Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 190 South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. It is one of 80 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Good Shepherd continues to carry out is mission to learn, celebrate and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all people.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a dynamic and diverse congregation located in downtown Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. We are a congregation focused on life long learning, worship, and service to all God’s people.
190 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18701Website: http://goodshepherdwb.org/
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (13.6–30.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.0% (2.8–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Vida Nueva Church — 0.4 mi away