Status of the Task and the State of the Church International Mission Board’s Multi-Indicator Engagement Scales for Peoples and Places

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Wilson Geisler
Jim Courson

Abstract

While the current people group engagement scales have been helpful for assessing the status of people groups, a changing ethno-linguistic landscape driven by the modern realities of globalization and urbanization requires new criteria and engagement scales. A new non-Boolean, multi-indicator engagement scale, developed in recent years by IMB’s Global Research Department and field researchers to solve the major concerns with the existing engagement scales, will be presented along with its current and future use cases. 

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Wilson Geisler, IMB

Wilson Geisler is the Director of Global Research for the International Mission Board (IMB).  Wilson has a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Master of Science in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.  He is a software developer and previous owner of Inertia Software, Inc. in Austin, Texas.  He served with IMB in various strategy and leadership roles for 13 years in South Asia and the Middle East before becoming IMB’s Director of Global Research in 2019. 

Jim Courson, IMB

Jim Courson has a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Master of Theology from Asbury Theological Seminary. He served with IMB in East Asia for 17 years and, since 2007, has worked as a GIS Analyst with IMB’s Global Research Department. He also serves as editor of the Registry of Peoples.