take the Tour Challenge

Commit to at least 30 minutes each day in scripture reading and prayer. 

Your Bus7 journal is created by road warriors for road warriors. The exercises in the journal are simple, and are intended to keep you healthy. By doing the journal exercises consistently, you are helping to stay healthy physically, spiritually, relationally. 

When you are on the road you can feel isolated. To combat that we challenge you to text, call, FaceTime, or meet in person with at least one person who knows you are taking the Bus7 tour challenge. This person will challenge and encourage and hold you accountable.

Through phone call or face time, make time to talk with each member of your home each day. Your family needs you and you need them, so make time every day for each other.

When you are on tour, the devil would love nothing more than to divide and conquer. Make a commitment to stay spiritually connected with your closest relationship by praying together about things that matter. So, before you hang up the phone, take 10 minutes and pray daily for each other and from he things that matter in your home.

The road can be a difficult place to stay in shape. Commit to 20 minutes of exercise or walking daily. 

Set a goal for your nutrition, write it down, and stick to it. I may commit to eating no sugar and drinking only water. Others may skip bus food, but you might be even more strict. Whatever your goal, please write it down and try to stick with it for the entire tour. 

This one is optional, Depending on your role on tour you may be so busy managing, building, or problem solving that this particular challenge doesn't apply. But if you spend hours of down time each day, commit to some task that is productive outside of tour world. Create a podcast, make business calls, write a song, but don't let the day pass without doing something that makes you feel productive.

Touring can often make it impossible to attend a regular church service. Depending on a tour's size, complexity, and priorities, it can sometimes be impossible to shut everything down for an hour and have your own version of church. But, every group has downtime. So, once per week (I like Sundays), gather with a few friends or the an entire tour, and unpack your journal. A few people can share their best "what, so what, now what?" from the week, and each of you can have a chance to unpack your thoughts from weeks QR coaches. Add prayer and before you know it, you are having church on the bus.