Faith Lutheran Church and School
An English District congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

Pastor M. Todd Zill

Pastor Zill is our campus pastor who serves primarily as the deployed chaplain students at the University of Arizona and has nearly 30 years of campus ministry experience. He helped start Higher Things, which is a Lutheran Youth Conference group which meets annually, and he is also the founder of LCMS U, which was a Synod based college association. He has dedicated his life to serving college kids, and to the Gospel effort at reaching young people in secular campuses.You can read a fuller bio on Pastor Zill and learn all about the campus ministry at the LCMS campus ministry at the University of Arizona here.

Pauling Youngling, Office Assistant/Secretary

Pauline is a longtime member at Faith, and does just about everything that Pastor and Samuel forget to do! She manages the office, the church, and keeps us up to date with all the activities and members within the church. 

Samuel Ledford, Vicar

Samuel is the (first) and current vicar at Faith, who started serving in that capacity at the end of July, 2025. He is a student at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne Indiana, and studied computer science and theological languages at Concordia University Wisconsin. He picked up Spanish while living in Arizona, and to further facilitate his Spanish, he lived in Guadalajara Mexico during the summer of 2025 studying intensive Spanish. He is an avid Arizona fan, and loves Mountain Biking, coffee, reading theology, and playing good Lutheran hymns on the piano.

Rev. Nick Wirtz, Pastor

Pastor Wirtz serves as the vacancy pastor of the English congregation, and the sole pastor of the Hispanic congregation. He has served in this role since 2024. He studied theology and Spanish in Panama for two years, and is an avid guitar player and motorcycle enthusiast. He has 4 children, one of whom is a Pastor at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Tucson, Arizona, one of our sister churches in the area. He is blessed with 3 "grandmidgets", whom he sees regularly.