An old church being planted new.
1927 is a Methodist church plant in Des Moines, Iowa, affiliated with the Global Methodist Church and the Upper Midwest Annual Conference. We are convinced the future of the Church looks a lot like its deepest past.
1927 is Psalm 27, verse one — and verse four. The whole psalm, really.
"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?" That is verse one. And then a few lines later, the one thing the psalmist asks: "to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple."
That is what 1927 is for. A house where people learn to gaze, and ask, and dwell.
We are Wesleyan-Anglican in our bones.
Sacramental, liturgically charismatic, committed to regular communion and the Christian calendar.
We believe the means of grace that have formed Christians for two millennia — Scripture, prayer, the Lord's Supper, fasting, Christian conference — are still how God forms a people. The pattern is old because it works.
We are part of the Global Methodist Church, a young denomination tethered to ancient roots. We confess the Apostles' Creed. We baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We preach expositionally from the Scriptures. We sing the songs of the Church across the centuries.
building a garden in the middle of a parking lot.
The image is intentional. Des Moines, like most American cities, is full of parking lots — efficient, paved-over, optimized for moving on. A garden in the middle of one is not efficient. It is patient. It is local. It is alive.
That is the kind of church we are trying to be. Not a parking lot for spiritual consumers. A garden — where slow things grow, and people are tended like the precious living things they are.
Cam Scott
Lead Pastor
Cam has been in pastoral ministry since 2012 and planted his first church in Des Moines in 2015. He is currently the Lead Pastor and church planter of 1927, and is in the ordination process within the Global Methodist Church — pursuing deacon ordination as a first step toward the elder's order.
For the past two years he has also taught 12th-grade Bible at Des Moines Christian School, walking with a generation of students through the questions that matter most.
Cam's theological home is Wesleyan-Anglican — sacramental, liturgically formed, committed to regular communion and the long, slow work of disciple-making. His preaching is expository, his pace is patient, and he is genuinely, persistently glad to meet you.
The church is governed by a board of five: David Philmon Jr. (Treasurer), Joe Curtis (Secretary), Mike Morgan (Vice Chair and our current Elder oversight), Daniel Scott, and Cam.
Our director team — worship & liturgy, congregational care, formation & discipleship, children & family, hospitality, and operations — is being formed in this season ahead of going public.
We are not starting something. We are continuing something — that began long before us.