Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 3/29/2023 5:02:58 AM

There are currently 1603 call seekers (1523 teaching elders, 74 candidates/first call seekers, and 6 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 755 positions in the system (35 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 666 female call seekers and 923 male call seekers.

There are 48 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 253 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 1005 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 1003 are teaching elders, 24 candidates/first call seekers, and 2 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 1 0 165
Associate Director 0 0 128
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 11 1 460
Associate Pastor (Other) 61 3 785
Associate Pastor (Youth) 10 0 385
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 271
Campus Ministry 4 1 365
Chaplain 0 0 536
Christian Educator (Certified) 3 0 121
Christian Educator (non-certified) 8 0 203
Church Business Administrator 0 0 119
Co- Pastor 3 0 424
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 294
Communicator 1 0 180
Coordinator 3 0 190
Director of Music (non-ordained) 2 0 125
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 208
Executive Director 2 0 226
Executive Pastor 1 0 247
Finance Manager 0 0 114
Funds Developer 0 0 152
General Assembly Staff 2 0 222
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 12 0 324
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 14 0 641
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 35 0 791
Media Specialist 0 0 149
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 221
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 114
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 170
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 5 0 364
Pastor (for a designated term) 19 3 542
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 33 2 539
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 4 0 429
Pastor Interim 56 0 712
Pastor, yoked/parish 29 3 313
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 203
Seminary Staff 0 0 254
Solo Pastor 417 22 1203
Stated Clerk 1 0 181
Synod Executive 0 0 172
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 14 0 329

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 6 29
AL 1 5 83
AR 0 9 51
AZ 0 4 84
CA 1 37 238
CO 0 11 163
CT 0 0 125
DC 0 1 194
DE 0 2 146
FL 0 31 196
GA 0 18 227
HI 0 0 76
IA 3 27 67
ID 0 3 56
IL 0 43 169
IN 0 18 130
KS 0 11 64
KY 0 8 146
LA 0 7 43
MA 0 3 119
MD 0 9 214
ME 0 1 76
MI 0 29 120
MN 2 13 79
MO 1 18 69
MS 3 10 45
MT 0 6 48
NC 3 51 360
ND 0 1 12
NE 1 12 34
NH 0 0 81
NJ 2 26 186
NM 2 9 84
NV 0 4 55
NY 4 47 223
OH 2 31 142
OK 0 10 42
OR 0 5 153
PA 1 54 252
PR 0 0 24
RI 0 0 81
SC 0 20 236
SD 3 8 19
TN 0 22 176
TX 3 30 156
UT 0 3 52
VA 3 33 294
VT 0 2 88
WA 0 13 175
WI 0 16 100
WV 0 19 74
WY 0 9 34
Unlimited 0 0 389