District Offices

Leadership

Praesidium

Joel Heckendorf
President
Reno, Nevada

Aaron Boehm
First Vice President
La Mesa, California

Aaron Bublitz
Second Vice President
Gilbert, Arizona

Steven Gabb
Secretary
Los Angeles, California

District Mission Board

Jonathan Kolander
Chairman

Nathan Moldenhauer
Secretary

Eric Cereske
Financial Secretary
BHM Representative

Daniel Baumler
Member

Phillip Sievert
Member

Thomas Unke
Member

Peter Yee
Member

Mission Counselor

Wayne Uhlhorn

Circuit Pastors

Gerhardt Juergens
Apache Circuit

Daniel Habben
Grand Canyon Circuit

Ross Else
Metro East Circuit

John Sprain
Metro West Circuit

Gary Pufahl
Superstition Mountains Circuit

Timothy Shrimpton
Golden Gate Circuit

David Waterstradt
Sierra Circuit

Thomas Unke
Las Vegas Circuit

Joel Petermann
Los Angeles Circuit

Brian Doebler
Orange Circuit

James Werner
San Diego Circuit

Daniel Baumler
Rio Grande Circuit

Nathan Kassulke
Saguaro Circuit

Congregational Services Coordinators

Gary Pufahl
Discipleship

Mark J. Schroeder
Evangelism

Joel Walker
Lutheran Schools

Kaylen Orr
Early Childhood

Laura Heiman
Early Childhood

John Derme
Special Ministries

Kevin Bode
Worship

Synodical Council

Noel Ledermann

Board of Appeals

Daniel Habben
Chairman

Ministry of Christian Giving

Martin Spaude
District Coordinator

Christian Giving Counselors

Ralph LePore
Deferred Gifts

Craig Wasser
Current Gifts

Nominating Committee

Joshua Stahmann
Chairman

Daniel Cole
Kirk Massey Jr
Apache Conference

Thomas Barthel
Craig Kiecker

Black Canyon Conference

David Parsons
Jason Schmidt

Gadsden Conference

William Kant
Rendell Koeppel

Northern California Conference

Sean DeFrain
Michael Foley
Southern California Conference

Legislation Committee

Joseph Worischeck
Arizona

Scott Stone
California

Charles Gumm
Hawaii

Constitution Committee

Andrew Schroeder
Chairman

District Help Team Chairman

Jon Stern

Forward in Christ Reporter

Michael Schroeder