Pastor Elioenay RAJAONAH
Paris Seventh-Day Adventist Tamil Church’s Pastor
Hello and welcome to our website !
Since September 01, 2021, I am the new pastor of the Tamil Seventh Day Adventist Church of Ile de France whose headquarters are in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.
It is a joy and an honor for me to serve the Lord with the Tamil community which constitutes for me a new spiritual family.
My wife Harytiana and I have five children and seven grandchildren who make us happy.
As for me, I did my theological studies in 1976 at Seventh-day Adventist Seminary in Phoenix, Mauritius and in 1978 at the Adventist Faculty of Theology in Collonges-sous-Salève France.
Since 1981, when I finished my studies, I have been responsible for many churches in Madagascar, Reunion Island and in France since 2001.
In my ministry, I have also held other positions as head of an Adventist high school in Madagascar, secretary of a Federation in Madagascar and of the one in Reunion Island, head of some departments and lately I had the joy to be in charge of the pastoral association.
Currently, I am responsible for three churches: Tamil Church, Le Mée sur Seine and Coulommiers.
In my spare time, I like to read and write. Thus, I was able to write books in Malagasy and French.
For me, the church is a welcoming place where everyone is welcome. It is also a place of prayer, fraternity and sharing of the Word of God in order to allow each person in the community, strengthened by the love of God, to become an ambassador of this Word and this Good News to our contemporaries.
May each one of us be a bearer of hope where we are and may our contemporaries discover through us that God is at work and is preparing a better world for us than today thanks to Jesus !