Darth Vader was Lending Jesus a Hand Today! Say Amen!!!

Wow! What a day! I had wanted to begin writing a daily entry for this week starting yesterday, but we have been pretty busy around here! Today was no exception. God is so amazing, and I am so exhausted! Praise the name of Jesus!

I woke up this morning, took a shower, got some laundry done, and proceeded to prepare an outline for my testimony, which I gave at the Brazilian church in Zama this evening. I was especially asking for God's guidance and that my testimony would not speak about me, but that it would speak about what God has done in my life! He guided me towards John 3:16, Psalm 30:1-5, and Philippians 3:7-14.

Having prepared for the service that evening, I left my homestay (my Japanese host family's house) at about noon to go meet the rest of THE FUSE team for our live music advertising. I picked up some costumes at the Noborito church along the way that we planned on using to attract attention. And use them we did! :D





We took the train and played live music at three different places, usually close to the train stations, from 1-6 p.m. It was definitely a long but very rewarding afternoon. Kengo was on the guitar, Joe and Becky both helped with percussion, and Yuiko took care of the vocals. Matt, Amy, Hannah, Debbie, Nozomi, Tim and Christine, and I were handing out fliers and drawing people's attention.

How was I drawing people's attention? By donning a full-blown Darth Vader costume, that's how! I danced to the music in it, took a lot of pictures with people (especially little kids) and really put a few smiles on people's faces, which made it easier to tell them about THE FUSE and invite them to come. Becky was also wearing a Spider-man suit, and Hannah was in a pink bunny costume! We were on a roll! On the downside, it was very hot today and I sweat A LOT, but it was worth it! we handed out the vast majority of the fliers that we brought and we were able to talk to many new people!









Earlier in the afternoon we also finished filming a short video for the announcements portion of THE FUSE, and I have just been informed that it has been edited and is ready to go!!! As soon as I have it I will link it on the blog.

When we finished our live advertising some of us grabbed a quick "dinner" at McDonald's of all places! Not my preferred choice of dining, but hey it did the trick! They have something called "shaka shaka chicken" on the dollar menu that was really good. Why don't we have "shaka shaka chicken" in the States?



We then headed out to the Brazilian church in Zama to attend their Saturday service, and after worship and prayer Pastor Marcelo gave me the message which consisted of my testimony. I spoke for about half an hour (in Portuguese of course) about everything that God has done in my life and the way that He has been restoring me since mom's death. Only by the grace of God can I do these things! He has blessed me far more than I deserve...

So now I am headed to bed, tomorrow is our first meeting and I can't wait to tell you all about it!!!

May the Lord Almighty be with you!

Brad Zimmerman

Romans 10:14-15