The Goals of the Lyke Conference are . . .

• To provide a culturally rich atmosphere encompassing music, art, ritual, and other activities and experiences that will inspire and enable participants to enrich worship services in their own parishes. 

• To provide participants with spiritually uplifting and unifying knowledge that can be shared with their parish communities and families.

• To facilitate an ongoing dialogue involving the African American community and the Catholic Church.

• To grace the prayer life of God's people through the development of liturgical resources that are rooted in the Black experience and truly Catholic.

• To teach, train, and form liturgical ministers.

• To develop and inspire our youth spiritually and culturally to recognize and share their giftedness and to share their time and talents in fostering Christian values.

• To promote and develop lay ministerial leadership as well as vocations to the priesthood and religious life in the African American community.

• To evangelize within the African American community and other communities.