Crescendo is a ministry amongst professional classical musicians, jazz musicians and other artists. Goals: Networking, encouraging in profession and faith, creating different ways to give a Christian testimony in the cultural world, serving the churches.Our main countries with full- and part time staff in Europe are: Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, Macedonia, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Sweden, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, USA, Africa etc. Mission statement: Together with other ministries and churches we want to launch spiritual movements everywhere in the field of the arts so that every artist knows someone who truly follows Jesus and that Christian values and the Biblical message constantly penetrates our society through art of high quality. History: Crescendo started with prayer and Bible study groups among music students in Basel/Switzerland and spread quickly to other countries. Special highlights are conferences,  concerts, book and CD publications,  the “Summer Institute of the Arts” in Hungary, Creative church services and the cooperation with Franz Mohr (Steinway & Sons). Crescendo is part of CCCi / AGAPE Europe and has 25 full and part time staff and volunteer leaders. Religion: Various backgrounds of all Christian denominations (Protestant, catholic, Anglican, orthodox, free churches).
Crescendo is also initiating networks and projects on a larger scale as "night of faith" (www.nachtdesglaubens.ch<http://www.nachtdesglaubens.ch>) and ARTS (www.artsplus.ch<http://www.artsplus.ch> / www.artsplus.eu<http://www.artsplus.eu>)
Websites:

www.crescendo.org<http://www.crescendo.org>,
Summer Institute: www.crescendohungary.org<http://www.crescendohungary.org>,
Crescendo Jazz: www.crescendo-jazz.org<http://www.crescendo-jazz.org>
Kirche kreativ: www.kirchekreativ.ch<http://www.kirchekreativ.ch>
www.nachtdesglaubens.ch<http://www.nachtdesglaubens.ch>