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Hinda Ramsay (pen name Hinda-jonathan) has published a book entitled Spirits of Macon: a Yankee in the South. This book is a poetic memoir of the four+ years lived in Macon, Georgia: energies from the heart and perspective of an aged Hippie and Lover of Life. Congrats to Hinda on this publication! You can find Spirits of Macon on Amazon here.

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

“In 1931 a Board of Lay Activities was created in Mulberry and in conformity with the General Conference regulations the Sunday School combined the various organizations of the church into the Department of Religious Education which consisted of the Adult, the Young People’s, and the Children’s Divisions. Under the name Church School a completely unified program was adopted. With the new building program completed, with the Church School reorganized, Mulberry was ready and eager for greater service for its members.

But the financial crash and chaotic conditions of 1929, developing into a depression even greater than that a hundred years earlier, brought deep disappointments to Mulberry members and people generally. The subscriptions for the building program had been made for payment over a period of five years – the last due in 1931. Many members who had made subscriptions were unable to pay them and then the congregation devised many ingenious methods of raising money to meet the obligations due in 1931.

The Board of Trustees, negotiating with the bondholders, was granted the privilege of issuing new bonds in the amount of $109,332.50 which included the old debt of $101,000 plus accrued interest to Nov. 1, 1933, or for each $1,000 bond of the old issue, a new bond of $1082.50 was given with the new bonds due in 1948.

Mr. O. A. Park resigned chairmanship of the Board of Stewards after almost 30 years in that office. Almost at the beginning of the 3rd year of his 2nd pastorate at Mulberry, Dr. Walter Anthony was transferred to Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas, exchanging pulpits with Dr. Carl Gregory, Dec. 1932. After a few sermons, Dr. Gregory became ill early 1933; he never completely recovered, died April 1933. Within a few weeks death also came to Mr. J. B. Riley, Mr. L. H. Burghard and W. R. Rogers, Jr., all three long very actives member of the Board of Stewards, Probably in no other year of Mulberry’s history has death taken such a heavy toll of her officials. 

In April, 1933, Dr. Edmund F. Cook, then serving his 6th year as pastor of Vineville Methodist Church, was appointed pastor at Mulberry and his church statesmanship and financial abilities were put to great use with the financial crisis then present at Mulberry.

General Fund

In honor of Mavis Trice by Cathy Cox and Mark Dehler

Memorial Fund

In memory of Mickey Pope by Barbara Wommack

In memory of Mickey Pope by Glenn and Nita Smith

Youth Ministry Fund

In memory of Jean Weatherford by Glenn and Nita Smith

Music Fund

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Gordon and Pam Johnston

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Barbara Wommack

Macon Outreach

In memory of Mickey Pope by Rick and Kim Lanford

In memory of Jim and Betsy Abbott by Rick and Kim Lanford

In memory of Mickey Pope by Janet Stevens

In memory of Betty Cox by Janet Stevens

In memory of Lynn Price & In honor of Terry & Jordan Price by John & Wanda Atkinson

In honor of Edyth Snow & Judy Freeney by Laurie Kay

In honor of Leolene Tate by Anne Haltiwanger

In memory of Mickey Pope by Samuel McDuffie

In memory of Lowell Belk by Carolyn Kennedy Dominy