What do you say to a Sunday School class of 700 people? A message of “irrepressible joy” according to one woman in the crowd gathered in Plains, Georgia last Sunday. Hear more of Jimmy Carter’s reflections on life and death in this feature from Huffington Post.

Former president Carter has taught the class at Maranatha Baptist Church for the past 30 years. In the shadow of his recent cancer diagnosis, he told his hearers, “Any time, we can just bow our heads and say, ‘God, I’m really troubled. I ask you to give me the strength to bear whatever is on my shoulders and to bear whatever comes to me.'”

Last Updated on August 25, 2015