Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 3/2/2021 7:02:55 PM

There are currently 1808 call seekers (1681 teaching elders, 114 candidates/first call seekers, and 13 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 558 positions in the system (89 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 753 female call seekers and 1041 male call seekers.

There are 32 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 299 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 1225 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 1218 are teaching elders, 59 candidates/first call seekers, and 7 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 211
Associate Director 1 0 142
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 3 2 527
Associate Pastor (Other) 31 9 906
Associate Pastor (Youth) 7 2 421
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 317
Campus Ministry 0 0 388
Chaplain 0 0 588
Christian Educator (Certified) 0 0 144
Christian Educator (non-certified) 2 0 263
Church Business Administrator 0 0 144
Co- Pastor 5 1 505
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 343
Communicator 0 0 209
Coordinator 1 0 215
Director of Music (non-ordained) 4 0 148
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 245
Executive Director 2 0 253
Executive Pastor 1 0 274
Finance Manager 0 0 140
Funds Developer 0 0 172
General Assembly Staff 1 0 236
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 5 0 341
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 11 0 691
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 28 0 880
Media Specialist 0 0 164
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 249
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 135
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 186
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 1 0 437
Pastor (for a designated term) 20 4 625
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 23 3 626
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 2 0 527
Pastor Interim 44 3 820
Pastor, yoked/parish 23 4 374
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 264
Seminary Staff 0 0 330
Solo Pastor 335 61 1370
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 1 0 199
Synod Executive 0 0 182
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 3 0 362

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 4 30
AL 4 11 104
AR 0 3 44
AZ 0 6 110
CA 1 17 259
CO 1 8 179
CT 0 1 124
DC 0 2 232
DE 0 1 166
FL 3 21 214
GA 2 11 241
HI 0 0 89
IA 4 13 67
ID 0 1 72
IL 3 27 158
IN 4 13 131
KS 0 2 53
KY 2 6 165
LA 0 6 54
MA 0 3 122
MD 0 6 265
ME 0 0 72
MI 4 22 135
MN 4 11 86
MO 3 17 70
MS 2 3 51
MT 1 8 58
NC 7 33 384
ND 0 1 18
NE 1 7 38
NH 0 0 86
NJ 1 19 221
NM 4 7 110
NV 0 2 69
NY 3 47 247
OH 5 29 174
OK 1 9 43
OR 0 4 188
PA 7 42 301
PR 0 0 16
RI 0 0 87
SC 2 17 254
SD 1 8 26
TN 2 15 198
TX 7 28 154
UT 0 3 58
VA 5 28 354
VT 0 2 96
WA 1 3 219
WI 0 11 99
WV 4 15 97
WY 0 5 44
Unlimited 0 0 529