Jimmy Carter Teaches Sunday School, Just Days After Surgery

Three days after he revealed to the world that a deadly form of cancer had spread from his liver to his brain, an energetic Jimmy Carter shared a short and simple Sunday School lesson about love with a record number of people who started lining up at dawn to hear the former President share his uncomplicated message.

Two hours before Carter’s lesson, Maranatha Baptist Church was at its full capacity, 325, with an another 150 in an overflow room.

However, Carter did say that he plans to cut back a bit from his tireless schedule that also includes his work at the Carter Center, Emory University and Habitat for Humanity, among others.

“I like to know whom I’m teaching”, he said before asking the congregation to shout where they’d come from.

Carter said on Thursday in his first public remarks since his diagnosis that the cancer was first discovered as a tumor on his liver.

Residents of Plains, Georgia, say they’re grateful that Jimmy Carter has never forgotten his hometown. A spokeswoman said he did not feel well and Carter later said he had a bad cold.

“My roots are there, and my closest friends are there, and our little church is there, which is very important to me”, Carter said. Carter regularly gives the lessons and has been teaching classes since his teens.

The former U.S. president’s Sunday school on August 23 drew hundreds of churchgoers that another class had to be put up at a local high school to accommodate those who were initially turned away.

The one-time peanut farmer lives in Plains, Georgia, with Rosalynn. When Carter talked about that going to Nepal would delay his last radiation remedy by 5 weeks, a refrain of “NO’s” rang out in Plains’ Buffalo Cafe, the place a handful of his shut pals had gathered to observe Thursday’s information convention on TV.

“There are a few things I do in my life as an obligation”.

According to his book, Carter attended Plains Baptist Church where he taught Sunday school since he was 18 years-old. “Do we have any visitors this morning?”

“That’s enough of that subject.”

“I’ll do what the doctors recommend for me to extend my life as much as possible”, Carter said, adding that he had already taken medication intravenously on Wednesday.