Layzell grew up in St Andrew's Chorleywood where Mike Pilavachi was his youth leader.
After a psychology degree at Birmingham University, he moved to Soul Survivor Watford, where he latterly worked as a worship pastor.
He moved to St Aldate's Church in Oxford, after six years at Soul Survivor, to take up the position of worship director.
[2] He then did a two-year Diploma in Ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an evangelical Anglican theological college, between 2008 and 2010.
He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon by the Bishop of London at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in September 2010,[2] and as a priest in 2011.