Lucy has enjoyed paddling around in ICDF circles for many years…
sometimes feeling beached by the waves of busyness generated through a variety of “glocal” leadership and ministry adventures. However, she reckons that a sip from the Scriptures (the written/spoken Word), and a frolic in the fount of living waters promised by Jesus (the Living Word), gets things into perspective instead of perspiration!

Lucy’s life-long passion for dance-arts, faith-journey and learning, opened opportunities to study, travel and “create” (ICDF providing a particularly influential pathway for inspiration, personal transformation and friendships). Practical and project-based qualifications, including a Graduate Diploma in Applied Social Sciences (Adult Education) and an Advanced Certificate in Creative Ministries enabled her to produce and implement short courses for students of various age, ethnic background, dance expression and religious affiliation,

Wife to Andrew, Mother, Step-mother, and Grandmother, who does paid administration work for a local Social Services provider, Lucy wonders why she choreographs and dances to original poetry less often than she leads teams in-person and online for ICDF Australia’s The New Thing initiative! However, the discovery of magic elastic, enables the stretching of time for her to voluntarily engage as educator, consultant and/or facilitator (taking dance and creativity) into less dance-aware ministry spaces (e.g. the Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), the Australian Student Christian Movement (ASCM) and World Student Christian Federation (WSCF).

Years of friendships and collaborative work amongst the Aboriginal Christian community in Australia (such as Scarred Tree Indigenous Ministries) along with fresh insights from ICDF Pentecost Prayer Watches and other trips to Middle Eastern destinations have inspired Lucy to develop creative works and resources, journeying deep into holistic intelligences, the story of empowerment for women, peace-promotion and non-violent social justice activism.

WORKSHOP 1: X-streamly Vocal Dance

Make a fresh splash in your practice of creative art!
Mix some words with some moves to discover something new.
Some paradigms will shift as your perceptions are unskewed.

This workshop is designed to awaken the imagination by mixing the media of written, spoken, and movement expression.

It’s a bit X-stream…

X… the Greek letter “chi”, first letter of Christ’s name in Greek

Stream… flowing in the River of abunDANCED Life found in and through Jesus

but you’ll enjoy this immersion and be refreshed in your ability “to create” using words and physical eXpression, as an individual and as an individual-in-community!

*Suitable for ALL levels of dance ability and/or training.
*Facilitated in the English language, but principles can be applied to other languages and a variety of “movement” dialects in the language of Dance.

WORKSHOP 2: Make SOME WAVES: be APEST for the Kingdom Come

This workshop empowers dance creatives to embrace their missional calling and live out the "Jesus-patterned" way of being the Church. Using dance as a holistic expression of Christian faith, it introduces the APEST framework (Apostolic, Prophetic, Evangelistic, Shepherding, Teaching) based on the Ascension giftings in Ephesians. Participants explore how these roles equip and mature the Body of Christ to bring God’s transformative love to the world.

Through creative worship arts, the workshop encourages participants to deepen their understanding of this five-fold ministry, fostering unity and diversity in faith expression. Open to all, regardless of dance experience, it offers a starting point for integrating these practices into daily life and ministry, with the ultimate goal of helping creation flourish as God intended.