Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1548 8th Street in Des Moines, IA 50314. It is one of 310 churches in Des Moines, and one of 24 Methodist congregations in the city.
We continue our bold witness of welcoming all, including status in the criminal justice system, all genders, sexual orientations, immigration status, age, ethnicity, family configuration, and people with physical and mental challenges.
Trinity Las Américas United Methodist Church, as the first United Methodist Reconciling Congregation in Iowa, has a long history of welcoming people who have been excluded from other congregations.
Services in Spanish
1548 8th Street, Des Moines, IA, 50314Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · in July -
Phone: (515) 288-4056 · Website: http://www.trinityumcdm.org/
Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,989 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.
Ministries at Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
- Breakfast Club
- Supper Club
- English Language Classes
- Community Garden
- Food Distribution
- Children's Programs
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The community around Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 49.7%
- Food Insecurity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.5% (21.3–45.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Child Poverty: 36.9% (17.9–55.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (7.6–20.9%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (0.1–15.9%)
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 Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church
- Mission Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Savior's Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Friendship Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Berean Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Basilica of Saint John — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Burns United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Burns United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Kyles A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away