New Life Center
New Life Center is a Pentecostal church at 1031 23rd Street in Des Moines, IA 50311. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 9 Pentecostal congregations in the city.
1031 23rd Street, Des Moines, IA, 50311Phone: (515) 288-3353 · Website: https://www.nlcdesmoines.org/
New Life Center is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 216 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Iowa — 16,683 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around New Life Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 41.4% (22.1–60.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 34.8% (21.3–48.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 27.4%
- Unemployment: 13.5% (6.7–20.4%)
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
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.
Churches near New Life Center
- First Arabic Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cottage Grove Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hope and Elim — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios (Séptimo Día) — 0.4 mi away
- HighPoint Church — 0.4 mi away
- Basilica of Saint John — 0.4 mi away
- St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church and Student Center — 0.4 mi away
- Living Water Evangelical Free Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sweet Home Deliverance Church — 0.5 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- New Friendship Church of God in Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Evangelistic Missionary Church of God in Christ — 2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 2.2 mi away
- River of Life Assembly of God Church — 2.3 mi away
- All Nations Assembly of God — 2.4 mi away