Grace Methodist Church
Grace Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 3700 Cottage Grove Avenue in Des Moines, IA 50311. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 24 Methodist congregations in the city.
3700 Cottage Grove Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50311Grace 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.
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The community around Grace Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (4.3–15.6%)
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (7.0–26.1%)
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 Grace Methodist Church
- Greek Orthodox Church of St. George — 0.2 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Des Moines Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vineyard Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Providence Reformed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Des Moines Intentional Eucharistic Community — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Reconciler's Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Crestwood Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Burns United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Kyles A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Immanuel United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away