{"id":4418,"date":"2025-12-29T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:41:21","slug":"qui-aurait-pense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/qui-aurait-pense\/","title":{"rendered":"Who would have thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday, December 28, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who would have thought that the prize for <em>\u201cBest Choir in France\u201d <\/em>would be won by a gospel group from an evangelical church in Paris?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late last Friday night on France 3 National TV , <em>Les Ch\u00e9rubins<\/em> (celebrating their 40th anniversary this year) lifted the trophy! One of the choir members, Olga (our pastor&#8217;s daughter-in-law), regularly leads worship at our congregation in Vichy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only Gospel music groups could be formed everywhere to sing the Good News in town squares, schools, retirement homes, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who would have thought that one day, on the outskirts of Paris, thousands of believers would gather every Sunday under the same roof, making <em>Charisma<\/em> the largest church in France?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We didn&#8217;t notice the time passing during the meeting, which lasted 4 hours and 15 minutes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the service, French fries with chicken or sausage, drinks, and dessert were served to everyone, free of charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuttle buses also provided transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who would have thought that Pastor Pedro, originally from Portugal (who did not speak French when he arrived here), would become, with his English wife, the founding couple of a congregation that, in just a few years, would become the largest in the history of Christianity in France?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date: 12,000 members and 2,000 house groups throughout the Paris region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To watch the December 28 service:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d7E5aTX0Fu4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d7E5aTX0Fu4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timoth\u00e9e &amp; Yukki\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4418","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\/4418","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=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}