It has been about month since The Functional Female Officer Report’s initial release. We appreciate all the feedback! In order to keep the ball rolling, we’re releasing a new tool: Interactive data! This tool allows you to view at the percentage distribution of churches with functional female elders, functional female deacons, both or neither on…
In the wake of The Functional Female Officer Report’s release Saturday, some additional questions about methodology have emerged. So I figured I’d write about some of those questions in a blog post. You can download the data I talk about here on our downloads page.
Jump to Findings Overview Welcome to The Functional Female Officer Report, brought to you by Save the PCA. This research demonstrates—through evidence gathered from publicly available websites, live streams, and church documents—that numerous PCA churches, across presbyteries nationwide, have placed women in official roles under various titles. In practice, these roles function in officer-like ways,…
The Functional Female Officer Report will be posted on 10/04/25 at 6pm EST. It will be discussed live on Michael Foster @thisisfoster‘s X space at that time. (https://x.com/i/spaces/1eaKbjBdMwXKX)