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.

 
There is a place downtown that seems like a magnet for birds. It is very freaky. There is one intersection that they seem to like. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the city that I know of. Any of you birdologists out there, I would love to hear an explanation for this, or to know if this is common.

Hannah and Raquel are doing very well in Brazilian school. This is Hannah studying before a big test.

Hannah and Raquel are on vacation for the month of July.

Josiah likes to get dressed up to go to church. It almost makes the girls faint when he walks in with a tie.

For those that may be thinking of moving to South America, and are worried about your water supply, here is what we have done. We have city water, which isn't really too healthy and can be a source of worms and ameoba, so we were buying mineral water, or boiling our water. Both of those options are pretty expensive in the long run. We ended up buying a Davnor water filter when we were last in the States.

That has been a great blessing for us. We now filter our water directly into a large 5 Gallon Igloo drinking water cooler that was given to us by a very good friend. We throw in a large block of ice (made from filtered water also), and it stays cold all day, and we don't have to open the refriderator all day to get our cold water. It has been a great blessing for us.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Saturday, July 05, 2003