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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hours after grandson’s death, Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school [View all]
Source: AJC.com
2:36 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015 | Filed in: Local News
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Jeremy Carter, 28, died early Sunday after his heart stopped at his familys home in Peachtree City.
PLAINS On Sunday, two weeks after making the cheerful announcement that there was no sign of cancer on his brain, former President Jimmy Carter shared much more somber news with his church family in Plains.
His grandson, 28-year-old Jeremy Carter, had died just hours earlier.
Sporting his typical bolo tie, the 91-year-old Carter arrived about 25 minutes late for his regular Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church the first time hed ever been tardy, he said and offered a surprising amount of insight into his familys heartbreak before delivering his previously planned lesson.
But the fact that he appeared at all was the real message, attendees said.
Im not surprised, Maranatha member Jan Williams said. Thats the kind of Christian he is. Everything that happens in life, good or bad, he uses as a teaching experience. He lives his life as a lesson for other people to see. (MUCH more at link)
Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/hours-after-grandsons-death-jimmy-carter-teaches-s/npn6n/
The "LBN" is that Jeremy Carter, Jimmy's grandson, has died--the Sunday school element is something he does routinely. What a shame, how sad for Jimmy. So close to a religious holiday that is important to them, too....
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I agree. One of the things I really like about him is that he never stops learning and evolving.
MADem
Dec 2015
#2
Absolutely.... He is deserving of so much more in terms of respect and acknowledgement for all he
hlthe2b
Dec 2015
#14
One of Jimmy Carter's young relatives is the one who broke the story of the Romney 47% remark . . .
brush
Dec 2015
#46
No, it was James--he introduced the filmer, a bartender, to David Corn, who fired up the media.
MADem
Dec 2015
#47
I guess the fact that everyone in DC hated the fact that a "no-name governor for GA" was elected.
LiberalArkie
Dec 2015
#13
Beginning with day 50 of the hostages' captivity, Walter Cronkite nightly ended his broadcast with
No Vested Interest
Dec 2015
#41
Ahhh... the simplicity of a mind allowing one merely the house and senate as obstacles
LanternWaste
Dec 2015
#50
Jimmy Carter is a fine christian man, he left the SBC because of hate in the church.
Thinkingabout
Dec 2015
#28
In the Jewish tradition, the prayer said after a death is the Mourner's Kaddish
Fortinbras Armstrong
Dec 2015
#57