Leading Your Church into Growth
A course for clergy and lay leaders looking to grow their church
LEADING YOUR CHURCH INTO GROWTH offers specialised training to equip clergy and lay leaders to develop and plan for a culture of church growth. Here, you will find information about the course and its different contexts, along with opportunities for follow-up learning and diocesan partnerships.
Missional challenge
There has been a general, long-term decline in church attendance (both adults and children).
Missional opportunity
How can we support churches where there is a lack of belief that churches can actually grow? Training clergy and laity together provides an opportunity to create a culture of growth and a plan for growth.
Resource
The Leading Your Church into Growth course is aimed at clergy and lay leaders looking to grow their church. The course explores growth in different contexts and churchmanships, including Catholic evangelism, multi-parish benefices, rural and small churches, evangelism with specific people groups, and Fresh Expressions. The course enables churches to begin a planned journey of growth, with plans for sustained partnership and ongoing support after the conference, as well as some pre-conference sessions.
Impact
Churches have seen their worshipping communities grow 10% above the national average, with 18% of this growth coming from children and young people (CYP).
First steps
Clergy and lay leaders can attend a national residential course. There is a follow up course for clergy to run for their church (The Local Course). LyCiG also run courses in partnership with dioceses and these have worked successfully both as residential and non residential conferences.
