Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Townsend, MT 59644. It is one of 15 churches in Townsend.

Serving since 1967

Townsend, MT, 59644

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 246 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Montana — 15,755 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 Valley Lutheran Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Unemployment: 10.0% (1.7–18.4%)
  • Social Isolation: 30.4%
  • Depression: 24.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.2–23.5%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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