The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity was founded in 1982 by
John Stott to equip Christians to make a radical difference for Christ in the contemporary world - in their workplaces, neighbourhoods, schools and colleges. LICC today acts, nationally and internationally, as a champion for whole-life discipleship and for mission 'wherever you are'. The multi-disciplinary team provides a wide range of resources for Christians, leaders, theological colleges and Christian agencies through courses, conferences, publications, videos, email and the web.

LICC's role is to:

• Envision and equip Christians, and the leaders, churches and organisations that serve them, with the biblical framework, practical resources and models to engage biblically, relevantly and vigorously with the issues they face in today's world.
• Develop and disseminate expertise in specific areas of contemporary life.

For much of the first two decades of LICC's existence we sought to fulfil this role primarily through teaching and writing, pioneering the internationally acclaimed Christian in the Modern World Course and offering a range of seminars and courses for lay people and church leaders, focused on applying biblical thinking to key areas of contemporary concern.

Indeed, as a result of exposure to LICC's focus on whole-life Christianity, there are people all over the world who are living more fruitful and liberated lives, people who have, for example built businesses or street ministries, or refashioned their pastoral ministry or their discipling of students, or founded institutes like LICC in their own countries, taught their children differently or boldly reached out to work colleagues.

In the last ten years, since the Board's appointment of Mark Greene as Executive Director, the Institute has continued to maintain its historic commitment to teaching but has also sought to make LICC an 'influencing' institution with a much more intentional strategy of bringing whole-life Christian discipleship and mission to the centre of Church thinking and strategy across the denominations.