Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 8301 Aurora Avenue in Urbandale, IA 50322. It is one of 33 churches in Urbandale, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We invite you to explore the many aspects of our church home and family. We are all ordinary people who have been transformed by an extraordinary and loving God. We know that we deeply matter to God, and so do you.
Wheelchair accessible
8301 Aurora Avenue, Urbandale, IA, 50322Service times
- Friday 8am
Phone: (515) 276-1700 · Website: http://www.gdlc.church/
Gloria Dei 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.
Ministries at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
- Children's Church
- Nursery
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The community around Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. 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.
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Urbandale city is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 1,748 residents.
Churches near Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
- Central Community Free Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Miracle Chapel of Praise International — 0.6 mi away
- Urban Heights Evangelical Covenant Church — 0.6 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Resurrection Community Church of the Nazarene — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Mary Coptic Orthodox Church — 1 mi away
- Gospel Assembly Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Life Community Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Stephen Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Hope Assembly of God Church — 1.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Stephen Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Hope - Johnston — 2.2 mi away in Johnston, IA
- Grace Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away in Des Moines, IA
- Saint James Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away in Johnston, IA
- Mount Olive Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away in Des Moines, IA