In 2015, Laura-Catherine Dias volunteered at Edwards Street Fellowship Center during her senior year of college where she began to offer one free ballet class to 12 girls as an after school program.

She decided to name the class Leaps of Faith.

Since then, we have seen the Lord move in mighty and awesome ways, and we have seen God provide every need when it looked impossible.

In 2021, we became an official 501(c)3 nonprofit.

In 2022, LC took a huge “leap of faith” and left her job as a first grade teacher to start working at Leaps of Faith full time.

Today, we have our own studio space, 2 full time co-workers, and approximately 110 kids in our program with over 50 kids on our waitlist.

Through out all the years, our mission has stayed the same: to provide high-quality ballet instruction to underserved populations, using dance as a vehicle to share the gospel, cultivate worship, and inspire dancers to grow in their faith and artistic expression.

At Leaps of Faith, we envision a world where the transformative power of Jesus Christ changes lives through the art of ballet, empowering dancers and their families to live as devoted followers of Him.

We strive to ensure that people who might not otherwise have access to classical ballet can experience both the beauty of dance and the boundless love of Christ.

We've had creative worship classes, movie nights, field trips, performed at local festivals, and worshipped Jesus lots. We've seen God provide every need in His perfect timing. We've seen Him and have fallen more in love with Him.

We've learned that the miracle isn't that God has grown our program from 8 kids to over 100, or that we have a studio, teachers, costumes, and everything else we need...

The miracle is that God gives us Himself, and He loves us so much that He keeps pursuing us and making a way back to where our hearts find joy and rest. The miracle is that we are His treasure and He is ours.

Today, we are excited to see what is the next ‘Leap of Faith’ God will call us to. We are expectant the Lord will do far greater things we can imagine. At Leaps of Faith, we pray to continue to grow our programs, expand our studio space, and see the Lord bring many people to come to love and follow Christ.

We are praying for God to send people to link arms with us for this work to continue. To be apart of the work God is doing here at Leaps of Faith, click the links below.