Meet The Team

Keith Clark-Hoyos is a former judicatory executive, consultant, coach, author, teacher, and formation-system architect who helps churches and judicatories bring spiritual discernment, governance, financial integrity, leadership formation, and practical systems into clearer alignment.

He brings decades of experience in governance, finance, administration, communication, and leadership development. As Executive Associate Conference Minister and Director of Finance, Administration and Communication for the Southern California Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ, Keith carried responsibility for staff, finances, assets, governance, human resources, communication, and congregational development across a conference of more than 130 congregations. In that role, he worked alongside pastors and governing leaders as they navigated questions of mission, stewardship, organizational health, leadership, and change.

That experience deepened Keith’s conviction that budgets, policies, meetings, and leadership structures are never merely administrative. They shape a church’s capacity to listen, build trust, steward its resources faithfully, and respond to God’s calling.

After leaving denominational leadership in 2015, Keith founded Church Training Center and Church Procedures Audit to continue this work nationally. Through consulting, coaching, training, cohorts, retreats, and practical leadership resources, he helps churches and judicatories strengthen the structures that support their calling. Through Church Procedures Audit, he also helps congregations examine their financial controls, policies, and procedures so that stewardship can be practiced with greater clarity, accountability, and integrity.

Keith does not begin with a prefabricated answer. He listens for the deeper patterns beneath a presenting concern and helps leaders see how calling, people, authority, communication, financial resources, and organizational practices are connected. Together, they develop structures and practices suited to the church, its polity, and the season it is living.

Keith is the author of nine books on Spirit-led leadership, governance, stewardship, finance, discernment, and pastoral vision, including Called Together, Embracing Our Call, Guiding the Vision, Rooted in the Call, and The Ministry of Money. Through his writing and work with leadership bodies, he equips pastors, treasurers, and governing leaders to serve with greater clarity, integrity, spiritual attentiveness, and confidence.

Keith holds a Master of Arts in Ministry, Leadership & Service from Claremont School of Theology and studied Business Administration and Church Ministries at Simpson University. His leadership perspective is further shaped by years of nonprofit service and experience in retail management, giving him a grounded and holistic view of ministry leadership.

Keith is also an ordained Daoist monk and Dao Shi known as Qing Jing—Clarity and Stillness. His ordination followed a three-year process of study, meditation, inner cultivation, retreats, reflective work, and accountable practice, culminating in his reception into a Daoist lineage and acceptance of precepts that continue to shape how he lives and leads. In this context, ordination represents a disciplined commitment to a way of life rather than appointment to pastor a temple or exercise authority over a congregation. Keith’s Daoist practice deepens his commitment to presence, humility, compassion, non-coercion, ethical authority, and patient discernment. His Christian formation remains a living part of his theological and vocational life, and he does not collapse the two traditions into one. Instead, he allows each to inform how he honors the wisdom, agency, and faithful discernment already present within each community.

Zulima Clark-Hoyos serves as Partner and Chief Officer for Ministry Operations & HR at Church Training Center, where she leads operational strategy, accounting systems, and internal process design to ensure excellence in service delivery for churches and denominational bodies.

With a foundation in accounting and engineering, Zulima brings both precision and compassion to her work. Early in her career path, she managed the daily operations of an accounting office within a CPA firm in Colombia for a decade, supervising staff, overseeing bookkeeping workflows, and preparing financial information for CPA review. Her accounting background is complemented by six years of formal accounting study and advanced academic preparation in industrial engineering and senior management.

Zulima holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores and a Master’s Degree in Senior Management from University Militar Nueva Granada. She is certified in Supply Chain Management, Human Resources Management, Negotiation, and Training High-Performance Teams, and is a Six Sigma Green Belt.

Her professional experience also includes leadership roles as a Production Supervisor, Production Planner, and Master Scheduler for both a multinational corporation in Colombia and a Fortune Top 100 company in the United States. In these high-accountability environments, she developed expertise in systems design, workflow optimization, cross-functional coordination, and performance management.

At Church Training Center, Zulima applies this combined accounting and operational expertise to strengthen internal controls, refine financial workflows, and build sustainable systems that support mission-driven ministries. She works closely with treasurers and leadership teams to ensure reconciliations, reporting cycles, and compliance procedures are handled with clarity and integrity.

As Partner, Zulima shares executive leadership for organizational growth, service development, operational design, and long-term sustainability alongside Keith Clark-Hoyos. Together, they guide the organization’s strategic direction—integrating vision and execution to ensure that churches receive both spiritual insight and structural excellence.

Zulima is known for her steady leadership, analytical strength, and genuine care for the churches and leaders she serves.