Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1180 Lynwood Dr in Novato, CA 94947-4846. It is one of 31 churches in Novato.
Our hope is to bring the relevance of the Church into people’s lives as we practice those teachings through service, sharing, commitment, and prayer.
We are a community of people following the teachings of Jesus Christ built on God’s foundational love and grace.
1180 Lynwood Dr, Novato, CA, 94947-4846Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: +14158972123 · Website: https://www.gslcnovato.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.
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The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 39.6% (21.5–57.7%)
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (8.8–29.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- St Anthony's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- Nativity of Christ Greek Orthodox Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- The Quest — 1 mi away
- Christ Church North Bay — 1 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Torre Fuerte Novato — 1 mi away
- Novato United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Eglise Baptiste De La Grace — 1.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- All Saints — 3.8 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Resurrection — 4.7 mi away in San Rafael, CA
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 8.1 mi away in San Rafael, CA
- Marin Lutheran Church — 11 mi away in Corte Madera, CA
- Elim Lutheran Church — 11.5 mi away in Petaluma, CA