First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1001 Pleasant Street in Des Moines, IA 50309. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 24 Methodist congregations in the city.
To connect people with God, to build a welcoming and inclusive community that serves our neighbors through actions of justice and love, and to develop disciples of Jesus Christ.
1001 Pleasant Street, Des Moines, IA, 50309Service times
Monday-Thursday:8:00 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (515) 244-6209 · Website: http://www.dmfirstchurch.org/
First 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.
Find First United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from DSM First Church's YouTube channel: September 13th Sunday Service (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (14.8–28.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Ambrose Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Escuelas Catolicas, Diocesis de Des Moines — 0.3 mi away
- Burns United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Gateway Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rhema Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmaus House Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Kyles A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Burns United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kyles A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away