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.

 
We had a meeting Wed. here at the house, about 15 in attendance, plus the kids. It was really the first meeting of the new church plant. It went very well. The Holy Spirit showed up. I don't think that there was a dry eye here. We all prayed and wept, and sang songs, and some saw visions. We ministered to one another in prayer, and received some words of knowledge. It was very powerful. We are all even more excited than before. We were all very thirsty for an authentic touch of the Holy Spirit in the corporate body. We are planning to meet today again to work through some more of the strategic plans for the church plant, but mostly just to invite the Lord's presence again :-)

We would sure appreciate your continued prayers for this new church plant, that God's presence would be authentic and powerful, for love and unity, and above all, that God's name would be glorified, and worship on earth would increase for the Lord of Lords!
posted by Eduardo Buck at Saturday, April 24, 2004