Cornwall: walkers return

Andrew Chapple  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Dec 2013
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Cornwall: walkers return

Fore Street in Redruth

The black and white of the St. Piran county flag was the colour of the month through September.

Walk Cornwall 2 did three weeks of evangelistic mission in the far west county, all under the auspices of Through Faith Missions, utilising local leadership.

20 years ago the Walk of a Thousand Men in Cornwall found the walkers called the yellow bananas on account of the colour of their sweat shirts. Statistics can’t tell the full story, but in numbers the walk had: 250 churches involved in 47 centres with 339 volunteers from all over the UK, including one very committed man, who took three days to arrive from the Shetlands. Around 20,000 homes were visited with 9,000 completing the religious belief survey resulting in 950 contacts to follow up in courses like Christianity Explored.

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