500th Anniversary Reformation Tour 2017–Our Beginning

We spent two full days in or near Amsterdam and saw the “Oude Kirk,” Anne Frank’s House, took a Canal Tour, as well as the Bedijnof, a hidden Catholic Church, a church and square for medieval lay women dedicated to God and service. 

The next day we visited Haarlem to see St. Bavo’s Cathedral, where we had a guided tour and heard the organ, as saw also the very large and still active, formerly-hidden Mennonite Church. And we ate in the church’s Javanese restaurant. Here we are with our Dutch Mennonite guide Ayold Fanoy.

On day three we traveled to Deventer, the home of the medieval reforming movement called the Modern Devotion for a worship service in the Reformed church there—a beautiful small town on the eastern edge of The Netherlands. And it was a beautiful church with its white walls, and clear glass through which the light of the sun poured during the service. From there it was bus ride across Germany to Berlin where we will tour tomorrow before heading into the cities and towns where Martin Luther taught, wrote and sparked the Reformation.