Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Lake Villa, IL 60046. It is one of 14 churches in Lake Villa.

Our goal at Good Shepherd is to preach and teach the Gospel of God's forgiveness in Jesus, to live by that faith, and to share that faith with everyone.

Good Shepherd was organized as a mission congregation on November 12, 1958. The initial membership was 79. In 1963 the congregation built its first sanctuary seating approximately 300 on 13 acres of real estate in northern Collinsville. The congregation grew steadily and various building programs added additional seating, office and classroom space. In 1984 the church started Good Shepherd Lutheran School. The School grew rapidly and now has over 400 students in grades Preschool to Grade 8. In 1985 the congregation called an associate pastor and has had two pastors ever since. A total of seven

Serving since 1958 · Elevator · Part of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

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.

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