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2019 - Heritage organization BOEi takes over the Witte Kerkje in Bladel (NB) and the adjacent community center De Dissel from the protestant community of Bladel. They sign a lease agreement for the next five years so that the church activities can be continued in the same way.

Reformed Church and tower, situated on a churchyard. Simple church building from 1757 with built-in west tower. In the church 17th century pulpit, baptismal fence and four pews, one 17th century and three 18th century gravestones. Two-manual organ made in 1891 by Bakker and Timmenga. In the roof turret hangs a clock by F. Haetiser, 1546, diameter 101 cm. Mechanical tower clock G. Delouche, Paris.

Simple hall church from 1810 with sandstone pilaster facade with pediment, crowned by octagonal wooden dome with pilasters on the corners, from 1844. The church has an oak pulpit from 1674 and copper lectern XVIII B; iron precentor's lectern from 1687. Organ with main work, upper work and free pedal, made in 1781 by Eberhard Berner for the large old church, which was "returned" to the Roman Catholics in 1810. Moved to the current church in 1811. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The current Dutch Reformed Church from 1783 did have an older predecessor, possibly from the 16th century. That old church was seriously damaged in 1781 during a village riot about the appointment of a new schoolmaster. It was decided to demolish it and build a new one. On 29 September 1941, the tower (from 1872) burned down after it was hit by a crashing English plane. The church was restored in phases between 1963 and 2001. On 20 May 2003, the weather vane was replaced and the restoration was completed. On that occasion, the booklet Dutch (sic) Reformed Church Blijham - Then and Now (48-02/51-04) was published.

Beautiful neoclassical church with tower. Restoration in 1947. In Bovensmilde, along the Drentse Hoofdvaart, lies the site with the Reformed Church and associated parsonage. Due to its intactness and beautiful location, the complex was declared a national monument in 1995. These national monuments are of both cultural-historical and architectural-historical importance. In 2010, the church building was transferred by the owner, the Protestant community of Bovensmilde, to Het Drentse Landschap. The parsonage followed in 2015. The church was built between 1868 and 1870 and is a so-called Waterstaatskerk. Such churches were built in the period 1824-1875 with financial support from the national government. The building has neoclassical features, such as the symmetrical construction and the use of pediments and cornices. The parsonage dates from 1862 and is eclectic in style. The parsonage is a national monument.

On the site of the old abbey church. Built as a Dutch Reformed church. Small church with a tower.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The single-nave neo-Gothic church built in 1887 with a three-sided choir closure under a saddle roof is built against the late 15th-century tower; the church and tower are strikingly situated near the Waaldijk. Built in brick and on a plinth, a four-bay long nave with buttresses cut between the windows and the sides of the choir with natural stone covering on the cutting and at the top; decorative brickwork molding under the gutter; wide lancet-shaped windows with tracery and in a frame of bright red brick and accents in natural stone; stained glass in a pointed diamond motif in green and white, along the edges of the windows strips in red and blue glass; on the roof covered with braised tiles three dormers covered with slates and provided with a piron; on the north side of the nave an extended entrance with double wooden door with fittings, set in a bright red brick frame; there also, the consistory room built against the tower under a hipped saddle roof with dormer; in the consistory room large windows with cross-bar division and slightly recessed round-arched fields above; the frame of the fields and the window styles in bright red stone; on the south side of the tower a mortuary house. In the interior a wooden barrel vault with tie rods and on cove, the ribs resting on consoles with decorative carvings; hexagonal pulpit and rear bulkhead with Gothic decorations from 1864, organ balcony on three simple wooden columns; wainscoting, gentlemen's pews and general pew plan made of wood; two late 19th-century psalm and hymn boards; two twelve-arm copper crowns from the construction period with tronies on the inside. At the entrance to the church two memorial stones from 1849 and 1887. Intact single-manual organ, made in 1857 by H. Knipscheer from Amsterdam. The neo-Gothic village church, built in 1887, is of cultural and architectural-historical value due to its location and the intactness of its interior and exterior, so that protection as a national monument is justified.

The tower dates from 1900. In the church there is a pulpit from 1760, originating from the old church. On 1 January 2015 a large fire raged in this church. After this fire, in consultation with the RCE, among others, the church was "rebuilt". This reconstruction actually involved an almost completely new construction .