Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 9/28/2022 1:05:13 PM

There are currently 1795 call seekers (1698 teaching elders, 83 candidates/first call seekers, and 14 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 695 positions in the system (42 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 753 female call seekers and 1030 male call seekers.

There are 44 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 281 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 1176 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 1168 are teaching elders, 35 candidates/first call seekers, and 8 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 204
Associate Director 0 0 157
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 4 0 523
Associate Pastor (Other) 51 4 866
Associate Pastor (Youth) 13 1 434
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 304
Campus Ministry 3 1 417
Chaplain 0 0 593
Christian Educator (Certified) 3 0 144
Christian Educator (non-certified) 7 0 238
Church Business Administrator 0 0 147
Co- Pastor 2 0 484
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 340
Communicator 0 0 215
Coordinator 2 0 226
Director of Music (non-ordained) 2 0 149
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 247
Executive Director 0 0 260
Executive Pastor 1 0 284
Finance Manager 0 0 140
Funds Developer 0 0 180
General Assembly Staff 0 0 249
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 10 0 383
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 14 0 707
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 24 0 861
Media Specialist 1 0 172
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 266
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 137
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 205
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 4 0 429
Pastor (for a designated term) 21 3 600
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 33 3 622
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 2 0 496
Pastor Interim 71 0 821
Pastor, yoked/parish 22 3 359
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 252
Seminary Staff 0 0 314
Solo Pastor 383 27 1344
Stated Clerk 3 0 222
Synod Executive 1 0 203
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 14 0 377

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 2 29
AL 2 6 93
AR 0 9 43
AZ 0 4 110
CA 3 24 250
CO 0 8 178
CT 0 1 132
DC 0 2 227
DE 0 4 153
FL 0 35 221
GA 0 17 246
HI 0 0 79
IA 3 30 71
ID 0 2 73
IL 1 39 173
IN 0 14 139
KS 0 11 56
KY 0 6 151
LA 0 6 41
MA 0 3 124
MD 0 11 245
ME 0 0 88
MI 2 33 140
MN 3 12 99
MO 1 17 66
MS 2 6 44
MT 0 7 61
NC 3 35 382
ND 0 1 18
NE 1 10 36
NH 0 0 85
NJ 1 23 195
NM 1 8 97
NV 0 5 66
NY 4 43 230
OH 1 28 153
OK 0 10 53
OR 2 5 180
PA 2 48 280
PR 0 0 23
RI 0 1 85
SC 1 23 255
SD 3 9 21
TN 0 16 182
TX 3 34 177
UT 0 5 63
VA 1 27 334
VT 0 2 98
WA 1 14 213
WI 1 14 102
WV 0 18 83
WY 0 7 44
Unlimited 0 0 459