University Lutheran Church

University Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 9595 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037 in San Diego, CA 92037. It is one of 934 churches in San Diego, and one of 34 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Reach UCSD students and La Jolla community with the Gospel; equip members for ministry and service.

University Lutheran Church is a welcoming community rooted in the Bible-based teachings of Martin Luther and the Lutheran tradition.

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9595 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, San Diego, CA, 92037

Service times

  • Wednesday 5:30pm

Phone: (858) 453-0561 · Website: http://www.ucsdlutheran.net/

University Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 880 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 15,905 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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Latest from University Lutheran Church's YouTube channel: 18th Sunday after Pentecost 2026 | ULC Livestream (all videos).

The community around University Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 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: 40.8%
  • Unemployment: 9.7% (5.9–13.8%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
  • Depression: 24.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.2% (13.1–29.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 15.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

San Diego city is served by 527 churches — about one congregation for every 2,607 residents.

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