Hope Lutheran Church

Hope Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Des Moines, IA 50317. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 17 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Des Moines, IA, 50317

Website: http://www.hopelutheran-dsm.org/

Hope Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,755 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.

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The community around Hope Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 43.8% (28.7–58.9%)
  • Food Insecurity: 25.3%
  • Obesity: 43.8%
  • Social Isolation: 36.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.6% (13.9–33.4%)
  • Diabetes: 15.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
  • Depression: 23.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
  • Unemployment: 7.7% (1.4–14.0%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.

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