West Des Moines United Methodist Church
West Des Moines United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 720 Grand Avenue in West Des Moines, IA 50265. It is one of 48 churches in West Des Moines, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
720 Grand Avenue, West Des Moines, IA, 50265Website: https://wdmumc.org/
West Des Moines 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 — 25,985 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.
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The community around West Des Moines United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Obesity: 36.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
West Des Moines city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 2,195 residents.
Churches near West Des Moines United Methodist Church
- Imani Family Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark Discipleship Center — 0.3 mi away
- West Des Moines Open Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Point of Grace Church — 0.6 mi away
- Connections Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Destiny Church — 0.6 mi away
- Valley Junction Church of God — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Windsor United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Des Moines, IA
- Christ United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in Des Moines, IA
- Valley United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Des Moines, IA
- Immanuel United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Des Moines, IA
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