Americas 
National CDFs
(by region):
(by region):
- ARGENTINA
Current Representative: Susana Guiragossian Gastaldi
- CANADA
Website: www.cdfcanada.com
Established: February 1991, Calgary
Founding Co-ordinator: Karen Sudds
Inaugural AGM: 1995
Current CDF Co-ordinator: Diane Sekuloff
Prophecy: Picture of Canada as a maple leaf in the snow with the veins like tributaries carrying life to all parts of the country as it stays attached to the source of life. The top of the maple leaf is like the crown – Jesus, Saviour, King of Glory.
Opportunities for:
• Fellowship; • Encouragement, support and training; • Exchange of ideas and insights; • Experiencing a diversity of dance and movement styles (Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip Hop, Jewish Folk Dance, other cultural dance styles, Tambourine, Flags, Mime, Sign Language, Irish, Swing, and more); • Providing national networking, vision and resources for individuals in dance and movement ministries from diverse Christian denominations across Canada; • Supporting and guiding the formation of new Chapters; • Interaction with other dance/arts organizations; • Promoting in the Church an understanding of the theology and ministry of dance and movement as an expression of corporate and personal worship.
Formation Scripture:
"Jesus said "I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing"
– John 15:5 - COSTA RICA
Established: November 1999
Founding Co-ordinator: Patricia Brearley
Founding Co-ordinator Patricia Brearley is a Pentecostal pastor and director of Jubilee School of the Arts. In March 2000, CDF Costa Rica planned an arts conference with local and international teachers and the theme was "Rebuilding the Tabernacle of David". When the dates were chosen Co-ordinator Patricia was not aware that this week had also been chosen by the government to be a national festival of the arts. The CDF conference was chosen as one of the official festival events, and the first Christian one.
Formation Scripture:
"Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint"
– Isaiah 40:31 - JAMAICA
Established: June 1996, Kingston
Founding Co-ordinator: Pat Noble
Current Representative: Annette Richards
Formation Scripture:
"Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp. For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation."
– Psalm 149:3-4 - PUERTO RICO
Established: February 1992, San Juan
Founding Co-ordinator: Wanda Vargas
Current Formation Co-ordinator: Lilly Rodriguez
CDF Puerto Rico made a strong start and then after a few years of inactivity Carmen Lopez became Coordinator and organized conferences and activities which brought together the large numbers of mostly young people involved in the dance groups in the region. After Carmen moved to the USA Ruth Vazquez and now Lilly Hermosa became Coordinator.
Formation Scripture:
"No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light..."
– Luke 11:33,36
"I appointed you as a prophet to the nations"
– Jeremiah 1:5 - ST.MAARTEN
Current Representative: Miranda Patterson
- SURINAME
Established: July 1998
Founding Co-ordinator: Helianthe Eersel
Current coordinator: Noel Filemon
Originally Dutch Guyana, this beautiful country borders the Caribbean at the top of South America, and has a population which is a mixture of Africans, Indians, Indonesians, Ameri-Indians, Chinese and Europeans. The CDF was begun at their first conference which saw 250 people register for the weekend of workshops. There are several dance groups in the churches, but little contact with the wider world, although CDF Suriname has been reaching out to the countries surrounding it.
Formation Scripture:
"You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."
– Isaiah 55:12 - TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Current Representative: Celeste Ollivierre
- USA
Website: www.cdfusa.us
Established: 1992, Tampa, Florida
Founding Co-ordinator: Pamela Hall
Inaugural AGM: June 1993, Dallas, Texas
Current CDF Co-ordinators (joint): Cheryl Esch and Dawn Churchill
In 1991, several meetings were held across the USA to promote the upcoming ICDF Conference in Israel, and a vision for a USA national CDF was shared. In 1992, CDF USA was established at the Movement Arts in Worship Conference in Florida. Pamela Hall, who had represented the USA at the 1991 ICDF Conference in Israel, was elected as the USA Founding National Co-ordinator. The Inaugural AGM was held at the first CDF USA National Conference – "Seeking the Face of God" – in Dallas, Texas, in 1993, and CDF USA was officially chartered into ICDF.
The Fellowship has continued to grow with both individual membership and State Chapters, beginning with Florida and Texas, and followed by other states in the following years. Subsequent National Conferences in 1995 ("Taking Up The Mantle For Your Life"), 1997 ("Touched by the Master's Hand") and 1999 ("Woven Together in Him") 2001 ("Preparing the Way"), 2003 ("Every Tribe and Tongue" for ICDF), 2005 ("Returning our Hearts back to Worship ... Equipping the Saints) all were very well attended, and God's blessings have been evident. CDF USA has been instrumental in the establishment of CDFs in the Carribean.
Formation Scripture:
"I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me"
– John 14:6
