The XM ChallengeTransAmazon Highway – The XM Challenge https://www.rickbergen.net Help Plant 1,000 Churches Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:01:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 169531157 TransAmazon Highway https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=51 https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=51#respond Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:40:00 +0000 Rick Bergen http://www.rickbergen.net/2013/04/28/transamazon-highway/ For months Elba and Clenildo have planned a Pastoral Care retreat in Altamira. Two days before it started Marsha sent us word that people in Pacajá were protesting by closing the highway. They did this by dragging two huge logs in front of the one-lane bridge, and they also built a fire of burning tires across the highway. We packed our things and left that afternoon, thinking we would likely have to walk across the bridge and take a bus the rest of the way. We were glad to hear, when we got to Pacajá, the police had opened the road back up. We spent the night at the Wilsons and together with the Pacajá church-planting team we arrived at noon in Altamira.
I don’t have any photos of the residue of the road block, but we did take a few other photos along the way.

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