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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.

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Sunday, May 02, 2004
 
It has been a while since I posted any photos, so there are a lot of them.


Eduardo (Buck) and Luciene Schmidt have been released to plant Vineyard Churches, and Rick Spinos and the Videira Church invited them to receive a send off blessing.

At the Videira send off
Photo by Greg Staub


Rick Spinos praying for blessings for the Schmidt family, who have been released to plant Vineyard Churches.
Rick Spinos prays for blessings for the Schmidt family as the Schmidts begin to plant Vineyard Churches
Photo by Greg Staub


These cashews came from our land.

Cashew fruit, notice that the cashew nut grows on the outside of the fruit.
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Dancing Green Hannah

Dancing green Hannah
photo by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Josiah and Luciene at the table

Josiah and Luciene
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Please, no cameras, no interviews.

Mr. Cool Rays, no free photos, no free interviews please
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Josiah in a JC Penney catalogue pose :-)

Josiah Schmidt, little man!
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Hannah, Raquel with a silly face, Josiah and Daddy on a ride at the shopping center.
Hannah, Raquel with a silly face, Josiah and Daddy on a ride at the shopping center.
Photo by Luciene Schmidt


This year we did Raquel's party at her school, and she invited Rachel Staub (on the left), newly arrived in Brazil, to go to her party too.

Friends eating cake.
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


This is at a meeting for the new church plant. God really showed up in a powerful way.

Part of the group for the new Vineyard Church plant
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


We rented a building for the new Vineyard church plant in Macapá, Igreja da Vinha in Portuguese. There was a lot of work to do- there is still a lot of work to do. First we cleaned out the trash and mud that was inside.

Leno, Elizeu, Kelso, and Luciano work on the clean up
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Kelso, Newton, and Luciano cleaning up
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Newton hard at work cleaning up
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


This new Vineyard Church plant is right on the equator- you can see the Equator monument in the background on some of the following photos. To get the building ready, we have to fix the water problem. We cut steps into the hill in front of the building, put in a drainage ditch, and a handicap ramp.
Doing the steps in the side of the hill leading down to the new Igreja da Vinha church plant
Foto by Newton



We moved a lot of dirt.
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


Don't you just love the yellow gloves?
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


The guys joked that this puppet looked a lot like Newton

A spitting image of Newton
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


We had a get together at the house on Sunday, to eat together and compare blisters from Saturday :-)

Luciano, Israel, and Kelso
Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt



Foto by Eduardo Buck Schmidt


posted by Eduardo Buck at Sunday, May 02, 2004

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