Good Shepherd Church
Good Shepherd Church is a United Methodist church at 1005 University Drive in Lancaster, SC 29720. It is one of 136 churches in Lancaster, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
The Cemetery of the Good Shepherd has its earliest roots in the Civil War era as the cemetery for Zoar United Methodist Church.
Serving since 1861
1005 University Drive, Lancaster, SC, 29720Phone: (803) 285-4577 · Website: http://www.churchofthegoodshepherdumc.com/
Good Shepherd Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Good Shepherd Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 5 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (2.6–19.5%)
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.8% (8.3–25.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lancaster city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 663 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Church
- Mt Nebo Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Anointed Word Church — 0.6 mi away
- Covenant Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Northside Mission Church — 0.6 mi away
- Deliverance Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Sonlight Community Church of the Nazarene — 1.2 mi away
- Reformation Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Zion United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Lynwood United Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- Centennial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 4.1 mi away
- Grace-Lynnwood United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away
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