Good Shepherd Family Church
Good Shepherd Family Church is a Lutheran church at 2054 Southeast California Avenue in Topeka, KS 66607. It is one of 253 churches in Topeka, and one of 12 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Worship is where we come together to be reminded of God’s love and grace. It is a time of renewal, inspiration, and connection with the broader faith community.
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2054 Southeast California Avenue, Topeka, KS, 66607Service times
- Saturday 5pm
Phone: (785) 783-7774 · Website: http://goodshepherd.com/
Good Shepherd Family Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 230 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Kansas — 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 Family Church
- Children's Ministry
- Childcare
- Communion
- Kids Connect
- Confirmation
- Parent Connect
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Latest from Good Shepherd Lutheran Church's YouTube channel: Traditional Worship | Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost | September 13, 2026 at 11am (all videos).
The community around Good Shepherd Family 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (17.0–34.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (10.2–23.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (2.6–15.8%)
- Child Poverty: 28.4% (14.8–42.1%)
- Depression: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Family Church
- True Light Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- True Holiness Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- California Acres Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Overcoming Fellowship Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Open Arms Outreach Ministries COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Lord Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- True Holiness Family Church — 0.5 mi away
- Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Clay Street Baptist Ministries , We Care Baptist Ministries — 0.8 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Hope Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 3 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 3.5 mi away