Amsterdam Conference Pictures

Here are a few pictures from the Amsterdam conference that I just attended. I had the first few days by myself to sight-see and hang out, and then the conference was the next 3 days. It was a great time to network with other Christian backpacking/hostel ministries around the world, share ideas and strategies, and work together to be more effective in this ministry in the future.

In the near future, we're hoping to put together a training manual for teams like the ones we send out from Wheaton. We've been in contact with a student from Westmont College who wants to start YHM there, as well as two guys from Colorado Christian who attended the conference and are sending teams out for the first time this summer. Hopefully we'll be able to help them in their ministries, and a training manual is one way that we want to do that. We're also hoping to build up a partnership with several ministries in Australia, since there is a great need for Christian workers and great Christian hostels where we can send students.


Brian, the director of the Office of Christian outreach eating fries by some shoe thing (maybe some memorial representing war orphans we think), chilling by Darth Vader, and enjoying fries again.



The "hiding place" at Corrie ten Boom's house--the hole in the wall on the first picture shows the actual hiding place. On the second picture, notice the guy crawling underneath the shelf--that's how they had to get into the hiding place--and they had to get 6 people in there in about 70 seconds. The last picture shows the front of the house, which is located in Haarlem, a 10-15 minute train ride from Amsterdam.



Around Amsterdam


Anne Frank House, Amsterdam