[1] In addition, one congregation in Granite City is in the non-geographic SELC District.

The District also carries out campus ministry at two colleges and supports an elementary school in East St.

Timothy J. Scharr became the district president August 29, 2010, upon the election of the Rev.

Herbert C. Mueller, Jr. as the First Vice President of the LCMS[7] and was elected to a full three year term in 2012.

[9] Neunaber later became bishop of the Great Rivers Synod of the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) from 1976 to 1979.