First Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
First Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Des Moines, IA 50317. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 24 Methodist congregations in the city.
Des Moines, IA, 50317First Christian Methodist Episcopal 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.
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The community around First Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 24.1%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.8–13.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
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 First Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Chesterfield Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Woodland Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bread of Life Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Believers Worship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Free Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Simpson United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Poder y Gracia Des Moines — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grant Park Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Simpson United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Easton Place United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Jordan United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away