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