Jonathan Bellamy spoke with David Cape to find out about his new venture - Walking The Great Commission - from Bethlehem (Judea), to Jerusalem, to Nazareth (Samaria), to the 'uttermost end of the earth', (a little island called Tristan De Cunha)

David: Well, it's wonderful because one of the things when the Lord first challenged me about this whole mission and this whole walk was, "Where is the uttermost part of the Earth"? I later discovered through a documentary I saw - they said, "We are going to do a documentary on the remotest populated place on the planet". Tristan da Cunha is a tiny island situated about 1700 miles south of Cape Town and about 3000 miles south of Rio and it has a population of 274 people. It has no airport and no harbour and so there are three ships that visit there each year - they're not passenger ships: they're exploration-type ships, fishing ships and I think the third one's a cargo boat. They have to find a place for you on the ship and I think there are only 12 berths apart from the crew and they allocate you a place. We will go to Tristan da Cunha and deliver the letters to the believers there, just honouring them, encouraging them and thanking them for their faithful witness over many, many years.

Jon: It's an incredible journey that you're about to take on, David. People are going to want to know how they can follow you on your travels - and with today's modern media that's much easier than it would have been 20 years ago, I'm sure! So can you tell people the kind of updates you're doing and how they can follow you?

David: Sure. Firstly we have established a Facebook page which is called 'Walking the Great Commission' and so they could find us on that. Then in addition to that we're on Twitter - its @Footwasher1. We'd love the folk to keep up-to-date: one of the wonderful things is my team and I will be posting Twitter messages and Facebook messages daily, just to keep everyone up-to-date, so we'd love the folk to follow us. Then of course one of the very exciting things is that we're going to be doing roadside interviews with you, (Cross Rhythms), as we journey along the Great Commission, so it's going to be very exciting to speak to yourself, along with all the listeners during that period.

Jon: It is. We're really looking forward to covering this trip with you, David. Any idea if you can use a mobile phone in Tristan da Cunha though, I don't know how we're going to tie-up with you there!?

David: I do know that they have some form of satellite Internet there, so hopefully we could, if all else fails, get on to Skype and we would be able to talk to you - but we definitely will talk to you from all the strategic points along the journey. When we eventually get to Tristan da Cunha we will link up with you from there and I guess that will probably be the furthest point you've ever spoken to anyone from!

Jon: I think you're quite right - definitely! Well it's fantastic to talk to you and all the best, not just for the trip but also the preparations. I'm sure people will be praying for you and praying for this mission all around the world actually, so well done and we look forward to following it with you.

David: Thank you, Jon.

You can hear the updates with David on Cross Rhythms radio either online or on 101.8FM in Stoke-on-Trent all between 4pm and 5pm: 17th March (background and vision), 2nd April (live from Bethlehem), 7th April (live from Jerusalem), then weekly live until David reaches Nazareth, with final updates from Tristan De Cunha sometime in late May. For Cross Rhythms Plymouth and Teesside times may vary.