Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school in hometown after cancer diagnosis

They arrived at this sleepy Georgia town in droves, from places as far away as Africa.

In fact, some speculate, just the opposite could happen.

“Just regular Sunday school, that’s what this is to me”, she says.

The congregation likewise has reported that the previous president will show a Sunday School class as arranged this weekend.

The 90-year-old former president teaches Sunday school at church in Plains, Ga., days after revealing that his cancer had spread to his brain.

The former peanut farmer and Georgia governor has been teaching Sunday school for more than three decades at small red-brick church, which has 40 regular members.

The indefatigable Carter was as enthusiastic as ever. By publicly combating with grace and grit the melanoma most cancers that has been present in his liver and mind, Carter is trying to extend his exceptional life whereas additionally main others by instance.

“I think he’s a man of integrity”, said Eidi Millington, who came all the way from Texas.

Despite his diagnosis Carter says he still has more to do. He added that although doctors have identified spots on his brain, he is feeling good and has not experienced any disability or weakness.

Carter said he and his 69-year old wife, Rosalynn, always settle their differences before they go to sleep.

“That’s enough of that subject.”

He said that God should be considered a partner in lives of human beings. “But I’m going to have to give the treatment regimen top priority”. Not by a long shot.

“Within the bounds of my physical and mental capability I’ll continue to do it”, Carter said.

“Just being able to admit you might be mistaken and that the other person might be right” will improve a relationship, he said, prompting laughter from the crowd at Maranatha Baptist Church.

Even there, a handful of people are locked out.

Among the visitors were Ron and Helene Lipe.

Carter was the nation’s 39th president, defeating Gerald Ford in 1976 with a pledge to all the time be trustworthy.

“Most melanomas occur on the skin, about 95 per cent of them”, and Carter’s cancer probably originated there even though no skin tumour may be apparent now, said Dr. Anna Pavlick, co-director of the melanoma program at NYU’s Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Carter also received a stereotactic radiation treatment on Thursday afternoon.