Jimmy Carter Faithfully Teaches Sunday School Before Cancer Treatment

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — A bigger-than-usual crowd is gathering at a church in Plains, Georgia, where former President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to teach a Sunday School class.

It is the first class Carter has taught at the Maranatha Baptist Church since Carter disclosed details of his cancer diagnosis and treatment at a press conference Thursday.

People began lining up outside the church at midnight, hoping to hear from the Nobel Peace Prize winner at 10 a.m. and stay for church services. A church member, Jan Williams, told the 300 people inside the church they were “blessed.”

David Goldman/ASSOCIATED PRESS People wait in line to enter Maranatha Baptist Church for Sunday School class with President Jimmy Carter on Sunday, August 23, 2015 in Plains, Ga

 On Thursday, the 90-year-old Carter said he was to undergo intravenous drug doses and radiation treatment for four tumors on his brain and any other melanoma that doctors discovered in his body.

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