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.

 

Praying for the Sick

Eli, Luciene and I went on some visits to the sick. Eli has a great ministry in the hospitals, going and praying for the sick. These are some contacts that she made through her ministry, and they asked for home follow up. We praise God for the open doors that he has given us to go and share the gospel.

Saying goodbye to Rachel Theiss, AKA Egghead

The Staubs invited some people over to say goodbye to Rachel. There was good food, and then they lined up to take some photos. All of a sudden, BAM, Rachel got an egg slammed on her head, and that was followed up with flour.

Rachel Theiss suffers the indignity of becoming an egghead.

One Brazilian wisely explained that this was an American custom, while some Americans explained that it was a Brazilian custom. In reality, it is neither.

Brazilians do tend to slam eggs on peoples heads occasionally when it is their birthday, and they almost always do it when someone passes the grueling tests to get into college (it is really really difficult to pass this test), but I have never seen someone do it when the person is traveling. I think they just wanted an excuse to make Rachel an egghead :-) Of course Rachel exacted her revenge on Vanussa, but I think the really big fish, the planners, got off scot-free.


Egghead revenge.

Saying goodbye to Rachel, after she showered and got the egg and flour out of her hair.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, November 29, 2005

 

Photo by Greg Staub

I Feira das Nações (1st Fair of the Nations)
25th through the 27th of November


Vineyard Macapa (Igreja da Vinha Macapa – www.vinhamacapa.com ) participated in the 1st Fair of the Nations that was held at the Marco Zero Monument, right in the middle of the world.

It is practically in our back yard, we are one of the churches closest to the monument, so it was a great opportunity for us to meet people, and for people to get to know us and the Vineyard movement.

Mayla Andrade prepared some really nice boards about the Vineyard movement, vineyard values, etc., and some cool photo boards. We took a TV and put on the Dwell Vineyard worship DVD, and that really drew people. We had a dance team from our church perform also. We are excited to see what doors God will continue to open through the relationships that we formed over these couple of days.


This was our stand.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Saturday, November 26, 2005

 
Dia da Bandeira (Day of the Flag)

Our church held an evangelistic outreach in a nearby park on the Day of the Flag holiday. We had a special dance team trained by Rachel Theiss and Hannah Staub, John Staub played some cool tunes, and Elizeu lead some worship. We had a great time, it was cool to see so many young people dancing and having a good time. I preached a short message.

The Vineyard Macapa Dance Team

During the event, we were called to a neighboring house to cast a demon out of a girl, she had destroyed her room, the bed was lying in pieces, and the family was desperate. I asked two ladies to go with me since it was a woman that was demonized. We prayed for her, and she was dramatically liberated, praise God.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, November 15, 2005

 
More construction fotos, here are the workers putting in the tiles for the laundry room.

Here is the living room, after we got the glass blocks put in.

Here is a photo of the house as it is now. We still need to get the roof on the second floor before rainy season starts so that there will be no structural water damage, and so that we are prepared to recieve teams. We sure appreciate your prayers for this!

posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, November 11, 2005

 
Here is a shot of the kitchen, right after we got the windows put in, and the cement floors done.

Here is the kitchen with the sink.

Here is the kitchen with the new floor tiles.


Here is a shot of the kitchen as it is currently.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Wednesday, November 09, 2005

 

Here is my nephew, who has a bad habit of doing dumb things when I am trying to take his picture. This is on his birthday, and he opened his mouth, which was full of food, just as I was trying to take his photo. I told him that I was going to put it on the internet, so everyone could see how he wanted to be remembered, so here it is :-)
posted by Eduardo Buck at Monday, November 07, 2005