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 772 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.
Services in Chinese
9595 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, San Diego, CA, 92037Service 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 — 15,919 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: All Saints' Day | 2026 (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.
Churches near University Lutheran Church
- Dominican Fathers — 0 mi away in La Jolla, CA
- Torrey Pines Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
- Ethnos Community Church — 1.6 mi away
- Newman Center Catholic Community — 1.8 mi away
- Good Samaritan Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
- Grace City SD — 1.9 mi away
- University City United Church — 2.2 mi away
- Our Mother of Confidence Church — 2.3 mi away
- Congregational Church of La Jolla — 2.4 mi away in La Jolla, CA
- Lighthouse Bible Church — 2.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Lutheran Church of All Saints — 2.7 mi away
- La Jolla Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away
- Mission San Pablo - Clairemont — 3.9 mi away
- Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church — 5.1 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church of Pacific Beach — 5.1 mi away
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