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 (Eduardo) have had a cough for about a month. It got worse and
worse, and when it got to the point that I was having difficulty
breathing and was nearly passing out with the violence of the coughs,
I went to the doctor and found out that I was having an asthma
attack. The medicine has helped.

Yesterday, Raquel was coughing really bad, and then began to have
trouble breathing. I took her to the emergency room at about
midnight, and she was having an asthma attack. We spent the night at
the hospital. God was so good to us. Raquel got a bed for part of
the night. We walked past kids and their parents sitting in the
chairs and laying on the floor in the corridor, and got a bed because
Raquel needed to be near the oxygen.

They poked her body with needles, gave her shots and oral medicine,
and x-rays. She vomited and cried, and began to breathe easier. She
has asthma, and is starting to show signs of pneumonia.

This time of year is really bad for asthma. It is in the dry season,
so there is a lot of dust. It is also the time that people burn
fields, and where we live has just been horrible with smoke lately.
Our whole yard is one big dust bowl. Please pray for us, especially
for Raquel, and her health.


posted by Eduardo Buck at Sunday, November 16, 2003