Campus
We strive to share our campus facilities with our community and neighbors.
Good Shepherd Baptist Church was formed in the early 1960’s and has been active in the Lynnwood community since that time. The church building is located on 196th near Edmonds Community College on a 4.5 acre site. During the past forty-plus years, the property has served as a winter pasture for burros from our summer camp high in the Cascades, as a playfield for our children (and adults), and as a community garden for residents of the community.
During the past few years, the congregation has been going through an envisioning process to explore long-term ways to best use the property for community service. We are completing a plan to create a multiple-use “campus” on the property that will include the all the areas listed on this page.
We make our building open to community groups for meetings or events. Please contact the church office for more information about how your local group can use our centrally-located building for your meetings.
General Information:
Parking
Visitors and members of Good Shepherd may park in our parking lot on the east side of our building. Please note the spaces specified for compact cars.
Overflow parking for Good Shepherd is available in the Shepherd’s Garden north parking lot–this is the lot furthest from 196th Street, adjacent to the Community Gardens and the Shepherd’s Garden smoking gazebo.
Community Garden Area
Our Community Garden area has been expanded and its landscaping improved. The 30-plus community garden plots now have create walkways and sitting areas amidst the gardens for use by the gardeners and visitors. The gardens are currently located on the north side of our campus,near the extended parking area north of Shepherd’s Garden. We have 30 gardens this year, some of which are now raised gardens earmarked for Shepherd’s Garden residents, and as last year, includes a garden specifically tended to provide fresh produce to the Lynnwood Food Bank.
Future Visions for our Campus:
Community Arboretum and Small Event Venue
One of our long-term visions is to create an Arboretum for our community. In conjunction with Edmonds Community College Horticulture Department, plans call for creating an “arboretum” area on the northeast quadrant of the property that is currently open space. It will be available for the community to visit and enjoy, plus it may become a resource for elementary school classes studying plant life. In addition to its designed landscaped areas, the site will have an area that can be used for weddings, outdoor church services, and other small community events.
Inter-generational Child Care
Current plans call for utilizing existing and possible future space as a facility for childcare services involving residents of the senior housing facility who could assist professional staff.
Modification of Existing Church Building
The existing church building has not been significantly upgraded since it was constructed in the 1960s. Our plan is to expand the existing fellowship hall to nearly double its current size, add improved rest room facilities, modify the layout of the sanctuary, improve the parking and landscaped areas, increase handicapped accessibility, and bring the building up to current code.
