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When he returned to the ministry, he went a small church in Waycross, Georgia.

“We stayed there only three years because one of those golden opportunities came up,” he recalls, laughing. ”We went to Centenary Church in Macon which is at the corner of Mercer University.” Ross Freeman, the District Superintendent said, “Julian, we have a feeling this church is going to close in a year, or year and a half, unless you can do something with it. If it closes it won't go against your record because we already know how it is.” “Well, before I left there, instead of closing, we were packing the church with people and it's still there,” says Julian.

“We would have forty Mercer students every Sunday,” adds Dean. “The timing, in the seventies, there were problems with racial

ABOVE Rep. Denmark Groover, Julian Tucker, Speaker of the House Smith. Gave devotion and prayer at Ga House of Representatives and Senate 1988. LEFT Reverend Julian and his wife Dean.