Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Des Moines, IA 50313. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Des Moines, IA, 50313Mount Olive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 596 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Mount Olive Baptist 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: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Food Insecurity: 23.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- All Saints Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Team Jesus of Iowa — 0.3 mi away
- Eden Church — 0.3 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Highland Park Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Highland Park Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Valley Junction Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Northridge Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Valley Junction Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Northridge Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John's Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Park Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away