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.

 
Nicolas is something else. He doesn't talk much, but he carries a big stick.


This girl was preparing a fire to cook lunch. Many people, like those in the next two photos, still use fires and outhouses, and don't have running water. The water they use is often contaminated, and causes problems with parasites and infections.

We just got a mold to make water filters (see the photo below of it coming off of a boat from Santarem), but we lack the funds to get the project up and going. We have a manual brickmaking machine that we bought also with the dream of being able to build low cost housing, as well as low cost churches and community centers. By building community centers, and providing computer training, job training, and life skills, we can help stop the cycle of poverty and crime that leads people to desperation. Many people, to make fast money, cut down vast tracts of jungle to plant soy or raise cattle. By offering hope and a path to employment and a better life, we can help stem the tide of poverty and deforestation, and help preserve the gift of nature that God has given us.

If God is laying it on your heart to help those that are less fortunate, please pray, and ask Him if you are to come help get some of these projects started here in the Amazon.


This man has had a hard life struggling to provide for his kids and grandkids in a brutal cycle of sin and poverty.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, October 03, 2006