First-Time Shoppers

To help guide you through the purchasing process, we have created step-by-step instructions, suitable for domestic and international purchases. We currently ship to all countries outside the African continent. We encourage you to print this page and keep it beside you, especially if this is a first-time purchase.

Especially for Ministers' Wives

A minister's wife called me one day, searching for Christian resources designed specifically for pastors' wives or ministry wives. She saw so many materials out there for pastors and Christians in general but found it really hard to find something helpful especially for her position in ministry. That prompted me to take the time to put together a list.

I pray you find something here that directly ministers to you.

Going the Second Mile

I had a call today from a customer, searching for some pretty hard-to-find items. First of all, he was surprised anybody even answered the phone and figured he'd just get a recording and have to leave a voicemail message.

He told me he'd called a number of stores but many didn't even answer the phone. When they did, he found no one willing to help him. When someone did answer the phone, they just quickly said, "I'm sorry. We don't have that" and hung up like they were in a big hurry to get off the phone. So much for the kind of "customer service" commonly available nowadays.

When I patiently listened to what he needed and even offered to look elsewhere, doing my best to find what he needed if I couldn't find what he needed in stock, he was shocked. He was amazed I was willing to go the second mile, amazed I would even spend time listening to him.

As I told him—and I'll say it here again—this is a ministry to me. That's why I try to do my level best to help each customer. So how may I help YOU?

Feel free to send inquiries to barbara@swissvalleydiscount.com and I will do my best to answer questions and help in any way I can.

Our Beginnings

Swiss Valley Christian Bookstore opened its online shopping portals on August 31, 2003, as an outreach of The Missing Link, Inc., its parent organization, linking troubled youth and adults with life-changing programs since 1983, from their headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio USA.

Chaplain Mario, its founder and president, was converted to Christianity through the power of the printed page entitled The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson. That book sent him on a journey toward Christ and deliverance from nine long years of alcohol addiction.

Today we serve side-by-side in prison and Internet ministry.

Swiss Valley Christian Bookstore is one more additional way we can point hungry hearts to Christian books that change lives and music that restores the soul.

We deeply appreciate your patronage!

How to Benefit from Worry

Have years of worry sapped your strength? There's a fierce battle going on where Satan would love nothing better than to gain control of your mind. Constant worry leaves a person vulnerable to the enemy. It saps your energy, leaving you feel completely drained.

Worrying is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere. When I start to worry, I encourage myself with an old Sunday school song that reminds me what I really need to do—pray and trust!

Why worry when you can pray?
Trust Jesus. He'll be your stay.
Don't be a Doubting Thomas.
Rest fully in His promise.
Why worry, worry, worry, worry
When you can pray!

Instead of worrying, invest that energy in praying and trusting God. Sing! Put on some godly worship music that carries you into God's Presence.

There's no need to despise this weakness towards worry. What Satan means for evil, God can use for good. Use it as a tool to draw closer to God. Whenever Satan tempts you to worry, recognize his tactics and see it as your constant need to create an intimacy with God that is well worth the effort.

Each time you flex your spiritual muscles, grabbing the fiery dart of worry that Satan hurls at you, you have an opportunity to strengthen yourself spiritually, by hurling that fiery dart straight back at Satan in the form of prayer, praise, song, worship or quoting Scripture—a mighty arsenal of powerful weapons of spiritual warfare.

Ask God to control your mind. He will bless you with peace in place of worry.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.
—Isaiah 26:3

Battlefield of the Mind Commemorative Edition
Weapons of Our Warfare

Be kind and forgiving

"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." —Ephesians 4:32

Drained?

Have years of worry sapped your strength? There's a fierce battle going on where Satan would love nothing better than to gain control of your mind. Constant worry leaves a person vulnerable to the enemy. It saps your energy, leaving you feel completely drained.

Worrying is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere. When I start to worry, I encourage myself with an old Sunday school song that reminds me what I really need to do—pray and trust!

Why worry when you can pray?
Trust Jesus. He'll be your stay.
Don't be a Doubting Thomas.
Rest fully in His promise.
Why worry, worry, worry, worry
When you can pray! 

Instead of worrying, invest that energy in praying and trusting God. Sing! Put on some godly worship music that carries you into God's Presence. 

There's no need to despise this weakness towards worry. What Satan means for evil, God can use for good. Use it as a tool to draw closer to God. Whenever Satan tempts you to worry, recognize his tactics and see it as your constant need to create an intimacy with God that is well worth the effort.

Each time you flex your spiritual muscles, grabbing the fiery dart of worry that Satan hurls at you, you have an opportunity to strengthen yourself spiritually, by hurling that fiery dart straight back at Satan in the form of prayer, praise, song, worship or quoting Scripture—a mighty arsenal of powerful weapons of spiritual warfare. 

Ask God to control your mind. He will bless you with peace in place of worry.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in. —Isaiah 26:3

Battlefield of the Mind—Commemorative Edition (U.S. Store)
Battlefield of the Mind for Teens (U.K. Store)
Weapons of Our Warfare (U.S. Store