Posts by Vivian Jenkins
Sunrise Educational Publishing – Looking back over 2023
This December sees @chrissielewis and me eighteen months into our new business as #publishers. Having been authors contracted with #LongmanZimbabwe and #PearsonEducationAfrica, it was a big step to start publishing the #SunriseReaders ourselves. With the closure of #PearsonEducationAfrica, we were given the opportunity to buy our Intellectual Property (the #SunriseReaders.) We succeeded, due to excellent…
Read MoreWishing you all a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!
We have celebrated Christmas at home this year, with five of our seven children, and Peter’s brother, Ken. It was very special to be together, especially as last year was very quiet, with our family scattered all over the world. Last week I was playing beautiful Christmas Carols while sewing a Christmas apron as a…
Read MoreMissions in Zululand in the 1890s- 1930s
My Great-Grandfather in Zululand – The Rev Dr Frederick Wilfrid Walters Rev. Frederick Wilfrid Walters studied and qualified as a medical doctor during his curacies in All Hallowes, Southwark, St Luke’s, Camberwell and St Philips in Sydenham (1887 – 1892). He sailed to Zululand on 10 December 1892 on the SS Scot. He was accompanied…
Read MoreAre you longing to feel the wind in your sails?
I’ve been watching some yachts tacking around the bay in front of our house. For quite some time it seemed as if they were going no where. Their sails were drooping forlornly around their masts. They were trying to circle a buoy and return to Simon’s Town harbour, but instead they were listing drunkenly to…
Read MoreIntroduction to the Bible
Peter Jenkins God has a plan … This is an overview of how God had a plan in the beginning to use people, made in His image, to fulfil His purposes on the earth. Central to His plan was the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The outworking of this plan has happened, and is…
Read MoreWhere to buy the Sunrise Readers!
The Sunrise Readers are now available in South Africa! Whilst the Sunrise Readers have been the established reading scheme of choice in government and private schools in Zimbabwe for the past 35 years, we are delighted that over the past two years, schools in Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Mozambique have started to introduce the #SunriseReaders…
Read MoreMy cats and kittens on You Tube
A while back, I was running out of space on my iphone. Of course I was! I have hundreds of photos and videos of my exquisite cats and kittens on my phone – each one too precious to delete. After all, these are my babies, and who could ever delete their photos? Their memories beat…
Read MoreChristmas 2020 Newsletter
Jack and Lucy’s Story
Jack and Lucy were born at 06:00 and 06:55 on the morning of Monday, 21st September. They were very large babies for a Persian Chinchilla mother – Jack was first born and weighed 94g and Lucy followed, weighing 103g. That’s a record for us! Large, healthy babies, they thrived from the beginning and gained weight…
Read MoreWomen in the Word – Ladies Bible Studies in Fish Hoek
This Face Book Page includes devotional thoughts and updates about Ladies Bible Studies I am involved with. https://www.facebook.com/biblestudiesinfishhoek The most recent devotional thought focussed on the first principle or ‘reality’ in Henry Blackaby’s Experiencing God Bible study, which is the one we have just completed: God is constantly at work all around us: https://www.facebook.com/biblestudiesinfishhoek/videos/916137679185917 Could…
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