Southside Church of the Nazarene

Southside Church of the Nazarene is a church at 4110 South Union Street in Des Moines, IA 50315. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines.

4110 South Union Street, Des Moines, IA, 50315

Southside Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 100 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Iowa — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.

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The community around Southside Church of the Nazarene

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: 41.0%
  • Social Isolation: 37.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.2% (8.5–27.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
  • Diabetes: 13.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
  • Unemployment: 6.3% (0.4–12.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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

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