Memorial Lutheran Church
Memorial Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2228 Lincoln Way in Ames, IA 50014. It is one of 61 churches in Ames, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Memorial Lutheran Church and Student Center is people who share God’s love and the message of His salvation with ISU students, internationals, families, singles, and people of all ages, enabling them to learn and grow by the grace of Jesus Christ.
Memorial Lutheran Church and Student Center serves the students of Iowa State University, international students from around the world, the community of Ames, surrounding towns such as Nevada, Gilbert, Huxley, Slater, Jewell, Alleman, Cambridge, and others.
2228 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA, 50014Service times
- Sunday 8:30am · SERVICES
- Saturday 5pm · SERVICE
Phone: (515) 292-5005 · Website: http://www.memoriallutheranchurch.org
Memorial 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.
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The community around Memorial Lutheran 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 3 in 4 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 78.6%
- Social Isolation: 46.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.3%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (7.5–17.8%)
- Depression: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Memorial Lutheran Church
- St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ames — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's by the Campus Episcopal Church of Ames — 0.1 mi away
- University Lutheran Center — 0.2 mi away
- Buster Pro 2024 T61 — 0.2 mi away
- International Outreach Inc — 0.3 mi away
- Collegiate United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Campus Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Collegiate Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Birth Baptist Church - Ames, IA — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- University Lutheran Center — 0.2 mi away
- St. Andrew's Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Hope Ames — 0.9 mi away
- Bethesda Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Hope - Ames — 1.5 mi away