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A Tentative Return to the Seniors Center

Mar 25, 2015Steve Sanchez4 CommentsPERSECUTED!, Texas Tales!, TRACTS

I haven’t been back to the Hill Country Senior Citizens Activity Center since being unceremoniously booted out by the manager three weeks ago. (Read what happened by clicking here.) But today, I returned. After getting yelled at and having the door slammed on me by the Center’s manager for talking to her about Jesus I

My Commitment

Mar 24, 2015Steve Sanchez1 CommentHope Chapel Hill Country, TRACTS

I started my commitment today to invite ten people a day, five days a week, to Hope Chapel Hill Country. Also, to engage in one Gospel-centered conversation each day as well. I do this primarily by handing out a Gospel tract, (usually a trillion dollar bill or a Giant $100), along with a flyer containing

Outed at the Seniors Center

Feb 25, 2015Steve Sanchez4 CommentsPERSECUTED!, Stupid Million Dollar Tracts, Texas Tales!, TRACTS

It was bound to happen: the showdown. I lost. For now. It had been brewing for some time because the manager never liked me. Here’s a re-cap of what led to my getting the boot today: On Wednesdays for over a year now, I head down to the Hill Country Senior Citizens Activity Center and

Saving President Obama

Jan 8, 2015Steve SanchezTRACTS

One of my favorite Gospel tracts while living in liberal L. A. was The Presidential Trillion featuring Barack Obama (now out of print). I still have a quantity of them, but in Texas, where I currently reside, they aren’t so easy to give away unless I go to Austin. Still, I found a new use

Lead Pearl Harbor Bomber Converts After Reading Tract

Dec 7, 2014Steve Sanchez12 CommentsSpecial Days, TRACTS

This is the incredible story of Mitsuo Fuchida, lead pilot of the December 7, 1941, raid on Pearl Harbor. Fuchida was the one who shouted the war cry, “Tora, Tora, Tora!”

Mitsuo Fuchida fought the United States throughout WWII and was intimately involved in the planning and leadership of the Japanese war effort as flight commander and later as a senior operations officer.

After the war, Fuchida was a defeated warrior in occupied Japan, farming to meet the needs of his family. He was also the only one to return to Japan after the bombing.

In 1950, Fuchida miraculously came to know Jesus Christ as Savior through a tract handed to him while exiting a train in Tokyo. The tract was entitled, “I Was a Prisoner of Japan,” written by Jacob DeShazer who was one of the famous Doolittle Raiders. DeShazer trusted Christ as his Savior while held captive by Japan for 40 months. DeShazer went to Japan in 1948 as a missionary and preached to the nation who held him captive.

Fuchida faithfully served Jesus Christ as an evangelist until his death in 1976. “From Pearl Harbor to Golgotha” is Fuchida’s testimony of salvation. Here it is in his own words:

I must admit I was more excited than usual as I awoke that morning at 3:00 a.m., Hawaii time, four days past my thirty-ninth birthday. Our six aircraft carriers were positioned 230 miles north of Oahu Island. As general commander of the air squadron, I made last-minute checks on the intelligence information reports in the operations room before going to warm up my single-engine, three-seater “97-type” plane used for level bombing and torpedo flying.

The sunrise in the east was magnificent above the white clouds as I led 360 planes towards Hawaii at an altitude of 3,000 meters. I knew my objective: to surprise and cripple the American naval force in the Pacific. But I fretted about being thwarted should some of the U.S. battleships not be there. I gave no thought of the possibility of this attack breaking open a mortal confrontation with the United States. I was only concerned about making a military success.

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