BerryBunch Family @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

S06E008, It Is What It Is, Endurance

Steven and Nathan are back with Endurance after a bit of a break, and they are using the expression ‘it is what it is’ to talk about accepting what is.

Endurance is your weekly spiritual workout, whether you think of yourself as a beginner, an intermediate, or advanced!

#GoDeeper
In this GoDeeper, Steven talks largely about accepting what is. He begins by pointing out that in order to change you have to first accept where you are at, and he gives an example from his own life.

Then he discusses those things in life that don’t change even after much prayer. The apostle Paul had some experience of that, which Steven unpacks from 2 Corinthians 12. The other point that he makes is that we need to accept the past because we definitely can’t change that.

He concludes with a passage of Scripture from Ecclesiastes.

Steven and Nathan

Watch on our website --> https://www.berrybunch.org/Articles/655094/S06E008_It_Is.aspx

S03E008, The Silver Lining, Family Prayer Time

Psalm 12

Peter and JoJo have returned to encouraging us to pray as a family by using the Psalms. They start off with Psalm 12.

Peter and JoJo read out loud all eight verses of this psalm and encourage us to do the same as a family. In the first half David despairs at the growing number of wicked people, and in the second half he praises God’s goodness.

JoJo points out how we should be like David who is honest to God about his feelings, and thoughts, but always ends up praising God and knowing God is in charge.

Jo Jo and Peter

Watch on our website --> https://www.berrybunch.org/Articles/655015/S03E008_The_Silver.aspx

https://www.konnectradio.com/ - our regular, weekly, radio show as the BerryBunch

Family Focus happens 3 til 6pm UK every Sunday...and our last half hour is music designed to get your vicar energised for the evening church service (or listen again at your leisure 😉 )

A Brief Pause with Andy B, 03.02.23

I lay down and slept, yet I woke up in safety, for the Lord was watching over me.
Psalm 3 v 5 (NLT)

It’s good to take a regular pause through the day to hush and pause - and to check in with God. What might God say to us if we let Him?

Andy B

S05E052, How Many Fingers From Disaster? Andy B 2 Minute Video

Watch the video on our website --> https://tinyurl.com/24tfzmkd

In the Film series, Ice Age, there is little sabre tooth squirrel. He always gets so close to being to safeguard his precious nuts, when disaster strikes. If I’m honest he’s my favourite character because he never gives up trying. Everything gets thrown at him. And, yet, he just picks himself up and gets going again.

Sure, he suffers some typically calamitous disasters that requires the odd bit of hospital treatment.

But, he keeps going! [READ MORE]

Andy B

Our plan, at 9am on 1st February, is to go Live on Facebook and YouTube and tell you all about the exciting changes we will (God willing) have made in just 2 days time.

Website Launch Countdown – 4 days to go

We’ve got a brand New website name coming your way for the Brand New website. We couldn’t get rid of our roots – www.BerryBunch.family will still get you to our home on the internet, just as it always did.

We’re changing how we use Social Media (including WordPress). At the moment we post videos all over the place! But, from 1st February, we’ll be pointing you to our website to watch the videos there – this will be better for you as the videos will be presented, and looking, their very best for you. Downloading videos for later use gets super simple too! This makes Andy B SUPER happy!

Our newsletter will get a boost with the new website – make sure to sign up to that (we’ll let you know when you can) and you’ll always be up to date with everything we’re up to.

Website Launch Countdown – 5 days to go

We’re not just throwing a bit of paint on something to make it look fresh – this is much bigger than that, and all of it is down to God’s equipping and guiding of us.

If it were a car it would mean we’re getting a new chassis, a new engine, new seating, new styling – but it’ll still have a steering wheel, and the five of us in it. However it should now get us to our destination much more easily and enable us to worry less about whether the car will break down again anytime soon, and to enjoy the journey much more!

Website Launch Countdown – 7 days to go

We’ve worked really hard since the start of December sorting it all out.
We’ve updated web links and details on nearly 1,400 posts, more than 730 videos, over 350 Podcast episodes and everyone has been updated – sometimes twice (as necessary) – with details updated, mistakes found and corrected. It’s been useful, and not a little cathartic too – as we find very old errors that we had somehow missed before.

The BerryBunch

For More --> https://www.berrybunch.family/website-launch-countdown-7-days-to-go/

Well, the time has finally come - we've got an official launch date for our new website, 1st February!!!

Find out more about what you can expect!

Andy B

Read on --> https://www.berrybunch.family/time-for-a-change-brand-new-website-launch-countdown/

how are my fellow DingDashers doing today?

with all the work to our new website (launching 1st Feb) i've been pretty flat out with that since the start of December

so, how's y'all doing?

Andy B

(that's me, Jo and our oldest - Steven and the most recent photo I have with me in it)

Work on the new BerryBunch.family website is coming along really well. So here's a brief update. 😁

We're missing making new video content, but with covering the Breakfast Show on Konnect Radio we're glad of the change in our usual routine on top of all the work for the new website, which made covering the usual host doable.

A change is as good as a rest, and we had a blast with those 7-10am weekday slots.

Dave the Dog is missing recording too, but he'll be back doing some more story times from this coming Saturday - for our regular 3-6pm Sunday show on Konnect Radio.

And I'm taking two days of proper down time, just munching chocolate hob nobs, drinking early grey tea (sitting by our roaring log burner) and deliberately doing nothing much else except a drive to the sea to drink from a flask and watch the waves crash against the beach.

Andy B

#chilling #relaxing #berrybunchfamilyfive #hanging #update #radio #story #earlgreytea #chocolatehobnobs #timeoff #workhardplayhard

Happy birthday @StevenBerry

19!!!

Andy B

These photos are from last year

the man! @StevenBerry. The most recent image on my computer
19 tomorrow! (5th January 2023)

Andy B

By the way people, we're on air on Christmas day, 8am til 10 am (UK) (sandwiched between the lovely John Clayton and the effervescent Gareth Cottrell)

We're then back for the Breakfast Show for a couple of weeks (from Tuesday).

Merry Christmas and if you want some company, tune into Konnect Radio where we have a truly epic team of fantastic presenters and even better music.

Andy B

#TestimonyTuesday: You’re greater than you think you are

Today’s testimony is really a testimony of just how good God is, and how faithful He truly is.

It speaks of God’s handiwork over the course of nearly 3 decades!

The BerryBunch

“You’re greater than you think you are”
It was the summer of 1996 and I was getting ready to graduate from the PAIS Project (now the PAIS movement). I’d spent 12 months working out of a Pentecostal church in Droylsden, Manchester (UK) who provided me with a home to live in for the year with a church family. I, in turn, provided help with the youth work for that church. Monday to Friday was the PAIS Project and we mostly provided assemblies in Primary and Secondary Schools around East Manchester. Sometimes we’d also give lessons to schools too, and we also supported many lunch time clubs (Christian Unions). [READ MORE]

Andy B

For More --> https://www.berrybunch.family/testimonytuesday-youre-greater-than-you-think-you-are/

A Brief Pause with Andy B, 24.11.22

When the people of Israel heard these requirements, they responded generously… by bringing the first share of their grain, new wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields.
2 Chronicles 31:4-5 (NLT)

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 #giving

For More --> https://www.berrybunch.family/a-brief-pause-with-andy-b-24-11-22/

A Brief Pause with Andy B, 23.11.22

“One-tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord and must be set apart to him as holy.
Leviticus 27:30 (NLT)

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 #giving

For More --> https://www.berrybunch.family/a-brief-pause-with-andy-b-23-11-22/

What a day we had yesterday (Sunday)

On the go from 7am, and not home until nearly 11pm, but worth every moment

Started at the PAIS Project (schools mission work) 30th anniversary at it's first [home] church - Wellspring Community Church in Moston, Manchester.

Jo and I met up - after 26 years! - with the Global Director (Paul Gibbs), a fellow PAIS volunteer from my year - 1995-1996, the then pastor and others too (and the new UK directors who just arrived from South Africa).

Over the past 3 decades PAIS workers have reached more than 1 million children with the gospel, on 6 continents, and in 22 countries. It's a great [free] year out to do some missions work!!

Then we went not very far to have tea with Gareth Cottrell - the head of the global Christian radio station we do a show for - Konnect Radio (and cuddle his 6 week old baby)

What a day

We are blessed 😊

Andy B

the two photos in a church are 26 years apart and that's me on the stage in the older photo