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.

 
Thursday night, Luciene started having severe abdominal pain.
Rolling around on the ground crying out kind of pain. In the early
morning on Friday, after a whole night of enduring the pain, we got
someone to come over and watch the kids, and went to the emergency
room. They ran all kinds of tests, and some of them came back very
elevated. At this point we still don't know what the problem is,
but may be related to the liver. She has had her gall bladder
removed, about nine years ago now, but it is the same kind of pain
as that. We were in and out of the emergency room and the doctor's
office four times today, and they wanted to keep her in the hospital
overnight, but she decided to come home so she could breastfeed
Nicolas.

If she has to go back to the emergency room tonight, they will do an
emergency ultrasound, and probably repeat some of the tests because
they were so high that the doctor suspects that there could have
been an error, as well as some additional tests for Hepatitis A, B,
and C. If she can wait and endure the pain, then we will do the
tests Saturday morning.

Please pray for us, this has been very painful for Luciene of
course, and very hard on the kids. Please pray that the doctors
could figure out what the problems is. Please pray that Luciene
would be healed, no matter what the problem is.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, September 30, 2005