Vivian Jenkins
Author, Publisher and Educator
I’m so glad you’ve taken the time to visit! You'll find information about my books, and updates on what I am doing - as author, educator and publisher. Retired from teaching and missionary work now, my working time is spend in admin of our publishing company, and revising and developing the Sunrise Reading Scheme and Resources. I continue to enjoy monthly ladies' Bible studies, and - after four years as a registered breeder of persian chinchilla cats - I now enjoy our two exquisite retired queens and Lady Arwen Evenstar's gorgeous boy, Sir Baymax Boniface. You can also visit with Peter - click on About us to find his posts.
From my Blog:
Princess Bella-Joy gave birth to the first of her four beautiful healthy babies at 20:20 on 1st January 2020! How cool is that! At twelve weeks – these four exquisite babies went home just before lockdown – March 2020. Flashback to January 2020 …
Read More2019 was a good year for Mum. She is so glad to be close to family and has especially loved the visits this year from her friends, local and from afar, and for time spent with family – local and from afar! What a joy to have Kev and Moni and children, and Darren and Carin and children visit in December! Mum had no serious health issues last year, apart from her ongoing battle with arthritis. (She’s had arthritis since before 1977 – when she was in her late forties. We know this because we remember her hands being painful when wringing out her first grandson’s towelling nappies! What a great grandmother she has always been – from nappies forward!) Her wonderful G.P. has treated her ‘pro deum’ from the time she and Dad arrived in Fish Hoek at the beginning of 2015. He prescribed cortisone as Mum has always…
Read MoreMy parents went into full-time ministry when I was about seven years old. I grew up in an ‘old fashioned’ pentecostal church and saw people living out their faith fully, half-heartedly or just ‘nominally’. Of course. Because that’s the way people live out their faith, isn’t it? I was fortunate to have parents who believed that God is Who He says He is, and He can do what He says He can do. They left home, family and security to give of themselves unstintingly. There wasn’t any hypocrisy – they were real. However! We were extremely wealthy spiritually, but it was materially and emotionally tough. I resolved I would never marry a minister when I grew up. And I didn’t. I married a Chemical Engineer who had graduated with his B. Chem Eng with honours. He had a secure job with De Beers (Diamond Research Laboratories) and a bright future.…
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