Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 9/22/2017 10:04:26 PM

There are currently 2056 call seekers (1830 teaching elders, 197 candidates/first call seekers, and 29 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 554 positions in the system (118 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 872 female call seekers and 1180 male call seekers.

There are 42 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 281 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 581 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 573 are teaching elders, 23 candidates/first call seekers, and 8 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 1 0 218
Associate Director 0 0 30
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 6 4 598
Associate Pastor (Other) 42 10 1045
Associate Pastor (Youth) 5 3 464
Bivocational/Tentmaker 5 2 331
Campus Ministry 2 2 480
Chaplain 0 0 698
Christian Educator (Certified) 2 0 145
Christian Educator (non-certified) 3 0 260
Church Business Administrator 2 0 154
Co- Pastor 4 0 583
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 362
Communicator 0 0 218
Coordinator 2 0 205
Director of Music (non-ordained) 0 0 158
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 2 0 297
Executive Director 1 0 259
Executive Pastor 0 0 275
Finance Manager 0 0 138
Funds Developer 0 0 172
General Assembly Staff 3 0 256
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 11 0 358
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 13 0 770
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 44 2 985
Media Specialist 0 0 159
Mid-Council Program Staff 1 1 245
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 132
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 196
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 3 2 492
Pastor (for a designated term) 29 10 701
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 17 5 702
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 5 0 569
Pastor Interim 30 3 880
Pastor, yoked/parish 17 7 421
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 277
Seminary Staff 0 0 346
Solo Pastor 294 67 1564
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 3 0 204
Synod Executive 0 0 185
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 7 0 337

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 1 34
AL 2 8 112
AR 2 11 63
AZ 1 2 114
CA 0 23 282
CO 2 7 202
CT 1 1 148
DC 0 2 223
DE 0 3 180
FL 7 20 233
GA 2 15 260
HI 0 0 102
IA 2 11 68
ID 0 1 73
IL 5 22 187
IN 1 12 136
KS 5 9 53
KY 2 9 160
LA 0 2 57
MA 0 3 136
MD 1 8 273
ME 2 2 81
MI 1 13 126
MN 3 9 89
MO 5 12 90
MS 4 5 50
MT 1 3 62
NC 7 37 408
ND 0 2 14
NE 2 10 40
NH 0 0 94
NJ 1 19 248
NM 1 2 107
NV 0 1 57
NY 10 40 245
OH 7 29 201
OK 2 5 33
OR 0 3 205
PA 7 43 333
PR 0 0 29
RI 0 0 92
SC 3 30 269
SD 3 7 21
TN 3 19 199
TX 10 33 161
UT 1 1 63
VA 7 28 371
VT 0 1 103
WA 2 4 218
WI 2 8 99
WV 1 15 102
WY 0 3 50
Unlimited 0 0 779