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Welcome to First Good Shepherd Lutheran
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Missouri Synod
A Stephen Ministry Church

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If you're living in Las Vegas or just visiting, we would love to have you worship with us. We have three worship times to fit your schedule.

We are located at 301 South Maryland Parkway on the corner of Bridger & Maryland Parkway between Charleston & Fremont Streets. The physical address is 301 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas NV 89101. Our phone is 702-384-6106. Our fax is 702-384-2080. Directions and map

Who we are

When the city of Las Vegas was incorporated as county seat for Clark County, Nevada, in 1905, there were fewer than 800 residents in a county larger in land area than half a dozen states, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Thirty years later in 1935, following the completion of Hoover Dam, the population had grown to just over 8,000, and the California-Nevada district of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod determined that the time was right to establish the preaching station which would become First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

Why the funny name? The congregation was incorporated in 1940 as The First Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd. When we added a school to our ministries in the 1950s, we officially shortened our name to First Good Shepherd, figuring that First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and School was as long a moniker as most people would be able to handle.

Established as a mission start, First Good Shepherd has always understood that part of her mission is to start missions, so that now she is the happy mother of a large family of daughter congregations in Las Vegas, southern Nevada and western Arizona, as well as the home base for African Immigrant Ministries of Las Vegas.

God has blessed this downtown location with a congregation that is progressive in attitude but traditional in worship, conservative in theology yet entrepreneurial in spirit.

Order of Service

First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church uses the Lutheran Service Book for Divine Service Settings and hymns. An outline of the Order of Service is included below.

Order of Service-Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Feb. 6-7, 2010

Selected Sermons

Pastor David Wobrock:

"Transfiguration of our Lord", February 2-3, 2008

"When Good Is Not Good Enough", February 16-17, 2008

"Blind Man's Bluff", March 1-2, 2008

"Living Hope", March 29-30, 2008

"L'Chaim", April 13, 2008

"Will Just Any God Do?", May 18, 2008, The Holy Trinity"What...Me Worry?", May 24/25, 2008

"Mercy Not Sacrifice" June 7/8, 2008"Fear Not!", June 21/22, 2008

"The Cost of Discipleship", June 28-29, 2008

"Weeds and Wheat", July 19-20, 2008

"In All Things God Works for the Good", July 26-27, 2008

"The Word of the Cross-Folly or Wisdom", Holy Cross Day/Rally Day, Sept. 13-14, 2008

"You're Cordially Invited to a Wedding", October 11-12, 2008

"Reformation Sunday", October 25-26, 2008"And So We Wait", November 8-9, 2008

"The Return of Christ", November 22-23, 2008

"The True Light of Christmas", December 14, 2008

"How Far to Bethlehem?", Christmas Day 2008

"You Are the Christ!", January 18, 2009

"The Conversion of St. Paul", January 25, 2009

"The Authority of Jesus" February 1, 2009

"If You Will, You Can", February 15, 2009

"Facing Temptation", February 28-March 1, 2009

"Rejoicing In Our Sufferings", March7-8, 2009

"God So Loved the World", March 21-22, 2009

"How's Your Attitude?", Palm Sunday-The Sunday of the Passion, April 4-5, 2009

"Left Hanging on the Resurrection", Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009

"You Shall Make Response", Stewardship Sunday, April 19, 2009

"Good Shepherd" Sunday, Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 3, 2009"

"In the World but not of the World", Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 23/24, 2009

"The Kingdom of God", Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 13-14, 2009

"Faith Not Fear", The Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 20-21, 2009

"And They Took Offense at Him", The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, July 4-5, 2009

"On Tearing Down Walls", The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July 18-19, 2009

"Eating Living Bread Together", The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, August 15-16, 2009

"We Are the Program", The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 12-13, 2009

"Including Not Excluding", The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 26-27, 2009

"What Must I Do?", The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 10-11, 2009

"This I Believe", Reformation Sunday (observed), October 24-25, 2009

"What Shall I Render?", Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, November 7-8, 2009

"Advent Means He's Coming! First Sunday in Advent, November 28-29, 2009

"'Tis The Season...To Be Jolly", Third Sunday in Advent, December 12-13, 2009

"Christmas Day", The Nativity of Our Lord, December 25, 2009

"The Baptism of Our Lord", January 10, 2010

"The Authority of Jesus", Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, January 30-31, 2010

Pastor David Hinck:

"The Twelve Year Old Life", The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, June 28, 2009

"Father, Thank You for Tomorrow!", The Sixth Sunday a. Pentecost, July 12, 2009

"When Your Ship Comes In", The Eighth Sunday a. Pentecost, July 26, 2009

"The Best Smell in the World", The Ninth Sunday a. Pentecost, August 2, 2009

"Bad News, Good News", The Tenth Sunday a. Pentecost, August 9, 2009

"A Clean Heart", The Thirteenth Sunday a. Pentecost, August 30, 2009

"Speaking With the Little People", The Fourteenth Sunday a. Pentecost

"For the Little People", Mark 9:30-37, The Sixteenth Sunday a. Pentecost

"Receive the Kingdom of God as a Little Child! ", The Eighteenth Sunday a. Pentecost, LWML Sunday

"Saints Out of Sinners", All Saints Sunday, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2009

"What To Do Until The Messiah Comes!", Mark 13:1-13, The Twenty-Fourth Sunday a. Pentecost

"What Shall I Render to the Lord?", Thanksgiving, November 26, 2009

"Playing Your Part", Christmas Eve, December 24, 2009

"You Can Have the Strength of a Warrior", New Year's Eve 2009

"Debt Free!", Luke 4:16-30, The Third Sunday after Pentecost, Jan. 23-24, 2010

Our regular Service times are Saturday 5pm, Sunday Morning at 8:15am & 11am.

Sunday School & Bible Class for all ages 9:45am Sunday
Wednesday Morning adult Bible Study 10:30am