Maranatha Baptist Church continues to offer Sunday school at 10 a.m., led by Kim Carter Fuller, followed by worship at 11 a.m. The church's address is 122 GA-45, Plains.

Maranatha Baptist Church has been preparing for Carter’s funeral for almost four years. He will be laid to rest in a private graveside service, in a plot visible from the front porch of the home ...

Maranatha Baptist Church was founded in the late 1970s, holding its first service on May 22, 1977, during the first year of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, according to the church website.

They attended Maranatha Baptist Church together for years. On Wednesday, she will be one of many in attendance at her funeral. "We're doing everything according to what she wants," Dodson said.

Her funeral, a little more than a week after her death at age 96, was held at Maranatha Baptist Church, where Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school for decades, in her hometown of Plains.

Former President Jimmy Carter is very connected to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. On Sunday, churchgoers spoke with our partners at Channel 2 Action News about Carter’s life ...