Grand View Lutheran Church
Grand View Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2930 E 13th St in Des Moines, IA 50316. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 19 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Grand View was organized in 1908. We are a church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
2930 E 13th St, Des Moines, IA, 50316Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: (515) 266-8074 · Website: http://www.gvlc.org/
Grand View Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
Find Grand View Lutheran Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from Grand View Lutheran Church's YouTube channel: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (9/13/2026) (all videos).
The community around Grand View Lutheran 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 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: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Grand View Lutheran Church
- Miller United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Temple Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Sophia Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- Luther Memorial Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Park Grace Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Park Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Penn Avenue Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Union Park Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Life Chapel Des Moine — 0.4 mi away
- Union Park Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Luther Memorial Church — 0.1 mi away
- Highland Park Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Our Saviour Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Prince of Peace Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away