Blog Posts | Andy Berry

And We’re Back

Posted on 3 Days Ago by Andy B

After a successful move, the BerryBunch are back.

Steven D and Andy B give a preview of the next week of shows and exciting events coming up over the next few months.

Only at www.pure247radio.org

Pure247Radio.org turns 6 months old this week!

Posted on Feb 26 by Andy B

Pure 24/7 Radio is celebrating turning 6 months this year on Thursday 29th February. And it’s super exciting, because the 29th February doesn’t come along every year!

We are Pure 24/7 Radio – The Pure Choice

Pure 24/7 Radio is everyone’s cup of tea, even if yours is a coffee. All our music is Three Point Pure, which means it is always free of bad language and doesn’t promote anything illegal or immoral. We check every sentence, of every song, to ensure it passes our Pure Standards. We provide great music, inspiring conversation, fascinating guests and entertaining interviews. You can be assured that there is always something going on, which will brighten your day!

We are here to keep you company, no matter what you might be doing, and wherever you may be in the world! Whatever we listen to will always affect us in one way or another. So, here at Pure 24/7 Radio, we offer a pure listening alternative – and are always the perfect accompaniment to your day. This means you’ll always be able to enjoy Pure Radio, only on Pure 24/7 radio, whenever you tune in!

There are, of course, costs to running a pure radio station. These include paying for licenses, broadcasting software and even the hourly news. It would be an honour if you would stand with us:

1. By sharing this radio station with your friends, church, colleagues and family

2. By subscribing to our YouTube channel or podcast channel

3. By praying for the work we do here at Pure 24/7 Radio

4. By signing up for our free, monthly, super encouraging newsletter

5. By supporting this online, Digital Radio Station, financially through our Online Shop or the Safe and Secure Donations page on our website: www.Pure247Radio.org

Andy B interviewed on Revelation TV

Posted on Feb 7 by Andy B

The BerryBunch website is shortly have to something of a refresh and we’ve been working really hard in the background. We’ve missed blogging, but that is coming back soon too. Honestly!

Andy B 2 Minute Videos, Family Prayer Time and Endurance will all be back in time!!

Meanwhile, we thought you’d enjoy this very fresh interview (from 6th February 20) that I was asked to do for Face to Face, and Tim Vince on Revelation TV.

It shares my heart, passion and some of the story behind Pure247Radio.org which, itself, grew out of BerryBunch.org

Pure247Radio is growing week by week – our latest Brand New Show is “Life on Mission, Powered by Pais” which started just yesterday and will feature voices from around the world and plenty of chat about Missions Work.

Happy New Year from the Pure 24/7 Radio Team

Posted on Jan 1 by Andy B

The Pure 24/7 Radio Team hope your Christmas had some wonderful moments to remember the reason for this Festive Season. And, whether you’ve been working or have not had to work over the Christmas period, we’re still here as a Radio Station; we’ve been there for you 24/7 with, always, 3 Point Pure music and chat.

The Pure 24/7 Radio Team

www.Pure247Radio.org – Everyone’s cup of tea

Merry Christmas from the Pure 24/7 Radio Team

Posted on Dec 25 by Andy B

We hope you get moments to consider the real reason for this wonderful season.

The Pure 24/7 Radio Team

www.Pure247Radio.org – Everyone’s cup of tea

Stop – Look – Listen

Posted on Dec 24 by Andy B

Christmas becomes the New Year – a time when resolutions are made. Like going to the gym you joined last year to be told that you’re not fit yet because, they say, you need regular exercise too. Funny that!

For many of us it’s the ideal season to stop and pause, and do something different. And, should you do find yourself spending time with people you truly don’t get on with, please leave as early as you need to: your mental health isn’t worth sacrificing for someone else’s temporary happiness.

But, whatever Christmas looks like for you, it really is a good time to reflect on the year gone by – before we start seeing in the new one.

Should you ditch the ‘should’?

Posted on Oct 30 by Andy B

In every-day life there are a number of things that you must do – like breathing. Just saying! And there are a number of things you could do – such as going to work. There are also things that might be good for you to do, like going for a walk with your dog.

All good so far. But, tacked on to that list – all too frequently, and easily – are all those things that we ‘should do’. And I’m not convinced that we should allow those ‘shoulds’ to have so much influence over our live,s because doing something out of an obligation reduces so much of the joy we can experience in our lives.

I don’t know about you, but that sounds a tad heavy!

It should be time for bed by now! Or is it…

Have you ever been sitting thinking that you should get your children to bed?

It’s a noble goal, and children without boundaries will not do well as they move through life because life is full of boundaries.

Sleep is great – we need a good amount every day. But, if you only send your children to bed ‘because you should’ then you are simply ending your day with them out of guilt, and that is just not a healthy way of saying goodnight.

Culture definitely has a part to play here. In the UK, bedtimes can be almost religiously enforced by parents because of the school day. That is a sensible goal – their teacher will not thank you for sending your children to school tired. However, as I recently learned, in Italy children can frequently stay up way past what might be considered a suitable British bedtime, because time with family members is considered far more valuable and important.

There’s nothing wrong with enforcing a healthy bed time, but let’s do it out of an abundance of love, not guilt.

I remember hearing someone declare “shouldn’t these children have left for their groups by now?” I remember feeling incredibly sad that that person had showed such disdain for the children being near them. I didn’t understand it at the time, but that word ‘should’ can be pretty harsh as a motivation for anything.

A bedtime routine might be unhelpful!

Before you wonder where I’m going with this, fear not ‘cos I’m just repeating something I recently heard an expert talk about. Because it makes sense to calm children down before bed. Of course it does, unless it doesn’t…

It turns out, if you someone with certain sensory issues, calming down before bed is actually counter-productive. Because, as this expert explained, certain sensory issues will lead to a better sleep if you’re still running and spinning around just before you get into bed.

And that is the problem of the ‘shoulds’.

What we should do can lead us to just go through life feeling washed out while life rushes past us instead of living the life we have before us.

Andy B

Some reflections on some large changes

Posted on Oct 5 by Andy B

What a 5 weeks we’ve had!

Pure 24/7 Radio turned 4 weeks old this time last week and we’ve seen huge changes to our family life – all good stuff, but it hit me last night that I’m no longer simply reactive to caring for my family, because, I’m no longer a full-time stay-at-home dad. That was, essentially, the last 19 ½ years of my life – since Steven was just a few weeks old.

That stay-at-home dad thing began in February 2003. And it was just Steven and I with cup feeding – using Jo’s breast milk to keep him alive! Oh, and no one to really call…just me and my first son and two dogs to look encouragingly on.

We’ve seen so many highs and lows; we’ve had to adapt to massive changes; we entered full-time ministry, eventually left during COVID, and Jo returned to an old job so she could support the family to enable me to continue to do Ministry. That was the beginning of BerryBunch.org, which ultimately was the launching pad for Pure247Radio.org.

I never thought that my time caring for my family would lead to what we now do – broadcasting a radio station around the world and being responsible for a Global Media Organisation (something I’m slowly accepting as a reality due to recent conversations with other Ministries who are excited to partner with us).

God is good. And I am reflective because more changes are imminent.

Since my days as a trucker I’ve never been really away from my family. And yet, next month, I’m away for a night or two in central London, to meet one of our new presenters and a new regular guest for my Drive Time show. And then, a week or so later, I’ll be in Staffordshire at a conference representing our Radio Station – for the first time publicly – and I will be away from my family for a few days (returning on our 27^th wedding anniversary).

We’ve pretty aggressively protected that date over the years and, yet, we all had peace that that approach has changed now too.

Life is always changing but we resist that change at our peril!

Change is good and I love change! But it can be hard even if you welcome and embrace it. Me? I’m just chuffed I got to be there for my boys for nearly 2 decades.

I’m still there for them but, for the first time in so very long, I’m essentially unavailable for 3 hours every weekday…albeit from a room in our home.

Just feeling a little reflective as I mourn the passing of the greatest (and most rewarding/challenging/terrifying/exciting chunk of my life) and transition to a new ‘normal’ around the Radio Station we hand built and launched some 5 weeks ago, and which now has 6 presenters, broadcasts to listeners in 4 countries so far, and has more than a dozen distinct shows every week with more scheduled than I can yet talk about openly!

Andy B