JIMMY CARTER'S BIBLE CLASS IN PLAINS, GEORGIA

DID YOU KNOW THAT FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER TEACHES A BIBLE CLASS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT HIS HOME CHURCH IN PLAINS, GEORGIA? 

                                      I DIDN'T.

My friends from Palm Springs, Keith Coplen and Bryan Kraft, retired heavy-duty political operatives, read somewhere that Jimmy taught a class a few times a year in Plains, and saw that the next date was coming soon. They literally made plane reservations that moment and went. THAT'S how life should be lived, I think. When they returned, they told me that their lives were "forever changed" by the experience.

Keith and Bryan sitting in the pew

Jimmy's childhood bedroom

Plains "business district"

Police station

Rosalynn's birthplace

Original Carter Family Farm

Train Depot and also headquarters for his presidential campaign

Billy Carter's gas station

City Hall

Entering Plains--FEWER THAN 700 PEOPLE LIVE THERE

The Cafeteria

Keith in front of the restaurant

The only restaurant (at left) in Plains is The Cafeteria

Fried Chicken, greens, and mac 'n' cheese. What else?

Jimmy's boyhood home

Where Jimmy and Rosalynn live now. You can't get in.