Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, 2024, famously taught a Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.

For my family, those pictures show a son growing from boy to man with Mr. Jimmy and Ms. Rosalynn filling out the frames. What a treasure they are. Turnout for Carter’s Sunday school lessons dipped ...

Many Tallahassee-area residents traveled to Plains, Georgia, over the years for Sunday School with the former president.

For decades, the little brick church located along a glorified country road in tiny Plains, Georgia, assumed an outsized profile. On “typical” Sundays, 10 times as many visitors showed up as ...

Maranatha Baptist Church isn't a cathedral, said Tallahassee resident Amy Farrington, who visited there in 2019. Rather, President Jimmy Carter's church in Plains, Georgia, is a typical Southern ...

There will be two funerals on Thursday, at Washington National Cathedral and Maranatha Baptist Church, where Mr. Carter taught Sunday school for many years.

No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always some wisdom to be gleaned from the measured, Bible-inspired words of Jimmy Carter.

PLAINS, Ga. — It never got old. No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always some wisdom to be gleaned from the measured, Bible ...

FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter welcomes visitors to Maranatha Baptist Church before teaching Sunday school in Plains, Ga., June 8, 2014. FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter welcomes ...