BerryBunch Family @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

God is so good!!

Am super excited right now............a gift for our ministry from a dear Christian supporter - our very own, brand new computer for our BerryBunch family ministry for all those videos we edit each week.

Can't wait to open up the box and get this bad boy set up!!!

And its really highly specced too, so will be perfect for all those computer heavy editing things we do so frequently.

God is good and this is an answer to a prayer we began two years ago when we started this online ministry, which now sees something like 20,000 visits to our wee little website each week from real, alive, people....that's humbling in and of itself!!

This gift is so much more than we could have ever hoped to achieve. And now it's even more for God's glory and His kingdom.

Andy B

#TestimonyTuesday: All expense holidays, while unemployed

God loves to show off – just look in a mirror. He made you to be a little bit like Him, and He thinks you’re truly amazing.

See, I told you He likes showing off. There isn’t a single person who is just like you: God hand crafts us with purpose, and on purpose to be both unique and fully capable of everything He desires us to do!

Testimony: All expense holidays, while unemployed
When you’re unemployed, and desperately trying to find employment, the last thing on your mind is a holiday. Although, actually, it is often very needed – because unemployment has to be one of the single most stressful places you can ever find yourselves in. Particularly when your job was taken from you, rather than surrendered by you. [READ MORE]

Andy B

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A Brief Pause with Andy B, 10.08.2022

Just because we can, doesn’t mean to say we should.

Andy B

It’s good to check in with God during the day, so take a brief pause every hour or so and reflect on this quote/image.

#abriefpause #justsaying #justathought #p4t #wordsofwisdom #pauseforthought #dailymotivation #berrybunchfamilyfive

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“I am a secret agent for the King of Kings!“

In one way this is a #TestimonyTuesday post, only not on a Tuesday – but this wasn’t one we could skip: it wouldn’t wait! We’ll come back to that. And, on the other hand, it is both a challenge and an encouragement to us all on how we do anything for God.

It’s also my first post after a week’s much needed break. So, hello and well met – how are you doing?!?

Essentially, the question on my mind today is whether we are doing ‘good’ for God, or for us.

If you’ve ever watched a James Bond film, Mission Impossible or, indeed, any secret agent film, you’ll be familiar with the idea of a Secret Agent. [READ MORE]

Andy B

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#secretagent #secret #spy #undercover

Any Lord of the Rings fan out there: This is one of Jo's posts last week.

"I can carry you"

In life, we all face our own challenges and difficulties. And, although we can empathise with other people and their problems, whether we have been through similar experiences or not, no one can be in our situations for us. And this is clearly highlighted towards the end of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy when Frodo’s dear, friend and companion, admits that he cannot carry Frodo’s burden – which was the ring around his neck. However, Samwise Gamgee realised that he could carry Frodo to where they needed to go – Mount Doom. Sam says to Frodo:

“I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you”

This is a powerful, and poignant, moment in the film, revealing the true and faithful heart of a friend who ‘sticks closer than a brother’ (Proverbs 18:24).

Jo

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#lotr #lordoftherings

we've had a good week off, chilling at home, so I'm posting a few, more recent, videos - we stopped, but they didn't stop going out 😊

we would appreciate prayers for our computer, since it's rather central to all we do...we bought a refurbished PC last Friday and died yesterday....these things happen, but it adds a tad more stress as we've now got to sort that, and we still need a replacement computer (a new computer isn't an option for us any time soon).

Andy B

A Brief Pause with Andy B, 09.08.2022

Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God. Romans 13:1

Andy B

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Birthday number two on our week off

This time it's Nathans ( @TakeN ) turns he turns 17

Andy B

PS That birthday banner has been used, for every birthday in our family, since the late 1990s

Family cycle to the sea on my birthday ☺️

And first family cycle for over a year, due to a God incident and miracle which enabled us to buy bikes for the older two lads - we sold their bikes last summer, as they'd outgrown them but were never able to replace them

That all changed last weekend.

God is good. Time for steak and chips - while watching Sing 2 😁

Andy B

#TestimonyTuesday: Another miracle house move

Moving house is expensive. REALLY expensive. Due to the joys of the housing market in the UK, a job market which can be quite unsettling, we’ve become far too expert at moving house. But, God has us covered for all that He asks us to do.

Another miracle house move
When we moved to our current home, we couldn’t afford it. Like, at all! God, however, doesn’t worry about His level of resources, especially for those who are His children!

We’d been trying to move for a while, knowing that we needed an area of the country where we could find cheaper housing and a better job for Jo. Living in the south of England is expensive!

When it came to it, Jo was actually head hunted for her current role. Her tremendous expertise, over 2 decades, in the field of Domestic Violence, was – I am sure – part of what drove her new employers to seek her out. [READ MORE]

Andy B

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A Brief Pause with Andy B, 26.07.2022

Don’t let your past pain become your future perspective. Forgiveness helps us let go of the past, but it also helps us embrace the future.

Andy B

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#abriefpause #justsaying #justathought #p4t #wordsofwisdom #pauseforthought #dailymotivation #berrybunchfamilyfive

Love this

God's design was utterly flawless!

Andy B

Good Evening World

Hiya,

Just a quick note from me.

I’m having a bit of a rant, having wasted the last 30 minutes of my Sunday evening seeking to overcome this issue. But we have been beaten. Totally – by Facebook. I know, well, when to stand fight and when to simply walk away – and work around the problem. It makes me sad, but it is what it is: Facebook has been deleting music from our videos, with no recourse available for us.

Sadly, you can’t challenge the totalitarian approach of Social Media giants like Facebook: there is no complaints procedure; there is no customer service. There is just their action, which can’t be undone.

We get lots of people viewing, and enjoying, our resources on Facebook, directly. However, we will no longer be doing this. [READ MORE]

Andy B

PS I’m off for a cup of tea and some more time with my family.

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A Brief Pause with Andy B, 22.07.2022

It’s interesting to think of those things we absolutely need… …until they are gone, when we realise how easily we can live without them.

Andy B

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Behind the scenes with the BerryBunch

I’ve been hearing the same thing of late, from quite a few people. And it goes something like this:

“How are you able to produce so much? I can’t do that”.

So, let me pull the curtain back a little, to the world of the BerryBunch – in the hope that I can encourage you in your own serving of God.

But, firstly, do you have any specific questions you’d like us to answer about what we do, how we do it, or why we do it? Let us know and we’ll do our best to answer them. [READ MORE]

Andy B

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A Brief Pause with Andy B, 20.07.2022

Don’t mistake age for wisdom. The one does not necessarily grow with the other!

Andy B

https://www.berrybunch.family/a-brief-pause-with-andy-b-20-07-2022/

It’s good to check in with God during the day, so take a brief pause every hour or so and reflect on this quote/image.

#abriefpause #justsaying #justathought #p4t #wordsofwisdom #pauseforthought #dailymotivation #berrybunchfamilyfive

#TestimonyTuesday: A Moment with Our Creator

Today’s testimony comes from Beth Alisan, and her blog, Lessons from a Lab. Her testimony speaks not just of God’s goodness, and God’s provision – but also God’s ever perfect timing. And, if you haven’t come across Beth’s blog, it is simply superb and I always enjoy finding out what God will want to say to me.

Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. PSALM 72:18

Praise be to His glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen. Psalm 72:19

Testimony
Each year, I pack up my kids, my younger brother packs up his kids, my Dad packs up the boat, and we meet at a lakeside cabin for a week of fishing at a state park close to my older brother’s home. On the morning of our departure, the kids and I saw my husband off to work before loading the mini-van and heading north. [READ MORE]

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A Brief Pause with Andy B, 18.07.2022

The wise inherit honour, but fools are put to shame!

Proverbs 3 v 35

Andy B

https://www.berrybunch.family/a-brief-pause-with-andy-b-18-07-2022/

There’s always hope!

There are times in our lives when we feel hopeless, when we can’t see a way out, a way forward, a way to resolve our circumstances and we lose hope.

It’s fair to say that there were many moments in the Lord of the Rings when at various times different characters struggled with the events that were so dark and dismal that their feelings of hopelessness were revealed.

When Helm’s Deep was under attack with only three hundred men inside trying to defend themselves against an army of over ten thousand orcs there was, understandably fear and despair amongst the men. And to make matters worse many of these men had not seen battle or never even used a sword before. Not good! [READ MORE]

 Jo

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A Brief Pause with Andy B, 14.07.2022

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them.

Proverbs 3 v 27

Andy B

Andy B

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