(upbeat music)
- The distance is 2,900 miles.
I'll walk 2,200 steps a mile,
comes to over six million steps.
And that's a tenth of children died through abortion.
Pilgrims pray with their feet.
So, for every step I take I just prayed
for 10 of those kids that died.
My name's John Moore.
I'm 68 years old.
I'm a member of the Knights of Columbus.
I'm walking from San Francisco, from Civic Center Plaza,
where they hold the west coast March for Life,
all the way to Washington DC,
where the national March for Life is being held
on January 18, 2019.
I'm gonna give the cross that I'm carrying
to the Knights of Columbus.
- My name is Laura Moore.
I am driving across the country
following my dad while he walks.
My dad has always been my rock, my support.
Every dream I've ever had my dad
has been insured that I got to accomplish it,
which is the main reason that I want
to support him as badly as I do,
because he finally has a dream
that I am capable of helping him achieve.
My faith has grown in the quiet and the stillness,
one step at a time.
- I felt like I was called upon
to do this walk, to humble myself before God,
to be a witness for Christ.
And when you're walkin' on a busy highway
you're witnessing for Christ,
people know you're carrying a cross.
- My dad, he's fighting a spiritual battle.
At the end of all of this
he'll have done something incredibly meaningful.
- There've been many struggles as you walk through mountains
and deserts and cold and heat.
There's things that put you off course
and you just keep going.
People say, well how do you walk across the country?
I say, you just put one foot in front of the other
and you put your faith completely in God.
God will take care of the rest for you.
Being a Knight, it increases your faith.
If I wasn't a Knight myself,
I doubt if I would be walking right now.
(crowd cheering)
- John, I wanna just tell you how inspirational
what you've done is--
- Thank you.
- for so many of your brother knights.
- Thank you. - For thousands.
- There's, this is the one that goes to the Knights.
- Why don't we carry it together for a little bit?
- Okay. - Oh how great.
- [John] That'd be awesome.
- [Laura] Knights of Columbus, I just really
appreciate how supportive they are of my dad.
They do incredible things all the time
and they're so humble and genuine about it.
- To me it's not an accomplishment,
it's not like scaling Mt. Everest,
look what I did.
A pilgrimage is a personal prayer
and it's an honor for me to do.
The walk itself is a walk of faith.
I have completed my journey, my pilgrimage.
I've kept my promise to God.
(inspirational music)