Beloved Community

09/08/2026

The writer Barbara Brown Taylor had to deepen her trust in God, as she stepped away from pastoring in an Episcopal church:
By the time I resigned from Grace-Calvary, I had arrived at an understanding of faith that had far more to do with trust than with certainty. I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure. I trusted God to sustain the world although I could not say for sure how that happened.
I trusted God to hold me and those I loved, in life and in death, without giving me one shred of conclusive evidence that it was so. While this understanding had the welcome effect of changing faith from a noun to a verb for me, it was an understanding that told me how far I had strayed from the center of my old spiritual map.
Like any other map, mine had both a center and an edge. At the center stood the Church, where good women baked communion bread, ironed altar linens, and polished silver that had been in the church family for generations. Parents presented their children for baptism, and those children grew up with dozens of church aunts and uncles who knew them by name…. These people at the center kept the map from blowing away.
As it turned out, the edge of the map was not all that far from the center…. All we had to do was step outside the Church and walk to where the lights from the sanctuary did not pierce the darkness anymore…. There were no slate roofs or signs to the restroom out there, no printed programs or friendly ushers. There was just the unscripted encounter with the undomesticated God whose name was unpronounceable…. These people at the edge kept the map from becoming redundant.
According to the Bible, both the center and the edge are essential to the spiritual landscape, although they are as different from one another as they can be.... There is life in both places …, but they are so different from one another that it is often difficult for people … to agree that both places really belong on the same map. Much that is certain at the center is up for grabs in the wilderness. [1]

09/08/2026

September is S*icide Prevention Month.
This is a bare minimum way to help be part of the solution instead of deepening the problem.

09/08/2026

Next Sunday (9/13) is the day we return to Fall Schedule:
8:15 Holy Communion—more traditional and formal
9:15 Community + Connection (aka: Fellowship with snacks!)
9:45 Holy Communion—multigenerational and more casual

See you there!!! 900 Brilowski Rd.
All are welcome.

09/08/2026

09/07/2026

The Beloved Office is closed today, September 7.
The office will reopen tomorrow, September 8 at 9 am.

09/06/2026

We tend to think of empty space as wasted space.

An empty calendar slot.
An unfinished page.
A quiet afternoon.
A pause in the conversation.

But empty space isn’t necessarily nothing.

Sometimes it’s where something new has room to begin.

What if the goal isn’t to fill every space?

What if some spaces are sacred precisely because they’re empty?

Join us at Margins: A Women’s Retreat at Pine Lake Camp.

09/06/2026

Registration is live for the EpiscoWisco Youth Fall Lock-In — a weekend experience that many participants have described as, “the best weekend ever!”

Open to students currently in grades 6–12 & their adult leaders, this Friday evening through Sunday noon event invites youth to grow in faith, build friendships, and experience God’s presence in community — all while having a lot of fun!

The 2026 EpiscoWisco Youth Fall Lock-In will be held at Beloved Community, Stevens Point Friday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Nov. 8.

Cost is $35/person, and scholarships are available as needed.

Head to episcowisco.camp/lockin for more information and to sign up NOW through end of day, Saturday, Oct. 24!

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