Jill Jenkins

JENKINS, Jill. b. Ealing, west London, 14 October 1937. She was educated at Blackheath High School for Girls, and as an external student at Napier University, Edinburgh. She has worked as a Personal Assistant in the London Probation Service and as a volunteer administrator of a Bereavement Support Service (one of her hymns on HymnQuest is ‘Gracious God of might and mercy’, written for a friend whose grand-daughter had died of leukaemia). Jenkins is the author of two hymns, ‘Living God, your joyful Spirit’ in RS, and a wedding hymn, ‘We pledge to one another’, in BPW. ‘Living God, your joyful Spirit’ was written for her own church, Palmers Green United Reformed Church in north London, and...