They came into contact with a small group, the Zion Fellowship of Zurich, which became the first Pentecostal congregation in the country.
In 1909, he started publishing the periodical Die Verheissung des Vaters, which would become the official publication of the SPM.
During this period, prominent Pentecostal leaders visited Switzerland, including Thomas Ball Barratt, Alexander Boddy, Jonathan Paul, and Geritt Polman, the Pentecostal pastor from Amsterdam who had been a member of the Salvation Army.
[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.