BAHAMAS

Status: Formation process incomplete

Established: June 1995, Nassau
Founding Co-ordinator: Ann Peterson
Inactive: since 1998

		Formation Scripture:
	"I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision… (I preached first to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also" – Acts 26:19-20

BARBADOS

Status: Pre-Charter CDF – (PCCDF)

Established: June 1999
Founding Co-ordinator: Anna Forde

Barbados is the outermost Caribbean island and has a British colonial background. The other two CDFs in the Caribbean are Jamaica (also British background) the innermost island, and Puerto Rico – Spanish colonial background and now a territory of the USA. In 1998, Marcia Bryan-Weekes, ICDF Regional Co-ordinator for the Carribbean organised an Evangelical Arts conference which helped to lay the groundwork for a CDF in Barbados. Anna Forde had been the local liaison person, and she went on to become the Co-ordinator for CDF Barbados. Workshops held in conjunction with the Formation Meeting were attended by 60-100 mostly young people from many different churches, and several groups were involved in the Saturday-night outdoor evangelical meeting – including Anna's group from Abundant Life Assembly.

Let us pray that God's lordship and glory will be evident and honoured and people will turn to Him rather than centring on themselves or other gods and that this triangle of fellowship in the Caribbean will be strong and supportive and reach out to the other islands in the area.

		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

CANADA  

Status: National Chartered CDF

Established: February 1991, Calgary
Founding Co-ordinator: Karen Sudds

Inaugural AGM: 1995
Current CDF Co-ordinator: Joint-Coordinators: Belma Vardy & Laurel Fast

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:
	"Not by might, nor by power but by my Spirit", says the Lord – Zech Ch 3,4 "Before she was in labour she gave birth… Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be delivered in one moment?" – Isaiah 66:7-8

COLOMBIA

Status: Pre-Charter CDF – (PCCDF)

Established: June 1999, Cartegena
Founding Co-ordinator: German Dager

Co-ordinator, German Dager, is senior pastor of a pentecostal church in Cartegena, a historic coastal town on the Caribbean. Colombia is the first Latin country in South America with a CDF and is an important gateway to the continent. As well as being a pastor, German and his wife Ileana run a dance school and come from a professional dance background. It was a dream of Pastor Dager's for many years to have a conference in the city's beautiful convention centre. The conference "Redeeming the Arts for Jesus", held in July 1999 with over 400 delegates, was the realisation of this dream and the occasion for founding the CDF. There was a concert held every evening, and an outreach event on the last day during which 20-30 people responded to give their lives to the Lord.

		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

COSTA RICA

Status: Pre-Charter CDF – (PCCDF)

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:
	"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

JAMAICA

Status: Pre-Charter CDF – (PCCDF)

Established: June 1996, Kingston
Founding Co-ordinator: Pat Noble

Current Coordinator: Annette Richards

		Formation Scripture:
	"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." – Psalm 119:105 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light" – Matthew 6:22 "Those who look to him are radiant: their faces are never covered with shame" – Psalm 34:5

MEXICO

Status: Formation process incomplete

Established: February 1992, Monterey
Founding Co-ordinator: Nelly Abrego
Inactive: since 1995

		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

PUERTO RICO

Status: Pre-Charter CDF – (PCCDF)

Established: February 1992, San Juan
Founding Co-ordinator: Wanda Vargas
Current Formation Co-ordinator: Lilly Hermosa

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:
	"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

SURINAME

Status: Pre-Charter CDF – (PCCDF)

Established: July 1998
Founding Coordinator: 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:
	"I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" – John 14:6

USA  

Status: National Chartered CDF

Established: 1992, Tampa, Florida
Founding Co-ordinator: Pamela Hall

Inaugural AGM: June 1993, Dallas, Texas
Current CDF Co-ordinators (joint): Pamela Rutherford and Karla Jerkins

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.