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We experienced the great joy of traveling with an adult daughter and her husband to visit churches we helped to plant along the Xingu River. We hire a taxi or a cart to haul our travel gear to the church in Gurupá. This year many of the freight people upgraded to customized motorbike carts. We took a barge down to Gurupá. It took about 14 hours. We traveled home on motorboats in about 5 hours, not counting stopping for lunch with the pastors in Porto de Moz. We had lunch with Bene and Iana, (Eee Yana) on our way home, and with Valdinho and his family. Valdinho was one of the first people I met in Porto de Moz, back in 1995. We have traveled the church-planting road together for many years. In recent years Valdinho has embraced trading a strong authoritarian leadership style for the Discovery Group model.  Here is a photo Valdinho sent me of his Discovery Group the weekend of this photo, April 22, 2023. One night in Gurupá Deanna and I spoke at a Couple’s Event. The youth arrived in the afternoon to cook a big supper, and 40 couples came for an evening of fun and learning at the church. After two days in Gurupá we put our things back in a motorcycle cart and started the journey home. It took two days of motorboat and car travel to get back to our home in Marabá. The port in Gurupá.

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