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.

 
A friend of mine, Eliseu, has been sick. He was working with us on the construction project, but became ill. Paulo, the foreman at the construction site, and I went and talked to him. He confessed that he has been backslidden, and that he had even turned to voodoo for healing, but that just seemed to make matters worse. He renounced the sin of voodoo, and rededicated his life to Jesus. We prayed for healing for Eliseu. He said that he feels much better.

I took him to the hospital on Tuesday. It was a painful experience. The machine needed to do some of the tests for him was broken, and would probably be down for another week or so. They only schedule X-Rays on Monday, and then only the first hundred get scheduled, so you have to go really early and wait in a long line. The pharmacy didn't have the medicine he needed. We spend nearly an hour walking around the hospital, between all the departments, to learn that they could do nothing for him.

He and his wife need to find healing in their marriage also. Please pray for them, that they could find forgiveness and that God would restore their marriage. I challenged them to begin to pray together and read the Bible together at least five minutes per day. Please pray that they would be able to learn and grow in God together, as a family.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Thursday, August 14, 2003