Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 140 East 56th Street in Tacoma, WA 98404. It is one of 382 churches in Tacoma, and one of 19 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Part of Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
140 East 56th Street, Tacoma, WA, 98404Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8am
Phone: (253) 473-4848 · Website: http://www.gslctacoma.com/
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 419 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Washington — 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.
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The community around Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Depression: 27.1%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (8.9–26.9%)
- Unemployment: 8.0% (4.4–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Tacoma city is served by 163 churches — about one congregation for every 1,366 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
- Hands of Praise Deaf Church — 0.2 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pacific Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock City — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Chapel of Tacoma — 0.3 mi away
- Church Of Transfiguration — 0.4 mi away
- Tacoma Samoa Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Unity Christian Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Unity Christian Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Good Hope Community Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- United Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Christ — 2.1 mi away
- Ascension Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away