Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 6150-6158 South Keeler Avenue in Chicago, IL 60629. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 125 Lutheran congregations in the city.

This is a place of open doors, open minds, open hearts and open hands.Whether you live out your faith journey primarily through study, meditation, heartfelt experience, or social activism, you can find others at Good Shepherd who share your spiritual temperament.

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6150-6158 South Keeler Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60629

Service times

  • Thursday 9am

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 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.

Ministries at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

  • Social Justice
  • Anti-Racism Training
  • Local Organizations Support
  • Environmental Stewardship

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Latest from GoodShepherdLutheranChurch's YouTube channel: Jazz Prayer, September 2026 (all videos).

The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 27.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
  • Social Isolation: 35.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
  • Unemployment: 6.2% (2.6–9.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.

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