{"id":3549,"date":"2023-10-17T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2023-10-17T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:19:04","slug":"mission-au-pays-des-belles-plages-et-des-grosses-vagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/mission-au-pays-des-belles-plages-et-des-grosses-vagues\/","title":{"rendered":"MISSION TO THE LAND OF BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND BIG WAVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It was a long weekend, intense but so rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor Junior welcomed us at Biarritz airport on&nbsp;<strong>Thursday<\/strong>&nbsp;morning, before becoming our guide in the towns of Bayonne and Biarritz. The Basque Country: a land blessed by sea and mountains!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne1-970x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne1-970x728.jpg 970w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;<strong>Friday,<\/strong>&nbsp;we were both interviewed on&nbsp;<em>Radio Bonne Nouvelle<\/em>&nbsp;before setting off in the afternoon for San Sebastien in Spain&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;<strong>Saturday<\/strong>, we ministered at&nbsp;<em>&#8216;We Connect&#8217;<\/em>, a regional gathering of young Baptists. It was a real pleasure to see guys and girls take a public stand for Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following day, after a good service at the church in Tarnos (where a family of WECers serving God in the Spanish Basque Country joined us), we drove to Hossegor, a surfer&#8217;s paradise. It was at the&nbsp;<em>\u2018Surf Church\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;that I brought the last message (translated into English). This church like no other&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6NPXIhFjzos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6NPXIhFjzos<\/a>&nbsp;seeks to reach out to big-wave lovers from all over the world&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please pray for those who, during these 4 days of mission, gave themselves to Christ, as well as the WEC team (the Damaceno and Lauren) in their ministry among the Basque people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne3-970x546.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne3-970x546.jpg 970w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne3-470x265.jpg 470w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne3-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bayonne3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Timoth\u00e9e and Yukki Paton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where is the mistake ? Speaking on Sunday afternoon, I said:&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Bartimaeus got up on his feet. When he saw Jesus from afar, he went up to Him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> It was a long weekend, intense but so rewarding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3549","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\/3549","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=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}