Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 823 Forge Mill Rd in Morganton, GA 30560-3232. It is one of 29 churches in Morganton.
Faith is a full life, liberated for a living, daring confidence in God’s grace.
At Shepherd of the Hills, we profess our faith in the triune God --- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Part of Southeastern Synod
823 Forge Mill Rd, Morganton, GA, 30560-3232Phone: +17063742321 · Website: http://www.shlcblueridge.com/
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 134 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Georgia — 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 Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
It takes 3.0 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 7 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. 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: 33.8%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (9.4–21.9%)
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (3.1–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
- Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away in Mineral Bluff, GA
- Welcome Hill Church #1 — 1 mi away in Mineral Bluff, GA
- Morganton Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Tri-State Christian Center — 1 mi away
- Toccoa Church — 1 mi away
- Morganton Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mineral Bluff House of Prayer — 1.3 mi away in Mineral Bluff, GA
- The Ridge Community Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Fruits Fannin — 1.6 mi away