Good Shepherd Church
Good Shepherd Church is a Catholic church in Brunswick, GA 31525. It is one of 197 churches in Brunswick.
We are working to restore the historic schoolhouse, and to turn the Good Shepherd church and school—in the rural Pennick community, 13 miles north of Brunswick, 15 miles west of Darien—into a pilgrimage site and retreat center.
Serving since 1894
Brunswick, GA, 31525Good Shepherd Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 263 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Georgia — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Good Shepherd Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (5.9–20.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Good Shepherd Church
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 1.9 mi away
- High Bridge Presbyterian Church — 2.3 mi away in Natural Bridge, VA
- Salem-St. John Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Haven Chapel — 2.7 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 3.3 mi away
- Sterling Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Sterling Church — 4.6 mi away
- Golden Isles church of Christ — 5.1 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Nativity of Our Lady Catholic Church — 8.4 mi away in Darien, GA
- Saint Francis Xavier Church — 12.7 mi away
- Holy Nativity Episcopal Church — 15.8 mi away in Saint Simons Island, GA