Reini taking 10 000km cross walk ‘one day at a time’

Evangelist Reini Coetzee set out from Signal Hill, Cape Town, on Sunday, on the first day of a walk in which he hopes to wheel a wooden cross 10 000km across Africa and on to Jerusalem.

His departure, after a prayerful sendoff by supporters, was two days later than planned, because of a delay in the delivery of the cross by courier. But Reini, who expects his trek will take 18 months to 2 years to complete, says he is not in a hurry. He said his mission is to “to seek the lost at all costs” and “to bring hope, peace, and the love of Christ to Africa through the power of the cross”.

When I asked him yesterday how it felt two days into his walk with nearly 10 000km of road ahead of him, he said he believed God has “brought me to order” by telling him to take the walk “one day at a time”.

He said that it has been busy on the road with lots of people stopping to engage with them. A motorist who stopped told him how she prays daily for Cape Town, South Africa and Africa. Another woman gave him a five-course meal “which I can’t even carry”.

He said he was amazed how many people wanted to help him by wheeling the cross for a while. The first was a gardener who came out onto the street when he saw him and asked if he could carry the cross for a bit.

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Reini is officially traveling solo with just the cross in his hands and a rucksack on his back. But he said he trusted God to provide him with different partners to accompany him on some of the stages of his long journey. A friend, Bryan Francis, accompanied him for the first few days.