER I attended the Terry, Winter Terrace Alive crusade ‘at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre, with some reservations. I expected to be dunned with requests for money, in the manner of the noterious TV evangelists such as Jimmy Bakker of the PTL Club. The evening was a pleasant surprise, however, with Winter's program featuring very good singers and musicians, and a dignified and persuasive speech by Winter, which had at least thirty people walting to accept Christ as their saviour at the end of the evening. Winter’s speech was the final event on the program which lasted about two hours, The entire program was professional, but that is not.to say that it was slick, geared to the hellfire and damnation level that some evangelists choose to operate on. Winter does not seek to convert the people by literally scaring the Hell out of them. His approach is sincere and warm, and rather than threats of Satan and the negative side of Christianity, Winter emphasizes the positive aspect of the religion as it is lived by those who he refers to as real Christians, those who really wish to be forgiven their sins, and who try to live their lives according to the Shatford who attends the Evangelical Free Church in Terrace led the audience in a hym most impressive parts of the gathering is that not just the evangelical branch of the Christian religion was represented. ; nsing. One of the It was not geared to the stereotyped ‘‘Jesus- jumper’ crowd which readers of the Grapes of Wrath would expect, but was a controlled evening of sur- prisingly intelligent argument for the adoption of the Christian faith, and the hymns which were sung were non