Mel Lacy was invited to become the first Executive Director of Growing Young Disciples in late 2017. Having been involved with the Growing Young Disciples conference for many years, as well as being significantly committed to both doing and training others to do children’s and youth ministry, she was thrilled to accept the invitation.

Mel has been doing children’s and youth ministry in various ways, countries and contexts for over twenty years. She has had extensive experience in church based children’s and youth ministry and has, more recently, been the Director of the Children’s and Youth Ministry Course at Oak Hill College. She remains passionate about theological training for those in children’s, youth and family ministry and is now on the faculty of Crosslands, heading up the Youth and Children’s Ministry track.

Right from her early ministry days Mel has given much of her free time to serving in various children’s and youth ministry ventures. She was instrumental in establishing a movement in Ireland called Soul Truth, has served at the Keswick Convention in the youth ministry for many years and has also been involved with the youth ministry at Word Alive for over 15 years.

Mel was the author of the New City Catechism Curriculum, published in 2018 by Crossway in partnership with The Gospel Coalition. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with friends, or being on or in water!