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.

 
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Our camp will start this year on Sunday, Feb. 3rd, and will go through the sixth of Feb. Please pray with us that the Holy Spirit would impact these young people’s lives, that there would be a profound repentance of sin, and renewed joy in serving the Lord.

Evangelism teams went out into the neighborhood from the church last Saturday, the 19th of January. One of the teams talked to a group of guys who were drinking. One of them, Nae, explained that his girlfriend was in the hospital waiting for their baby to be born. They talked to him about Jesus and invited him to church. Their baby girl was born on Tuesday, the 22nd. Nae was walking home from work that night at about 10:30pm. He was clutching some baby clothes for his daughter who he had just heard was born. A car pulled up beside him and someone inside started shooting. The assailants got out of the car to finish him off, put a shotgun to his head, and left a widow and an orphan to fend for themselves. He never even got to see his daughter. The thief has stolen again, the destroyer has seemingly had his way. But it will not always be so. The King will prevail . . . We often forget that we are in a war and that lives hang in the balance. The bloody carnage that the enemy leaves is a vibrant reminder that eternal souls are at stake.

Would you join us in prayer asking that the Holy Spirit would give us insight, innovation and creativity to seek and save the lost and that we could beat down the gates of hell and fill the straight and narrow road? The need is urgent and we so desperately need your help is this spiritual battle.

Labels: evangelism, Macapa, murder, save the lost

posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, February 01, 2008