Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Waterloo, IA 50703. It is one of 126 churches in Waterloo, and one of 15 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Waterloo, IA, 50703Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 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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The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (10.7–27.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (0.8–14.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waterloo city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Christian Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.7 mi away
- Deliverance Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Conger Street Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- Saint John Church of the First Born — 1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1 mi away
- Urban Misistry Methodist Church;Calvary United Methodist Church;Jehovah's Witness Virden Creek — 1 mi away
- Jubilee United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Concordia Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Trinity American Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away
- Our Saviors Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away