AndyBontheRadio @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

Our new washing machine is currently now on its second load, while I play catch up with the washing that's built up since Sunday! Washing is drying on the line, although at 6pm, it won't dry much tonight...it can go an aurer in our drying room over night (a small porch with the oil boiler in it that never cools down)...tumble dryer is standing ready if needs be to help us catch up with the current load washing in the new machine.

Feel very blessed that a way of paying for it opened up so easily... would've been a very different stor otherwise

Thanks to thosr that prayed and spoke uplifting words of encouragement! It meant a lot this week - especially @MaryMamuzich.

With a dodgy ankle this week (not a single clue how I hurt it earlier this week) the boys installed everything while I delegated ;-)

Andy B

@Cherishingsparrows2020 on it!

Episode 4 now uploaded ready for viewing FROM 4pm SUNDAY 13th June on our website, YouTube, IGTV and Facebook.

This one feels like something of a labour of love!! But we overcame the technology issues in the end with what felt like a hammer and some gaffa tape!

We have added [correct] captions/subtitles too, and a transcript of my #GoDeeper talk on Keeping it Pure is available at the website via the link below (again, from 4pm Sunday).

I'll post this link again on Sunday afternoon. If you want the links when the posts are actually available, just visit the website and sign up to our blog!

Thanks for the prayers this week - they were needed!

Andy B

https://www.berrybunch.family/endurance-series-2-episode-3-keeping-it-pure/(opens in a new tab)

@tymektt but after your name I've only got 991 characters to reply, on my most favourite subject

"All Scripture is useful for teaching and rebuking" is my simplest response, including Numbers, Leviticus, Song of Songs - with every other book too

As much as I like chocolate and steak, if I only ever eat that I'll become nutritionally imbalanced (even if chocolate really is a vegetable ;-) )

If we only ever teach the bible as [safe] stories (fables) instead of real history, that's all they'll learn & they'll grow up spiritually imbalanced

Us adults get more uncomfortable about some subjects than children are eg if we're not excited by sex within marriage; if we're not excited about God creating the world like He said He did; if we're not excited about introducing them to their own relationship with Jesus - who, or what, will they believe instead?!?

So in our home no subject (or scripture) is off limits, and "details to follow when you're older" is a line we rarely use

Andy B

@tymektt @TakeN @StevenBerry

@DevotionalTreasures my Andy B 2 Minute Videos are never planned. I don't keep retaking until it sounds right. And they only happen if I have a inspiration...post editing is extremely limited to just adding a logo and cleaning the audio a tiny bit before uploading....I love those the most of all we do...precisely because they are not planned, but only ever come straight from the heart and inspiration of the Holy Spirit

@DevotionalTreasures raw can be very good!

@DevotionalTreasures loved this...

@tymektt I truly miss the days when our boys were in slings!

Good times, good memories 🙂

Wondering if Amazon will try and squeeze our washing machine through the letterbox like they usually do with oversized parcels 😜 .......or perhaps leave it behind the bin?

5 stops away....washing is poised, ready to test it out on its arrival!!

@DevotionalTreasures Thanks Alan. You've bright my morning!!

BerryBunch is Magdi, really...

...doing something because we have the ability to do so, rather than putting it off until tomorrow, or until somebody else does it....that is her legacy

And, hopefully, this family brings hope...

@davereimer Sounds very likely :-)

It defines you...and you never truly get beyond it

Thankyou

Andy

After such a day of technical issues, we're winding down for the evening. But I can't miss a year marking the life of our daughter, who died when she was 11 weeks old in the womb.

We named her Magdi - she would have been Peter's older sister.

She only lived for a very short time, but she made an impact on us that is lasting lifetimes!

I think of all we've done with BerryBunch and know her legacy, and what she taught us, are tightly connected.

When she died, we made a little Lego model to remember her, with the letter M built in the middle.

This photo, of that Lego model, was taken not long after - when we'd sold our home, to invest in a business that went on to be the last, and final, insurmountable God shaped object that prevented the opening of a lap dancing club.

That Lego model was a daily reminder to live the life we have while we have it, and a motto
"One Life Live It"

Looking forward to meeting her in heaven one day.

Andy B

#gonebutnotforgotten

@JeremiahKranig James 1:5-6 is one I meditate on when big decisions are inbound, and in the last 4 years we've had some life definite decisions we've had to make!

But, I'll also pray - absolutely. And if you want to, I'm happy for you to DM me with anything more specific to pray into.

Andy B

@tymektt @mariapombo Perhaps even especially when we fall ;-)

We switched to a 7pm time for our weekday Prayer 2:62 but, to be honest, this really isn’t fitting with our family as we’d expected it to do. So, with some pretty big plans for Prayer 2:62 due in a month anyway, we’re gonna put a pause on Prayer 2:62 for now.

Our intention, God willing – when we change things up a bit – will be with a return to our previous time of 4pm, but with some exciting additions in the form of a prayer vlog/journal from Peter, and the wonderful Jo Jo and Peter creating a weekly Family Prayer Time video/idea to inspire you in your own situation. You can look at ones we’ve done previously here - https://www.berrybunch.family/resources/family-prayer-times/.

We don’t like having to cancel, and the time really isn’t working for us as we had planned for it to do.

So we’ll restart back on Monday 5th July for more Prayer 2:62.

The BerryBunch

#prayer262 #berrybunchfamilyfive #pause