Burns United Methodist Church
Burns United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 811 Crocker St in Des Moines, IA 50309-1205. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Today, we do not rest on the accomplishments of the past, but build upon them—answering Christ’s call to serve, to witness, and to rise anew.
Burns United Methodist Church was born from struggle, raised in hope, and sustained by faith.
Part of Central West Conference
811 Crocker St, Des Moines, IA, 50309-1205Service times
- Tuesday 6:30pm
Phone: (515) 244-5883 · Website: https://www.burnsumc.com/
Burns United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Ministries at Burns United Methodist Church
- Outreach Services
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The community around Burns United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (16.3–32.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.9%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Burns United Methodist Church
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Ambrose Cathedral — 0.4 mi away
- The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul — 0.4 mi away
- Escuelas Catolicas, Diocesis de Des Moines — 0.4 mi away
- Kyles A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmaus House Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- The Gateway Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kyles A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away