Good Shepard Church
Good Shepard Church is a United_methodist church at 4700 Vance Avenue in Fort Wayne, IN 46815. It is one of 351 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, 46815Website: https://www.fwgoodshepherd.org/
Good Shepard Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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