LICC Manchester is a response to repeated requests from people in the North-West to have ‘live’ access to the kind of culturally engaged, Biblical thinking that London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC) provides through its events and courses.
LICC was founded by John Stott in 1982 with the core belief that every part of our lives comes under the Lordship of Christ, and that all of life is a context for worship, mission, ministry and active Christian engagement – twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week – whole-life Christianity.
The Manchester partnership exists to enable the delivery of LICC’s Vision to ‘contribute to the transformation of the UK by making whole-life discipleship an unavoidable, central, operationally active component of the culture of the leaders and people of the Church’, through working together in the North-West, beginning in Manchester.
By building on LICC Manchester’s existing connections across 300 churches in the North-West, as well as national and local television and radio networks and those in theological colleges, we believe we have an opportunity to:
- Serve the local church and Christians in the workplace
- Work in closer partnership with theological colleges and other Christian charities and organisations
- Run events locally aimed at meeting the needs of Christians in the North-West
- Create a context for building local and national wisdom capacity through staff and supporters LICC Manchester
LICC Manchester came into being in May 2005. Its operational Steering Group is drawn from a wide Core Team of church, theological college and business leaders and professionals, including Andrew Belfield, Sue Green, Marijke Hoek, Neil Hudson, Stephen Ibbotson, Shirley Jenner, Kim Lau, Sally Orwin, Peter Rae, Becky Silver, Caleb Storkey, Anna Whitfield, Rob Whittaker, Sarah Whittle and Jan Wright.
LICC Manchester runs an annual events programme aimed at equipping Christians to engage with contemporary culture.
