Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 701 Iowa Avenue in Decorah, IA 52101. It is one of 32 churches in Decorah, and one of 6 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Worship is at the center of the ministry of Good Shepherd. In worship, we encounter God in word and sacrament and are shaped to be God’s people in the world.
Welcome to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church! This is Christ’s Church. There is a place for you here! There is a place for your questions, joys, sorrows, and complexities. There is a place for you in this community of God’s broken and beloved people. There is a place for your gifts in the work we share: God’s work in Christ’s name for the life of the world.
Fully accessible
701 Iowa Avenue, Decorah, IA, 52101Service times
- Sunday, Friday 6:30pm · s Worship Service is available following
Phone: (563) 382-3963 · Website: https://goodshepherddecorah.org/
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 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.
Ministries at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- AMMPARO Ministry
- Affirmation of Baptism (Confirmation)
- EPIC Scholarships and Mission Endowment Fund
- Flock Ministry
- L.I.F.T (Learning in Faith Together)
- Prayer Shawl Ministry
- Racial Justice Team
- Social Justice Team
- Women of the ELCA (WELCA)
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Watch
Latest from Good Shepherd Decorah's YouTube channel: What if we lived as if it is True? | Good Shepherd Sermon 8/2/26 | Pastor Kristen Larsen-Schmidt (all videos).
The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- Center for Faith and Life — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Benedicts Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Decorah UCC — 0.9 mi away
- Decorah Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Decorah Covenant Church — 1 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran — 1.1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Center for Faith and Life — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Decorah Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran — 1.1 mi away
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 9 mi away