{"id":4674,"date":"2026-10-19T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:16:26","slug":"baptisee-comme-lydie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/baptisee-comme-lydie\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptized Like Lydia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 October 19, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Book of Acts tells us that <em>\u201ca certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened\u2026And when she was baptised\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genevi\u00e8ve, a 71-year-old woman, is very much like that seller of purple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was during a house church service held in a small town near Antibes, South of France that Genevi\u00e8ve was baptized yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tears streamed down her cheeks as she shared her testimony with the few witnesses gathered there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had longed to publicly commit her life to Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We baptized her in an inflatable hot tub set up outdoors. Genevi\u00e8ve emerged from the water, beaming in the sunshine, as her favourite praise song<em>, \u201cComment ne pas te louer?\u201d<\/em>, played in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the afternoon, on the flight from Nice to Lyon, we were both grateful to God for having been part of the baptism of this \u201cLydia of the French Riviera.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timoth\u00e9e &amp; Yukki  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 October 19, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4674","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\/4674","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=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}