PLAINS, Ga. — Maranatha Baptist Church is nestled in an old grove of pecan trees on the outskirts of Plains. A week after the passing of its most famous congregant, church members gathered from ...

Parishioners filed into the deep-red pews of Maranatha Baptist Church for their first service ... the world who journeyed to the rural southwest Georgia town to meet the Carters and hear Sunday ...

No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always ... beaten path destination in southwest Georgia where Carter, well into his 90s ...

In October 2023, the GBI discovered the remains of 17 human bodies and the remains of a dog and cat at Johnsons Funeral Home in Coffee County. Many people—many who have never met the former ...

For years, visitors pulled into the parking lot of Maranatha Baptist Church in rural Plains, Georgia in the wee hours to queue in the pitch black for Jimmy Carter's Sunday school class. Some were ...

Georgia in September probably isn’t the ... And after that warm Sunday at Maranatha Baptist Church, he had a convert to the Carter way of life. Mr. Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100.