Ascension Lutheran Church
Ascension Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Ames, IA 50010. It is one of 61 churches in Ames, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
The mission of Ascension Lutheran Church is to glorify God and to bring people to a full personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Serving since 1965
Ames, IA, 50010Service times
Sunday Worship: 9:15am; Sunday morning beginning at 8:15am; Wed, Dec 3, 10, 17 - 7pmChristmas Eve at 5pmChristmas Day at 10am (as listed)
Ascension Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
Ministries at Ascension Lutheran Church
- Butterfly Freedom House
- Overflow Thrift Store
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Watch
Latest from Ascension Lutheran's YouTube channel: "Everyone Who Thirsts" - Sunday Service for August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Ascension Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 29.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Ames city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,594 residents.
Churches near Ascension Lutheran Church
- Stonebrook Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Heartland Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Cecilia Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- North Grand Christian Church — 0.9 mi away in AAmes, IA
- Northminster Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Korean Christian Reformed Church — 1.1 mi away
- Grand Avenue Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethesda Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Memorial Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Hope - Ames — 2.3 mi away
- University Lutheran Center — 2.4 mi away