Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 9/26/2021 6:50:56 PM

There are currently 1825 call seekers (1704 teaching elders, 116 candidates/first call seekers, and 5 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 591 positions in the system (85 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 800 female call seekers and 1010 male call seekers.

There are 35 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 300 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 1270 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 1267 are teaching elders, 53 candidates/first call seekers, and 3 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 195
Associate Director 0 0 150
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 7 5 554
Associate Pastor (Other) 32 7 918
Associate Pastor (Youth) 10 1 423
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 324
Campus Ministry 1 0 411
Chaplain 1 0 614
Christian Educator (Certified) 2 0 139
Christian Educator (non-certified) 5 0 256
Church Business Administrator 0 0 137
Co- Pastor 7 1 522
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 346
Communicator 0 0 202
Coordinator 0 0 229
Director of Music (non-ordained) 3 0 146
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 258
Executive Director 1 0 248
Executive Pastor 2 0 288
Finance Manager 0 0 135
Funds Developer 0 0 171
General Assembly Staff 1 0 233
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 6 0 352
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 11 0 704
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 28 0 911
Media Specialist 0 0 162
Mid-Council Program Staff 1 0 240
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 134
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 179
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 1 0 447
Pastor (for a designated term) 21 3 657
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 28 5 653
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 2 0 545
Pastor Interim 71 3 847
Pastor, yoked/parish 23 6 386
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 267
Seminary Staff 0 0 324
Solo Pastor 317 54 1378
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 2 0 198
Synod Executive 0 0 185
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 4 0 380

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 5 33
AL 3 7 96
AR 1 9 45
AZ 0 4 100
CA 4 24 251
CO 1 4 176
CT 0 3 128
DC 0 1 224
DE 0 2 156
FL 3 26 212
GA 2 17 237
HI 0 0 88
IA 4 12 70
ID 0 2 69
IL 1 31 159
IN 2 15 124
KS 0 6 56
KY 1 7 154
LA 0 3 50
MA 0 3 121
MD 0 5 254
ME 0 0 85
MI 2 22 135
MN 2 10 86
MO 5 22 70
MS 3 6 45
MT 0 8 56
NC 8 37 377
ND 0 3 19
NE 2 11 42
NH 0 0 85
NJ 2 22 198
NM 3 6 96
NV 0 2 66
NY 6 45 238
OH 4 37 159
OK 2 9 46
OR 2 3 194
PA 9 46 292
PR 0 0 22
RI 0 0 81
SC 0 16 249
SD 1 8 26
TN 1 12 194
TX 4 20 165
UT 0 1 60
VA 6 20 345
VT 0 3 100
WA 0 9 219
WI 0 12 97
WV 1 11 95
WY 0 4 41
Unlimited 0 0 530