Resource Highlight: Church Training Center
Church Training Center provides coaching, consulting, training, and financial leadership support for churches seeking to strengthen governance, leadership, and organizational health. Its work focuses on helping pastors, councils, treasurers, and lay leaders develop the structures, financial practices, and decision-making processes needed to support a congregation's mission.
The organization emphasizes the connection between spiritual discernment and organizational leadership, encouraging churches to align governance, finances, and ministry priorities with their sense of calling. Rather than addressing governance and financial management as separate tasks, Church Training Center integrates them into a broader approach to congregational leadership and stewardship.
Services include:
Governance training for church councils and leadership teams
Coaching and consulting for pastors and church leaders
Treasurer training and financial leadership development
Budgeting and financial stewardship support
Guidance on board roles, responsibilities, and decision-making
Organizational assessments and ministry planning
Church procedures and financial systems reviews
Church Training Center also offers resources for congregations working through common leadership challenges, including governance structure, volunteer engagement, financial oversight, deferred maintenance, and strategic planning. Training is designed to equip both clergy and lay leaders with practical tools that are often outside the scope of traditional theological education.
The organization is led by Keith Clark-Hoyos, a consultant and former Executive Associate Conference Minister in the United Church of Christ, whose work draws on extensive experience supporting congregations in governance, financial leadership, and organizational development. Through consulting, books, cohorts, retreats, and coaching, Church Training Center works with churches to strengthen leadership practices and organizational systems that support long-term ministry.
⬇️ Here’s peek at what you’ll find ⬇️
Foundations of Stewardship
This one-retreat programintroduces treasurers and finance leaders to stewardship as a spiritual practice. Participants reframe money as a matter of faith, connect budgets to mission, and establish policies that build trust. Churches leave with a stronger foundation for financial ministry and a renewed sense of calling.
Outcomes:
Clear understanding of finances as ministry.
Confidence for new and emerging treasurers.
Congregational trust & transparent leadership.
Sustainable Stewardship Journey
This three-retreat program offers the full arc of financial leadership formation, from spiritual reframing to visionary planning. Participants prepare successors, cultivate long-term stewardship practices, and celebrate progress along the way. An optional anniversary gathering offers renewed accountability and encouragement in the year ahead.
Outcomes:
A pipeline of trained financial leaders.
Vision-driven and sustainable planning.
Spirit-led stewardship that endures over time.