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Ash Wednesday 2026
Ash Wednesday will be Wednesday, February 18. Join us for our annual service of ashes to mark the beginning of Lent, where we come before God recognizing our humanity, repenting of our sin, and remembering who we are and who we can be. We will have a dinner before the service at 5:30 pm in the Fellowship Hall, and the service will begin at 6:30 pm in the Sanctuary.
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Chili Cook-off & Apple Pie Contest
Congrats to our winners from this past Sunday's annual Chili Cook-off & Apple Pie Contest!
Thank you to everyone who brought something to share with the Church, and a BIG BIG thanks to Elisa and all the volunteers who work so hard to put these events together for us to take part in!
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Found Faithful at Mulberry & First: Celebrating 200 Years
This year we are celebrating 200 years of this Church worshiping and serving our community on this corner of First and Mulberry. We will be marking this milestone with a variety of events throughout the year. To learn more about our Bicentennial year and how we’re honoring our past, celebrating our present, and envisioning our future together, visit mulberrymethodist.org/bicentennial.
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Important Spring Dates:
Sunday, April 26 - Bicentennial Celebration Sunday
Saturday, April 25 - The Mozart Requiem featuring the Ainsworth Choir
Saturday, April 25 - 200 Remarkable Years: A 1-Hour History Stroll with Creede Hinshaw
March 20-24 - Old City Flower Show, hosted by Mulberry Street UMC
March 23-27 - Cherry Blossom Organ Concerts
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A Very Special Thank You
More THANK YOUS are in order for all our volunteers and especially the combined Daughtery/Joy Sunday School classes. This Monday, we saw a wonderful outpouring of generosity of time, food & caring for the reception following the memorial service for Margaret Easterlin.
We, again, thank everyone for all their support & time to make Mulberry Street United Methodist Church such a great church. It is members of this caliber through the years that have built a 200-year-old church.
Thank you, thank you!
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Message from our Community Garden
Mercer University students volunteered to help in the garden on Saturday, February 7th. Seventeen (17) attended and, of that group, ten (10) were from the Mercer Football team! They were very helpful with big projects that needed to be done in the garden.
We look forward to seeing our volunteers again on Saturday, February 21st.
— Jane Moore
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UWF Esther-Grace Monthly Meeting
The United Women in Faith Esther-Grace Circle will have their first meeting of the year this Friday, February 13 at 1 pm in the church Conference Room. All women of the church are invited to join us for this meeting and bible study!
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2026 Greater Macon Sleepout
The 2026 Macon Sleepout will be Thursday, February 26. By choosing to “sleep out,” supporters stand in solidarity with those experiencing homelessness and raise critical funds for Depaul USA Daybreak/Sheridan Center. Proceeds from the event help provide meals, showers, laundry, medical services, and case management—essential support that empowers our neighbors on their journey toward stability and housing. This year, Mulberry members Emory Dunn, Lida Hill, and Carole Seegert are again joining our homeless for a night outside. You can support them through donations at the link below.
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A Bicentennial Moment
In anticipation of Mulberry’s upcoming Bicentennial Celebration in 2026, the Leonard Hill Cochran Historical Room presents a moment of Mulberry history.
The following are excerpts from the various historical sources regarding Mulberry’s organ.
“Since the day pipe organs were first designed for church use, they have been the focal point not only of inspiring and beautiful music for worship but also of a certain romantic or historical tradition. Today’s Mulberry organ is actually made up of several organs that have served this Church.
Many of the solo voices are from the original pipe organ that in 1928 through the generosity of the children of Edith Pate Stetson, the gift of a Skinner organ was made to the church as a memorial to their mother. This organ was of fine quality and replaced an older organ but It served the church well until a program of major renovation in 1957 required an expansion and modernization of the instrument. Several of the stops from the Skinner organ were incorporated into the new organ by the Moller Organ Company in Hagerstown, MC. Specifically, the clarinet, the concert flute, the harp, oboe and chimes were retained as part of the larger organ. When Mulberry’s sanctuary burned in 1965, comparatively little of the organ was damaged because most of the pipes were recessed in organ chambers protected by a brick well. The antiphonal division was added and located high above the balcony. Again in 1987, a renovation and revoicing of the organ was completed by the master organ builders of Guzowski and Steppe of Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
The main body is located behind the altar and is shielded by the gold fabric as seen from the sanctuary. It stands two stories high. The organist sits at the three manual keyboard plus pedal keyboard console located to the right of the altar in the choir chamber. There are 40 ranks or sets of pipes in the main organ and 6 ranks in the Antiphonal. Large electric motors and a system of blowers located in the lower level of the building and over the front entrance supply the air pressure to operate the organ. Ranging in height from 6 inches to 16 feet, 3,093 pipes speak the infinite combination of voice and tone colors that make up this mighty instrument.”
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Macon Outreach
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr. by Samuel Midkiff
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr. by Scott Sell
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr. by Bill and Trudie Fickling
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr. by Patti Impink
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr. by Michael Layden
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr. by Sam and Barbara Henley
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr. by Cater and Bert Thompson
In memory of June Jackson by Sam and Barbara Henley
In memory of Margaret Easterlin by Scott Sell
In memory of Charlie Cloaninger by Patsy Fountain
In memory of Charlie Cloaninger by T H Halliburton
In memory of Charlie Cloaninger by Tom Wight
In memory of Charlie Cloaninger by Dr C.E. Johnson Jr
In memory of June Jackson, Charles Cloaninger, Margaret Easterlin and Paul Knight by Frank and Mary Anne Gaudry
Memorial Fund
In memory of Eleanor Castellaw and Jack Castellaw by Elizabeth Castellaw
In memory of Margaret Easterlin by Blake C. Sharpton
In memory of Margaret Easterlin by Lucia and Jay Strickland
In memory of Margaret Easterlin by Logan and Chris Scheele
In memory of Margaret Easterlin by Bill and Cindy Jarrard
Organ Restoration Fund
In memory of Margaret Easterlin by Cam and Bruce Bishop
In memory of Charlie E. Cloaninger, Jr.by Cam and Bruce Bishop
In memory of June Jackson by Cam and Bruce Bishop
In memory of Dana Kersey by Cam and Bruce Bishop
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Week 12: Covenant
Day 1. Genesis 17:2 (Morning); Acts 3:25 (Evening)
Day 2. Psalm 89:3-4 (Morning); Luke 1:72 (Evening)
Day 3. Psalm 25:10 (Morning); 2 Corinthians 3:6 (Evening)
Day 4. Matthew 26:28 (Morning); Psalm 89 34 (Evening)
Day 5. Hebrews 8:10 (Morning); Psalm 105:8 (Evening)
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Morning Prayer of Petition
Steadfast God, you are faithful to the covenant you make with your people, extending across time and space. May I be made faithful in my relationships, with you, and with others in my life. Today I pray for my relationship:
- with family,
- with friends and neighbors,
- with those I find difficult to bear,
- with those I too easily neglect or take for granted,
- with you.
Help me to be faithful as you are faithful. Amen.
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Evening Prayer of Gratitude
Faithful God, just as you made covenant with the patriarchs and matriarchs of faith, so you continue to be steadfast in your relationship with us today. With gratitude, I thank you for the ways that you are faithful to me:
- for opportunities that you give me,
- for resources that you surround me with,
- for help and ways that you surround me with care,
- for meaningful work, relationships, and projects.
Stir up in me a heart of gratitude that I may reflect your faithfulness to me in those that I seek to love. Amen.
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Macon Outreach Needs
**Plastic Bags**
Cereal
Pop tarts
Canned peas
Canned black eye peas
Canned collards
Jelly
Cases of bottled water
Financial Donations
Cereal
Hamburger helper
Cornbread mix
Condiments
Cake/cookie/muffin mix
Snack items
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Daybreak Needs
Individually-wrapped snack items
Sugar
Vinegar
Volunteers!!!
Canned or fresh fruit,
fruit cups
Applesauce (individual containers)
Jelly
Vienna sausages (4.6 oz.)
1 min. Instant Grits
1 min Instant Oatmeal
Chips (individual bags)
Snack items (individually wrapped)
Gatorade (Powder)
Muscle Cream (Biofreeze, Icy Hot)
Disinfectant Spray/Air freshener
Women underwear (New) M,L,XL
Bug Spray
Aleve (Ibuprofen)
Pine-sol
Liquid Laundry Detergent
Hydrocortisone cream
Dish detergent
Paper towels
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South Georgia Advocate
The South Georgia Advocate, a twice monthly online news publication, is the official news source of the South Georgia Annual Conference and a ministry of the Office of Connectional Ministries.
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Unto the Least of These Resource Toolkit
As part of this year's conference focus of "Unto the Least of These", the South Georgia Conference is providing monthly resources designed to empower each of us in our mission of making meaningful connections and living out transformative discipleship. Each toolkit presents a challenge questions & resources tailored to address that challenge.
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