Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 1/27/2022 10:07:30 AM

There are currently 1748 call seekers (1647 teaching elders, 97 candidates/first call seekers, and 4 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 609 positions in the system (58 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 772 female call seekers and 963 male call seekers.

There are 33 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 280 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 1209 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 1207 are teaching elders, 42 candidates/first call seekers, and 2 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 194
Associate Director 0 0 148
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 4 0 528
Associate Pastor (Other) 38 5 874
Associate Pastor (Youth) 9 2 402
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 307
Campus Ministry 0 0 407
Chaplain 1 0 578
Christian Educator (Certified) 2 0 137
Christian Educator (non-certified) 11 0 243
Church Business Administrator 0 0 135
Co- Pastor 5 0 499
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 329
Communicator 0 0 199
Coordinator 1 0 216
Director of Music (non-ordained) 3 0 143
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 231
Executive Director 0 0 243
Executive Pastor 2 0 269
Finance Manager 0 0 132
Funds Developer 0 0 169
General Assembly Staff 0 0 229
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 12 0 351
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 9 0 684
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 31 0 864
Media Specialist 1 0 158
Mid-Council Program Staff 2 0 239
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 128
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 176
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 1 0 418
Pastor (for a designated term) 30 2 630
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 25 3 614
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 2 0 512
Pastor Interim 70 3 816
Pastor, yoked/parish 20 4 362
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 248
Seminary Staff 0 0 307
Solo Pastor 317 39 1312
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 2 0 192
Synod Executive 0 0 184
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 7 0 343

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 3 34
AL 2 7 88
AR 0 7 39
AZ 0 2 93
CA 2 24 235
CO 0 9 159
CT 0 1 120
DC 0 0 220
DE 0 5 150
FL 1 24 213
GA 1 16 226
HI 0 0 75
IA 4 21 67
ID 0 2 66
IL 2 37 161
IN 1 17 127
KS 0 9 58
KY 0 8 144
LA 0 4 43
MA 0 1 114
MD 0 8 241
ME 0 0 81
MI 1 23 134
MN 3 13 81
MO 4 16 74
MS 2 5 40
MT 0 7 54
NC 5 31 351
ND 0 2 19
NE 2 10 35
NH 0 0 82
NJ 1 19 180
NM 2 8 88
NV 0 3 60
NY 4 43 227
OH 2 33 152
OK 1 5 40
OR 1 3 168
PA 10 53 275
PR 0 0 18
RI 0 0 82
SC 0 19 240
SD 1 7 25
TN 0 14 184
TX 3 21 152
UT 0 5 66
VA 1 24 333
VT 0 2 97
WA 1 8 202
WI 0 13 98
WV 1 13 91
WY 0 4 41
Unlimited 0 0 489