taught a Baptist Sunday School class for decades and became the nation’s longest-lived president, died Sunday at age 100. A member of Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., Carter was a third ...

Jimmy Carter, former president, a devout Baptist ... Carter is best known to Southern Baptists for his vocal faith in Jesus and long tenure as a Sunday School teacher in his hometown of Plains ...

James Lenox Sullivan, Southern Baptist statesman and former president of the SBC Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources) passed away this week at the Alive Hospice in Nashville, ...

He was from a small town in Rural Georgia with a Southern Baptist upbringing ... attended the church about 75 times and was a Sunday School Teacher. The family sat in the third pew from the ...

To the relief of Carter’s campaign strategists who worried that a Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher and church deacon might need to tone down his religiosity to win the presidency ...

Show them love."Carter's Sunday School classes typically drew in hundreds from near and far.Pastor Lowden said Carter's membership, leadership and spirituality will continue to have a lasting impact ...

The article included other remarks related to Carter’s faith – such as the importance of the separation of church and state, a conviction born of Carter’s Southern Baptist upbringing – but ...

Carter, who died Sunday at 100, was widely known as a man of faith, especially after his long post-presidency became defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low ...

"I have finally decided that, after 65 years, I can no longer be associated with the Southern Baptist Convention," he wrote. He continued as a deacon and Sunday school teacher. "Our prayer is that ...

Fifty fourth graders at Arnco Sargent Elementary School in Newnan will be able to stay warm this winter thanks to the Cauthen-Cole Sunday School class at Central Baptist Church in Newnan. The annual ...