Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 11/16/2019 5:33:14 PM

There are currently 2047 call seekers (1888 teaching elders, 143 candidates/first call seekers, and 16 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 634 positions in the system (111 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 868 female call seekers and 1162 male call seekers.

There are 37 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 317 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 807 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 803 are teaching elders, 39 candidates/first call seekers, and 4 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 252
Associate Director 1 0 151
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 13 4 615
Associate Pastor (Other) 38 11 1005
Associate Pastor (Youth) 12 7 495
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 1 361
Campus Ministry 3 0 502
Chaplain 3 0 709
Christian Educator (Certified) 4 0 179
Christian Educator (non-certified) 5 0 307
Church Business Administrator 0 0 183
Co- Pastor 1 0 559
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 397
Communicator 0 0 261
Coordinator 1 0 245
Director of Music (non-ordained) 1 0 200
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 297
Executive Director 2 0 306
Executive Pastor 1 0 324
Finance Manager 0 0 178
Funds Developer 0 0 213
General Assembly Staff 1 0 294
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 6 0 405
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 22 0 776
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 36 2 972
Media Specialist 0 0 206
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 315
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 175
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 228
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 0 0 485
Pastor (for a designated term) 30 4 710
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 25 2 704
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 6 1 588
Pastor Interim 52 2 889
Pastor, yoked/parish 17 5 431
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 307
Seminary Staff 0 0 375
Solo Pastor 337 72 1526
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 0 0 250
Synod Executive 0 0 237
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 13 0 405

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 3 33
AL 4 9 112
AR 1 8 49
AZ 0 3 107
CA 5 32 284
CO 1 4 178
CT 0 0 134
DC 0 1 231
DE 1 3 184
FL 4 26 219
GA 1 17 259
HI 0 1 81
IA 6 17 67
ID 0 0 68
IL 2 25 173
IN 3 14 144
KS 1 9 57
KY 1 11 184
LA 0 5 51
MA 0 1 128
MD 2 10 267
ME 0 1 77
MI 3 20 141
MN 3 11 79
MO 3 14 79
MS 3 7 52
MT 0 6 58
NC 8 35 421
ND 0 1 19
NE 3 9 47
NH 0 0 89
NJ 1 17 240
NM 3 7 87
NV 0 2 57
NY 6 49 228
OH 7 32 190
OK 2 8 43
OR 0 3 176
PA 13 64 341
PR 0 0 21
RI 0 1 84
SC 3 25 272
SD 2 6 33
TN 5 22 211
TX 3 31 157
UT 0 1 58
VA 6 27 361
VT 0 1 96
WA 0 7 219
WI 0 9 90
WV 5 16 116
WY 0 3 43
Unlimited 0 0 651