Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 9/20/2019 3:20:46 PM

There are currently 2025 call seekers (1858 teaching elders, 149 candidates/first call seekers, and 18 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 629 positions in the system (120 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 858 female call seekers and 1153 male call seekers.

There are 40 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 316 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 756 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 753 are teaching elders, 41 candidates/first call seekers, and 3 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 250
Associate Director 1 0 143
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 12 4 622
Associate Pastor (Other) 39 13 1010
Associate Pastor (Youth) 12 8 490
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 1 358
Campus Ministry 5 2 498
Chaplain 2 0 705
Christian Educator (Certified) 4 0 181
Christian Educator (non-certified) 3 0 302
Church Business Administrator 0 0 182
Co- Pastor 2 0 551
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 396
Communicator 0 0 258
Coordinator 1 0 242
Director of Music (non-ordained) 1 0 198
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 300
Executive Director 1 0 308
Executive Pastor 1 0 315
Finance Manager 0 0 181
Funds Developer 0 0 213
General Assembly Staff 2 0 292
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 8 0 413
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 19 0 770
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 37 2 965
Media Specialist 0 0 204
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 310
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 176
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 222
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 0 0 489
Pastor (for a designated term) 31 4 719
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 21 2 715
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 6 2 577
Pastor Interim 54 1 899
Pastor, yoked/parish 13 5 433
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 302
Seminary Staff 0 0 376
Solo Pastor 335 76 1515
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 0 0 253
Synod Executive 0 0 239
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 15 0 399

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 3 32
AL 5 10 114
AR 0 7 49
AZ 0 5 114
CA 5 31 287
CO 2 4 182
CT 0 1 129
DC 0 1 233
DE 1 2 174
FL 7 29 219
GA 1 23 266
HI 0 1 90
IA 6 15 67
ID 0 0 69
IL 2 23 173
IN 5 14 153
KS 1 7 54
KY 2 13 187
LA 0 4 50
MA 0 1 127
MD 2 9 258
ME 0 1 74
MI 3 21 141
MN 3 9 78
MO 7 23 83
MS 3 6 48
MT 0 6 59
NC 8 34 422
ND 0 1 16
NE 3 9 44
NH 0 0 83
NJ 1 18 222
NM 2 5 95
NV 0 2 54
NY 6 53 219
OH 5 24 193
OK 3 7 43
OR 1 3 184
PA 12 62 325
PR 0 1 20
RI 0 0 79
SC 4 25 267
SD 2 6 28
TN 5 22 216
TX 3 28 155
UT 0 1 56
VA 6 26 361
VT 0 1 93
WA 0 6 223
WI 0 8 88
WV 4 15 113
WY 0 3 42
Unlimited 0 0 642