Former President Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school at a modest church in his hometown of Plains for more than 40 years. On Jan. 9, it will host a final farewell service for the former president.

On the first Sunday that Jimmy Carter was no longer president, he returned to his home church. From 1981 to 2019, he would ...

The former president and his wife, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, attended the church for decades, and Jimmy Carter would ...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between ... When the Carters left the White House in 1981, having had ...

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Former President Jimmy Carter’s longtime church, Maranatha Baptist, is preparing to bid farewell to the hometown hero. WSAV spoke with church leaders about how the small ...

Right now, our hearts are heavy around here,” said Kim Fuller, who took over Sunday School lessons for her uncle. “They are ...

The Baptist deacon responded with an 823-word soliloquy on human imperfection, pride and God’s forgiveness. He said he ...

Rev. Tony Lowden will read a prayer Thursday in Washington and then preside over the private, final service for President Jimmy Carter in Plains.

On Sunday, Carter’s church, Maranatha Baptist Church held its first Sunday service since Carter died. MBC was founded in the late 1970s and held its first service on May 22, 1977, during the first ...

If Carter had won another term as president, those four years would have been far less fruitful than the faith-filled ...

It never got old. No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was ...