First Church of the Nazarene
First Church of the Nazarene is a Nazarene church at 4703 Douglas Avenue in Des Moines, IA 50310. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines.
4703 Douglas Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50310Shares a ministry location with Chin Baptist Church.
First Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 106 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Iowa — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around First Church of the Nazarene
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.9–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near First Church of the Nazarene
- Chin Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Douglas Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westside Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Church of Des Moines — 0.3 mi away
- Glen Echo Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westchester Evangelical Free Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Des Moines Mennonite Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Temple Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Debra Heights Wesleyan Church — 1.1 mi away
- Resurrection Community Church of the Nazarene — 2 mi away in Urbandale, IA
- Faith Church of the Nazarene — 2.5 mi away
- Greater Life Community Church — 2.7 mi away in Urbandale, IA
- Highland Park Church of the Nazarene — 3.1 mi away