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.
You don't have to have this figured out to be here.
Maybe you grew up with no church at all. Maybe the word "Jesus" carries baggage you're still sorting through. Either way, you're welcome here exactly as you are — no test to pass, no vocabulary to learn first.
If you're curious what following Jesus actually looks like, the simplest next step is just to come to a Sunday and see for yourself. Sit in the back if you want. Ask questions after, or don't. We'd love to meet you either way.
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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
I've been in pastoral ministry since 2012, and I planted my first church in Des Moines back in 2015. This city is home, and 1927 is my attempt to build something here that will outlast me.
I'm currently 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 I've also taught 12th-grade Bible at Des Moines Christian School, walking with a generation of students through the questions that matter most.
My theological home is Wesleyan-Anglican — sacramental, liturgically formed, committed to regular communion and the long, slow work of disciple-making. My preaching is expository, my pace is patient, and I am genuinely, persistently glad to meet you. Come say hello on a Sunday.
The church is governed by a board of four: Cam (Chair), Mike Morgan (Vice Chair and Presiding Elder), Daniel Scott (Chair, Board of Trustees), and David Philmon Jr. (Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee).
As a young church within the Global Methodist Church, we're also working to fully establish the boards and committees our polity calls for — a Board of Trustees, a Finance Committee, and a Pastor-Parish Relations Committee — and to fill those seats as our ministry grows and matures.
Our director team — worship & liturgy, congregational care, formation & discipleship, children & family, hospitality, and operations — continues to take shape as 1927 grows.
Getting involved is simple.
We call the people who serve here servant leaders, not volunteers — a volunteer gives spare time to an event, a servant leader lives out a posture of ministry, serving the body the way Christ served us.
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Weekly, small, and honest — the room where formation actually happens.
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Worship, hospitality, kids, tech — every gift has a place on a Sunday.
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Generosity as gratitude, not obligation — see how giving works at 1927.
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