Simple Church is a movement that connects you into life-changing relationships with Jesus and others through deliberately simple, conversational-style churches.
We've been connecting people since the beginning.
At the start of 2014 seven people met to pray about starting a new way of being the church - a church that focused on connecting with each other in meaningful and authentic relationships. On Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014, 50 other people joined us for the first service of Simple Church at the Event Center West in West Des Moines, Iowa.
We connect people just like you every single week.
We believed God was leading us to be an authentic, relational, and yet outreaching church which would be a network of Jesus followers gathering together to encourage each other in our spiritual lives and then going out, moved by the Holy Spirit, to share and demonstrate the Gospel. Our model was, and is, the New Testament Church found in Acts 2:42-47.
We seek to live out this model by always meeting around round tables, always renting or leasing facilities, practicing servant-leadership, caring for the needs of everyone in our local church and ultimately have campuses throughout West Des Moines, Des Moines, and the surrounding areas.
We care more about changed lives than church membership, community than activity, belonging than just attending, and reaching a hurting world than just growing a big church.
Our prayer, for Simple Church, is that God will help us always be a place that exists for the sole purposes of loving God, loving others, and serving our world. That’s all God wants us to do. We believe people are hungry to know God in a personal way, be part of real relationships where people know & love each other, and believe they belong and find God’s purpose for their lives.
What this means for you.
You need to get connected and feel known and loved and we know how to help you get connected. You're welcome at Simple Church. We're saving a seat for you. Wherever you are at in your faith journey, you'll get connected and be accepted as part of the Simple Church family.
