Lights flashing… Music blaring

🎵 “We are the light, we are the city on a hill!” 🎵

“Ladies and gentlemen… Zach Lee!” applause fades out

Beep… Beep… Beep… Beep…

“Well, Zach, you’re gonna need another kidney transplant,” said the doctor.

Those were the words that I didn’t want to hear. I was not able to wrap my head around what that meant. My health had deteriorated. I wasn’t able to do anything. Something as simple as walking meant that I had to take breaks. Walking up steps meant that I had to stop every 3 steps. I asked the doctor how my kidneys did that. He said, “It’s not just your kidney, your heart is also failing, you’ll need a heart transplant.”

I soon landed on dialysis. It was a bandaid for my kidney issue but the heart transplant had no bandaid. There needed to be a transplant and it needed to be soon. So we prayed. I prayed, my family prayed, friends, church, etc, everyone was praying.

Things slowly got improved and I was feeling better. Soon, I was walking quicker, I was running (some,) and I was actually enjoying life a bit. “How was this happening?” Dialysis.

Little did I know, God was working.

A few months later, I was feeling good and again, I thought it was dialysis, but I had an appointment with the heart doctor. He said that my heart function had increased by 60%! It went from 10% to 70% in a few months! God had answered prayers! The doctor said, “I don’t know how it happened… we have no science to back this up,” and I interrupted and said that I knew,

While I was still on dialysis, I attempted to be more active. I was still held down by my lack of kidney function, but my heart function kept me going! I even ran a 5K! (I walked a lot but still finished in 33 minutes!)

In 2019, I began a little side project that was so much fun! I was live-streaming video games on Twitch. I was terrible at video games but it was fun to build a community and talk about Jesus with people on the internet.

“Welcome to the World Wide Web! I’m your host for the day, MrZachLee,” I would say at the beginning of each and every live stream! It was a blast! People had aliases for names and I soon knew them by those names! Mega, Squire, Polar, and so many more. And as time progressed, I played with these friends offline, too. When I wasn’t live-streaming, I was still playing with these new friends! Soon, I knew their real names. We were more than a couple of people who played internet games to entertain people, but we became friends! We played for hours and hours.

That, however, soon became a problem. I loved it so much, I wanted to build it into a business. I began to spend every minute I could, either live-streaming or building the live experience that made people want to come back time and time again, and I began to forget my real-life responsibilities. Things like mowing the yard or doing the dishes, even to the point that I had ignored my wife most nights just to make the live-streaming an experience no one could forget! But… I had failed. I tried to make it right and I put my wife and kids first, while still trying to build a business, but it just didn’t go together. I couldn’t do both. I lost focus. So, I stopped.

I quit the quest for a business and focused on my wife, my boys; my family, and that has been one of the best decisions of my life!

Now, as it’s been more than a year since creating entertainment, I look forward and God has a clear plan for me:

I do believe the things I learned about the online space in the past few years will help me now. While I screwed things up, I also learned a lot. I made tons of friends and tons of connections on the thing we call the World Wide Web. I haven’t created any type of online entertainment in over a year and I am still in contact with many of these friends and connections to this day. It’s more than just entertainment.

Now, the vision has changed. Christ-centered, not self-centered.

As I “come back” to music, I hope you will join me on this journey. God is and has always been in control. He has guided me through trials, thick and thin, and now on to one of the thickest parts of it: Proclaiming Jesus to the world. The world already hates us, but because they hated Jesus first. This will be tough, but I am in the hands of God.

A lot of things can be expected, but allow me to list them for you here!

Right now, as things fire back up, first and foremost, you can pray. Pray for the process, pray for the music, and please pray for me and my family. Another way you can support is financially. There will be expenses, so any amount helps. Patreon is a service that helps creators by allowing tiers of donations. These tiers allow for perks depending on the amount you give each month. Head over to https://Patreon.com/ZachLeeMusic if you are interested in donating. This is not a project, but a mission. Thank you!

This is only the beginning, or… well… I guess it’s not, technically, but a new beginning. You’ve enjoyed the music in the past, so let’s enjoy the music that’s coming soon!

This weekly newsletter will hopefully be a great opportunity to connect with you, but I always want to take the discussion and connections further.

Connect with me closer on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and more! Plus, listen to both of the previous albums at the following link! “The Beginning” and “We Are the Kingdom” https://linktr.ee/zachleemedia

I am so excited to “come back” to music and share this journey with you! Will you join me?