Pacific Southwest District (LCMS)

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The Pacific Southwest District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS). It covers Southern California (the eight southernmost counties in California, including the Los Angeles metropolitan area), Arizona and the southern tip of Nevada, and includes nearly 300 congregations subdivided into 32 circuits, as well as 120 preschools, 76 elementary schools and 9 high schools with a total enrollment of 21,000. The rest of California and Nevada is included in the California-Nevada-Hawaii District; one Arizona congregation is in the Rocky Mountain District. In addition, 28 congregations in the Pacific Southwest District's area are in the non-geographic English District – 17 in Arizona, 6 in the San Diego area and 5 in the Los Angeles area. Baptized membership of Pacific Southwest congregations is over 100,000.

The Pacific Southwest District was formed on July 2, 1930 as the Southern California District, separating it from the California and Nevada District. District offices are located in Irvine, California; the Rev. Dr. Larry Stoterau has been the district president since September 2000, and was reelected to a third term in 2006 [1]. Delegates from each congregation meet in convention every three years to elect the district president, vice presidents, circuit counselors, a board of directors, and other officers; the last convention was held on June 25-27, 2006, and the next will be in 2009.

Concordia University, Irvine, part of the LCMS' Concordia University System, is located within the district.

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[edit] Presidents

  • Rev. Gotthold H. F. Smukal, 1930-42
  • Rev. Walter F. Troeger, 1942-48
  • Rev. Armand E. T. Mueller, 1948-55
  • Rev. Victor L. Behnken, 1955-69
  • Rev. Arnold G. Kuntz, 1969-85
  • Rev. Loren T. Kramer, 1985-2000
  • Rev. Larry A. Stoterau, 2000-present

[edit] Oldest congregations

Oldest in Arizona: Calvary Lutheran Church, Yuma, Arizona, 1931
Oldest in Nevada: First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1940

[edit] Largest congregations

Membership totals are c. 2006.

[edit] Congregations and missions

Congregations established prior to 1930, or having 600 or more members, are noted (membership figures are c. 2006); in the absence of one or both of these within a circuit, the oldest and/or largest congregation is noted.

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