{"id":96,"date":"2005-09-22T23:48:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T23:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2005-10-10T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T16:50:29","slug":"from-oakhurst-to-nipomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/from-oakhurst-to-nipomo","title":{"rendered":"From Oakhurst to Nipomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-yosemite-to-nipomo\/p9223023\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/california-2005-yosemite-to-nipomo\/p9223023.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"One of the worst photos of Steve\" title=\"One of the worst photos of Steve\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\"\/><\/a>Today, I drove from Oakhurst through Fresno and San Luis Obispo to Nipomo, a small town near the Californian coast, to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/sojourner.typepad.com\/house_church_blog\/\">Roger Thoman<\/a>, who works with house churches in the area and organised a Californian house church conference last year. The countryside is dry and brown most of the way. Around Fresno, it is also very boring; flat for miles around. The rest of the way, both north and south of Fresno, was more interesting.<br clear=\"left\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-yosemite-to-nipomo\/p9223039\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/california-2005-yosemite-to-nipomo\/p9223039.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The first sight of the Pacific\" title=\"The first sight of the Pacific\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\"\/><\/a>Around San Luis Obispo, I caught my first sight of the Pacific, and realised that I would see the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific and the Atlantic in this trip! (As well as numerous National Parks).<br clear=\"left\"\/><br \/>\nFinding Roger&#8217;s house turned out to be quite easy, although the journey had taken longer than I expected. We chatted for a while, then went to one of the house churches in his local network for the evening. It was quite a large gathering, around 25 people. It was not a typical meeting, because one young woman had just returned from a time in Mozambique with Iris Ministries, and told of her experiences there. Communion, Mozambique-style, was interesting, and a great parallel: they use a coconut, breaking it open (Jesus&#8217; body broken for us), drinking the milk instead of wine and eating the flesh instead of bread. I felt a little trepidation before eating, because coconut tends to come back when I eat it \ud83d\ude41 . I discovered, though, that fresh coconut tastes good, and causes me no problems.<br \/>\nAfter her report from Mozambique, I spoke briefly about Switzerland and what is going on in the house church scene there, which everyone found interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I drove from Oakhurst through Fresno and San Luis Obispo to Nipomo, a small town near the Californian coast, to meet Roger Thoman, who works with house churches in the area and organised a Californian house church conference last year. The countryside is dry and brown most of the way. Around Fresno, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/from-oakhurst-to-nipomo\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Oakhurst to Nipomo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}