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Explore practical Missions resources, including articles, training materials, tools, and videos on discipleship, leadership, multiplication, and unreached peoples.
Missions & Research Resources
Download a variety of practical church planting, disciple-making, and leadership development materials and process manuals in a variety of local languages. The larger sets of materials have both individual download links (PDFs) and a single comprehensive link (zip file) that contains all available PDF documents. If you need Microsoft Word documents for editing or translation, please reach out using our contact form.
Rapidly Advancing Disciples (RAD) – Church Planting Multiplication and Leadership Development Training Materials
RAD is a relational disciple-making and leadership development process that fuels church planting multiplication originally created for rural, semi-literate, and non-literate settings in North India. Leadership development participants gathered once a month for three days of training, followed by field-based coaching and practice throughout the rest of the month. The process began with broad disciple-making training for groups of believers and then moved into an intensive “come and be with me” model with a smaller group of emerging leaders. Through practice, oral learning, mentoring, and ministry experience, participants explored not only how to make disciples and plant churches, but also the biblical and theological foundations behind the work. Since its development, RAD materials and concepts have been translated into more than ten languages and continue to be used by missions practitioners and local partners across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The materials available for download include the full RAD Manual, which explains the complete process, leadership development approach, sample schedules, covenants, coaching questions, and lesson content. Additional resources include a reproducible theological doctrine exercise, a practical Old and New Testament Survey, and short disciple-making booklets designed for translation and use among local believers. While the full manual was primarily written to help missionaries and experienced national partners understand and facilitate the process, the shorter exercises and booklets were intentionally designed to be learned orally, practiced in community, translated into local languages, and passed naturally from one generation of disciples and leaders to the next.
Architekt – Urban Church Planting Multiplication and Leadership Development Training Materials
Architekt is an urban-focused relational disciple-making and leadership development process that fuels church planting multiplication based on the original RAD materials. Leadership development is geared around urban schedules and still included field-based coaching and practice throughout the rest of the month. The process began with broad disciple-making training for groups of believers and then moved into an intensive “come and be with me” model with a smaller group of emerging leaders. Through practice, written and oral learning, mentoring, and ministry experience, participants explored not only how to make disciples and plant churches, but also the biblical and theological foundations behind the work. The Architekt materials are still works-in-progress.
The materials available for download include the full Architekt Manual, which explains the complete process, leadership development approach, sample schedules, covenants, coaching questions, and lesson content. Additional resources include a reproducible theological doctrine exercise, a practical Old and New Testament Survey, and short disciple-making booklets designed for translation and use among local believers. While the full manual was primarily written to help missionaries and experienced national partners understand and facilitate the process, the shorter exercises and booklets were intentionally designed to be learned orally, practiced in community, translated into local languages, and passed naturally from one generation of disciples and leaders to the next.
World Evangelization Conference PowerPoint Presentations
Download PDFs of the PowerPoint presentations given at the World Evangelization Conference at Dallas Theological Seminary in 2025. The three plenary sessions were entitled Defining Lostness, Measuring Lostness, and Engaging Lostness. The videos of these presentations are available below in the Video and Audio Resources section.
Church Planting Assessment Process
The latest IMB Church Planting Assessment Process was developed while I was serving as the Director of Global Research. It is publicly available and a very helpful resource for anyone wanting to do assessments of the maturity and health of church planting and disciple-making movements.
Articles and Publications
Click to download or view various articles and publications written by Wilson Geisler. Article collaborators are listed in the article itself.
Video and Audio Resources
Access Wilson’s video and audio content in one place. This resource section includes plenary sessions from the World Evangelization Conference 2025, the video podcast 57 seconds, and other miscellaneous radio, video, and preaching.
World Evangelization Conference 2025
Three plenary sessions at the World Evangelization Conference 2025 at Dallas Theological Seminary about lostness and how missions’ researchers and agencies define, measure, and engage people groups globally in need of the gospel.
