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.

 
God has opened the doors for a new church plant in Novo Horizonte, a neighborhood on the other side of town from the current plant in Marco Zero. We rented a house that has a big front room that used to be a bakery, and have one single worker living there to spearhead the evangelism and small groups.

It is definitely a humble beginning, and needs lots of work. We need to clean the weeds out, fix some of the structural problems, give it a good paint job, and fix the fence around it. It is encouraging to know that all through the Bible, God has used humble beginnings for His kingdom purposes, and used the foolish to confound the "wise".

The new church plant building in Novo Horizonte.

On Saturday, the 31st, we had a Sopão, which is a big pot of soup, and invited the neighborhood to come and eat, hear music, and play. We closed the street off and put the chairs outside.

Look at the size of that pan! We did a lot of soup. We cooked it over a fire right beside the church.

There were a lot of kids, Luciene and Jane did a little program for the kids beforehand that went really well.

We had a great time, and we learned a lot that will make the next time even better.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Sunday, August 01, 2004