100 West Luray Avenue Alexandria, VA 22301 phone: 703.548.8608 fax: 703.548.8392
Pastor's Page
I have been pleased and delighted to serve this congregation since
the closing weeks of 1993, having previously served congregations on
Long Island NY, in Winston-Salem NC and Atlanta GA. I'm pleased
because Good Shepherd is a lively and evolving community of faith
surprising in its capacity to welcome new people and step up to new
challenges. I'm delighted because Good Shepherd becomes increasingly
a diverse gathering of people doing an increasingly exciting variety
of activities in our worship together, in our learning & growing, in
our ministry one to another, and in our outreach to those in our
community and beyond.
Welcome to Good Shepherd's web site! If you are new to Good
Shepherd, we would love to welcome you in person for worship or for
any of an array of activities that define our congregation's life and
mission.
We are a congregation of nearly 400 baptized members affiliated with
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the only congregation of
The ELCA located in the City of Alexandria itself. We worship and
center our activities in a building erected in the midst of WWII
expressly to serve the needs of people in this community. In
undertaking a major renovation project of late, we have recommitted
ourselves to this site in the geographical center of the City of
Alexandria, and to better serving the needs of our community as well
as our members.
Our desire and intent is to be centered in the mission to which Christ
Jesus has commissioned the whole church as the Spirit gives us insight
and provides us the gifts to carry it forward uniquely in this place
and time. With emphasis on the role of every member in our mission and
ministry together, we strive to draw out the particular gifts of each
for the work of the whole. Since its inception in the mid '30s, Good
Shepherd has benefited from pastoral leadership which has engendered a
passion for sharing the good news of Christ in word & action; for
making maximum use of our building for congregation & community;
for joining our efforts with others in the community for meeting &
serving the needs of others; and for developing new leadership for
church & community at large.
