Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 1/22/2020 7:27:59 PM

There are currently 2002 call seekers (1856 teaching elders, 131 candidates/first call seekers, and 15 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 666 positions in the system (116 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 841 female call seekers and 1146 male call seekers.

There are 37 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 319 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 781 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 777 are teaching elders, 36 candidates/first call seekers, and 4 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 249
Associate Director 0 0 148
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 9 1 589
Associate Pastor (Other) 48 13 985
Associate Pastor (Youth) 14 9 462
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 1 357
Campus Ministry 4 0 480
Chaplain 2 0 673
Christian Educator (Certified) 3 0 172
Christian Educator (non-certified) 5 0 295
Church Business Administrator 0 0 176
Co- Pastor 2 0 546
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 383
Communicator 0 0 252
Coordinator 1 0 239
Director of Music (non-ordained) 1 0 192
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 291
Executive Director 2 0 295
Executive Pastor 2 0 315
Finance Manager 0 0 173
Funds Developer 0 0 203
General Assembly Staff 1 0 278
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 5 0 388
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 26 0 769
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 32 1 969
Media Specialist 0 0 194
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 299
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 170
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 219
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 0 0 464
Pastor (for a designated term) 29 4 679
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 28 2 688
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 4 1 570
Pastor Interim 54 3 869
Pastor, yoked/parish 21 5 415
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 296
Seminary Staff 0 0 363
Solo Pastor 355 76 1500
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 0 0 241
Synod Executive 0 0 225
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 14 0 384

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 3 35
AL 4 10 115
AR 1 9 50
AZ 0 4 110
CA 5 36 294
CO 1 4 191
CT 0 0 148
DC 0 2 249
DE 1 2 189
FL 3 24 220
GA 2 20 265
HI 0 1 90
IA 6 18 69
ID 0 1 69
IL 3 29 180
IN 3 15 137
KS 0 7 58
KY 2 11 182
LA 0 5 56
MA 0 2 141
MD 2 13 286
ME 0 1 88
MI 2 26 153
MN 4 11 90
MO 4 17 79
MS 3 7 52
MT 0 6 62
NC 6 30 425
ND 0 1 20
NE 2 8 46
NH 0 0 98
NJ 2 16 253
NM 3 6 98
NV 0 3 60
NY 8 57 242
OH 7 32 195
OK 2 8 45
OR 0 2 188
PA 14 65 357
PR 0 0 22
RI 0 1 92
SC 3 28 275
SD 2 6 34
TN 4 21 215
TX 4 28 163
UT 0 1 68
VA 8 33 385
VT 0 1 106
WA 0 7 225
WI 0 7 91
WV 5 18 122
WY 0 3 44
Unlimited 0 0 616