Cohort: Embracing Our Call: Foundations for Discernment-Rooted Governance
$169.00
Transform your church’s governance into a spiritual practice. Embracing Our Call is a five-week online formation cohort designed for board members, council members, and ministry leaders who want to move past reactive decision-making and lead their congregations with greater spiritual grounding, shared discernment, and trust.
Format: 5-Week Interactive Cohort (Online)
Led By: Keith Clark-Hoyos
Ideal For: Entire church boards, councils, and leadership teams
Too often, church governance is treated as mere structure, procedure, and administrative box-checking. But congregational leadership is meant to be a spiritual calling—one rooted in listening, trust-building, and faithful response.
Embracing Our Call: Foundations for Discernment-Rooted Governance is a five-week formation cohort designed to help leaders move beyond reactive, fire-fighting decision-making and into a more attentive, spiritually grounded way of governing. Facilitated by Keith Clark-Hoyos, this cohort will guide you and your team in transforming your leadership structures into spaces of deep discernment and shared purpose.
If you want your church’s governance to become more than just running meetings and passing budgets, this cohort offers a practical, faithful path forward.
What You Will Explore
Over five interactive weekly sessions, you will dive into:
Spiritual Grounding: Moving from business-as-usual business meetings to attentive, discernment-first leadership.
Calling & Alignment: How to align your board’s decisions with God’s calling for your specific community.
The Art of Listening: Practices for active listening—to each other, to the congregation, and to the Holy Spirit.
Covenantal Trust: Cultivating deep, resilient trust and unity within your leadership team, even when navigating tough decisions.
Who Should Attend?
This cohort is built for those who hold governance and decision-making responsibilities in the church:
Church Board, Council, Vestry, or Consistory Members
Ministry Team Leaders
Pastors and Staff Partners
Aspiring Congregational Leaders
Too often, church governance is treated as mere structure, procedure, and administrative box-checking. But congregational leadership is meant to be a spiritual calling—one rooted in listening, trust-building, and faithful response.
Embracing Our Call: Foundations for Discernment-Rooted Governance is a five-week formation cohort designed to help leaders move beyond reactive, fire-fighting decision-making and into a more attentive, spiritually grounded way of governing. Facilitated by Keith Clark-Hoyos, this cohort will guide you and your team in transforming your leadership structures into spaces of deep discernment and shared purpose.
If you want your church’s governance to become more than just running meetings and passing budgets, this cohort offers a practical, faithful path forward.
What You Will Explore
Over five interactive weekly sessions, you will dive into:
Spiritual Grounding: Moving from business-as-usual business meetings to attentive, discernment-first leadership.
Calling & Alignment: How to align your board’s decisions with God's calling for your specific community.
The Art of Listening: Practices for active listening—to each other, to the congregation, and to the Holy Spirit.
Covenantal Trust: Cultivating deep, resilient trust and unity within your leadership team, even when navigating tough decisions.
Who Should Attend?
This cohort is built for those who hold governance and decision-making responsibilities in the church:
Church Board, Council, Vestry, or Consistory Members
Ministry Team Leaders
Pastors and Staff Partners
Aspiring Congregational Leaders
Schedule:
Tuesday Nights; 7-8:30 pm eastern
- August 4
- August 11
- August 18
- August 25
- September 1
