Gilbert Lutheran Church 3.43

Gilbert is a small but growing community poised at northern edge of Ames, Iowa. Ames is the home of Iowa State University and just a short drive from Des Moines, the state capitol. Gilbert is a vibrant and growing community seeing particular expansion in our young families and youth.


Worship:
Summer worship will begin on Memorial Day weekend at 9:30 AM. Please join us for Fellowship after worship!

Please note: On Labor Day weekend, we return to the normal schedule. Worship will be at 8:15 AM and 10:45 AM with Fellowship and Education at 9:30 AM.

Nursery is provided during worship.

Vision of Gilbert Lutheran Church: To be a welcoming community of caring people growing in faith and service to others

Mission of Gilbert Lutheran Church: To encourage all people to find a living relationship with God in Jesus Christ and to actively grow in faith.

Our story began as Norwegian Lutheran immigrants gathered in a one room school two miles north of Gilbert. In a few years they built their first sanctuary on a hill across the road from that school. Kenny Fossel, who lives just a mile south and a ½ mile east of the old church, remembers the stories of how his father, Amos Fossel, moved that church in 1927 to Gilbert – a very slow process on dirt roads. In 1976 the congregation moved to its present site and built a new sanctuary. An education unit was built in 1985. Because of growth, a new sanctuary, fellowship hall and offices were built in 1994.