A good many former PCUSA congregations from the New Wineskins Transitional Presbytery did indeed join the EPC with their female Teaching Elders.
Whilst the call of a Pastor is the decision of the congregation, such calls must be placed in the hands of the candidate in question by the PRESBYTERY.
It is quite correct that for a time there were no female Teaching Elders in the EPC...Then Cherry Hill Church in Colorado went and ordained another one. After that, the former PCUSA congregations were brought into the denomination with their female Teaching Elders.
On the questions of worship style and the Charisma, that is left to the Senior Pastor and leadership of the congregation respectively. The Pastor has ABSOLUTE control over the worship service to include the selection of music if any.
One can find EPC congregations that are openly Charismatic and some that are hard cessationalists. One will also find congregations that have a contemporary worship style, and some that follow the Regulative Principle of Worship as understood by the PCA or the OPC.
My own congregation once had two female Ruling Elders, yet changed the by-laws so as to exclude female Elders in the future. Ironically one of the female Ruling Elders opposed female Elders. She only agreed to serve because it was an extreme situation.
OBSERVATION:
The position of the EPC as stated by the General Assembly is that question of female Ruling and Teaching Elders is not essential to the existence of Christ's Church. i would observe as a present EPC congregation member that non-celebate, unrepentant gay clergy is ALSO not essential to the existence of Christ's Church...yet the EPC forbids them. Eventually they will have to address the issue.
i may be mistaken on this, but i believe that the ARPC also permits female Deacons, so the issue is not unique to the EPC and the PCUSA.
**i may be mistaken on this, but i believe that the ARPC also permits female Deacons**
I am currently a member of an APRC and we do allow for female Deacons, though ours does not have one.
IIRC I once heard R.C. Sproul he wrote a paper recommending that the PCA allow for the ordination of women as Deacons when the denomination was founded.