{"id":4713,"date":"2026-11-09T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:33:31","slug":"une-femme-de-dieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/une-femme-de-dieu\/","title":{"rendered":"A WOMAN OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 9 November 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, we shared about those lonely elderly folks whom nobody goes to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are also elderly believers who are often just waiting to share lessons of faith and testimonies of God\u2019s faithfulness with anyone willing to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our friends Ivan and M\u00e9lanie are a young couple who love to meet these men and women of God, well advanced in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invited them to join us yesterday for a visit to <em>La Colombe<\/em>, a Christian care home near Clermont-Ferrand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pauline Gaillard was waiting for us, alone in her room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a privilege it was to spend an hour with this woman of faith, who doesn\u2019t look like she\u2019s 93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pauline and her husband Serge have left their mark on the history of Pentecostalism in France. They are a couple who were powerfully used by God in proclaiming the Gospel and planting churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their remarkable biography is available in French here: <a href=\"https:\/\/viensetvois.fr\/produit\/serge-gaillard-un-apotre-francais\/\">https:\/\/viensetvois.fr\/produit\/serge-gaillard-un-apotre-francais\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was, in fact, alongside them, in Central France, that my parents served back in the 70s and 80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Ivan and M\u00e9lanie asked the question: <em>\u201cMadame Gaillard, what advice would you give us on how to serve God well?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe must pray. Pray regularly,\u201d<\/em> replied this humble servant of God, her face radiant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After singing an old French Gospel song , <em>\u201cI pray for you, you pray for me\u201d<\/em>, we prayed for one another. (When a bedroom in a care home becomes a prayer meeting\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many brothers and sisters in Christ, now advanced in years, who are waiting for a visit. If you ask them, they will be more than happy to share the keys that have enabled them to keep their eyes fixed on Jesus throughout their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Timoth\u00e9e and Yukki<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 9 November 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","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\/4713","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=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}