Our mission
Called to Office exists to equip Christian citizens to serve faithfully in public life through training, education, and civic discipleship. We are raising up a generation of principled public servants — men and women grounded in faith, family, constitutional liberty, personal responsibility, and the courage to lead in their communities.
We believe public office is a form of neighbor-love and stewardship, that the offices closest to home shape daily life most, and that faithful citizens should understand and serve those offices with courage, conviction, and integrity.
What we believe
Our work is rooted in a clear set of convictions:
- Faith-informed civic leadership — public service as Christian discipleship lived out in the community.
- Constitutional literacy and limited government — citizens who understand their system and the value of government that stays within its bounds.
- Personal responsibility and strong families — the foundations of a healthy community.
- Free enterprise and religious liberty — protected as essential to human flourishing.
- Local service over centralized dependency — renewal that begins at home, in school boards, councils, and county seats.
- Moral courage in public life — integrity that holds when no one is watching.
We hold these convictions openly. We also draw a hard and deliberate line at partisanship — see our nonpartisan policy below.
What we do
- Educate — plain-English guides to how local government works and how to participate.
- Train — small group resources, the Faith & the City series, and guidance for those called to run for local office.
- Equip with tools — a public, nonpartisan, source-backed Texas civic map of county election offices, precinct and district boundaries, and public civic contacts, built county by county across all 254 counties.
Our nonpartisan policy
Called to Office is a civic education project. We are convictional about faith and principle, and we are strictly nonpartisan in practice. This policy is binding on everything we publish and every program we run:
- We do not endorse candidates for any office.
- We do not endorse or align with political parties.
- We do not tell anyone how to vote, and nothing we publish is a voting directive.
- We do not engage in campaign activity or coordinate with campaigns.
- When we publish public civic data, we treat parties neutrally — showing county election offices first, presenting both major parties' public resources where data exists, and clearly marking what is not yet sourced.
- Every public record we publish carries its source link and retrieval date, so anyone can verify it.
We equip citizens to participate, to serve, and to vote with knowledge and conscience. The decisions are always theirs.
Governance
Called to Office is governed by a board of directors and operates without statutory members. The board sets policy, including the binding nonpartisan policy above, and oversees the project's education and training work.
Our legal status
Called to Office is organized as a Texas nonprofit corporation and is currently a nonprofit in formation. We intend to operate as a nonpartisan civic education and training organization. We do not yet claim federal tax-exempt status; any reference to specific tax status will appear here only once it is officially granted.
Straight about where we are
We would rather tell you plainly that we are still in formation than overstate our status. The same honesty governs our data: we publish what is verified, mark what is pending, and never claim more coverage than we have.
Contact
The best way to stay in touch is the civic education updates list — milestones, local election calendars, new guides, and small group resources, with no spam and no partisanship. Join the list here.
Called to Office is a nonpartisan civic education project and a Texas nonprofit in formation. Nothing on this site is legal advice, tax advice, or a directive on how to vote.