Good Shepard Church
Good Shepard Church is a United Methodist church at 4700 Vance Avenue in Fort Wayne, IN 46815. It is one of 361 churches in Fort Wayne, and one of 7 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Sanctuary exists to make disciples of Jesus Christ by loving our neighbors as Jesus loves us.
We believe that we are meant to be a church where all people feel welcome and safe, proclaiming the unconditional love of God and showing it through how we worship and do life together.
4700 Vance Avenue, Fort Wayne, IN, 46815Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (260) 483-8816 · Website: https://www.fwgoodshepherd.org/
Good Shepard Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 639 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Good Shepard Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.1–15.3%)
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Depression: 26.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Fort Wayne city is served by 114 churches — about one congregation for every 2,089 residents.
Churches near Good Shepard Church
- Grace Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Charles Borromeo — 0.5 mi away
- Statewood Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Contending for the Faith Full Gospel Church — 0.7 mi away
- Abundant Life Church — 0.9 mi away
- SpokenHands ALC13 Deaf Ministry. — 0.9 mi away
- Hope Church of Fort Wayne — 0.9 mi away
- Community of Christ — 1 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 1 mi away
- Christ's Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Zo Christian Church — 1.9 mi away
- St. Joe United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Crescent Avenue United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
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