You and your leadership team are invited!
‘Leading your Church into Growth’ (LyCiG for short) is coming to Suffolk! If you’ve never heard of LyCiG it’s a course offering practical help to partner with God to grow your church(es).
We do hope you and your leadership/ministry team can come to one of the sessions. LyCiG has been blessing the wider Church for over 25 years and we know from many other dioceses that participating can make a real difference to local churches. We, your Archdeacons and the LyCiG team look forward to seeing you there! Do book as soon as you can.
What is LyCiG?
LyCiG offers practical help to partner with God to grow your church(es). The aims of the course are to:
- Inspire you as leaders to help lead your church(es) into growth
- Encourage you to feel that, in your own way, at your own pace, and with God’s help you can do it
- Equip you with a straightforward and workable strategy
- Give you teaching resources so you can share LyCiG with others in your church
- Enable you to create (or finesse) and implement a Growing in God plan for growth.
The material created is the cumulative work of a team of people across the UK who all have experience of leading growing, healthy churches. The LyCiG team includes those who have experience of ministering in urban and rural contexts, places of social need and places of wealth, large single parishes, multi-parish benefices and Fresh Expressions of church. The content presented is not of a particular tradition or theology and it aims to have something to help all local churches of all sizes to grow.
Our next session is 2025
Keep a look out for details for 2025 on 13 - 15 June 2025 - booking details will be released in 2025.
Costs
This is a free event, however you will need to organise your own transport (ideally sharing lifts) but apart from that, this conference is being paid for by the Diocese so it is FREE to you. In return, the organisers would appreciate that you come to each session and that you will run ‘LyCiG Local’ (like a mini LyCiG) within six months of the conference in your local church. The materials for this will be provided free of charge and the idea is that you cascade what you have learnt from the conference to your PCC or wider congregation.
Cohort one
Your follow up sessions are:
Saturday 21 September 2024 | Bury St Edmunds venue tbc
Saturday 11 January 2025 | By Zoom
Saturday 8 March 2025 | Ipswich St Thomas the Apostle
More details about booking these events will be available soon.