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Vacation Bible School 2026

Register your child for Amazing Grace: A Surprise Party! VBS at Ashworth Church in West Des Moines June 15 – 19!

Latest Messages

The Other Side

Feet First

There are moments in life when we’ve prayed, weighed the options, and sought wisdom — and still have to make a decision without knowing how it all turns out. In Joshua 3, the Israelites find themselves at the Jordan River at flood stage. God doesn’t part the water first. He asks them to step in. In this message, we look at what it means to follow a God who goes before us into unknown territory, how preparation and consecration shape…
The Other Side

Step In

Moses is dead. The river is waiting. And Joshua has been here before. In the opening message of The Other Side, we sit with Joshua at the threshold and discover that the call to be strong and courageous isn’t a command to muster up more courage — it’s an invitation to let God’s presence become more real than the fear.

Church Blog

Plant a Church

Jesus is on the move in India, and we’d love to be a part of it! In partnership with Vishwa Vani, we hope to raise $10,000 in order to build another church in India this spring. Would you consider joining us in prayer and giving to see God continue to move among these people? If you’d like to give, click here to do so, selecting the “India Church Planting” designated fund.

Eat

All at once an angel touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat’ (1 Kings 19:5). Lent is known as a season of fasting. Traditionally, it means skipping a meal one day a week or no meat on specific days. But over the years, this has been expanded. Now people fast from sweets or sugar, entertainment, technology, or social media. Today, just about anything can be fasted from during Lent. The command to Elijah was to eat. His body was…

Return

Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love (Joel 2:13). A well-known expression — and the title of a novel by Thomas Wolfe — is “you can’t go home again.” With this comes the assumption that things won’t be the way they were — and if they are, they will probably be worse. There is something inherent in our nature that resists going back, returning, especially if we’ve burned…

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5300 Ashworth Road, West Des Moines, Iowa