Fort Des Moines United Methodist Church
Fort Des Moines United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 6205 SW 9th Street in Des Moines, IA 50315. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 24 Methodist congregations in the city.
The Fort Des Moines United Methodist Church is a community of faith in worship and action, open to all.
6205 SW 9th Street, Des Moines, IA, 50315Service times
- Sunday 10am · SCHOOL
Website: http://www.fdmumc.org/
Fort Des Moines 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 Fort Des Moines United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Fort Des Moines United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Food Insecurity: 19.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 Fort Des Moines United Methodist Church
- Celebration Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fort Des Moines Open Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King Church — 0.3 mi away
- Crossroad Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Fort Des Moines Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Independent Assembly of God — 0.5 mi away
- Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- city life worship center — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint John's United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bloomfield Church — 2.4 mi away
- Jordan United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Norwalk United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Norwalk, IA
- First United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away