Leading your Church into Growth is a Christian organisation that equips church leaders and churches of all kinds to grow.
For over 30 years, LyCiG has been serving local churches across the country with a vision to encourage and equip them to grow in numbers, spiritual depth and in service to their local communities.
LyCiG runs residential conferences, provides training days and resources as well as supporting dioceses in developing their own growth programmes. It helps all kinds of churches – anglocatholic, charismatic, evangelical and liberal, rural and urban, big and small.
Revd Sue Cooke (pictured) talks about LyCiG’s support for worshipping communities and Southwark’s upcoming conference.
Sue writes:
At the end of January 2025 I left parish ministry to take up a new role as National Director of Leading Your Church Into Growth (LyCiG). I am passionate about the parish and still believe there is hope for the local church. I first came in to contact with LyCiG as a curate and have used the principles in the churches I have led and we definitely saw growth – numerically, spiritually and missionally. A few years ago, I was invited to become part of the volunteer speaking team and loved it, especially when I travelled twice to Australia to launch LyCiG in the Diocese of Melbourne.
Research has shown that churches who come on a conference and follow through on the principles and their own action plan typically grow their worshipping community by 10% per annum and their under 18s worshipping community by 18% above the national average. The success of LyCiG has been recognised by the national church and we have been given funding to scale up our work over the next three years to reach 1000 parishes across the country. We teach are simple steps culminating in individual parish plans. Key to the success of any conference are parish teams coming. The combination of clergy and laity working, dreaming and planning together is vital to impact of the conference.
I am delighted that Southwark will be hosting a LyCiG conference from September 22-24th and I will be joined at that conference by Rev Canon Anna Normal-Walker and Bishop Rhiannon King. I really hope your parishes will consider sending a team and joining us. LyCiG works across all the traditions and contexts of the CofE and you do not need to be a resource church or wealthy to be able to learn from the conference, apply the principles and then see growth in your own contexts.
To register for the upcoming LyCiG conference click here and for more information about the LyCiG conference, please email [email protected] with ‘LyCiG’ in the subject line.
