Projects

The following projects have been supported in the past:

We were allowed to accommodate some guests who had no or not enough money. When a guest comes to us, seeds of the gospel are sown. For example, we were allowed to:

– take in a new convert whose wife has thrown him out on the streets indefinitely. He learned about the Advent message and was particularly interested in living out faith as a family.

– A NewstartPlus treatment participant could not afford the treatment. She was in a difficult family situation and was diagnosed with a serious autoimmune disease. She is an evangelical theologian and had many questions about the Adventist faith. Another course participant was a Catholic pastor and so there were good conversations and Bible studies.

– An Adventist with alcohol problems and psychological difficulties was able to take part in our hiking week and was able to recharge his batteries.

– There are always short visitors who have questions about the holistic health concept of the Adventists. So there are always good conversations.

Thanks to the donations, we were able to finance a large part of the expenses for the prophecy expo, especially large biblical exhibits. They form a central part of the exhibition, which can now be borrowed for film events, lectures, open days, etc. by the DSV communities and in German-speaking countries. The first assignments in Eastern Switzerland were promising and led to many discussions and contacts.

Thanks to donations from ASI-CH, ÖPFUKURVE was able to realize the following:

– A window has been installed next to the main entrance to the store to better display and illuminate the goods for sale.
– There were new tables and chairs for the beautiful garden terrace under the plane trees.
– Homemade delicacies can now be better presented in a refrigerated display case.

ADVENTIST INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL – GENEVA

Adventist International School of Geneva is very grateful to ASI and its members for their financial support. We keep school fees as low as possible because we want to give children from less financially privileged families the opportunity to know, love, and serve their Savior. The donations are used to cover costs and to support parents who are unable to pay the school fees. Our school is a missionary center where children and adults (parents) encounter and grow in God.

CrossFit factory in Egnach on Lake Constance

Rather, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these will be added to you! Matthew 6:33 SCH2000 I just couldn’t get this text out of my head. He kept coming back to my mind.

At that time I had more than 12 years of experience as an international urban planner. I was allowed to work for and with the best and most well-known clients, urban planners and investors. So my “career” seemed to be going in a good direction. But God had very different plans. When my wife and I moved to Switzerland, this all gradually fell apart. Working as a city planner frustrated me more and more, because who or what was I planning these cities for? When Jesus comes again, none of that will remain.

Always interested in sports, I found CrossFit. A sport that combines strength and endurance training in a very effective and efficient way. At first this was a welcome hobby to promote my health, but I soon realized that this would be a good opportunity to introduce our health message to people. The desire to open my own CrossFit Box (that’s what the studios call themselves) grew in me. But I deliberately only wanted to do this if I could use it to reach people for Jesus. However, there were some difficulties: On the one hand, I had hardly any financial means to open such a box (material, rooms, rent, etc.) on the other hand, you can complete the trainer’s license in a two-day course (with some home study), the but always only takes place on the Sabbath and Sunday.

So here were wonderful opportunities for God to put the brakes on if I was doing this for myself rather than for Him. So I gave this and much more into God’s hands with the request that if I am to do the box and the associated mission for Him, He must take care of opening doors. And He opened more doors than I ever realized. I was able to do a course during the week, got support from my family, found space, etc.

I’ve had my box open for a little over a year and a half now, I’m the only one in Europe to offer a special course for cancer patients, and I’ve had more conversations about my faith with clients than I’ve had in years. I can distribute a tremendous amount of reading about our health message and even work with the Hope Bible Study Institute. A couple who train with me came to the service with their two children and they are very interested and have also started the Bible correspondence course.

God has also protected “His” CrossFit box through the last six months and I now have even more customers than at the beginning of this year. In this whole process I have learned more to trust God and to wait for His timing. If we rely on him, he will give us opportunities to be tools for him.

Funds are collected for the projects at the annual conference. Register by the end of August so that we can consider your project at the next conference.

Please read the Policy before registering the project. 

In order to be able to support several projects, we limit the amount per project to a maximum of CHF 10,000.