Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 3/29/2023 7:07:10 AM

There are currently 1589 call seekers (1510 teaching elders, 74 candidates/first call seekers, and 5 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 661 female call seekers and 914 male call seekers.

There are 48 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 250 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 997 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 995 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 0 163
Associate Director 0 0 127
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 11 1 455
Associate Pastor (Other) 61 3 779
Associate Pastor (Youth) 10 0 380
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 268
Campus Ministry 4 1 362
Chaplain 0 0 530
Christian Educator (Certified) 3 0 119
Christian Educator (non-certified) 8 0 200
Church Business Administrator 0 0 118
Co- Pastor 3 0 419
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 292
Communicator 1 0 178
Coordinator 3 0 188
Director of Music (non-ordained) 2 0 124
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 207
Executive Director 2 0 223
Executive Pastor 1 0 243
Finance Manager 0 0 113
Funds Developer 0 0 150
General Assembly Staff 2 0 220
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 12 0 320
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 14 0 629
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 35 0 781
Media Specialist 0 0 147
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 219
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 113
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 169
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 5 0 362
Pastor (for a designated term) 19 3 533
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 33 2 534
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 4 0 424
Pastor Interim 56 0 703
Pastor, yoked/parish 29 3 308
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 199
Seminary Staff 0 0 252
Solo Pastor 417 22 1191
Stated Clerk 1 0 178
Synod Executive 0 0 170
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 14 0 327

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 6 29
AL 1 5 82
AR 0 9 50
AZ 0 4 84
CA 1 37 236
CO 0 11 161
CT 0 0 125
DC 0 1 194
DE 0 2 146
FL 0 31 194
GA 0 18 227
HI 0 0 76
IA 3 27 66
ID 0 3 56
IL 0 43 169
IN 0 18 128
KS 0 11 63
KY 0 8 143
LA 0 7 42
MA 0 3 119
MD 0 9 214
ME 0 1 76
MI 0 29 120
MN 2 13 79
MO 1 18 68
MS 3 10 44
MT 0 6 48
NC 3 51 360
ND 0 1 12
NE 1 12 33
NH 0 0 81
NJ 2 26 186
NM 2 9 83
NV 0 4 55
NY 4 47 223
OH 2 31 140
OK 0 10 41
OR 0 5 153
PA 1 54 250
PR 0 0 24
RI 0 0 81
SC 0 20 236
SD 3 8 19
TN 0 22 175
TX 3 30 154
UT 0 3 52
VA 3 33 293
VT 0 2 88
WA 0 13 175
WI 0 16 100
WV 0 19 74
WY 0 9 34
Unlimited 0 0 386