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Purchase a Name Tag
Sign up to get a name tag to wear at church! The name tags are $10 each, and you can choose between magnetic or pin-back. Name tags are a great way to help visitors feel welcome at Mulberry because they help people learn names! If you don’t already have a name tag (or need an updated one) - now is the perfect time to get one! Order your name tag by Sunday, February 16.
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Chili Cook-off & Apple Pie Contest
Our February Second Sunday Lunch will be the annual Chili Cook-off & Apple Pie Contest! Show off your baking skills or your best chili recipe - there will be prizes for our winners! Everyone is invited to join us after worship in the Fellowship Hall.
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Georgia Southern University Southern Chorale to Perform at Mulberry
Mulberry will host the Southern Chorale from Georgia Southern University as our guests on Sunday, February 9. They will sing during the 11:00 worship service, and perform a short concert at 1:00 pm at which they'll preview their performance at an international competition in The Netherlands this summer. The Southern Chorale is the premiere choral ensemble in the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University. Recently, they were named the 6th Best Choir in the US by the university rating website collegerank.net, and is conducted by Dr. Shannon Jeffreys, Professor of Music in The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University.
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Free Poetry Workshops Led by Hinda Ramsey
Mulberry Member and published author Hinda Ramsey - pen name Hinda-jonathan - will be leading free poetry workshops every Saturday in the month of February at Washington Memorial Library. Come create your own original poetry, taking inspiration from famous poets and poetry styles and through unique prompts! This is a great opportunity to express your creativity while supporting one of our own.
Contact Hinda with questions at hindajonathan@outlook.com or by text at 352-552-1404.
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DePaul USA Daybreak Sleepout
The annual Daybreak Greater Macon Sleepout will be Thursday, February 27, and Mulberry will once again have several members participating and raising money to support this ministry. The sleepout is held outdoors in the winter to remind us of those with no choice in housing. This is the big fundraiser for Daybreak - all donations are used locally!
You can support Daybreak and the participants at the links below, by sending a check to Daybreak, or by giving a check directly to the participant.
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Macon Mayhem Hockey Game - Support Macon Outreach
The Macon Mayhem will feature Macon Outreach as their “Non-profit of the Night” on Friday, February 28th. The theme for the evening is 80’s Night. Come out and “throwback” to support Macon Outreach while enjoying some Mayhem ice hockey! A limited number of discounted tickets are available through the Macon Outreach office. Suggested donation is $20 each with all proceeds benefiting the Outreach ministries. We look forward to seeing you there!
To reserve your tickets, email rfrischkorn@mulberrymethodist.org or call the church office at 478-745-8601, and pay by check or at https://onrealm.org/MulberryStUMC/give/outreach.
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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.
On Sunday, May 20, 1945 at 11:00 a.m. services, the celebrating of the payment of moral obligation and dedication of Church School plant was held. The church bulletin for that day noted the below:
“The history of Mulberry Street Methodist Church is filled with many thrilling chapters. However, the purposes of this occasion confine us to the most recent one. The five year period, 1932-1937, was one of the most trying the Church ever knew. A nationwide depression made the debt of the Church almost impossible. However, under the superb leadership of Dr. Edmund F. Cook, then pastor, the Church undertook to lift this burden. On December 16, 1936, the announcement was made that the creditors were most sympathetic and that an amicable settlement had been agreed upon. It was also announced that the sum needed to make this settlement was $63,000.00. On January 17, 1937, the members and friends of the Church gave at total of $46,000.00. Mr. James Hyde Porter, in addition to his liberal gift, agreed to loan the Church the $17,000.00 needed to consummate this settlement. Regular payments were made on the loan of Mr. Porter up to April 4, 1941 when Mr. Porter gave to the church the balance due on the loan, namely, $13, 201.25. When this announcement was made, the Board of Stewards stood and sang, “Praise God From Who All Blessings Flow.” This hour marked the first time in many, many years that Mulberry Street was entirely free of legal debt. In the exultation of this hour and under the inspiring leadership of Dr. George Stoves, then pastor, the Board of Stewards appointed a Committee looking to acknowledgement of the moral obligation of the Church to repay the principal lost by the bond holders in the settlement consummated in 1937.
The Board, on September 5, 1941, by formal resolution, did acknowledge and declare this obligation, and did immediately thereafter appoint the Bond Committee, later named The Golden Rule Committee. Under the leadership of this Committee, the members and friends of the Church have contributed to the redemption of this moral obligation as follows: 1942, $5,500.00; 1943, $6,500.00; 1944, $16,000.00 and 1945, $25,231.29; a total of $53,231.29.
We have had two objectives in paying this moral obligation: One, “As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye also to them likewise.” Two, Fortify the Church in righteousness, undergird her with moral and spiritual rectitude, in order that she may discharge her full duty to God and man. The legal and moral obligations having been met, we gather today to dedicate our Church School Plan to Almighty God.”
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Weekly Prayers & Scripture | |
Week 11: Reveal
Day 1. Mark 3:11-12 (Morning); Exodus 6:3 (Evening)
Day 2. Matthew 11:27 (Morning); Proverbs 1:23 (Evening)
Day 3. Ephesians 3:9 (Morning); Jeremiah 33:3 (Evening)
Day 4. John 14:21 (Morning); Daniel 2:47 (Evening)
Day 5. Philippians 3:15 (Morning); Psalm 98:2 (Evening)
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Morning Prayer of Petition
Unknown God, you are constantly teaching me and showing me who you are and who you call me to be. Today, wake me up to the ways that you are revealing yourself to me:
- through challenges and struggles,
- through difficult decisions or choices in front of me,
- through other people that I interact with,
- through the needs and hurts of the world.
May I be alive to your movement and work today God, and please make yourself known to me. Amen.
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Evening Prayer of Gratitude
Holy One, you make yourself known each day through holy scripture, the creation around me, and your Spirit, which fills all things. I give thanks for the ways you revealed yourself to me today:
- in small moments of insight or revelation,
- in relationships that change my perspective,
- in hardship that strengthens my resolve,
- in moments of grace.
Continue to reveal yourself to me that I may grow in love of you and service to your people in the world. Amen.
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Taken from The Methodist Book of Daily Prayer | |
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Macon Outreach Needs
Financial Donations
Cereal
Hamburger helper
Cornbread mix
Condiments
Cake/cookie/muffin mix
Snack items
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Daybreak Needs
Cereal
Jelly
Sugar
Vienna sausages (4.6 oz.)
1 min. Instant Grits
Chips (individual bags)
Tylenol/ advil/ ibuprofen
Orajel
Cough medicine (non-alcohol)
Cough drops
Bio freeze/muscle cream
Aspirin 81mg
Paper towels
Water
Disinfectant spray
Air freshener
Men's t-shirts (white) lg, xl 2x
Men & women's underwear (new)
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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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One Matters Resource Toolkit
As part of this year's conference focus of "One Matters", 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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