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

Leonard Wright Jr., a native of Plains who currently lives in Summerville, S.C., attended a couple of lessons. Wright, a former Sunday school superintendent for Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist ...

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive ...

No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always some ... The final lesson Turnout for Carter’s Sunday school lessons dipped during the ...

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

No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church ... The final lesson Turnout for Carter’s Sunday school lessons dipped during the Great Recession.

Carter, who died Sunday at 100, was widely known as ... argued that for all his books and expositions and Sunday School lessons, the Baptist from Plains hewed to a simple faith.

Although Carter stopped teaching Sunday school ... his lessons had attracted capacity crowds in the tiny country church for years. “For decades, you could walk into Maranatha Baptist Church ...