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 just got a prayer request from Advance (see subscription info below) about Brazil that is very interesting. Please pray for all of those in the vast Amazon that have not heard the gospel, that God would raise up a people that would take the gospel to everyone.

THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE

Brazil is home to 251 tribes -- about 315,000 people speaking more than
180 different languages -- that have little or no access to the good
news of salvation in Jesus Christ. None of them has a complete Bible in
their language; the New Testament has been translated into only 34 of
them. Only 129 have contact with evangelical missionaries. In most
cases, the tribes live in areas that are difficult to reach, and
political barriers prohibit foreigners from traveling among many of the
tribes. Intercede for hopeless souls who have never had an opportunity
to hear the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. Pray that the
workers God is calling to go to these peoples would obey him today. Ask
God to break down the barriers that prevent believers from taking the
gospel to these tribes.


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posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, October 17, 2003