On the 28th of February 2001, Buck and Luciene moved to the Amazon Basin of Brazil. We lived in Macapá, right on the equator. Why would a web designer give up his career and take his family from their comfortable life in Columbus, Ohio, USA, to live on the Amazon River? We came with a vision to save the Amazon, to tell people about Jesus, and plant a Vineyard church. We have planted a church, and we are turning it over to the national leaders, heading back to the States in Sept. 2009.

 
I was thinking about how countries do things differently. When I, an American, went to Canada, I thought that there wasn’t that much that was different. But when we had breakfast, I was surprised by their milk. It comes in plastic bags. They snip the corner off, and stick it in a specially made pitcher to hold the plastic bag.

Here in Brazil, at least here in the north, the most common way to have milk is powdered milk. Now, to Americans, that may sound pretty gross. But you really get used to it. In fact, after a while, it starts to seem like the real thing, and bottled milk has a weird taste.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Sunday, July 27, 2003