Luther Memorial Church
Luther Memorial Church is a United Methodist church at 1201 Grandview Avenue in Des Moines, IA 50316. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
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1201 Grandview Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50316Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Worship Service
Phone: (515) 262-1392 · Website: https://luthermemorialdsm.org/
Luther Memorial Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 742 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,370 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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Latest from Luther Memorial Church's YouTube channel: 08.02.26 | Sunday Morning Worship | Luther Memorial Church (all videos).
The community around Luther Memorial 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: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- 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 Luther Memorial Church
- Grand View Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Park Grace Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Temple Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Miller United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sophia Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- Penn Avenue Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Union Park Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Park Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Chapel Des Moine — 0.2 mi away
- Union Park Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Miller United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Park Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Korean United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away