Vivian Jenkins

Author, Educator, Ministry Worker & Cat Breeder

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. I keep friends and family updated with Aunty Peggy's news under About Us too!

AUTHORS 2017

Co-author of the Sunrise Readers; author of the StepUp Readers, an RE textbook and two books for adults:  In the Hollow of His Hand and Let the Walls Come Down.

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Vivian is a qualified  junior school teacher, with a B.A. degree in English and Education, and a Cambridge University Certificate in teaching English to adult learners. She has years of experience in teaching and in teacher training. Read more

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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 & cats

No longer breeding cats, Vivian enjoyed her hobby time as a registered breeder of Persian Chinchillas (Original Longhair Cats in SA!) from 2017 - 2021.

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From my Blog:

Experiencing God – Henry Blackaby Week One

February 7, 2020
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Princess Bella- Joy’s third litter in pictures…

February 7, 2020

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 …

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Aunty Peggy’s 2019

January 25, 2020

2019 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…

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Ministry beginnings …

January 24, 2020

My 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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