Friends of Jimmy Carter

06/12/2026

We have an incredible lineup of events coming up through the end of the year - make sure these are on your calendar! 🎇

A special thanks to our sponsors for making each event possible.

06/11/2026

06/11/2026

06/11/2026

One Sunday, September 20, 1998, to be exact, Jimmy Carter had nothing but time on his mind.

When the former president, who was a young 73 years old then, looked out at the congregants attending what had become his legendary Sunday School lessons at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, he quizzed them.

“What visitors can tell me what the Wisdom Books are?” he asked. It wasn’t a rhetorical question. In fact, most of the questions the 39th president of the United States asked were meant to be answered by people in his audience.

That was apparently understood as the visitors shouted out their answers to which he responded: “Very wise. Very good. I told you this was a high quality group.”

Read the entire article here:

How the famed Sunday gatherings in Plains, Georgia, became a testament to an inseparable marriage–time and again.

06/11/2026

06/10/2026

Mark your calendars for our Yard & Sidewalk Sale event July 18!

06/08/2026

06/08/2026

Today is . President Carter gave many commencement addresses and received several honorary degrees throughout his career. Pictured here, he is giving the commencement address at Notre Dame on May 22, 1977, where he received an honorary Doctor of Laws by Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame. nlc01420.12

06/08/2026

A few photos from our Plains, Trains & Fireworks event in years past. It's always such a fun day to gather with friends and family and watch the fireworks over Plains, Georgia!

Mark your calendars for June 27, and learn more at jimmycarterfriends.org 🎇