For the last two weeks, pilgrims have been flocking to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. They’re coming from Ohio, from Maine, and from California to attend church in a small town two hours south of Atlanta. And they’re doing it to see 90-year-old Jimmy Carter teach an all-ages Sunday School class.
The week after Carter announced he had brain cancer, 1,000 people showed up. The next week, as David Weigel reported in the Washington Post, the church put a system in place: Arrive by 12:01 a.m. on Sunday and you’d be admitted to the church parking lot, where you could sleep in your car until morning.
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