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.

 
What a happy day, to see the concrete going in for the second floor of the construction project. These photos from Friday the 26th of March 2004, God answered our prayers, and made possible what seemed impossible. The forecast called for four days of storms. Greg Staub and I prayed as it started to rain, and it stopped and cleared up.

Three times that day it clouded up and started to rain, and three times we prayed, and it stopped. In the midst of the worst month of rainy season, in the rainforest of the Amazon, God shut the heavens and except for a light sprinkle it didn't rain all day Friday, and only rained Saturday evening which saved me from having to wet it down anyway. God is soooooo Good!!

Photo by Eduardo Buck Schmidt

Photo by Greg Staub

Photo by Eduardo Buck Schmidt

Photo by Eduardo Buck Schmidt

Josiah helping teach daddy how to play guitar.


Photo by Luciene Costa Schmidt

The kids playing in the tower.

Photo by Eduardo Buck Schmidt

posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, March 30, 2004

 
We put in the concrete yesterday. God is so good to us! We needed a time with no hard rain, in the middle of the Amazon, in the worst part of rainy season. God gave us our miracle, and held off the rain all day. About three times it started raining, and we prayed, and rebuked the rain, and it stopped! What a faith builder!

Thank the Good Lord for all of His blessings, and thanks to each one of you that has been praying for us.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Saturday, March 27, 2004

 
"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church, worship is. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore is the fuel and goal of missions. Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak." - John Piper

From Vineyard International
posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, March 23, 2004

 
I just started a new blog, more politically oriented. I felt the need to separate it from this one, which is mainly about Brazil, and our missions experience. The new blog is called "Rants from the Radical Right".
posted by Eduardo Buck at Monday, March 22, 2004

 
We continue to seek the Lord, and to pray as God opens doors for us to plant Vineyard Churches here in Brazil. We would sure appreciate your prayers as we seek Him, and lay out a strategic plan. We have been released from FOTVM, and are excited to see God fulfilling prophetic words that have been spoken over us through the years. We wait in joyous expectation to see how God will do above and beyond what we can even imagine He will do.


posted by Eduardo Buck at Sunday, March 14, 2004

 
This week someone showed me some photos of cyanide that had been left by a company, as well as some kind of sulfur or something. The chemicals were used for gold mining. The chemicals that were left by the company are leaking into the river, and have already killed the fish. There have been numerous suspicious deaths in the surrounding area. If anyone knows how to get international attention on this, I would sure appreciate the tip. They would like to hold the company responsible, and make them pay for the cleanup. I think that sounds more than reasonable.

This kind of thing really ticks me off. We humans are so irresponsible sometimes with what God has given us the responsibility to take care of.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, March 05, 2004