Jimmy Carter wins posthumous Grammy for narrating an audiobook of his Sunday school lessons This is President Carter’s fourth Grammy By Associated Press UPDATED: February 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM PST ...

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

Jimmy Carter Sunday school class with Jimmy Carter: What it was like This was another side of the 39th president, a down-to-earth man of steadfast faith. Credit: AP (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) ...

Carter taught his Sunday school class roughly twice a month to accommodate crowds that sometimes swelled to more than 500. (On the other Sundays, no more than a couple dozen regulars and a handful ...

“I used to live there,” the one-term president would say, breaking into that toothy grin. Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., in 2009.

FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter opens up a Bible while teaching Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) ...

Tallahassee area residents wanted to share their heartfelt experiences of the 125-mile trips to Plains, Georgia, to hear Carter's Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church.

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — 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, ...