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 ...

Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100. His Sunday school class still exists today as an ongoing family tradition in Plains.

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, ...