Reverend Ifan Roberts, General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, has expressed his wish to see growth in all areas of the Church in 2010.

Speaking on BBC Radio Cymru's Bwrw Golwg programme, Reverend Roberts said that any church leader would want growth.

"I'd like to see growth in faith and conviction withint the church family, and a readiness to nurture spiritual growth through prayer, worship and reading the Bible," he noted. "And through this, growth in the way we serve our communities and our world by standing for justice and peace and carrying out acts of love."

"I would also like to see growth in confidence in the face of the secularism of the age, that there is more to life than the material, and that the gospel of Jesus Christ meets all our needs."

He also drew attention to a particular problem facing Welsh-medium churches - lack of new resources. "We need our imaginations to grow so we can produce new resource and use today's media to present the message," he said. "This is a particular challenge for Welsh churches. And to face this challenge we must listen to and use the young generation of Christians.

"Growth of leadership is another key area. We need to encourage and develop new leadership in our churches so that they can lead the church's vision and mission to the future.

"And finally, the byproduct of all this will hopefully be growth in terms of numbers. This is our prayer: that God will renew the church through his Holy Spirit. But we must ensure that the church itself does not deter people from belonging to it."