Welcome to SAAA
Message From the President of SAAA
Welcome to the official web-site of the
Southern Asia Adventist Association. Through this new-age
medium, we hope to keep all SAAA members and friends updated
about the news of our community. This will include announcements
about upcoming events sponsored by SAAA. We also invite and
encourage anyone who wishes to share their joys or concerns with
one another to contact our web-master, Priscilla Shyam. You can
also submit a news story item directly through the
Submit A News Item page on this
Web site.
Nearly 50 years ago, SAAA was founded by a handful of sojourners
in a “foreign land” whose roots were in the Seventh-day
Adventist Church from the Indian sub-continent and surrounding
countries. Year by year, more and more traveled to this land.
This land is now our home. Yet we still value the cultural
heritage from the lands we came from. And so we get together
each month to worship together and participate in various social
activities to keep alive that heritage. Through this fellowship
we reconnect and renew old friendships, make new acquaintances
and form new friendships.
And, yes, the journeying continues. Friends, relatives and
others continue to “come to America”. May each one of us help
make that transition a pleasant and happy experience. In one way
or another, all should feel that we are still “at home”.
I wish to personally invite all Southern Asians and friends of
Southern Asia who have been here for years, or who have recently
arrived, to come and join us in our monthly Sabbath meetings and
social events.
And, there’s more to our fellowship than meeting and worshiping
together. As many have done individually, may we as a group
reach out and be a blessing to others as we have been blessed!.
SAAA was organized to serve your interests to
the best of our abilities. Any suggestions you have to make the
association better is most welcome. Just bring your ideas to any
the officers, or you can submit your ideas through the
Ideas & Suggestions page of
this Web site.
--- Rajan Thomas, SAAA President, 2011.