Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1548 8th Street in Des Moines, IA 50314. It is one of 341 churches in Des Moines, and one of 22 Methodist congregations in the city.
Trinity Las Américas United Methodist Church, as the first United Methodist Reconciling Congregation in Iowa, has a long history of welcoming people who have been excluded from other congregations.
Services in Spanish
1548 8th Street, Des Moines, IA, 50314Website: http://www.trinityumcdm.org/
Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
- Breakfast Club
- Supper Club
- English Language Classes
- Community Garden
- Food Distribution
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The community around Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 49.7%
- Food Insecurity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.5% (21.3–45.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Child Poverty: 36.9% (17.9–55.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (7.6–20.9%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (0.1–15.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
- Mission Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Savior's Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Salvation Army Des Moines Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Mission — 0.3 mi away
- New Friendship Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Berean Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Nuevo Renacer En Cristo — 0.5 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church of God — 0.6 mi away