Guided Learning for Ministry Teams

Two Programs for Your Governing Body

GOVERNANCE & DISCERNMENT

Embracing Our Call

Explore the spiritual and practical responsibilities of church governance. Your team considers its Calling, the relationship of leadership and structure to mission, covenantal trust, fiduciary oversight, stewardship, and faithful decision-making.

Designed for governing-body members, pastors, and other leaders who share responsibility for the ministry’s direction and oversight.

FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP & STEWARDSHIP

The Ministry of Money

Explore financial leadership as a shared ministry responsibility. Participants examine financial reports, mission-aligned budgeting, finance-team roles, internal controls, responding to financial concerns, and faithful stewardship.

Designed for treasurers, finance committee members, pastors, and governing-body leaders who exercise financial oversight.

Choose Your Learning Pathway

Each program offers a continuous Comprehensive experience or a shorter Foundations starting point with an optional continuation. Each pathway follows its own curriculum sequence.

Comprehensive

A nine-week learning experience that moves through the program’s spiritual and practical themes in one continuous sequence, allowing sustained dialogue and reflection.

Embracing Our Call

9 weeks

The Ministry of Money

9 weeks

Foundations + Optional Continuation

Part A introduces foundational themes. Part B develops additional practical responsibilities and concludes with an integration exercise.

Embracing Our Call

Part A: 5 weeks

Part B: 5 weeks

Part A explores calling, alignment, listening, covenant, and unity. Part B examines governance practice, risk, financial clarity, stewardship, and integration.

The Ministry of Money

Part A: 4 weeks

Part B: 5 weeks

Part A explores financial responsibility, reporting, and budgeting. Part B examines finance-team roles, safeguards, financial concerns, stewardship, and integration.

Part B is optional and may be commissioned after Part A. The two-part Embracing Our Call pathway intentionally spans ten weeks to allow for bridging and integration.

How Your Team Learns Together

Weekly Facilitated Sessions

Each week, Keith Clark-Hoyos facilitates a one-hour Zoom gathering that includes centering, guided dialogue, and group reflection. Discussion questions are adapted to your ministry’s circumstances, helping participants connect the reading with their shared leadership responsibilities.

Reading and Reflection Between Sessions

Participants read selections from the program book, consider weekly dialogue questions, and interact with fellow team members between meetings. The book is included for each participant. For the Foundations pathway, it is provided with Part A.

A Private Learning Space for Your Team

Your team is invited into its own private space within the Effective Church Leadership Community, where learning and conversation continue between sessions.

Within this space, participants have access to:

Bring Guided Learning to Your Governing Body

Tell us which program interests your governing body and whether you prefer Comprehensive or Foundations. We will discuss your team’s circumstances and prepare an individualized quotation for your organization. If you begin with Foundations, the optional continuation may be commissioned later.