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The Christlike Disciplemakers Movement
(CDM) begun as Mobile Evangelistic Unit
(MEU) in 1985 in the Volta Region of
Ghana, West Africa. After years of
ministry as station pastor in the rural
areas and the Volta Regional Pastor of
Gospel Revivals Ministry, Rev. J.F.K.
Mensah and his wife, Georgina Mensah
sensed they were being called to a
ministry of training Christians in
down-to-earth practical topics and
grooming them in evangelistic tools to
fulfil the Great Commission.
Starting with a core group of seven
young men and women at Hohoe, the Mobile
Evangelistic Unit lasted for seven years
within which the meetings grew to a
membership of 107 in 1991. It was an
annual meeting lasting ten days and
attracting members from Lome (Togo),
Accra and several other towns in Ghana.
Topics like Repentance and New Birth,
Water Baptism, Holy Spirit Baptism,
Deliverance from Curses and Demons,
Marriage, Soulwinning, Rural Church
Planting, etc. were taught as
transferable concepts.
The principle of fruitfulness from John
15 was that each year before a member
qualified to attend a meeting, he had to
win, groom or teach one other person
whom he would bring along. The group
impacted members so much that, without
fail, they became firebrands in their
own churches and localities.
In 1991, the Mensah’s had to relocate to
Accra when Rev. Mensah assumed
leadership of a newly-established
church, Great Commission Church
International and challenges and
commitment to the new church was one of
the reasons why the M. E.U. went into
dormancy for the next fifteen years. Rev
& Mrs. Mensah however continued
discipling on the campus of the
University of Ghana, Legon. The
disciples in Togo also sustained their
yearly retreats.
In 2006, September, we had a fasting
session with some of the foundation
members: Togo (6), Ghana (5), and Benin
(1). It was necessary to find out the
Lord’s will about the 40-year vow some
of the members had taken at Hohoe to
fill the world with disciples, and the
way forward.
At the end of that meeting, members were
convinced they had to revive the
40-year-dream and hence, the
commencement of the Christlike
Disciplemakers Movement, which was
agreed to be inter-denominational and
non-denominational but never become a
church so as to serve all churches while
avoiding their blind spots.
September 8th 2007 became the first CDM
meeting time for Ghana in the Mensah
home when there were 45 participants.
The following year, a quality control
meeting was organized in April and the
number rose to 60. In August 2008, the
registered participants came to 160 with
the Lord miraculously providing
accommodation, mattresses, food and all
that was needed for the 3-day retreats.
CDM was officially registered with the
Government in Ghana on 3rd
Nov. 2008 with Reg. No. G-26-120.
In the meantime, Eric Boahen, one of the
disciples from the University of Ghana
went to the UK for his postgraduate
studies and began working with a group
of believers. In 2008, the Mensah’s on
four different trips to the UK met and
encouraged and finally commissioned
CDMUK. CDMUK was officially registered
with the Charity Commission of UK on 2nd
January 2009 with registration number
1127362.
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