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In Plains, Georgia, hundreds of people lined up outside the Maranatha Baptist Church Sunday in order to listen to former president Jimmy Carter deliver his 689th Sunday School lesson. The crowd ...
Memories of Jimmy Carter. Thousands have attended Maranatha Baptist Church to hear former president’s Sunday School lessons. March 4, 2023 at 3:08 a.m.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Rosalynn Carter’s life of service and friendship touched thousands of people over her 96 years. Carter passed away Sunday in her Plains, Ga., home. One of those people … ...
Members of Jimmy Carter's church congregation came together at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. for Sunday school service, where he proudly taught a class for decades.
Carolyn McKinstry was the Sunday School secretary at 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 and remembers the day of bombing in vivid detail. "Our lesson for that Sunday morning was a love that ...
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.
Carter, 98, has taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, since the 1980s. Not even a cancer diagnosis stopped him from teaching Bible class in 2015.
This city is remembering a dark chapters in U.S. civil rights history. On September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.