Schweizerische Pfingstmission
The Swiss Pentecostal Mission (
Pentecostal Christian denomination in Switzerland. Officially known in English as the Pentecostal Assemblies of Switzerland, it is the Swiss branch of the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world.[1][2] In 2013, the denomination had 10,000 adherents in 66 churches across Switzerland, and operated a conference center in Emmetten.[3]
History
Pentecostalism was brought to Switzerland in 1907 by two women missionaries from
Salvation Army.[4][5] In 1920, Smith Wigglesworth held meetings in Switzerland in which "remarkable healings" were reported.[6]
The
Swiss Evangelical Alliance. Nevertheless, Pentecostalism continued to spread. In 1921, the Swiss Pentecostal Mission Society (Schweizerische Pfingstmissionsgesellschaft) was organized to provide training and support for mission work. Their first missionary was sent to the British colony of Basutoland, now Lesotho. In 1935, the churches in partnership with the mission society decided to establish a formal denomination, the Swiss Pentecostal Mission.[6]
The leader of the SPM, Leonhard Steiner, in 1947 initiated the
Pentecostal World Conference in Zürich.[6] Another Pentecostal denomination, Freie Christengemeinden der Schweiz (FCGS), went bankrupt in 1993, and many of its congregations joined the SPM.[7]
Notes
- ^ Pluess 2015, p. 173: "The Swiss Pentecostal Mission—or the Pentecostal Assemblies of Switzerland, as they now call themselves in English..."
- ^ World Assemblies of God Fellowship, Switzerland. Accessed December 14, 2010.
- ^ Schmidgall 2013, p. 155.
- ^ Schmidgall 2013, p. 154.
- ^ Pluess 2015, p. 174.
- ^ a b c Simpson 2011, p. 81.
- ^ Schmid 2006.
References
- Pluess, Jean-Daniel (2015), "One in the Spirit? Pentecostals and the Yearning for Christian Unity: A Case Study of the Swiss Pentecostal Mission and Its Initiatives Towards Unity in the Spirit", in Gibaut, John; Jorgensen, Knud (eds.), Called to Unity: For the Sake of Mission, Wipf and Stock Publishers, pp. 173–185, ISBN 978-1498223027.
- Schmid, Georg (2006). "Schweizerische Pfingstmission". Retrieved May 29, 2017.
- Schmidgall, Paul (2013). European Pentecostalism: Its Origins, Development, and Future. CPT Press. ISBN 978-1935931195.
- Simpson, Carl (2011), "The Development of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in the Germanic Countries", in Kay, William K.; Dyer, Anne E. (eds.), European Pentecostalism, Brill, ISBN 978-9004207301
Further reading
- Burgess, Stanley M. und McGee, Gary B. (ed.): Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Grand Rapids, 7th ed., 1995
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