October 2026
Updated: 1 day ago
Upcoming Events
***Our meeting location is 2916 Parkway Ave; Charlotte, NC 28208
Remaining 2026 dates: Nov 1- All Saints/Children’s Blessing, Nov 15, Nov 29. Dec 6, Dec 13, Dec 20.
2027 dates
Jan 10 & 24, Feb 7 & 21, March 7 & 21 & 28, April 11 & 25, May 9 & 23, June 6 & 20, July 11 & 25, Aug 8 & 22, Sep 12 & 26, Oct 10 & 24, Nov 7 & 28, Dec 5, 12, 19
For the next few months, we are going to experiment with adding a time for governance check in to our gatherings. At the end of each gathering, we'll check in on who's doing what for BCC, how it is going, what needs more discussion, etc. We'll see how it goes and talk about whether we want to continue it on November 15. We're checking to see if this new way of governance might be the way we'd like to move forward in our refreshed covenant 2027-2029.
Please remember to bring a snack to share at communion each time we gather. Sharing food is a spiritual practice: enjoying the abundance of God and God's community with each other. It is also a very practical element of our time together: children and adults can enjoy a snack, which keeps them nourished and engaged. For Fall Season, Seth has agreed to bring bread and Judy has agreed to bring juice.
And if you have the ability to bring food to add to the Freedom Fridge, a mutual aid pantry at Marian House (2916 Parkway Ave), please do.
Remembering Forward: Practices of Ancestry, Memory, and Resistance
Sunday, October 25 | 3–5 PM
at Mission Gathering Charlotte
420 E 15th St, Charlotte, NC 28206
Co-sponsored by QC Family Tree and Beloved Community Charlotte
Who are the people, places, stories, and traditions that have formed us?
Join QC Family Tree and Beloved Community Charlotte for Remembering Forward, an afternoon of reflection, connection, and shared practice centered on ancestry, memory, and resistance.
Together, we’ll explore how people across cultures honor their lineages, remember those who have passed, and carry the wisdom of those who came before us into the future. Drawing from the End Political Violence curriculum, we’ll consider how remembering can become a practice of connection, gratitude, resistance, and transformation.
Featured Artists:
Dawn Anthony, Nasif Majeed, Courtney Rohan, La Casa de la Cultura, and Jasiatic Usher
On November 1, Beloved Community Charlotte will celebrate our annual feast day: All Saints Day and Children’s Blessing! Together, we will remember the saints, ancestors, guides, and patrons whose wisdom, courage, and love continue to shape us. We will celebrate the gifts they have passed down and offer those gifts as blessings and encouragement to the children in our community. Come ready to participate, play, and share. If you have been invited to lead an activity or share a tradition, please prepare to help bring it to life. Think about how you can engage the children through interaction, play, the five senses, and opportunities for them to lead.
The theme for this season is: Turn the World Around: Turning Away and Turning Toward
Click on the image or button below for the pdf.
Leadership at Upcoming Gatherings:
Seth has agreed to supply bread for the Fall Season.
Judy has agreed to supply juice for the Fall Season.
Date | Childcare |
Oct 4 | Greg |
Oct 18 | Gretchen |
Nov 1 | No Childcare Needed |
Nov 15 | Karim |
Governance
A New Covenant for a New Season
This summer and fall, we will work together to create a renewed community covenant.
We’ll begin with what we already have, while making room for new wisdom, practices, and commitments to emerge. Through worship, conversation, shared experiences, conflict, care, and discernment, we’ll pay attention to what we are learning about who we are and how we want to live together.
Together, we’ll name the promises, practices, boundaries, and rhythms that will help us build a community that is liberating, embodied, and trustworthy. We will create it together, through the actual life of our community. It will be a living practice of listening, learning, adapting, and choosing how we want to belong to one another in this season.
Are you planning on re-covenanting with BCC in January of 2027? Our covenant agreement is for two years. We will craft the covenant together throughout the Fall of 2026. Please speak to Helms or Gretchen about your household’s interest in re-covenanting.
We are trying out a new practice of having mini-governance meetings at the end of each Sunday gathering. We will determine whether this will be our new routine after we try it out for a time.
Remember to RSVP
Please remember to RSVP to the attendance text that went out. This helps us know how to prepare and whether to secure childcare. If you did not get the text, please reach out to Shelly Murphy or email hello@belovedcommunityclt.com
Beloved Community School for the Common Good
forming a culture of justice, connection, and collective care.
September- November 2026
This Season's Theme for our School for the Common Good is:
Turn the World Around
Our theme, “Turn the World Around: turning away and turning toward”, invites us into honest reflection about what no longer gives life—personally and collectively—and into practices that restore relationship with God, self, one another, and the earth.
This season, we engage repentance, confession, and assurance of pardon as embodied acts of reorientation. This is a season of eroding and evolving all at once: we release what no longer gives life and courageously turn toward what does. This is a season of composting, navigation, migration, letting go, departure, and return. Throughout the season, we explore practices of confession and assurance of pardon; practices that makes space for truth, accountability, repair, and the possibility of renewed relationship.
We are still planning our School for the Common Good Activation this season. Details coming soon.
Toolkit - Resources to use at home, with family, and in small groups. Toolkits will be emailed very soon. Click here to get the toolkit
Beloved Community Circles: We meet on November 8th at the Murphy's.
Ritual Gatherings: Bi-weekly practices of ceremony, creative contemplation, story sharing, and connection rooted in the Christian tradition.
Communications
Ways to stay up to date
Slack is a communication tool that BCC folks use to update each other throughout the week. If you want to join the slack, let Helms know.
If you don’t want to find us on Slack, you can still find updates on our Linktree.
You can also add the Beloved Community Charlotte Google calendar to your calendar.
If someone you know wants to join our belovedcommunityclt email list, email iamhelmsie@gmail.com and she’ll add you to the list.
If you want to schedule some time to connect with Helms, feel free to find a time that works for you using this link: https://calendly.com/helmsjarrell
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