Shepherd of the City Lutheran Church

Shepherd of the City Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1301 S Anthony Blvd in Fort Wayne, IN 46803-2107. It is one of 361 churches in Fort Wayne, and one of 27 Lutheran congregations in the city.

1301 S Anthony Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN, 46803-2107

Phone: (260) 422-3790 · Website: https://shepherdofthecitylutheran.org/contact

Shepherd of the City Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 354 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Indiana — 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 Shepherd of the City Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.

  • Child Poverty: 60.0% (41.1–78.9%)
  • Obesity: 51.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 44.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 37.7% (26.3–49.1%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.5%
  • Diabetes: 20.6%
  • Unemployment: 16.9% (7.4–26.3%)
  • Social Isolation: 39.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
  • Depression: 27.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (9.4–24.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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