Add ward activities to your calendar
Subscribe once and Beacon Pointe 2nd Ward activities appear in the calendar app you already use. New activities show up on their own — you never have to check back.
Calendar address
https://bulletin.beaconpointe2nd.org/u/bp2/calendar.ics 
iPhone or iPad
- Tap Subscribe on this device above.
- Tap Subscribe again when iOS asks.
Ward activities appear in the Calendar app alongside everything else. You can hide them any time under Calendars without unsubscribing.
If the button doesn’t work, go to Settings → Apps → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar and paste the address above.
Android and Google Calendar
Google Calendar’s phone app can’t add a subscription directly — do this once on a computer and it syncs to your phone.
- On a computer, open calendar.google.com.
- In the left sidebar, click the + next to Other calendars and choose From URL.
- Paste the address above and click Add calendar.
Worth knowing: Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule — anywhere from a few hours to a day. An activity added to the bulletin this morning may not reach your phone until tomorrow. Nothing is broken; that’s Google’s behavior and we can’t change it from this end. Apple and Outlook update much sooner.
Outlook
In Outlook on the web, go to Calendar → Add calendar → Subscribe from web, paste the address above, and click Import.
Mac (Calendar app)
Choose File → New Calendar Subscription and paste the address above.
What you’ll see
- Only activities with a date. Announcements without one aren’t on the calendar — the bulletin is still the complete picture.
- Sacrament meeting isn’t on it. This is a calendar of ward activities, not the weekly meeting schedule.
- Some events cover the whole day. When an activity describes its timing in words rather than a clock time — “after sacrament meeting”, say — it shows as an all-day event, and the original wording is in the event’s notes.
- Repeating activities repeat, through their end date.
- Changes flow through. If an activity is edited or removed, your calendar follows on its next refresh. You don’t need to subscribe again.
If something looks wrong
Check the bulletin first. The calendar mirrors it, so if an activity is wrong there it’s wrong in both places and an admin needs to fix the announcement. If the bulletin is right and your calendar disagrees, give it a refresh cycle — up to a day on Google — before reporting it.
For announcement admins
The calendar is built from announcements you already write. Three fields control it.
Date — the only required field
An announcement reaches the calendar only if it has an event date. Without one it stays on the bulletin but never appears on anyone’s phone. This is the most common reason an activity seems missing.
Time — the wording changes the result
The time field accepts any text, but only some forms produce an event at a specific hour. Anything else becomes an all-day event, with your wording kept in the event’s notes.
| What you type | Result |
|---|---|
7 PM, 7pm, 7:00 pm | 7:00 PM |
6:30-8 PM | starts 6:30 PM |
5 to 7 pm | starts 5:00 PM |
18:30 | 6:30 PM |
after sacrament, noon | all-day — no clock time to use |
7:00, 6:30, 6:30-8 | all-day — ambiguous, could be morning or evening |
That last row is deliberate. 6:30 almost always means evening in a ward bulletin,
but “almost always” isn’t good enough to put on someone’s phone — a wrong hour looks authoritative
and sends people to the building at 6:30 in the morning. An all-day event is visibly incomplete,
so someone asks.
The practical rule: always include AM or PM. 6:30 PM is unambiguous and always produces
a correctly-timed event.
Recurrence and location
An announcement with a recurrence rule repeats on the calendar the same way it repeats on the bulletin, through its end date. If you fill in the location, it appears on the event so phone maps can navigate to it.
When changes reach people
Edits reach subscribers on their calendar app’s next refresh — usually within the hour on Apple and Outlook, up to a day on Google. Announcements are polished at Saturday’s freeze, so a description may change wording between when you write it and when it settles.