A place to share happenings in Macon & what the Mulberry community is up to!

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Mulberry member Waylon Miller will be playing with his band this Saturday as part of Bragg Jam's Family Jam! His band plays at 2 pm at the Otis Redding Center for the Arts.

More information & tickets can be found here.

The Wesley of Macon invites us to join them for a PRE-SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE on Tuesday, August 5th, from 6:00-8:00PM. They'll have coffee, light refreshments, and time to fellowship at the Wes House, before we welcome students back for the fall semester. Come visit with the board, the new Executive Director (Hannah Pye), and other Wesley supporters from the Macon/Warner Robins community!

Location: The Wes House (1280 College St. Macon, GA 31201)

Centenary UMC invites you to a concert presented by the NewG Choir on Tuesday, July 29 at 6:30 pm! Centenary is one of the stops chosen along their tour this summer, and are excited to hear these young adults sharing their gifts of song with us! Learn more at www.NGSingers.com.

Centenary is looking to help support the group for their stay in Macon and are asking for a few folks willing to host two or more of the students that night, provide breakfast on Wednesday and then drop them off back at Centenary that morning by 9am so they can continue on their travels. Please reach out to Pastor Sara to sign up or for more information at sara@centenarymacon.org.

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.

Below are excerpts from Board of Stewards meeting on November 6th, 1906:

“The Board met in regular monthly session in the Annex, Chairman Solomon presiding.  A total of 17 members were present.  Minutes from previous meeting were read, approved. At one point during the meeting, the Pastor spoke a few words on the subject of mission work and stated that he could rent a building at the corner of 4th and Oglethorpe Streets

 for $15 a months in which to hold meetings.  On motion, Bro. Ellis* was asked to secure an option on the building so that active mission work could be started immediately after Annual Conference.

The motion of Bro. W. R. Rogers, Jr. ‘that the Chairman of Music Committee request Dr. Brown, the organist, to play his accompaniments for the hymns sung by the congregation, in slower time, or in the time by which the congregation is accustomed to sing’ was carried immediately.”

Below are excerpts from the Board of Stewards meeting on February 5, 1907: 

“The Pastor asked the Board if it was agreeable to begin revival services the 5th Sunday in March and later on to join all the Methodist churches in going to the City Auditorium provided a suitable leader could be secured. This matter, the ministers of the city was left to Bro. O. F. Cook to look after. The Board agreed.

Bro. Ellis outlined his work at the mission** on 4th St. and stated that the work was growing so rapidly that he found it necessary to secure assistance and had obtained the services of Bro. Claude Bridges. Bro. Ellis also stated that he had missed the stewards at the Mission and asked them to attend as often as possible.  Bro. Solomon spoke at length on the subject of the mission and by a rising vote, the stewards pledged their cooperation support to Bro. Ellis.”

*Pastor, Thomas David Ellis, 1905-1909 

** Grace Chapel Mission