Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 6/4/2020 12:48:31 AM

There are currently 2012 call seekers (1857 teaching elders, 137 candidates/first call seekers, and 18 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 644 positions in the system (114 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 838 female call seekers and 1160 male call seekers.

There are 38 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 326 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 985 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 981 are teaching elders, 56 candidates/first call seekers, and 4 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 236
Associate Director 0 0 153
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 8 0 588
Associate Pastor (Other) 55 16 993
Associate Pastor (Youth) 14 6 466
Bivocational/Tentmaker 3 0 352
Campus Ministry 2 1 477
Chaplain 1 0 681
Christian Educator (Certified) 1 0 160
Christian Educator (non-certified) 5 0 293
Church Business Administrator 0 0 167
Co- Pastor 3 0 541
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 382
Communicator 0 0 246
Coordinator 0 0 235
Director of Music (non-ordained) 1 0 173
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 276
Executive Director 2 0 286
Executive Pastor 0 0 305
Finance Manager 0 0 164
Funds Developer 1 0 199
General Assembly Staff 2 0 259
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 9 0 369
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 28 0 765
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 32 1 980
Media Specialist 0 0 184
Mid-Council Program Staff 1 0 283
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 155
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 211
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 1 0 477
Pastor (for a designated term) 28 4 677
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 22 3 677
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 3 1 566
Pastor Interim 46 2 878
Pastor, yoked/parish 21 3 410
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 300
Seminary Staff 0 0 359
Solo Pastor 344 77 1503
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 1 0 228
Synod Executive 0 0 207
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 10 0 386

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 3 34
AL 4 9 110
AR 0 5 54
AZ 0 4 119
CA 2 33 292
CO 0 10 196
CT 0 5 154
DC 0 2 248
DE 1 2 180
FL 2 19 230
GA 2 18 258
HI 0 0 91
IA 8 17 81
ID 0 0 73
IL 3 26 178
IN 4 18 134
KS 0 5 63
KY 2 10 180
LA 0 6 60
MA 0 1 146
MD 0 9 282
ME 0 1 79
MI 2 30 143
MN 3 12 97
MO 7 17 90
MS 2 5 54
MT 1 6 59
NC 10 38 413
ND 0 1 26
NE 2 9 57
NH 0 0 96
NJ 2 19 249
NM 3 7 110
NV 0 2 71
NY 7 53 251
OH 4 23 194
OK 1 9 54
OR 1 4 192
PA 17 63 348
PR 0 0 17
RI 0 1 99
SC 4 21 273
SD 1 5 39
TN 4 15 210
TX 4 28 168
UT 0 1 71
VA 7 33 370
VT 0 1 99
WA 0 8 224
WI 0 7 102
WV 4 18 120
WY 0 5 48
Unlimited 0 0 640