The Presbytery of Nevada through its Personnel committee is looking for individuals willing to stand for the office of Stated Clerk/General Presbyter. Use the website under Connect/Contact Us/Clerk to show your interest in the position, scheduled to start April 1, 2026. Training will begin on March 2, 2026, or March 16, 2026, depending on availability.
There is a position description for the contract position, which anticipates 20 hours a week on average with salary plus expenses and mileage.
Our Book of Order (G-3.0104) states that a clerk shall:
record the transactions of the [presbytery], keep its rolls of membership and attendance, maintain any required registers, preserve its records, and furnish extracts from them when required by another council of the church…The clerk of a presbytery…shall be called stated clerk, shall be elected by the [presbytery] for a definite term as it may determine, and must be a ruling elder or teaching elder.
The position description for Stated Clerk/General Presbyter is available on the Presbytery of Nevada website under Resources/Forms and below.
The Rev. Catherine G. Borchert, former Stated Clerk of the Western Reserve, at a meeting of presbytery Stated Clerks held in Pittsburgh expanded on this description. Here are excerpts from the version:
The clerk must be steeped in Presbyterianism, understand almost intuitively the way in which the Holy Spirit can use our process to further the Kingdom. The clerk must understand the letter of the law and yet abide by the spirit of the law in order that the law itself not become a god.
The clerk works in the position of being at once a team member of a presbytery, synod or General Assembly staff.
