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Georgia Military College is hosting a holiday concert featuring Grammy Award-winning Gospel music singer Yolanda Adams on Friday, December 12 at the GMC Theatre. She will be accompanied by the Atlanta Pops Orchestra, blending her soaring voice with lush orchestral arrangements for a night of music that celebrates the season in grand style. Tickets can be purchased here.

Harold Chapman is selling copies of his new book, "To My Mind: Humorous Tales from a Southern Town," a collection of knee-slapping funny stories told by (& about) Uncle Lester and other characters from a 20th-century Southern town. All profits from sale of this book benefit Macon Outreach at Mulberry & Wesley Glen Ministries of Macon. Cost is only $20 from Amazon, ($12.99 Kindle). Contact Harold at chapmanharold05@gmail.com to learn more!

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 “125th Anniversary Mulberry Street Methodist Church 1826-1926” booklet written by James Walter Wright Daniel, Professor Emeritus of History, Wesleyan College, 1906 – 1950.

“Founded in 1826, Mulberry Street Methodist Church of Macon, Georgia, now a century and a quarter old has a record of which its members are justly proud. The ground on which the church now stands has never been used for other than religious purposes. The original building was of logs, and the present one is the 4th constructed on the original site dating back to 1894. It was remodeled in 1928 when the large educational building was erected. In the early 1920s as the old mother church of Georgia Methodism approached her 100th birthday, the pastor, Rev. Walter Anthony, and some of the leading members prepared to celebrate her Centennial. 

For some time the crowded conditions of the Sunday School facilities and many activities among the young people called for much needed expansion. Interest and enthusiasm grew as plans for the Centennial developed.

At the meeting of the First Quarterly Conference in February 1925, a resolution was presented and approved calling for a building and expansion program as the most fitting way to celebrate Mulberry’s Centennial birthday. A building committee then was formed.

The time seemed propitious with recovery from World War 1 was rapidly being achieved and prosperity seemed not just around the corner but on main street. Business was booming, stocks were selling fast. A little later, people in Macon including the present pastor of Mulberry, Dr. C. R. Jenkins and other places were called by brokers in New York and urged to buy various stocks (1928).

Such a contrast was this with conditions during the winter of 1828 when some were freezing to death and some starving in the Nation’s capital.

By 1926, the population of Macon had reached a total of 65,000. The membership of Mulberry had grown in a century from 18 who organized it in 1826 to a total of 2,170. And Mulbery had “mothered” eight churches in and about Macon.

The six-day celebration of the Centennial ended Sunday, April 11, 1926 and on that day $134,000 was subscribed for the building fund. By November of 1926, subscriptions to the fund payable over a period of 5 years reached a total of $150,000, the largest amount ever raised in any one year by the congregation.”

(to be continued)

Macon Outreach

In memory of Mickey Pope by Waverly and Beth Golson

In memory of Mickey Pope by Carol and Jack Head

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Carol and Jack Head

In memory of Lowell Belk by Carol and Jack Head

In memory of Bob Waters by Carol and Jack Head

Memorial Fund

In memory of Mickey Pope by Matt and Carol Woodbery

In memory of Susan R. Middlebrooks by William and Charlene Baxley

In memory of Susan R. Middlebrooks by Rick and Sue Whitten

Music Fund

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Bill and Cindy Jarrard

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Marc and Wimberly Treadwell

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Carla and Peter Dennis

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by David and Lynn Priester

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Vaughan and Beth Smith

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Matt and Carol Woodbery

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Patsy and Steve Knott