Decades of recruiting experience. A heart for the local church.
Premier Church Staffing exists to help churches expand their pool of qualified candidates, identify proven ministry leaders, and find the right pastoral fit for their next season.
40+
Years of Professional Recruiting Experience
15
Years Serving Churches Exclusively
Nationwide
Candidate Search Network
A lifetime of Christian service and professional recruiting.
Dan Stoll has been a professional recruiter for more than 40 years, dedicating his life and work to Christian service. For the last 15 years, he has worked exclusively with churches, helping them identify, evaluate, and call the right leaders for their ministry needs.
Dan understands how to identify proven leaders, evaluate track records, ask the right questions, and help churches move forward with clarity.
For the past 15 years, Dan has dedicated his recruiting work to the local church, serving search committees, pastors, ministry teams, and congregations across the country.
Premier is not merely a recruiting company. It is a ministry-minded search partner that wants to help churches find leaders who can faithfully serve the next season.
Recruiting experience paired with pastoral insight.
Dan is blessed to collaborate in this work with his son, Will Stoll, who has served as a lead pastor for more than 25 years. Together, they bring a unique combination of recruiting expertise, ministry experience, church leadership insight, and love for the local church.
Dan Stoll
Founder and lead recruiter, Dan brings the experience of a professional recruiter, the heart of a servant, and the wisdom of someone who has walked with churches through important leadership transitions for many years.
Will Stoll
As a lead pastor for more than 25 years, Will helps churches think deeply about culture, theology, leadership needs, ministry structure, preaching, staff dynamics, and long-term fit.
We exist to expand the pool of qualified candidates.
Any search team can find a few names, and any church can receive hundreds of unqualified resumes. Premier searches from a national pool, looks deeply at proven ministry leaders, and narrows the field to the strongest candidates who may truly fit the church.
Premier searches far beyond the obvious names.
Dan works with dozens of people across the country who assist in Premier’s search efforts. This allows Premier to look beyond the small group of candidates a church may already know and search from a much larger national pool of proven, qualified ministry leaders.
Expanding the Pool
The reason Premier exists is to expand the pool of qualified candidates. Any church can find a few names, and many can collect hundreds of unqualified resumes. Premier searches nationally to identify strong, proven leaders who may never have applied on their own.
Hundreds Narrowed to Three
Premier looks across the nation, evaluates hundreds of potential candidates, and narrows the field to a focused group of highly qualified finalists who are worth serious consideration.
Not Just Available Candidates
Many of the best candidates are not actively searching job boards. Premier looks for leaders with a strong track record who may be ready for God’s next assignment, even if they were not already looking.
Track record, culture, theology, and fit all matter.
Premier believes past ministry fruit matters. Dan often uses the baseball card principle: if a player has hit 40 home runs for 10 straight years, and then he moves to another team, there is a good chance he will continue producing at a high level. Ministry is not identical to baseball, but the principle matters: proven faithfulness, leadership, and fruit should be taken seriously.
The Baseball Card Principle
Premier looks for candidates with a demonstrated track record of faithfulness, leadership, ministry effectiveness, relational health, and long-term fruit.
Culture Matters
A strong candidate in the wrong culture is still the wrong hire. Premier looks carefully at where a candidate comes from, what kind of church they have served, how they lead, and whether they fit the church’s unique ministry environment.
Deep Vetting
Before a candidate is presented, Premier looks closely at ministry history, theology, preaching, leadership style, references, personality, family considerations, and overall alignment with the church.
Sometimes there comes a season when God is moving, and it becomes clear that it is time for a pastor to take the next faithful step. Premier loves helping churches and leaders discern that next assignment with wisdom, prayer, and clarity.
Helping churches find leaders and helping leaders discern what is next.
Premier loves finding people who are ready to step into the next level of professional ministry and discover what God has in store for them next. Sometimes there comes a season when God is moving, and it becomes clear that it is time for a pastor to take the next faithful step.
For Churches
Premier helps churches move beyond limited networks, unqualified resumes, and uncertainty by bringing a prayerful, experienced, nationwide search process to the table.
For Candidates
Premier helps pastors and ministry leaders consider opportunities where their gifts, experience, theology, leadership, and calling may align with a church’s next season of ministry.
Let Premier help your church expand the search.
Your next pastor may not be actively applying online. Premier helps your church search deeper, evaluate wisely, and move forward with confidence.