Christian Mission for the Deaf

The organization, originally known as Christian Mission for Deaf Africans,[1] was founded in 1956 by Andrew Foster.

CMD was "incorporated as a Michigan non-profit organization in 1956"[2] and received tax-exempt status in 1958.

[3] Within 30 years Andrew Foster's mission had opened a total of 31 schools and ministries for the deaf across Africa in: Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Togo, Chad, Senegal, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Gabon, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Congo and Guinea.

[4] The organization aimed to open schools and ministries for the deaf and then to turn them over to others, either the national government or evangelical churches.

[9] The deaf schools established by CMD make use of all communication methods, i.e. "natural gestures, formal sign language, finger-spelling, writing, reading, speech, lip-reading and hearing aids".