PLAINS, Ga. (WSAV) – Former President Jimmy Carter’s longtime church, Maranatha Baptist, is preparing to bid farewell to the hometown hero. WSAV spoke with church leaders about how the small ...

A few hours after Thursday’s state funeral for Jimmy Carter at the Washington National Cathedral, the former president’s modest hometown church will hold a private memorial service before he is buried ...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — The church where those closest to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter bid farewell to the former first lady Wednesday played a central role in the lives of the famous couple from tiny Plains, ...

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.

Plains, GA – Jan Williams has gone to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, with former President Carter for decades. When Carter started teaching Sunday school every week, Williams noticed the ...

Kim Carter Fuller, Jimmy Carter’s niece, led Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist, sharing heartfelt reflections on her uncle’s faith and legacy of love and service. Founded in the late 1970s as a ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WRBL) — As former President Jimmy Carter receives hospice care, those in Plains and his church family are preparing to say farewell to the man who embodies the spirit and resolve of the ...

Plains, Ga., isn't Rome or Canterbury, but it's been a pilgrimage site, nonetheless, attracting multitudes to Georgia peanut country over the years. Since 1981, people from across the continent and ...

A Georgia church where former President Jimmy Carter regularly taught Sunday school paid heartfelt homage a day after it was announced the oldest living president in US history was in hospice care.

Maranatha Baptist Church, whose most famous member includes a former U.S. president, has named the Rev. Ashley Guthas as its new pastor. She becomes the church’s first woman pastor. Most recently, ...