History of South Asian International Fellowship [SAIF-Church]
South Asian International Fellowship or SAIF-Church started with a God-given vision to reach out to the South Asian community in Singapore. With much prayer and seeking the face of God, and a strategic prayer walk from the four corners of the whole land of Singapore in the shape of a cross, three families started the pioneering church in the home of Pastor Pritam Singh Sandhu on August 31st 2007. Three weeks later, the small congregation moved to the old Bible House at 7, Armenian Street Singapore (179932) for a more central meeting place.
The church was birthed with a 100% faith in the living God and with a consumate zeal for mission and evangelism. We started with nothing and no church resources at all – not even an offering bag or a communion tray or song book or projector or even a pulpit. The acapella voices, vibrant claps of our hands and the Great Commission and Great Commandment obedient committed lives brought a sweet, acceptable sacrifice of praise to God. Much later, a volunteer pianist helped us infrequently for about two months on the out-of-tuned piano at the old Bible House. Today, and even now, our worship team uses only a guitar, cohon and a keyboard. But one thing we can confidently declare, the worship services at SAIF-Church is anointed with the powerful manifest presence of God, healing, deliverance, restoration and new levels of obedience to God. With each passing year, SAIF-Church is brought to a new spiritual level with the combined leadership skills and spiritual giftedness of each individual
In July 2008, Saint Andrew’s Cathedral adopted South Asian International Fellowship as a pioneering mission church plant with exceptional status when the old Bible House was torn down and redeveloped. God has been faithful, covenant- keeping and gracious to us. We acknowledge the mighty hand of God and His extreme favor on us at SAIF-Church in using the Chapel For All Peoples of Saint Andrew’s Cathedral from July 2008 till January 2011. South Asian International Fellowship two and a half years’ memorandum of understanding with Saint Andrew’s Cathedral to establish a local mission church plant ended on Sunday January 30th 2011. South Asian International Fellowship then moved from Saint Andrew’s Cathedral to the new Bible House on Sunday February 6th 2011 located at 7, Armenian Street, Singapore (179932). The Lord has opened a miraculous door of ministry and from February 1st 2015 SAIF-Church meets every Sunday at Covenant House at 110, Race Course Road Singapore (218578) – the ground zero for South Asian ministry.
South Asian International Fellowship started with a SAIF-English Service which has birthed a SAIF-Telugu and SAIF-Tamil congregation – both targeted towards a weekly evangelistic ministry to the foreign workers of Telugu and Tamil origin working in Singapore mainly of blue-collar shipyard/ construction workers and domestic helpers with some Singaporean/Indian PR families.
South Asian International Fellowship is a Registered Society in Singapore Ref: ROS 1131/2007 [T08SS00016G]