IDMC: Fulfilling the Great Commission Agenda
The Intentional Disciplemaking Church (IDMC) is anchored on the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:16–20). In this God-given primary agenda for the world, how can we spur each other on in the Body of Christ? We need to return to the Word of God as the compass of our discipleship mandate and disciplemaking mission. At IDMC Conference, we focus on important disciplemaking principles and practices, and deepen our discipleship journeys together, so that we remain mission-true. It is our prayer that through this conference, we see the multiplication of Intentional Disciplemaking Churches to fulfill the Great Commission.
How It All Began
IDMC Conference’s forerunner was an annual disciplemaking church seminar that ran from 1995 to 2000. The Lord led Rev Edmund Chan, Covenant Evangelical Free Church’s Leadership Mentor, to conduct this seminar after his return from sabbatical at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (USA). In 2001, the Lord led him to do a full three-day conference that crystallised the essential teachings of the previous years’ seminars, along with new insights on developing a disciplemaking church. Since then, IDMC Singapore Conference has become an annual gathering of various churches from different denominations across the world.
The Next Lap
At IDMC Singapore Conference 2024, after 30 years of leading the conference, Rev Edmund Chan handed the responsibilities to Rev Tan Kay Kiong and Rev Tony Yeo with the same charge the Lord had given him in the beginning, to return the Church to its disciplemaking roots and to see the multiplication of Intentional Disciplemaking Churches to fulfil the Great Commission. We welcome all disciplemakers and churches to come together in this endeavour to turn the world God-ward one individual, family, village, city, country at a time! See you at our next IDMC Conference!