Tour members meet for our flight to Geneva. After dinner is served, it’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the on-board entertainment to prepare for this exciting adventure of a lifetime.

After arriving in Geneva, we are met by our tour guide and board our motor coach to begin touring the city. Our first stop on our journey is the International Museum of the Reformation. Here we will be submersed into 500 years of Reformation history. We will have the opportunity to see how the reformation impacted lives, from their faith to their education, even how it affected areas economically. Located right next to the museum, we will have the chance for an individual inside visit of St. Peter’s Cathedral. It is here that John Calvin preached every other week from 1536 – 1564. Next we will walk to the Reformation wall. This memorial is built into the area that would have been the old city wall. A representation of the reclaiming and protection of the Gospel that happened here. Some of the reformers represented in the Wall are John Calvin, William Farel, Theodore Beza and John Knox. We will have dinner in the city and head to our hotel for overnight.

After breakfast, we will board the bus and enjoy the countryside as we drive from Geneva to Zurich. Once we arrive in Zurich we will have lunch and some time to shop. After lunch, we will begin our walking tour of several churches including Wasserkirche, Fraumunster, and Grossmunster (where the preaching of Huldrych Zwingli initiated the Swiss-German Reformation in Switzerland). After our walking tour we will check into our hotel where we will have dinner and overnight.

After breakfast we begin our drive to one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, Strasbourg. The ideas of the Reform Movement spread in Strasbourg as early as the beginning of the 16th century. These ideas helped to lay down a structure for theological education. In 1532 Martin Bucer started courses on the exegesis of biblical books in German and in Latin. Along with others like Capiton that followed the reformed ideas, they began teaching ancient languages and many other courses that were added to the exegesis course. Our first stop once we arrive will be the Statue of the Reformers at the University and also we will visit the Historic quarter known as La Petite-France. Before we break for lunch we will visit St. Thomas-Church. After lunch we will make a visit to the Strasbourg Cathedral. We will have dinner in the city before checking into our hotel for overnight.

After breakfast, we visit Heidelberg, a gorgeous town on the Neckar River where romanticism is both past and present. Our walking tour includes the Old Town, the famous Stone Bridge over the Neckar River, the Heidelberg Castle (where the Heidelberg Confession was written in 1653), the Castle Church, German Apothecary Museum, and the Church of the Holy Ghost. We stop for lunch, then we continue to Worms, one of the oldest towns in Germany. We visit St. Peter’s Cathedral, an exquisite example of Romanesque architecture. In 1521, Martin Luther was summoned here by Emperor Charles V to recant his teachings before the Diet of Worms. We also see where Luther made his famous “Here I Stand” declaration. We will visit the world’s largest memorial to the Reformation along with Europe’s oldest Jewish cemetery, the Holy Sands. Another Reformer named William Tyndale, finished his printing of the English Bible in Worms, escaping persecution in England. After an amazing day of touring, we finish with dinner and conclude our day with check in at our hotel in the Frankfurt area.

This morning we enjoy breakfast and then we drive to the magnificent Wartburg Castle for a self-guided tour of the Palais (Great Hall), the Elisabeth Hallway, and the Luther Room where Luther, under his disguise as “Junker Jörg,” translated the New Testament into German. After our tour, we board the motorcoach and make our way to Erfurt, where we will have lunch before a guided visit of the Augustinian Monastery, with a permanent exhibit depicting Luther’s life as a monk. If time permits, we will visit St. Severus Church and then St. Mary’s Cathedral, where Luther was ordained as a priest. We end our day with dinner and then check into our hotel for overnight.

We begin our day with breakfast and then board the motorcoach for our drive to Wittenberg. We begin our tour with a guided walking tour with an exterior visit to All Saints’ Church of the Castle Church, the famous site where Luther posted his 95 Theses on the Castle Church door, sparking the beginning of the Reformation. It is here that Luther is buried alongside his fellow reformer, Philipp Melanchthon. On our tour, we will also have the chance to see All Saints’ Church. We take a break for lunch and then continue with a visit to the temporary exhibition “Luther” located in the Augusteum that was built in the mid-1580s. As Luther House is currently closed for renovation, selected pieces will be exhibited here. Luther hall was once an Augustinian monastery where Luther lived as a monk and again later in 1525 as owner with his wife and family. Luther Hall is the largest museum of Reformation history in the world. After our visit, we board the bus and drive to Berlin where we check in to our hotel before having dinner. We will spend the evening remembering all that we have seen and learned on this amazing journey to visit some of our roots in the faith.

This morning we transfer to the airport for our return flight to the U.S.A.