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.

Around 50 family and friends witnessed the last public display of honor for Carter when the motorcade arrived around 5 p.m. at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. They stood at the front of the ...

Fr. Pablo Migone, Vicar for Mission Advancement for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Maranatha Baptist Church was former President Jimmy Carter’s home away from home. Some of his fellow church members said they have peace knowing exactly where he is today.

Parishioners filed into the deep-red pews of Maranatha Baptist Church for their first service since the former president died last weekend at the age of 100. Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 years, ...

It was March 25, 2019, a day after Lowden, who had pastored at churches in Macon and Warner Robins, served as a guest preacher at Maranatha Baptist Church, the home church in Plains of former ...

Bouquets of flowers lay in front of Maranatha Baptist Church. Barren pecan limbs stretched beneath a clear blue sky. Distant ...

Students from the Jimmy Carter Leadership Program and GSW soccer team help to distribute food during this month’s Rosalynn ...

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

Carter declared that he was no longer a Southern Baptist and threw his support behind a competing movement of moderates.

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

Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga, in 2014. John Bazemore/Associated Press Share PLAINS, Ga. — It never got old. No matter how many times ...