Leading your Church into Growth is for clergy and lay leaders from across church traditions who are looking for encouragement and equipping in leading their churches into growth. Growth is something we all want to see in our Churches! So let's discover together how we can develop as people and grow the kingdom of God.
A LyCiG Journey
Lynda, Vicar at Cottenham and Rampton, and Ian, Churchwarden, talk about their LyCiG journey after attending the Ely Diocese conference in 2023.
Looking ahead to our Leading your Church into Growth (LyCiG) conference.
Our LyCiG Ely Diocese conference is taking place over the weekend of 15 & 16 March 2025. The conference is much more effective if there is more than one person from a benefice attending. These could be a churchwarden, PCC member, ALM, LLM or someone who is passionate about seeing the church grow. It means that these people can make plans and decide next steps. To support this, the cost of the conference is being covered by the diocese.
The diocese is also committed to ensuring those benefices wishing to attend have adequate cover in their churches on the Sunday. If you need service cover to be arranged centrally, please indicate this on the application form, as well as letting us know about any dietary or access requirements. Lunch will be provided, and parking is available at the Diocesan office, we would encourage car sharing wherever possible.
The dates and timings for this year's conference are as follows:
Saturday 15 March 10:00am-4:00pm
Sunday 16 March 10:00am-4:00pm
At Etheldreda House, CB6 3NX
Book your places on the conference here: elydatabase.org/events/mission_ministry
Find out more about Leading your Church into Growth
You may want to use the Leading your Church into Growth prayer (below) with your PCCs, or during the weekly Sunday service, or in your own prayer time.
Leading your Church into Growth prayer
God of Mission
Who alone brings growth to your Church,
Send your Holy Spirit to give
Vision to our planning,
Wisdom to our actions,
Joy to our worship,
And power to our witness.
Help our church to grow in numbers,
In spiritual commitment to you,
And in service to our local community,
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen