Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 380 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta, CA 93117. It is one of 18 churches in Goleta, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church meets each Sunday for worship together at 9:30 a.m.
Serving since 1959 · Part of Pacific Southwest District
380 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, 93117Service times
- Sunday 11am · Bible Study
Phone: (805) 967-1416 · Website: http://www.gslcms.org/
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 876 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
Ministries at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- Bell Choir
- Praise Band
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The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 31.0%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.4–9.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Goleta city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 3,588 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- Christian Science First Church Of Christ Scientist Goleta — 0.1 mi away
- Goleta Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Restoration Church Goleta — 0.3 mi away
- Emanuel Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Anthem Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Cambridge Drive Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Goleta Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Anthem Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Our Redeemer Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away in Santa Barbara, CA
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran — 4.5 mi away in Santa Barbara, CA
- Grace Lutheran Church — 4.6 mi away in Santa Barbara, CA