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This site last updated 5/5/08

Welcome to First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church & School.
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. The name will get longer again when we open our preschool in the fall of 2008.

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.

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

Pastor Gregory Mech:

"Faith and its evidence", August 11-12, 2007

"Imagine a family of mice..." September 8-9 2007

"Come To the Knowledge", September 22-23, 2007

"The Temptation of Jesus", February 9-10, 2008