Experience Church
Experience Church is a Pentecostal church at 3800 E Douglas Ave in Des Moines, IA 50317. It is one of 310 churches in Des Moines, and one of 8 Pentecostal congregations in the city.
Passionately loving God and intentionally loving others: while growing deep and wide on the eastside.
Experience Church is a part of Open Bible Standard Churches which originated from two revival movements: Bible Standard Conference, founded in Eugene, Oregon, under the leadership of Fred Hornshuh in 1919, and Open Bible Evangelistic Association, founded in Des Moines, Iowa, under the leadership of John R. Richey in 1932.
Serving since 1930
3800 E Douglas Ave, Des Moines, IA, 50317Service times
- Wednesday 7pm–8pm
Phone: (515) 262-7302 · Website: https://experiencechurch.net/
Experience Church is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 216 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Iowa — 16,683 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
Ministries at Experience Church
- Experience Kids
- Experience Youth
- Experience Church Women of Influence
- Experience Church H.I.S. Men
- Experience Church Community Groups
- Experience Church Vintage Ministry
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Latest from Experience Church's YouTube channel: Who establishes your standard? Lead Pastor Charles Cole- 11/1/2026 (all videos).
The community around Experience Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 47.5% (31.7–63.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 27.2%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (15.2–35.9%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (1.5–15.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Experience Church
- True Life Assembly — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Reformed Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hope Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Evangel Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Evangelical Chapel - Foursquare Church — 0.6 mi away
- Freedom Church — 0.6 mi away
- Eastside Evangelical Free Church — 0.6 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- First Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Evangel Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Cornerstone Pentecostal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Experience Church — 1.4 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Salem — 1.9 mi away