Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 7/4/2022 6:12:40 PM

There are currently 1857 call seekers (1752 teaching elders, 92 candidates/first call seekers, and 13 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 692 positions in the system (49 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 780 female call seekers and 1066 male call seekers.

There are 42 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 295 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 1234 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 1228 are teaching elders, 34 candidates/first call seekers, and 6 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 1 0 213
Associate Director 0 0 159
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 2 0 566
Associate Pastor (Other) 48 5 917
Associate Pastor (Youth) 13 2 461
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 321
Campus Ministry 3 2 443
Chaplain 1 1 632
Christian Educator (Certified) 3 0 155
Christian Educator (non-certified) 9 0 265
Church Business Administrator 0 0 160
Co- Pastor 3 0 522
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 363
Communicator 0 0 233
Coordinator 3 0 241
Director of Music (non-ordained) 2 0 165
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 260
Executive Director 0 0 277
Executive Pastor 1 0 295
Finance Manager 0 0 153
Funds Developer 0 0 195
General Assembly Staff 0 0 259
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 9 0 389
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 13 0 747
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 29 0 913
Media Specialist 1 0 183
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 280
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 149
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 213
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 3 0 451
Pastor (for a designated term) 27 3 643
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 30 3 658
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 3 0 531
Pastor Interim 79 2 875
Pastor, yoked/parish 20 2 389
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 273
Seminary Staff 0 0 331
Solo Pastor 371 29 1400
Stated Clerk 2 0 230
Synod Executive 0 0 208
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 12 0 407

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 3 32
AL 2 7 99
AR 0 8 40
AZ 0 5 108
CA 4 24 260
CO 0 9 175
CT 0 1 135
DC 0 1 239
DE 0 4 160
FL 1 35 229
GA 1 16 245
HI 0 0 83
IA 3 26 68
ID 0 1 66
IL 1 40 169
IN 0 21 135
KS 0 11 50
KY 0 10 146
LA 0 6 45
MA 0 3 125
MD 0 11 262
ME 0 0 87
MI 2 30 144
MN 3 14 95
MO 1 14 64
MS 2 5 52
MT 0 7 56
NC 4 36 394
ND 0 1 16
NE 1 10 28
NH 0 0 88
NJ 1 22 197
NM 2 9 90
NV 0 4 60
NY 4 43 231
OH 2 27 154
OK 1 6 47
OR 2 6 173
PA 3 53 281
PR 0 0 23
RI 0 1 84
SC 0 27 264
SD 2 8 18
TN 0 17 188
TX 3 32 163
UT 0 6 62
VA 1 26 352
VT 0 2 103
WA 1 13 206
WI 1 15 99
WV 1 12 91
WY 0 4 41
Unlimited 0 0 512