Vivian Jenkins
Author, Educator, Ministry Worker & Publisher
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, in ministry and with my favourite 'hobby' - my cats! You can also visit with Peter - click on About us to find his posts.
Since 1983, Peter and Vivian Jenkins have had the privilege of working with Christian Leaders in Zimbabwe, Zambia and DRC. They've also been involved in Education since 1982.
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Vivian went to Hillside Teacher’s College in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, from 1971 – 1973. She qualified as a Junior School Teacher, and subsequently gained teaching experience in all grades, as well as teaching English at secondary school. Together with her husband, Peter Jenkins, Heynie Liebenberg and Marius and Susan Schalekamp, Vivian was a founding board member of Midlands Christian School and Midlands Christian College in Gweru, Zimbabwe In 1992, she was appointed Principal of Midlands Christian Training Centre – which subsequently became a UNISA Distance Education Centre. Although MCTC registered students from all over the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe for the University of South Africa, the focus for the inhouse students was on teacher training. She took her own Bachelor of Arts degree in Education and English during this time. MCTC – 1992 – 2005. In 2004, Vivian qualified as a teacher of English as a foreign language to adults –…
Read MoreThe #ExperiencingGod #Biblestudy (Henry and Richard Blackaby) is starting in #FishHoek on Saturday 1st February 2020. Please email womeninthewordfishhoek@gmail.com if you are interested in joining this study.
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Happy, happy birthday to #PersianChinchillas Silver Star, Princess Skye, Viking and Sir Baymax Boniface! I can’t believe you are two years old today. #Exquisitecats! Lady Arwen Evenstar’s first litter! So proud of you all! Thank you to your forever families for loving you so well!From Left – Right: (Top)Princess Skye, Sir Baymax Boniface, (Bottom) Silver Star and Viking. Four beautiful, healthy #kittens – born 22nd January 2018.
Read MoreI was born in 1951 in Harare, Zimbabwe (Salisbury, Rhodesia at that time), the oldest of three children. My primary schooling was at Avondale and Blakiston, and then I went to high school at Prince Edward, before heading down to UCT. In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, and editing to make it personal, I read that: I was dead in my transgressions and sins, in which I used to live when I followed the ways of this world… “Because of his great love for me, God, who is rich in mercy, made mealive with Christ even when I wasdead in transgressions—it is by grace Ihave been saved. And God raised meup with Christ and seated mewith him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to mein Christ Jesus. For it is by grace I have been saved,…
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