Reverend Jeresim Offa Jehu-Appiah, an Organiser of the defunct Young Pioneer Movement of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), who lost the battle against ill health on November 8, 2012, was buried in Mozano on May 25. The 78- year –old Rev Jehu-Appiah, affectionately called “Uncle Kwame Afful” was the Father of Musama Disco Christo (MDCC). He was the last surviving son of the Founder of MDCC also known as “The Army of Christ Church”; the late Prophet Jemisiham Jehu-Appiah, formerly Joseph William Egyanka Appiah who was a Teacher-Catechist in the Methodist Church and an Executive Member of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society and the late Prophetess Natholomoa Jehu-Appiah, Co- founder of the church. Born on December 15, 1934 the late church father started his secondary education at Jehu-Appiah Memorial College at Agona Swedru and completed at West African College in Accra. He was employed at the Indian High Commission and was transferred to the commission’s office in Lagos, Nigeria. Rev Jehu-Appiah returned to Ghana and undertook a course at the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute at Winneba. After the course, he was appointed the District Organiser of the Young Pioneers Movement at Apam and held the position a few months before the coup that overthrew Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah in 1966. In 1969, he contested as Parliamentary Candidate of Action Party for Gomoa West and lost. He served in various capacities in the MDCC, including Secretary to the Akaboha, (Spiritual and Administrative Head of the Church) and General Secretary. Rev Sumakopa Jehu-Appiah, of the branch of the church in London, who read a tribute on behalf of the Third Generation of the Jehu- Appiah family said: “We recall that (Uncle Kwame Afful) you were the children whose early lives entailed mighty sacrifices on account of the vision God placed in the heart and hands of your father. We affirm that we draw much faith and inspiration from you.” “Paapa if it were possible, we would have dickered with death over your departure in order that your exit would be deferred for you to stay a little while to enjoy the fruits of the seed you propagated in our lives before passing on, but what can we do?” A tribute by the grandchildren said. A tribute by the church said Rev Jehu-Appiah was made the church father because of his long and meritorious service towards the development of the MDCC.