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Children's Nativity
Calling all kids! Join us during worship for this fun annual tradition - the congregation will sing carols as the children present the nativity story. Parents, this is a fun and interactive opportunity for your kids to help share the story of Christmas! Children will meet at 9:45 that morning in the Sanctuary to practice, and then move to the Fellowship Hall to get ready. Contact Elisa Reece with questions.
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The Longest Night Labyrinth Walk
While Christmas often brings great joy, it can also bring sorrow, difficult memories, and melancholy - and that's ok! We will mark the longest night of the year - Sunday, December 21 from 4-7 pm - with a special self-guided prayer walk through the labyrinth in the Mulberry courtyard. We will have lighted luminaries and options for guided prayers for pilgrims walking through the path.
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End of Year Giving for 2025
For year-end gifts to be credited to your 2025 giving record:
- hand-deliver the gift to the church office before 12:00 p.m. on December 30
OR
- mail the gift with a postmark date of no later than December 31.
NOTE: Please mail checks to the church’s PO Box: PO Box 149, Macon, GA 31202.
We thank you for support of Mulberry Street UMC and its many ministries!
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Church Office Holiday Hours
The church office will be closed on: Thursday, December 25; Friday, December 26; Wednesday, December 31; Thursday, January 1; and Friday, January 2.
Regular office hours will resume Monday, January 5. Though the church office will not be open, the dedicated on-call line is available for any emergency or urgent need. The on-call number is: 478-219-9926.
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You are Invited!
7 Week Sunday School Class (January 6 – February 15, 2026)
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Working Out Your Salvation! (Phil 2:12)
Teacher: Creede Hinshaw
2nd Floor, Education Building (enter by atrium, follow signs)
Coffee, Juice, Biscuits
For more information: Call or text Creede Hinshaw (912-713-5191) or email at hinnie@cox.net
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Financially Supporting My Local Church: “I want to be a part of it!”
The Advocate, the newsletter for the South Georgia Annual Conference, published this week a brief reflection by Mr. Vergil Daughtery on why he chooses to support his church financially. Vergil Daughtery, a member of Mosaic United Methodist Church in Valdosta, is the son of the late Rev. V. L. and Mrs. Catherine Daughtery, for whom the Daughtery Sunday School Class is named.
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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.
Continued – “125th Anniversary Mulberry Street Methodist Church 1826 – 1926” written by James W. W. Daniel”
After becoming senior Pastor at Mulberry, Dr. Edmund Cook analyzed the situation and set to work to better it.
In a report of May 1933, he said the outstanding element in the present situation is the fact that Mulberry Street Methodist Church has “maintained a quality of life and loyalty that is far beyond the ordinary in spite of demoralizing disasters and destructive counter influences.”
Two budget committees were formed and plans worked out to bring Mulberry back to her own. Dr. Cook insisted on a $1,000 reduction in his own salary. The congregation was much encouraged by a generous gift of some $4,000 by Mr. A. C. Felton which made possible the payment of all local obligations and current operating expenses.
In September 1933, Dr. Cook told the board that if they would adopt his plans and cooperate he would bring the church out of her debt. It was suggested that posters be placed on the walls of the church setting forth outstanding events in her history and the Macon Telegraph and News, Oct 1, 1933, carried a brief sketch which gave some important names and facts in Mulberry’s history. Towards the end of 1934, the work of the church was so heavy that an assistant pastor was appointed.
After very strenuous labors of the pastor and the Board and Finance Committees had achieved a feeling of great relief. At the suggestion of Mr. O. A. Park a stone boulder giving items of Mulberry’s historic value was placed on the church lawn.
By May 1936, Mulberry had gained 133 new members. And this was at a time when the church was still struggling under a condition which would be expected to cause a decline in membership. In November 1936, it was determined that Dr. Cook’s return to Mulberry was essential so he entered his fifth year as Mulberry’s pastor.
It was a time when it was almost the fashion for long-term debts to be settled by compromise and after investigation convinced of the sacrifices the church had made, the bondholders themselves proposed to settle the debt for fifty cents on the dollar, or $62,877. Mr. and Mrs. James Porter came to the rescue and generously gave $20,000. The congregation responded and it was January 17, 1937, when the pastor announced that the money was in hand, the legal debt of the church would be settled.”
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Music Fund
In honor of Lyman Hinson and Camilla Packroff by Dan and Laura Hinson
Macon Outreach
In honor of Jack Varnell and Payton Stone by Rick and Kim Lanford
In honor of my mother Frances Inzser on her 91st birthday by Susan Ginn
In memory of Max Bledsoe and James J Barron Jr by James and Pamela Barron
In loving memory of my sister Ann Kite Hall by Sally and Coyet Lowery
In memory of Jean Weatherford by Patsy Fountain
In memory of Lowell Belk by Sibyl and Charles Langley
Memorial Fund
In memory of Jean Weatherford by Darryl and Susan Jones
In memory of Jean Weatherford by Betty Sweet Ladson
In memory of Jean Weatherford by Bill and Trudie Fickling
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Week 4: Joy
Day 1. Luke 1:44 (Morning); Nehemiah 12:43 (Evening)
Day 2. Matthew 2:10 (Morning); Luke 2:10-11 (Evening)
Day 3. John 15:11 (Morning); Jeremiah 31:13 (Evening)
Day 4. Matthew 28:8 (Morning); Psalm 126:5 (Evening)
Day 5. Luke 2:10 (Morning); Isaiah 9:2-3 (Evening)
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Morning Prayer of Petition
Steadfast God, you call your people to joy and thanksgiving, but too often I am tempted toward cynicism and a mindset of scarcity. As I wake, forgive me for the ways that I fail to see you at work and rejoice at your presence. Forgive me for:
- people I overlook or take for granted,
- blessings that I do not recognize,
- simple moments that I do not stop and soak up,
- reasons for joy that I do not see or notice.
Today, help me to focus on the reasons I have to be joyful and help me resist a hard heart that no longer sees reasons to rejoice in you. Amen.
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Evening Prayer of Gratitude
God of joy and singing, as I reflect on today, may I notice the ways you continue to show up in my life. As the angels rejoice at the birth of Christ, may I learn to rejoice at your presence in my life. I rejoice for:
- one way you cared for me today,
- one way you opened my eyes today,
- one person that was a source of encouragement or comfort today,
- one opportunity you presented to me today,
- one blessing that I overlooked today.
May I have the eyes to see your work, and a heart that finds joy in your daily presence. 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
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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New Creation Resource Toolkit
As part of this year's conference focus of "New Creation", 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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