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It was at Yukki’s parents’ house, close to Paris, that we gathered over Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timoth\u00e9e’s parents joined us from Northern France, for 3 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Sunday 25th we celebrated the birth of Jesus in the new French Chinese church in the small town of Bussy St George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How did this new church plant, which opened only a month ago, get so many people? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was it the distribution of nice-looking invitation cards the day before, to passers-by in the streets? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was it the fact that Robert and Ada (Yukki’s aunt and uncle) are known by the restaurant and bakery they run nearby?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was it the sign: ‘Maison Agape’ that reassured them, rather than ‘evangelical church’ (which sometimes scares non-Christians in France)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was it because the church is right in the middle of the neighbourhood, along a busy street? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whatever the reason, God’s favour was certainly there on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before Timoth\u00e9e spoke, his mum on the piano and dad on the microphone joined him in singing an old Gospel song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do please pray for the many folks (more than half the audience) who heard the Good News for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timoth\u00e9e and Yukki Paton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}