Jehovah's Witnesses Union Park Congregation
Jehovah's Witnesses Union Park Congregation is a Jehovahs Witness church in Des Moines, IA 50316. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 5 Jehovahs Witness congregations in the city.
Des Moines, IA, 50316Jehovah's Witnesses Union Park Congregation is part of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Bible Student movement family of churches in The American Church Story. 68 congregations of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Bible Student movement family gather across Iowa — 1,963 across the United States on The Church Map.
Jehovah's Witnesses and the related Bible Student groups hold that God's name is Jehovah, that Christ is God's first creation rather than God the Son, and that God's kingdom is a literal government soon to rule the earth. They do not present themselves as one denomination among others, and trinitarian churches do not receive them as one. Both of those are recorded here rather than resolved.
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The community around Jehovah's Witnesses Union Park Congregation
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About a third 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Food Insecurity: 30.3%
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Child Poverty: 23.1% (8.7–37.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (11.6–30.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.3–19.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Jehovah's Witnesses Union Park Congregation
- First Grace Brethern Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Park United Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Visitation Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady of The Americas — 0.5 mi away
- Union Park Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Bible Student churches nearby
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 4.1 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses Southern Hills Congregation — 4.3 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses Highland Park Congregation — 4.6 mi away
- Grandview Park Congregation — 4.6 mi away