Trinity Lutheran Church
Trinity Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 3223 University Avenue in Des Moines, IA 50311. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 19 Lutheran congregations in the city.
3223 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50311Trinity Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around Trinity Lutheran Church
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 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (9.4–26.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.9–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Trinity Lutheran Church
- Des Moines Intentional Eucharistic Community — 0.1 mi away
- Greek Orthodox Church of St. George — 0.2 mi away
- Providence Reformed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vineyard Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church and Student Center — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Water Evangelical Free Church — 0.4 mi away
- Des Moines Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 2 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- Windsor Heights Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away in Windsor Heights, IA