The Route

We are frequently asked are, ‘Why Cairns to Stanthorpe?’ and, ‘Where’s Stanthorpe, anyway?’  
Stanthorpe is one of the most beautiful little granite soil towns in Queensland. It grows wonderful fruit and has a fantastic climate (it’s the coolest place in Queensland)! How do we know all about Stanthorpe? - well, that’s where the three of us come from! In fact, our families all live within a kilometre of each other.  

So, ‘Why Cairns to Stanthorpe?’ - well, you see, we’ll be walking home. 

The 2000 kilometre route reflects the 2000 languages that don’t have the Bible - but there’s even more to it than that:

•    Firstly, just as the Walk will be a long, hard process, so will be bringing the Bible to the 2000 language groups. It’s not something that we can complete in just a few years. There’s no quick fix; no substitute for ‘putting in the miles’

•    Secondly, on the Walk will be blisters, sweat, cramps and chafing. The process of translating the Word of God into a new language also involves hardship and pain

•    Thirdly, it’s too big a task to tackle alone. Just as we’re walking as a team, so we’ve also teamed up two different mission organisations - Operation Mobilisation and Wycliffe Bible Translators - to embark on the huge, God-given task before us

•    Finally, there’s a definite ‘finish line’. On 11th November - Remembrance Day - we’ll finish The 2000 Walk and we’re looking forward to trudging up that last dirt road and saying, ‘We’ve done it - we’re home!’ Likewise, this world has a finish line. We don’t know the exact day, but we do know that the Lord will come back soon. We have His promise in Revelation 7:9 that on that day there’ll be ‘a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb’.  If the homecoming at the end of The 2000 Walk will be a time of great joy (and believe us, it will be!), then the final homecoming of the nations will be a million times more joyful