Bethesda Lutheran Church
Bethesda Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1517 Northwestern Avenue in Ames, IA 50010. It is one of 55 churches in Ames, and one of 9 Lutheran congregations in the city.
As a faith community, we gather all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ, grow as disciples through worship, prayer, and study of God's Word, and go into the world to share the Gospel in word and deed.
1517 Northwestern Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · Traditional
Phone: (515) 232-6256 · Website: http://www.bethesdaames.org/
Bethesda Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,919 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 Bethesda Lutheran Church
- Food pantry
- Clothing closet
- Children's Ministry
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Latest from Bethesda Lutheran Church | Ames, IA's YouTube channel: Texts for November 1, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethesda Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 31.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ames city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,594 residents.
Churches near Bethesda Lutheran Church
- Korean Christian Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ames Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Northminster Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lifepointe Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grand Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ames Community Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Cecilia Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Hope - Ames — 0.9 mi away
- University Lutheran Center — 1.4 mi away
- Memorial Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Ascension Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away