Purposeful Journeys

This continuing education event for clergy and ministry leaders will explore how faith travel can empower congregations to grow numerically and spiritually by sharing fellowship in travel. Leaders at the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum will offer participants a unique insider perspective on these amazing attractions that will be sure to stimulate conversation around faith and ministry as part of a fun, educational, enjoyable, inspiring, and worthwhile experience. Conference registration comes with a No Risk Incentive.

Join us in in June when strawberries are in season, flowers are in full bloom, and the warm summer air seems to enhance the taste of Thüringen cuisine and the refreshment of Lutheran Tea. Your journey will offer you the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful German landscape from mountains to rolling farmland. Our daily adventures will take us to destinations of compelling historical, religious and cultural, significance.

Awesome Austria features the Passion Play to be performed in Oberammergau, Germany. Your time in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria is sure to delight as you experience the richness of German Austrian culture, the delectable taste of Austrian cuisine, centuries of religious tradition and the sheer beauty of this awesome country.

Sinners and saints is a journey offers perspective on the capacity for human beings to produce beauty and achieve the extraordinary as well as the capacity for unspeakable evil. Our time in Salzburg promises to remind us of the capacity for human beings to achieve the extraordinary in music, intellect, and culture. Our visit to the Eagles Nest and Dachau will remind us, in a powerful way, of the human capacity for evil. Our experience of the Passion Play promises to remind us of the potential for true power at center of our lives which we all live as sinners and saints.

Colossal Cultural Perspective begins with a cultural perspective on the eternal city of Rome. This journey features a two-night premium Passion Play package in Oberammergau. We conclude our journey in Munich where we will encounter a modern perspective on humanity. The experiences of this journey form a narrative that offers fellow travelers a colossal cultural perspective.

Join us in the beautiful month of July when flowers are in full bloom, and the warm summer air seems to enhance the taste of Thüringen cuisine and the refreshment of Lutheran Tea. Your journey will offer you the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful German landscape from mountains to rolling farmland. Our daily adventures will take us to destinations of compelling historical, religious and cultural, significance.

A Taste of the Renaissance offers an encounter with Renaissance art and culture in a way that promises to be as fun as it will be fascinating. We will engage the rich history of cities with an ancient past. We will see some of the most famous and most beautiful art the world has to offer. We will also interact with a very popular sight, Juliet’s House, that truly is pure fiction, but with at least some grounding in authentic history. At the heart of this experience will be the Passion Play presented in Oberammergau, Germany.

You may depart this journey wondering what impressed you more: the majestic peaks of this beautiful country or the exquisite taste of chocolate and cheese. You will experience both the beauty of Switzerland and the delight of Swiss contributions to the culinary world. This journey features the bucket list experience of the Passion Play in Oberammergau which pledges to be more inspiring than either the mountains or the cuisine.

You will no doubt savor your delectable tastes of Swiss chocolate and cheese, even as you anticipate your bucket list experiences of the Passion Play in Oberammergau and Oktoberfest in Munich. Encounters with centuries of history and culture, the majestic peaks of the Alps and your taste of delectable cuisine will form a narrative centered in Christ, culture & cuisine that is sure to inspire you.