Final Thoughts on the Tour

Now that the Davis Crossing Tour is over, we have had some time to reflect on it, both the blessings and the difficulties. Promotional tours are always exhausting, and scheduling them is nightmarish. Still, the benefits outweigh the problems, so we will likely continue touring, though perhaps not with a tour as long as this one.

Those of you who have followed the blog have heard about the difficulties, from car troubles to bad weather to endless hours and miles of driving. Sometimes disappointment knocks on the door when we work hard all day and sell only a few books. Of course, we hope to promote our books and sell as many as possible, because we want to further God's kingdom by spreading stories that draw readers closer to Him, so after driving hundreds of miles and speaking for hours produces only a few sales, we might be tempted to wonder if our efforts were worthwhile. That's when we have to remind ourselves that even a few seeds can reproduce into thousands, and even if one soul is blessed by our words, the eternal consequences far outweigh a day of toil.

Some days were overwhelmingly fruitful with many testimonies and many sales. We received huge blessings from families who traveled long distances to come and see us. Several reported traveling two, three, even four hours to come to an event. Amazing! Such love for our work and testimony is so encouraging!

We have never taken for granted the enormous blessing it is to be an author. The idea that people actually want to read what we write is a daily encourager, and the thought that our words might have a profound effect on the hearts and minds of so many readers to the point of altering their spiritual lives in eternal ways is nearly overwhelming. We hope you will pray with us that God will continue to use us powerfully as we continue trying to live up to this magnificent privilege and responsibility.

Thank you for following our tour. If you will continue to support us by telling others about our books, we will be grateful. May God bless you all as you seek to serve Him.


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Grand Prize Winner

The grand prize winner for the tour contest is John Flood. He chose the Nook as his prize.

The secret phrase came from eleven words in the videos, as follows:

Excellent
Diviner
Abdomen
Convergent
Chancellor
Investor
Galvanize
Galactic
Hibachi
Microfiche
Clandestine



The solving algorithm produced the following eleven letters: temgevlgihi

Unscrambling the letters revealed the secret phrase - Give me light



Eight contestants got it right, which gave them ten additional entries in the final drawing.

Secret Phrase Deadline Nearing

There are only three days left to solve the secret phrase in the Davis Crossing Tour contest. I hope to do the grand prize drawing at the end of the week, so if you want to get your name ten more times into the drawing, you need to solve the phrase by the end of November. A few have gotten it right, so it is certainly solvable.

Secret Phrase Algorithm Correction

When I described the algorithm for selecting letters from the words I provided, I included that the words should be put in alphabetical order. I forgot that this was part of the algorithm. Instead, use the order in which I provided them. If you have any questions, please post them.

Tour Contest Information

With the tour now finished, contestants are probably wondering about the secret phrase. The videos were supposed to contain eleven words from which you were to draw letters, one from each word, to create a scrambled three-word phrase, a phrase that should be familiar to readers of my books.

When you unscramble the phrase, send it to me by email - bryan (at) daviscrossing (dot) com

I am allowing until the end of November to solve the puzzle. After that, I will collect all the names and draw a grand prize winner.

I hope all eleven words are there. Has anyone found them all?

Last Tour Video!

Here's the last video!

Tour Day 64 - 11/16/11

Not sure what happened to 11/15/11 there, but apparently I didn't get pictures.


On the 16th, we spoke to a class at a school in NJ.


Before we went in. I saw a squirrel. ^^

I tried to get a picture, but they're too quick for the phone camera.

It's fun to see squirrels for me because we don't see them often. Y'all probably think that's silly, but we don't see them where we are because people hunt and eat them. In the four years we've lived in TN, I've seen 2 squirrels in our yard. One which was being terrorized by the cats.


We spoke to almost the whole school, I think, though I don't think the youngest kids were there.

Then we drove through Delaware

And into Virginia where we stayed for the night.