Former Georgia Governor and United States President Jimmy Carter is at home in Plains, Georgia with hospice care.  The Carter Family released a statement over the weekend that said the decision to forgo any further medical intervention for the 98-year-old Carter was one that the former President and his family all agreed to. 

President Carter, a lifelong resident of Plains, Georgia, served as Georgia’s seventy-sixth governor and the thirty-ninth President of the United States.  President Carter grew up on a farm in southwest Georgia’s Sumter County and served as a naval officer in the United States Navy.  He returned home and ran his family’s farm and peanut warehouse before entering into politics as a senator in the Georgia General Assembly.

The former President is noted for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, especially his work in eradicating diseases in impoverished countries and building houses through the Christian ministry of Habitat for Humanity.  The former President’s work through The Carter Center in Atlanta in monitoring elections and promoting world peace earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.  Carter took his good friend Willie Nelson with him to receive the Nobel Prize in Norway and Nelson performed Georgia’s state song “Georgia on my Mind”.

Carter also was a lifelong Baptist and taught Sunday School at his home church and was a deacon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.

The Carter’s home church and family is asking for prayers for President and Mrs. Carter and their family at this time.