At 95, Jimmy Carter is still living his faith through service

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/12/politics/jimmy-carter-habitat-for-humanity-nashville/



Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) Jimmy Carter isn't doing a photo opportunity. He's here to work.

The former president stands underneath a tent on a muddy lot on a recent rainy morning constructing corbels, a support structure made by gluing, drilling and nailing three pieces of wood together. His wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, stands a few feet away, painting them white.

There's a designated area behind a white picket fence for press to watch as he works. Local news crews assemble, but after a while, they've got the material they need for their evening programs and move on to get other footage.
Still, Carter works.

The Carters are here in Nashville for the weeklong 36th Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity. They have built, renovated or repaired more than 4,300 homes alongside more than 100,000 volunteers across 14 countries.

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Since leaving office, Carter has led a life of public service. The Carter Center's initiatives include monitoring international elections, fighting diseases in developing countries and seeking international peace. Carter traveled to Cuba in 2002 to outline his vision for improving US-Cuba trade relations. He met with Hamas leaders in Egypt in 2008. In 2010, he negotiated the release of a US citizen imprisoned in North Korea with Kim Jong Il. He's spoken to Trump about China trade negotiations.

Carter also teaches a monthly class at Emory University.

There was no sign this week that the couple, who both walked with canes, had any intention of scaling back their work on the build site. Rosalynn Carter said it was important that each of the homes constructed this week "will have something we built."

"I'll stop when I have to. But I won't stop until I have to," Jimmy Carter told CNN.

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[hmanne]

1. I so greatly admire this American Icon,

I hope I'm as active at 95 as he is.

[MaryMagdaline]

2. So proud of him

A good human being

[Hotler]

3. Looking at the tape measure the orange one asks,

what are all these big lines followed by littler lines in between the numbers mean? And what do you mean by straight, square, plumb and level.

[theophilus]

4. "The only thing that matters is faith

WORKING through LOVE." Paul

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Love that man.

Deserved better than what he got when he was president.