Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 16100 Puritan Street in Detroit, MI 48238. It is one of 1,589 churches in Detroit, and one of 21 Lutheran congregations in the city.
16100 Puritan Street, Detroit, MI, 48238Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 39.8% (28.4–51.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (5.0–24.7%)
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- New Community Fellowship Church — 0 mi away
- Greater United Temple of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- New Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Word Restoration Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Prayertime Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Our Lord — 0.2 mi away
- Northwest Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the New Covenant — 0.3 mi away
- Puritan Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑀.𝐵.𝐶 — 0.3 mi away