Church of the Good Shepherd
Church of the Good Shepherd is a Catholic church in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 206 churches in Sumter, and one of 4 Catholic congregations in the city.
Welcome to Good Shepherd Episcopal Church – serving Sumter since 1913. Guided by the Spirit of the Good Shepherd, we are a congregation that welcomes others, cares and nourishes ourselves and the larger community with compassion, and creates a safe place for all who seek a deeper relationship with each other and with the living God.
Serving since 1887
Sumter, SC, 29150Phone: (803) 316-3535
Church of the Good Shepherd is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 147 congregations of the Catholic family gather across South Carolina — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Church of the Good Shepherd
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 more than a third 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: 52.3%
- Food Insecurity: 41.5%
- Poverty Rate: 36.8% (26.2–47.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.4%
- Diabetes: 27.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 16.9% (7.9–25.8%)
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.3–18.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Church of the Good Shepherd
- New Birth Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Westend Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salem Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Jude Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Jude Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Holy Comforter — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Annes Roman Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of the Ascension — 16.7 mi away in Rembert, SC
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