Collegiate United Methodist Church
Collegiate United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 2622 Lincoln Way in Ames, IA 50014. It is one of 61 churches in Ames, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
The purpose of Collegiate/Wesley is to build an inclusive community that invites all people to experience God’s unconditional love, grow in faith, and serve others.
Serving since 1916 · Wheelchair accessible
2622 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA, 50014Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (515) 292-6936 · Website: http://www.cwames.org
Collegiate United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 742 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Find Collegiate United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Collegiate United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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.
- Poverty Rate: 67.2%
- Social Isolation: 44.7%
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Depression: 29.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (5.8–15.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Collegiate United Methodist Church
- Lighthouse Campus Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Collegiate Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. John's by the Campus Episcopal Church of Ames — 0.2 mi away
- New Birth Baptist Church - Ames, IA — 0.2 mi away
- International Outreach Inc — 0.3 mi away
- Memorial Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ames — 0.4 mi away
- St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center — 0.4 mi away
- Community of Christ Church — 0.4 mi away
- University Lutheran Center — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Ames First United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Korean United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Napier United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Huxley, IA