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Christian Community at Mercy College of Health Sciences

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Mercy College of Health Sciences sits in Des Moines, United States, and is a small college. The church closest to campus is Corinthian Baptist Church, Baptist, about 0.1 miles away, one of 14 within walking distance. In the surrounding area you will find Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Catholic, Anglican or Episcopal, and Evangelical congregations, so whether you grew up in a particular tradition or have never set foot in a church, there is a door here for you.

A campus with Christian roots

Public records associate Mercy College of Health Sciences with a Catholic affiliation. Many schools with Christian roots keep a chapel, a campus ministry, or a chaplain, and welcome students of every background and none. If that is your tradition you may find a home quickly here; if it is new to you, you are just as welcome to come and see. The churches nearest campus are listed below, and you can always ask on the student community who gathers where.

Arriving, and the ache of a new place

A smaller campus in Des Moines can feel like everyone already found their people before you arrived, and you are still looking. That ache is not weakness and it is not rare. Nearly everyone around you feels some version of it, and one of the oldest, quietest answers to it is a room full of people who will learn your name, pray for your week, and save you a seat.

There is a church about a 5-minute walk from campus. You could be there this Sunday, and you would not have to walk in alone. If it helps, start with when you feel lonely at college, how to find Christian friends, or what a first Sunday is actually like.

And you do not have to wait to be found. The other believers are already here, scattered and unseen. The Campus Gathering shows you how to find them, or begin one yourself, because two or three who gather in his name are already the church on this campus, and the most beautiful doorway to Christ a searching student ever walks through.

You are more than your transcript

You are being trained to hold other people's lives in your hands, and the pressure to be flawless can make a person forget they are a person at all, and not a machine that must never fail.

It is not a new question. Students have carried it through Des Moines since 1899. This is the oldest ache there is, and a degree, however good, was never built to fill it. Long before you had a transcript, a major, or a single line of achievement to your name, you were already known and already loved. That is the heart of what Christians mean by the Living Bread: a belonging and a life that do not run out when the grades come in, when the offer falls through, or when a semester in Des Moines quietly breaks you. Jesus offered himself to hungry people as exactly that, the bread that satisfies the hunger underneath the hunger, the one no achievement has ever reached.

If that stirs something in you, you can start with who Jesus actually is, or sit for a while with faith for the days you cannot fix the suffering. There is no hurry, and no test at the end of it.

Where you are, and who is already near

Mercy College of Health Sciences has stood in Des Moines, United States since 1899. Generation after generation of students has arrived here in the years since, hauling boxes into a strange room, learning a new set of streets, and carrying the same quiet questions underneath the timetable and the reading list. You are only the newest of a very long line.

And you are not without a local family here. The congregations nearest campus are real, named places: Corinthian Baptist Church about 0.1 miles away; Saint John's Lutheran Church about 0.4 miles away; and Saint Paul African Methodist Church about 0.4 miles away. These are not abstractions on a map. They are ordinary rooms full of people who would learn your name, pray for your week, and save you a seat, a short way from where you sleep. 14 of them sit close enough to walk to.

Wherever you have come from, Des Moines, United States can become more than the city your degree happens to be printed in. It can become the place you were found. You can see every nearby church listed in full just below, explore more campuses across Iowa, or step back to the whole University Kingdom Network. And when you want a congregation near your exact address, the church finder can map it.

Churches Near Mercy College of Health Sciences

These are real congregations closest to campus, drawn from OpenStreetMap, with straight-line distances. Service times and student ministries vary, so check each church directly. When you are ready, the church finder maps them for you.

• Corinthian Baptist Churchwalkable

  Baptist
  0.1 miles away
• Saint John's Lutheran Churchwalkable

  Lutheran
  0.4 miles away
• Saint Paul African Methodist Churchwalkable

  Methodist
  0.4 miles away
• Saint Ambrose Cathedralwalkable

  Roman Catholic
  0.4 miles away
• First United Methodist Churchwalkable

  Methodist
  0.5 miles away
• The Cathedral Church of Saint Paulwalkable

  Anglican
  0.5 miles away
• Community Baptist Churchwalkable

  Baptist
  0.6 miles away
• Kyles A.M.E. Zion Churchwalkable

  African Methodist Episcopal Zion
  0.6 miles away
• New Jerusalem Church of Godwalkable
  0.6 miles away
• Mount Hebron Baptist Churchwalkable

  Baptist
  0.6 miles away
• The Gateway Churchwalkable

  Protestant
  0.7 miles away
• New Friendship Church of God in Christwalkable
  0.8 miles away
• Capitol Hill Lutheran Churchwalkable

  Lutheran
  0.8 miles away
• Walnut Creek Church - Downtownwalkable

  Evangelical
  0.8 miles away

Getting to church without a car

14 of these are within about a mile and a half, close enough to walk. Many students do not have a car. Check the local transit route on a Sunday, or ask in your campus community whether anyone is walking or driving over. Going with someone the first time makes all the difference.

Christian Traditions Near Mercy College of Health Sciences

The churches around campus span several Christian traditions. If you are not sure what the differences mean, or which might feel like home, these explain each one, and what all Christians hold in common.

About Mercy College of Health Sciences

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