Loaves and Britches Food and Diaper Ministry

09/05/2026

Four weeks ago we hung a sign that just said BELIEVE.

Since then we've talked about hope as a posture you take up before the evidence is in. Forgiveness as a verdict already rendered — the loop you're allowed to stop replaying. Curiosity as a discipline that actually sees people instead of deciding about them.

And this week: doing the right thing, even when it costs something, even before you know how it ends.

These aren't four unrelated ideas. They're four muscles. And this week's is the hardest one — because it doesn't stay inside. It has to walk out the door and do something.

So before Sunday, sit with this one question: Who am I walking past?

Not out of cruelty. Not out of hate. Just out of busyness, or fatigue, or a very reasonable calculation that it wasn't your turn to stop. The priest and the Levite had reasons too. Good ones, probably.

Proverbs doesn't ask you to fix the world. Just: don't withhold good when it's in your power to give it.

Join us Sunday at Bellamy UMC as we close out BELIEVE: Locker-Room Wisdom for Real Life — four weeks of wisdom that was always meant to walk out the door with you.

📖 Proverbs 3:27–35

08/11/2026

Believe (Yes, the Sign)

There's a reason that yellow "BELIEVE" sign hangs in the AFC Richmond locker room — Ted Lasso needed his players to see it every single day, especially on the days they didn't feel it. "It's the lack of hope that comes and gets you," he says. "Believe in hope. Believe in belief." That's not a pep talk. That's survival wisdom.

This week at Bellamy UMC, we're starting a whole series built on that idea, paired with the Psalms and Proverbs that got there first, a few thousand years earlier. David wrote Psalm 27 while actual armies were camped against him, and he still said, "I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." Not "I hope things work out." He decided to believe before the evidence arrived. That's the move. Belief isn't a mood that visits you on your best mornings — it's a choice you make on your worst ones, too. This week, we're hanging our own sign.

What's one place in your life right now where you need to choose belief before you feel it?

📖 Psalm 27:1-14

08/10/2026

07/21/2026

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SAVE THE DATE
Back 2 School Block Party and Community Resource Fair.

Date: Saturday, 1 Aug 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Gloucester High School

Vendors and Volunteers needed. See links below to register.
Vendors: https://forms.gle/CZUHiRUZVrNGCELA9
Volunteers: https://forms.gle/MNGiXWmR5RW8CG83A

07/04/2026

"Come to Me, All You Who Are Weary"

Jesus didn't say, "Come to me, all you who have it figured out." He said weary. Burdened. That's the list. If you've been dragging something heavy — grief, exhaustion, uncertainty, a question you can't shake — you are exactly who this is for. The invitation was never a reward. It was always a rescue.

At Bellamy this Sunday, we're beginning a new chapter together. Whatever you're carrying into this week, you don't have to carry it alone.

What is one burden you could symbolically set down before Sunday — in prayer, in a conversation, in a moment of quiet?

📖 Matthew 11:28

07/04/2026

Welcome Pastor Joyce!

06/09/2026

Help! The Gloucester Courthouse Little Free Pantry is in serious need of re-stocking. We put a few things in this morning, but it's still very sparse. Please drop donations directly to the pantry anytime at Southern States Gloucester on Main Street. We can take canned vegetables or fruit, canned meat, boxed dry goods like pasta, Mac and cheese, hamburger helper, peanut butter, ramen, etc.

We do not need canned beans, and we ask that you don't put in items that might melt or attract ants. We also take personal hygiene items and baby goods.

Please share this and follow our page. We need our neighbors to know. Thank you!

06/05/2026