Welcome

Welcome to the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. We extend our warmest greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! We hope you will find food for your journey and rest for soul here in our little corner of the Web. The purpose of this web site is to inform you about who we are and to encourage you in your relationship with God. We invite you to look around and see who we are and what we are about. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have and we welcome and encourage you to come and worship God with us at Good Shepherd.
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd is a parish mission family established in East Columbus, Mississippi in the 1950's in the Anglican tradition of the Episcopal Church. Our worship is to the Glory of God and sacramentally centered in the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Jesus. Our mission is evangelical: to bring all persons to the knowledge and love of God, and to respect the dignity and freedom of every human being.
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd affirming its faith in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as declared in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, identifies itself as a congregation of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, in the Anglican Communion, and a parish in union with the Episcopal Church in the United States, serving the Eastern side of Columbus, MS. Founded in 1957, we are a vibrant and caring mission family.

We are located at 321 Forrest Blvd, a residential and commercial neighborhood in east Columbus. Good Shepherd is a neighborhood church seeking to meet the spiritual needs of a diverse community.
We are a mission family of persons married and single; young and old; rich and poor; liberal and conservative; military and civilian…Our common goal and greatest bond is to follow Christ Jesus, worship God every Sunday in His Holy Church, give, work and pray for the spread of His Kingdom.
The parish adheres to "the faith once delivered to the saints," revealed by God in the person of His incarnate Son, Jesus Christ, recorded in the Holy Scriptures, to which the teaching and practice of the undivided Church of the first millennium bears witness. In our public worship at Good Shepherd, we return our praise to God with the greatest possible reverence in thanksgiving for all that we have been given. We believe wholeheartedly that the traditional worship and devotional practice of the Christian Church speaks as clearly and powerfully today as it did a millennium ago.