Embracing Our Call

Embracing Our Call: A Practical Guide for Church Governing Body Leaders

Book Overview

Embracing Our Call is a Spirit-led guide for church governing body leaders seeking clarity, integrity, and faithful direction. With practical tools and spiritual insight, this book helps congregations align their Calling, Energy, and Resources to fulfill the mission God has given them.

Whether you’re new to church leadership or guiding a congregation through transition, you’ll find encouragement, structure, and wisdom in these pages. Topics include bylaws, board roles, financial stewardship, healthy meetings, and communal discernment—offered in a tone that honors both the sacred and the practical work of leadership.

About the Author

Keith Clark-Hoyos is a church leadership consultant and former judicatory executive with a heart for equipping congregations. He founded Church Training Center to help churches align their Calling, Energy, and Resources through spiritually grounded governance, financial clarity, and practical tools. With decades of experience guiding boards and ministry leaders, Keith brings pastoral care and organizational wisdom to every page.

What You’ll Learn

• How to align your congregation’s mission with God’s calling
• Practical approaches to church bylaws and governance structures
• Effective financial stewardship and resource management
• Techniques for facilitating healthy, Spirit-led meetings
• Methods for communal discernment and decision-making
• Ways to navigate leadership transitions and challenges
• Frameworks for maintaining accountability and integrity

Table of Contents Highlights

• The Spirit Has Placed Us Here
• The Threefold Cord
• Stewarding the Storehouse
• Hearing the Silence
• Wisdom That Builds the House
• Forming Our Structure
• Meeting in the Presence of God
• Shepherds After My Own Heart
• Accountability in Action
• Plans Committed in Prayer
• Blessed Are the Peacemakers
• Iron Sharpens Iron
• Unity in Calling
• Appendix: Governance & Finance Terms
• 10 Practices of Spirit-Led Governance

Perfect For

• Church board members and elders
• Ministry team leaders
• Pastors and church staff
• Denominational leaders
• Church consultants and advisors
• Seminary students focused on church administration
• Congregations in leadership transition