Orville Boyd JENKINS12,1,2,3,3,3,3,12,3,3,10,7,7,7,13,13,14,9,15,4,16,4,6,6,6,17

21st Jul 19481,2,3,4,4,5,6,5,5 -

Pastor, Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Cherry Hill, in Perry County, Arkansas, west across the Arkansas River from Conway, requiring a ferry ride, or an alternative roundabout trip north through Morrilton, which I preferred. Abt 1 yr.2

Life History

1948	Residence1: My father had a radio-television shop and my mother was a cook at the hospital when they met in Chickasha. We lived there until 1951, when we moved to Quanah, Texas, where my father had established a radio station. in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.2
21st Jul 1948	Born in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1,2,3,4,4,5,6,5,5
1951	Residence2: Our family moved to Quanah when I was 2 1/2 years old. My father started a radio station there and it began broadcasting in early 1951. Our first address was on W 3rd, where we were living when my brother Greg was born in May 1951. in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.2
1955	Baptised in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.2
Sep 1955	Resident Moved to 909 W 11th St (US Hwy 287 West) in early summer, or just before school was out; photo matches other photos dated Sept 1955. Orville Boyd Jenkins mowing; mother Lou Ila Jenkins standing, brother Gary, abt age 3, on the tricycle. in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.2,2,2
between 1957 and 1961	Occupation Radio Announcer & Record Librarian, Station KOLJ, (and Student). In addition my brothers and I sold vegetables out of our prodigious organic garden, and later had paper routes; I also mowed lawns. in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.2,7
6th Jun 1958	Resident Vacation Bible School certificate, First Baptist Church, Quanah. I attended VBS most summers, and was also a member of the Royal Ambassadors, a children's and youth organization of the church. I was also in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts all those years, in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.11
1960	Occupation2: Rancher; My cattle career started with a 4H project calf. My dad encouraged me to reinvest this and gradually he and I were equal partners in a herd of cattle in Arkansas that ran 35-50 head. I finally sold out by 1971. in Quanah, Texas, and Conway, Arkansas.2
1962	Resident Quanah City Directory, 1962-1963, Orville Boyd 14, son of Orville L and Lou Jenkins, address 909 West 11th St in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.5,5,5
May 1963	Resident I lived in Quanah until about June 1963, when school was out. My father & I left for Arkansas to get established before the rest came before school started in the Fall. At that time, Mom (Lou Ila) filed divorce papers. We went on to our jobs in Arkansas. in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Jun 1963	Occupation3: Radio Announcer; June-Nov 1963; Dad had arranged jobs for both of us with KVEE; but we lost our jobs in November when the station was sold. I dropped band to work after school in our new TV repair business. I had other parttime jobs into high school. in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.2,7
Jun 1963	Residence3: We lived initially in the Friendship Community, south of Liberty, which is on Hwy 64 between Conway and Vilonia. After a few months we moved near the outskirts of Conway on Hwy 64 east of town. in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.3,3,3,3,3,3,2
Nov 1963	Occupation4: Assistant Electronic Repair Technician, Jenkins Electronics; our shop was on Harkrider (US Hwy 65) in the first block north of Oak St, US Hwy 64, next to the John Deere dealer. I also worked during inventory at Fred's Dollar Store, & in the job corps. in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.2
Aug 1964	Occupation5: At age 16 I was called to serve as pastor for a church in this small rural community in Conway County north of Plummerville; after I entered college I served for about 1 year in a church at Cherry Hill in neighboring Perry County, until Sept 1967. in Springfield, Conway, Arkansas.2
between May 1966 and Jan 1971	Occupation6: Radio Announcer and Producer KVEE and KCON, Conway, Arkansas; while a student at State college of Arkansas (University of Central Arkansas) in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.2,7
3rd Jun 1966	Graduated in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.8,2
5th Jun 1966	Ordained in North Conway Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.8,2
about Nov 1966	Occupation Pastor, Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Cherry Hill, in Perry County, Arkansas, west across the Arkansas River from Conway, requiring a ferry ride, or an alternative roundabout trip north through Morrilton, which I preferred. Abt 1 yr. in Cherry Hill, Perry, Arkansas.2
1st Aug 1970	Married Edith Marie MCSWAIN in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.2 Ceremony performed by Dr William Flynt, pastor of First Baptist Church, Conway, Arkansas. Reception provided by the choir of the church, of which the bride and groom were members.
Jan 1971	Occupation7: announcer at two radio stations, Henderson, North Carolina, and Lewisburg, North Carolina, while a fulltime student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina; January - June 1971 in North Carolina.2,7
Jan 1971	Residence4: January - August 1971, Student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest North Carolina, and summer cross-cultural training at Meridith College, Raleigh, North Carolina in Wake Forest, Wake, North Carolina.2
May 1971	Degree: University of Central Arkansas, BA, Philosophy and French in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.2,7,7
between Aug 1971 and Jun 1973	Occupation8: Assistant to the Director, Baptist Communications Centre (Radio-TV-Film) in Nariobi, Kenya.2,7
between Aug 1971 and Sep 1972	Residence5: Edith worked for the Baptist Mission treasurer; I was as a Radio-TV-Film producer at Baptist Communications Centre in Nairobi. I was a founder of Afromedia, a TV & movie production company, & a producer. I was on the Afromedia Board until the 1990s. in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.2
between Sep 1972 and Aug 1973	Residence6: Edith and I lived in an apartment at the Shauri Moyo Baptist Business School and community center while I worked at the Baptist Communications Centre & Edith worked for the treasurer of the Baptist Mission. in Shauri Moyo, Nairobi, Kenya.2
between Aug 1973 and Jan 1976	Residence7: I attended graduate school & seminary at several schools; graduated from Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, MTh in Christian Communications, with Greek New Testament, and the equivalent of an MA in Linguistic Anthropology. in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.2,7
Aug 1973	Resident We lived on Seevers Street in Oak Cliff for about a year, then moved to apartments near Southern Methodist University in University Park, where I had transferred for my graduate study. Edith worked at Mountain View College in west Oak Cliff. in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.1
between Sep 1973 and May 1976	Occupation9: Independent Language Learning Consultant; While in Graduate School & Seminary, I taught several summers in the Toronto Institute of Linguistics & a week in Fall & Spring sessions at Missionary Orientation Center in Pine Mountain, Georgia. in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.2,7,7
1975	Occupation10: Associate Director, North Texas Christian Communication Commission in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas.2,7
19th Dec 1975	Ordination2: Cliff Temple Baptist Church, 10th St & Zangs Blvd, Oak Cliff, Dallas in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.2
between 1976 and 1979	Occupation11: Radio-TV Producer, Baptist Communications Centre in Nairoibi, Kenya.2,7
between Dec 1976 and Apr 1979	Residence10: We lived in Ofafa, in southeastern Nairobi, near Likoni Road where the Baptist Communications Centre was located. Our first son Gareth was born in 1977 while we lived here, and after I had contracted Hepatitis A. in Ofafa, Nairobi, Kenya.2
between 1977 and 1981	Occupation12: Executive Director, Afromedia (TV-Film Production Company) in Nairobi, Kenya.2,7
between Sep 1977 and Aug 1989	Occupation13 in Director, Baptist Language Centre, Tigoni, Kenya.2,7,7,7
Apr 1979	Residence11: I was still recovering from hepatitis when we moved to Brackenhurst and Kevin was born a few days after we got moved. I had become the Director of the Baptist Language Centre. in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.2,7
May 1980	Residence12: We lived for a year in West Oak Cliff, on Ivandell Street near Clarendon Drive and Westmoreland Road. in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.2
May 1981	Degree2: Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, MTh in Christian Communications, with Greek New Testament, Linguistic Anthropology in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.2,7
between Jul 1981 and Jul 1984	Residence13: Kanyawa was the rural community across Limuru Road from Brackenhurst International Centre, where the Language and Cultural Communication Centre was. Kanyawa means "place of the leopard." We had an avocado tree, an apple tree, a peach tree & others. in Kanyawa, Tigoni, Kenya.2
between Sep 1983 and Aug 1997	Occupation14: Communication Resource Specialist; I worked from here across the region of Eastern and Southern Africa, designing and implementing community-oriented language learning programs using my proprietary design to incorporate informal and formal resources. in Limuru-Nairobi, Kenya.2,7,7,7
1984	Publication: Monograph by Orville Boyd Jenkins; published in 1984 in Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press in Limuru, Kenya.7
1984	Publication: Published Path of Love: Jesus in Mystical Islam (Nairobi: Communication Press, 1991). Used in cultural oirentation to East Africa. Now online as part of Islam: Life and Values, http://orvillejenkins.com/islam/ in Limuru, Kenya.7
Mar 1984	Advanced Degree: Institute for Advanced Studies (a graduate consortium in the St Louis area), EdD, Applied Linguistics in Clayton, Missouri.2,7,7
between May 1984 and May 1985	Residence14: We stayed in North Little Rock, in a home provided for the year by Park HIll Baptist Church. Our children were in kindergarten and 2nd grade. in North Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. USA.2
Jul 1985	Residence15: We lived in Kanyawa section of the Tigoni area from July 1985 until we moved about September 1988 onto the Hill of Brackenhurst International Conference Centre. in Kanyawa, Tigoni, Kenya.2
1986	Publication: Swahili translation and edit of the Book by Cecil Ray, Living the Responsible Life, published by Baptist Publications, Nairobi, Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya.7
Sep 1988	Resident We moved onto the Hill of Brackenhurst International Conference Centre, living there until July 1989, We went to the US for a year at that time. in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.2
1989	Publication: Published Planning and Evaluating Missionary Language Learning, by Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins; Originally published in 1989 in Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press in Limuru, Kenya.7,7
Jul 1989	Residence16: We lived for a achool year on Brookview Drive in Little Rock, not far from University Avenue and I-30. Our home was provided that year by First Baptist Church of LIttle Rock. in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. USA.2,10
Jul 1990	Residence17: We moved from Kanyawa, down the hill and across the highway along a community road up on the hill in a residence on the grounds of Brackenhurst Conference Centre. in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.2
1991	Publication: Dealing with Differences: Contrasting African & European Worldviews; first published 1991, a resource in Cross-Cultural Communciation training, Limuru, Kenya; online since 2007 on one of my websites: strategyleader.org/langlearn/pdf/dealdiffbooklet.pdf in Limuru, Kenya.7
1991	Publication: Published An Outline Introduction to Islam (Nairobi: Communication Press, 1991). Now online as part of Islam: Life and Values, http://orvillejenkins.com/islam/ in Limuru, Kenya.7
Apr 1991	Residence18: We lived in Westlands area of Nairobi, near Waiyaki Way April 1991 to July 1993. Our children attended Rosslyn Academy in Nairobi. I managed a research office and coordinated language programs in Eastern & Southern Africa. in Nairobi, Kenya.2
Feb 1993	Doctor's Degree: Columbia Pacific University, PhD, Linguistics in San Rafael, California.2
between Jul 1993 and Jan 1994	Residence19: Address 3937 Villanova St, Dallas, TX in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.2,10
between Jan 1994 and Aug 1997	Residence20: We were still in Westlands and the kids were in Rosslyn Academy. Edith was one of the school bus parents. in Nairobi, Kenya.2
between Mar 1994 and Aug 1997	Occupation15: Founding Director, Interfaith Research Centre; I coordinated a research network writing cultural profiles for ethnic groups (people groups) in Eastern and Southern Africa, while facilitating communication strategies with traditional Muslim peoples. in Nairobi, Kenya.2
Aug 1997	Residence21: Edith & I were at Hardin-Simmons Univ for a school year, working with the Baptist Student Ministries with international students on campus, among whom were our two sons. In May 1998, we returned to Nairobi to pack & move to Cyprus. in Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA.2
Oct 1997	Occupation16: Ethnicity Researcher & Cross Cultural Communication Consultant; for one year in the US, & in a new overseas assignment, I conducted seminars & courses & was consultant for various groups on language and culture learning & research; Oct 1997-Oct 2009 in Nicosia, Cyprus.2
between Aug 1998 and Oct 2001	Residence22: I worked with an international media and culture resource company, providing services in cultural research, communication strategy, development of websites and newsletters, and providing workshops in ethnic research and cross-cultural strategy. in Nicosia, Cyprus.2
Sep 2001	Residence23: until Oct 2005; Founding Editor of the Registry of Peoples, working with a worldwide language & culture research network, establishing a standard coded list for all ethnic groups of the world, enabling all databases to compare & exchange information in Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia.2
between Nov 2005 and Jan 2009	Residence24: Ethnic Researcher and Cross Cultural Communication Consultant; coordinating worldwide research network on peoples of the world. We were members of Edenvale Baptist Church while there. I played saxophone in the worship team & in some community music events in Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa.2
Jan 2009	Residence25: Moved to Arlington from Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa; we lived downtown near the Univ of Texas at Arlington for 14 months, then moved to South Arlington. I played bass guitar or sax in worship teams in 2 Arlington churches & 1 in Ft Worth. in Arlington, Tarrant, Texas.9
2011	Publication: Korean edition published of The Path of Love: Jesus in Mystical Islam, originally published in English in Limuru, Kenya. in Daejeon, South Korea.7
BET JAN AND MAY 1976	Residence8: Training for overseas living and cross-cultural communication; resident at Callaway Gardens, while attending the Spring session of Baptist Missionary Orientation; assisted in the language and culture training module. in Pine Mountain, Georgia.2 I had prevoiusly been to MLC a few times as a training resource person in Language and Cutlure Learning methods and phonetics trainer. In the January-May session 1976, Edith and I were participants in the Orientation progam aas appointees for service in Kenya. Again in that session I assisted in the phonetics training component of the language learning and assisted the new resident linguist in the language and culture learning modules. Over subsequent years, when I was in the US, I continued to be a visiting trainier in culture and language.
BET MAY AND DEC 1976	Residence9: We lived at Brackenhurst while Edith was studiying Swahili for 6 months. I followed a custom half-time advanced Swahili program while serving at Baptist Communications Centre in Nairobi. in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.2

Other facts

	Buried in Bluebonnet Hills, Colleyville, Tarrant County, Texas
	Birth of son Living JENKINS
	Birth of son Living JENKINS

Notes

Birth Announcement for Orville Boyd Jenkins

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O L Jenkins Announce Son

Mr and Mrs Orville L Jenkins of Chickasha announce the arrival of a son, Orville Boyd, on July 21 [1948]. ... Mrs Jenkins is the former Miss Lou Ila Gregory who, before her marriage, lived near Lindsay. After moving to Chickasha she was employed as dietician [sic] at the Chickasha hospital. The baby's father finished highschool [sic] at Chickasha and is owner of a radio and appliance store there.

-- clipping probably from the Lindsay News, Lindsay, Oklahoma, about 24 July 1948, exact publication date uncertain; courtesy of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, who saved this from the original edition, to Orville Boyd Jenkins 31 January 2018
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Lou Ila married Orville Jenkins, an appliance repairman in Chickasha, OK. They had three sons: Orville Boyd, who has been a Baptist Missionary to mainly East Africa for over forty years, Gregory Wayne, who lives in West Virginia, where he is a music minister. Gary Lynn, their youngest, was killed in an auto accident in Arkansas when only nineteen years old.

When Lou Ila and Orville were married, they spent several years in Quanah, Texas, where Orville owned a radio station -- KOLJ (the OLJ representing his name, Orville Lee Jenkins). They divorced in 1964 and Orville moved to Arkansas.

Lou Ila later moved to Vernon, Texas before moving back to Lindsay in 1972. Lou Ila has been an Avon representative for over thirty-two years.
-- Pikes Peak History Book 1908-2008, pp 27, courtesy of Loretta Gregory Gay of Lindsay, Oklahoma, January 2020
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U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999
Orville Jenkins
2nd Grade, Estimated Age 8 (born abt 1948)
1956 The Chief Yearbook, Quanah Schools, Quanah, Texas, USA

Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan. This got started with a young co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi and Star Wars fans. My parents called me Orville Boyd, since my father was Orville. I commonly go by Orville Boyd. But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.

A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like. I am named Boyd after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association. The Boyd family name is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit, a sub-sept of the Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England. The name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally from medieval French, which also has come into the English language as "butte."

My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials: OBJ. In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O B Jay.

I grew up in Quanah under my dad's tutelage in the radio business. He owned KOLJ, and I tagged along with him from early years. I began working as a DJ at age 9 and for 4 years I worked on the air, running the end-of-day program, "The Six Twelve and Twenty Show," a request program.

Dad was very big on natural health and we raised a totally organic garden on a half-acre, a quarter of a city block behind our home on 11th Street (US Hwy 287). We three boys worked in the garden, helped dad plant an orchard of fruit and nut trees over the acre of our home and garden plots. We sold vegetables at a stand in front of the house along 287, and were involved in other business ventures, like selling greeting cards and delivering papers. All three of us brothers sold the Grit newspaper, each to our own set of customers.

I distributed the Sunday Oklahoman weekly newspaper. I remember having to get up early, even on snowy, icy winter days, before the rest of the family was up, to roll and bag my papers. I would deliver my papers on my Cushman Eagle motor scooter, an 8 horsepower motorcycle style scooter, which was very popular among guys in Quanah. Quanah, Texas, was a small place, safe for children to roam and work, and full of opportunities. My mother made me saddlebags of canvas to carry the newspapers.

In November 1961, my mother wrote a letter to her sister Josephine Gregory Hayes (Aunt Jo to me) in Lindsay, Oklahoma, mentioning the paper routes we had, among the activities and events of our family at that time.

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Notable content:
(page 1)
Lou notes that she and her family will not be able to join her Gregory family for Thanksgiving.
All her sons are selling the Grit newspaper and are engaged each weekend with that.
Her son Orville Boyd additionally has a Sunday Oklahoman newspaper route and hopes to have a fill-in who can free him on occasions, to take such family trips.
She hopes they can visit her family at Christmas.
Her husband Orville is also engaged for a short time, because he has sold his radio station,
(page 2)
and part of that deal was that Orville would remain available as engineer for three months, and Thanksgiving falls within that period.
She and her husband Orville want to go as soon as he is free to Eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas to look at some farms they are considering buying, now that they are free from the radio business.
Lou asks how much their father's recent hospitalization cost, so she and her husband can send their share to pay on that.
Orville's father, Joseph Asa Jenkins, had a tumor removed from his prostate gland in Wesley Hospital in Oklahoma City.
-- Found among the papers of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, July 2019
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I participated in school band from the 5th grade, playing the tenor saxophone. The band was responsible for half-time activities at the school football games. I hated marching and slogging through the mud churned up by the cleats of the football team in the rainy fall. I just wanted to play music. I stuck with it and continued with music and primarily play the saxophone today.

I later added the guitar, bass guitar and others along the way. I ultimately played in various worship bands in several countries and states of the US. I was in rock, blues and jazz bands, as leader of one and co-leader of another, and was worship leader for various churches and gatherings over the years. My folk-rock group (The New Light, playing around Arkansas, USA) and my jazz-pop group (Some Guys, in Kenya) each recorded one album.

In the 7th grade, I decided to run for the Student Council of Quanah Junior High School for the next year. I was elected Vice President. That summer I attended a statewide Student Council workshop with the other new officers, with our teacher-sponsor Mrs Barnes. I remember riding with her in the front seat of her beautiful Buick down to Dallas for the workshop. We had a busy and very productive and instructional workshop at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas.

Orville Boyd Jenkins
Post card to parents in Quanah, Texas, from the
State Student Council Workshop at Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Postmarked 3 August 1961
Orville Boyd served the next school year (8th Grade) as the vice president of the Student Council of Quanah Junior High School, Quanah, Texas
This workshop was in the summer before the 8th grade.
-- From the papers and photos of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, 27 April 2019

At the end of my years of Student Council service, I received a merit award from my principal, Mr Charles Welch.

Orville Jenkins
Award of Honor for service on the Student Council
Quanah, Texas (Quanah Junior High School)
11 May 1962 (end of 8th grade)
-- Quanah Schools, Signed by Principal Charles Welch, from the papers and photos of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, 27 April 2019

At the end of that school year I served as Vice-President of the Student Council, we had a ceremony for installing the newly-elected officers for the next year. The Quanah Tribune-Chief carried a story about that.

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AWARD WINNERS AT JUNIOR HIGH

Retiring officers of the Quanah Junior High Student council installed the officers-elect Friday in a general assembly held in the High School Auditorium.

Chuck Hobbs, 8th grade, son of Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Hobbs and president for the past year, installed the new student body president, James Gibson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Gibson.

Orville Jenkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Jenkins, gave installation instruction to David Francis, vice-president elect and son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Francis.

Jane Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, installed as the incoming secretary, Vonna Hines, 7th grade, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Hines.

The service was concluded by each of the new officers lighting candles from candles already lighted by the retiring officers. The new officers were presented to the student body and guests as the service closed.
...
Mrs J L Barnes presented the four retiring officers of the Student Council with awards. Those receiving these were Chuck Hobbes, Orville Jenkins, Jane Wilson and Rita Butts.

-- Quanah Tribune-Chief, Quanah, Texas, 17 May 1962, p 5, https://newspaperarchive.com/quanah-tribune-chief-may-17-1962-p-5/
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I participated in Cub Scouts then Boy Scouts. I was a member of Troop 58. We met in the Scout Hut at the City Park. In 1962 I was elected as the Scribe and Librarian for the Troop.

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Boy Scout Troop 58 Elects New Officers

Boy Scout Troop 58 recently elected officers to serve for the next six months term. The officers elected are as follows;

Michael Lewis, Junior Assistant Scoutmaster; Duan Smith, Quartermaster; Joe Eddy Milligan, Senior Patrol Leader; Orville Jenkins, Scribe and Librarian; Donald Weeks, Patrol Leader No 1; Randy Newsom, Assistant Patrol Leader No 1; Leslie White, Patrol Leader No 2; Pat Drake, Assistant Patrol Leader No 2; Bobby Rawlins, Patrol Leader No 3; Richard Page, Assistant Patrol Leader No 3. Hubert Felty is Scoutmaster of Troop 58 and Harvey Marshall is Assistant Scoutmaster.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 22 February 1962, p 12
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We were members of the First Baptist Church, where I was baptized at age 6. I was in graded choir from my earliest memories, and learned music theory there.

My brother Greg and I were both received a certificate for being involved in a Texas Baptist State Choir Festival, representing our church in Quanah. The certificates were signed by Russell H Dilday, later President of Southwestern Theological Seminary in Ft Worth, then Truett Seminary of Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Orville Jenkins of the First Baptist Church, Quanah, Texas
Certificate of participation in the Texas Baptist Junior Choir Festival
22 April 1961
Signed by R H (Russell H) Dilday
-- From the papers and photos of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, 27 April 2019

This was very important in the music foundations that later expanded to singing and playing in various music groups, serving as the music leader for several churches from age 13 on. I was also nurtured in an exploring faith in those early years at First Baptist, and at age 15, felt a call to preach, or more accurately, ministry that would unfold in various channels and forms as my faith and experience developed.

I actually preached my first sermon at age 13, in the mission church of First Baptist, on the north side of Quanah, called Quanah Baptist Chapel. Our family was already involved in this mission on the north side of Quanah, and with my strong music background, I became the regular music leader for the worship services at age 12.

Southern Baptist Churches have an annual event called Youth Week, which was an opportunity for youth of the church to be involved in all the church leadership activities as part of their discipleship. My assignment was to preach the evening message in that church, where I was already the regular music leader. Due to my already long experience, I was ordained the week I graduated from High School in Conway, Arkansas. I had already been serving as the pastor of a church for the last two years of High School.

The local paper carried a story about that Youth Week in March 1963.

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Baptist Chapel Youth Week Set, March 17-23

The Quanah Baptist Chapel will observe Youth Week March 17-23. Youth of the church will serve in places of leadership in the church throughout the week. Pastors for the week are Orville Boyd Jenkins, son of Mr and Mrs O L Jenkins and Dennis Howard, nephew of Mr and Mrs M E McDaniel.

Other Youth Week officers include Ray Mahan, Sunday School Superintendent, Terry McNeese, [transcription undecipherable] Director, Tony Ray, Adult Superintendent and Janice John, Intermediate Superintendent. Those serving as the teachers are Barbara Marsh, Orville Jenkins, Janice Johns, and Melvena Estill. Head man of the ushers will be Perry McNeese. The youth week workers will be honored with a (undecipherable) at 8:30 Sunday morning. All interested persons are invited to attend these youth-led services.

-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 14 March 1963, p 8
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In March 1962 I was mentioned in a news story as one of a group of new members of the Honor Society for Quanah High School.

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Quanah School Honor Society Inducts New Members
(Headline and first part of article not discernible)

Receiving certificates of membership were: Orville Jenkins, Dale Ford, Glenda Coburn, Rita Butts, Trudy Fultz, Sherry Kay Green, Sherry Griffin, and Loreece Whitmire. Being received as probationary members are: Kenneth Tidmore, Edwenna Fincher, Katie Fiero, Marquita Horton, James Gibson and Dannie Harmon.

Being selected to the Honor Society is an honor and a privilege and any school benefits from the services rendered by the organization. The lightful torch is their symbol and the emblem and motto are fitting for “Light is the symbol of truth” as the guiding force in the pace set in our student body by these worthy young men and women.

Miss Louise Goodnight, sponsor of the group, led the group in their pledge and Charles Welch, Principal, presented the new members with membership certificates.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 1 March 1962, p 4
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I was also in the list of Honor Roll for the final 6 weeks of school that year.

"High honor roll for the six weeks was announced this week by Principal Welch, with the eighth grade leading the list with 21 meeting the required level. The seventh grade was next with ten, and the sixth grade with seven. 8th Grade - Diane Barnes, Glenda Coburn, Audean Downey, Dale Ford, Betty Howard, Sherrie Green, Andrea Jones, Christi Long, Vicki Preston, Loreese Whitmire, David Ellis, Dannie Harmon, Charles Hobbs, Gary Naylor, Sue Braziel, Rita Butts, Trudy Fultz, Sherrie Griffin, Orville Jenkins, Janet Roberts, Vickie Sebesta."
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 24 May 1962, p 6

I lived in Quanah, Texas, until about June 1963, when my father and I went to Arkansas to jobs he had arranged for us, as the first stage in a move to Arkansas, where dad and mom had bought a farm. The last year in Quanah, we were all listed together as a family in Quanah's city directory for 1962-63.

Quanah, Texas, City Directory 1962-63
Jenkins, Orville L, Lou Ila
Jenkins' Coin-O-Matic
Orville Boyd 14, Gregory Wayne 11, Gary Lynn 10
909 W 11th, (O)
MO 3-8136

I found a news story about an event I don't remember. This was a Christmas program at the Quanah Baptist Chapel, a mission of the First Baptist Church on the north side of town, where our family had been participating since I was 12 years old, which would make it since about 1960 or 1961.

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Baptist Chapel To Have Christmas Program

"The Quanah Baptist Chapel will hold their Christmas program December 23 at 7:30 pm. Theme for the program this year is "A Portrait of Christmas" and is being presented by the young people of the church. Members of the cast are: Barbara Marsh, Dennis Howard, Orville Boyd Jenkins, Gary Jenkins, Gregory Jenkins, Linda Marsh, Melvena Estill, Melveta Estill, Larry Graham, Tommy Gallimore, Tony Ray, Larry Ray and Mike Sloan. "
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 20 December 1962, p 2
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My father and I moved to Faulkner County, Arkansas. We were both working in Conway during the summer. I went to school at Conway High School.

U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999
Orville Jenkins
Sophomore Photo
Estimated Age 16, (born abt 1948)
1964 Wampus Cat Yearbook
Conway High School, Conway, Arkansas

Before leaving Quanah, from age 12, I had been leading the music in a mission church sponsored by our church of First Baptist Church in Quanah. I also preached my first sermons there in a youth Sunday when I was 13. Not long after we moved to Arkansas, I was serving as the music leader for a small church in Conway, Arkansas, where my father and I opened an electronics service center. At the end of our first year there, before the end of my 10th grade, I expressed a sense of call to full-time Christian service, and stated it was for music and preaching. I continued working with my father till I graduated from high School in 1966.

My pastor gave me opportunities to preach and I began getting invitations to other churches. Near the end of the summer, I was asked to serve a church in the neighboring county that met every two weeks. I worked with them till I graduated from high school. The church was the Springfield Missionary Baptist Church in Springfield, Arkansas.

"Springfield (Conway County), once the county seat of Conway County, began as the intersection of the Old Cherokee Boundary Line and a principal route of the Western Cherokee in their relocation west of the Mississippi River. The National Road, from St. Genevieve, Missouri, was routed through the area, taking advantage of a large reliable artesian spring. These roads connected the area with developing population centers such as Batesville (Independence County), Clinton (Van Buren County), Lewisburg (Conway County), and Little Rock (Pulaski County)."
-- "Springfield (Conway County)," Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6416

I graduated from Conway High School in June 1966. That same week my home church in Conway ordained me to the gospel ministry, with representatives form other congregations from Faulkner and Conway counties.

U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville Jenkins
Latin Club, p 22;
Spanish Club lineup p 51, Spanish 2
Senior Photo p 113
1966 Wampus Cat Yearbook, Conway High School, Conway, Arkansas

From the week of graduation, I worked as a disk jockey-announcer and producer at local radio station KVEE in Conway. I later worked at another station in Conway. During the first year of classes in college, I also served as pastor of another small church in Cherry Hill in neighboring Perry County. Offerings from the church sometimes covered expenses.

But I dropped that after the first year, giving priority to my studies and working to support myself. I worked at the radio station, with whatever else I was doing. I was a DJ, but also produced some live-band programs we recorded for Saturday broadcast.

In that first year of college, I also taught myself to play the guitar, and a couple of the bands I was recording invited me to sit in with them periodically on their weekly programs. Meanwhile I started my own music group with some student friends. It was a busy time.

I had to pay my way through school, and I was living on my own. I was often working 12-16 hours a day at two jobs most of the time, plus taking a full load of classes, and leading my music group. I slept when I had to.

I worked at KVEE from 1966 till about 1969 or 1970, when I took up another job at a truck dock in Little Rock. I then also started working for the other radio station in town, KCON, and worked at those two jobs until I graduated and left Conway in January 1971.

The following excerpt from an article by a local Conway historian gives the history of the two radio stations in Conway, and mentions my name as one of the well-known personalities who had worked at KVEE. This article mentions my work there to all the period I was in college, but seems unaware that I also worked at KCON a part of the time.

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KVEE, the other radio station in town, was originally owned by J.C. Willis, Hugh C. Jones, Harold J. Nichols and William E. Cooper. They sold the station to Robin Brown of Brown Broadcast, Inc. in 1965. Robin Brown was the son of Paul Brown, legendary coach of the Cleveland Browns and coach/owner of the Cincinnati Bengals. The studio was located on Washington Avenue and the station played mostly country music.

Several notable personalities worked there over the years. From 1966-1971 Orville B. Jenkins was a radio announcer and producer. James “Uncle Mac” MacKrell, an Arkansas radio personality who unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas in 1950 and Governor of Arkansas in 1970, began hosting a radio show called Party Line on KVEE in Conway after the 1970 election.

-- From "I Heard It On the Radio, Part II: 'Looking Back."' Reprinted online February 13, 2017, Faulkner County Historical Society" http://faulknerhistory.org/2017/02/i-heard-it-on-the-radio-part-ii-looking-back/
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In the first week of classes at State College of Arkansas, I met Edith Marie McSwain. We became close and got engaged after two years of school, We waited till she graduated to marry, in August 1970. The first couple of years we participated in the Missionary Baptist Student Fellowship on the campus. I served as pastor of the Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church, in Perry County, west across the Arkansas River from Conway.

There was a ferry on Hwy 60 at the river, but because of time and uncertainty, I always took the long way around on US 64 through Plummerville to the west and south to Perryville, county seat of Perry County, then out a few miles west to Cherry Hill. Cherry Hill was a rural community with a couple of small churches. The whole county is rural, with only about 10,000 people.

"Perry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its population was 10,445 at the 2010 United States Census. The county seat is Perryville. The county was formed on December 18, 1840, and named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero in the War of 1812."
-- Cherry Hill, Arkansas, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/places/Things-to-do-in-Cherry-Hill-Arkansas/114626241881599/

"Cherry Hill is not incorporated, and is also the name of the township where the community is located."
-- "Perry County, Arkansas," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_County,_Arkansas

U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Freshmen, p 226
Orville Jenkins
1967 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville Jenkins; Edith McSwain
MBSF, p 308
1967 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville B Jenkins
Estimated Birth Year abt 1948
1968 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

Edith and I and some of our group also became familiar with the Baptist Student Union and began to spend more of our time there. In my second year of college, I organized a Christian folk group called The Folk. Edith was one of the members. The Folk became fairly successful for a year or so, before some members graduated and our schedules all diverged.

The Folk went to Daytona Beach one Easter and sang on the beach and in the bandshell. I was there again as a solo act on another trip through the Arkansas Baptist Student Union. Edith and I were there once later as we joined the Arkansas group from our new residence in North Carolina in Easter 1971.

The Folk sang at several events at the BSU and other locales in Central Arkansas. After some members of the group graduated and moved away, I organized a new group as a rock band playing Christian folk and rock songs for the last couple of years I was in UCA. I called this folk-rock band The New Light.

By 1969 I was working at two jobs, sleeping very little and continued to sing and preach every chance I could get. The New Light sang quite often in churches, youth groups, local music festivals, regional and state events and after-game events for high school and college, especially at the BSU in Conway.

The New Light was traveling around the state in music programs, mostly at churches or university music events, various BSU events, as well as local events around Conway and Faulkner County. In 1970, The New Light recorded an album, which we sold at our appearances. What a schedule! I continued in school for a ninth semester for the fall of 1970.

Besides my own music group, I also was asked to be an instrumentalist for two contemporary music youth musicals performed by the First Baptist Church of Conway. In 1969 we performed the new contemporary musical "Purpose," composed by Phillip Landgrave."

One photo and story showed our pastor Pastor, Dr William Flynt, with the Minister of Music and Youth Choir President, previewing the contemporary Christian musical "Purpose," by Phillip Landgrave. Another photo article showed the whole choir in performance at the church. Edith was also one of the vocalists in this choir. Dr Flynt was the pastor who performed our marriage in the church on 1 August 1970. I have clippings from these two stories about this musical from the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway Arkansas, in April 1969.

In 1970, the First Baptist Church youth choir did a rock musical called "Tell it Like it Is." Edith was again one of the vocalists and my younger brother Gary was the drummer for the choir. We presented the musical in the spring, then did some touring performances, including Arkansas Girl's State and selections from the musical on one of the Little Rock TV station's noon news and feature program.

In my last couple of years at UCA, I took courses in music theory as electives, three semesters of music studies in small classes with music majors. That was fun and enriching. I took music theory to get a better understanding of chord structure to boost my writing and arranging for songs for The New Light. This was a very enjoyable part of my college experience.

I continued with my major in Philosophy and minor in French. I also studied and became proficient in German, and improved my Spanish skills by taking the college level courses.

U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Conway, Arkansas, USA
Orville B Jenkins, Conway
Estimated Birth Year abt 1949
1969 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

In French I took the teacher preparation courses in French, even though I was not intending to teach. This gave me deeper exposure to French language and culture and honed my skills, which I continued to use for the rest of my life, in international travel, work and study. I later took a course in Commerce in French with the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, through their branch in Nairobi, Kenya. Another enriching and fun experience.

U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Conway, Arkansas, USA
Orville Boyd Jenkins
Estimated Birth Year abt 1950 [1948]
1970 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville B Jenkins
Address Rt 2, Vilonia [Should be Conway, as on the class photo page]
Estimated birth year 1950 [1948]
Index, p 357
1970 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

In 1970 I also became a council member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013
Orville Jenkins
Council Member, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, p 180
1970 Scroll Yearbook, State College of Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

Edith and I got married in August 1970, and were applying for a 2-year volunteer period, where we were assigned to Kenya the next year. The New Light continued when I finished my studies at UCA in January of 1971. Edith and I moved to North Carolina for me to begin my Seminary study.

I had arranged for The New Light to become the official music group of the Arkansas Baptist Student Union, succeeding the first group that had filled this new slot in the BSU work, The Mill Singers. The New Light continued to sing in various Arkansas locales under their new sponsorship by the BSU, churches and other events after I went to Kenya in August of 1971.

U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013
Orville B Jenkins
Index Listing
4th Year, Address Route 2, Vilonia
1971 Scroll Yearbook, State College of Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

In 1971 Edith and I were appointed for a two-year assignment working in Kenya with the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. My hometown newspaper, the Quanah Tribune-Chief, ran the news story.

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Ex-Quanahan To Africa As Missionary
Photo Header:
Orville Boyd Jenkins approved by Baptist Foreign Mission Board for two-years work in Nairobi, Kenya.

Orville Boyd Jenkins, son of Orville Jenkins of Arkansas and Mrs Lou Jenkins, of Vernon, former Quanah residents, is one of 74 young adults approved at a recent meeting of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board for journeyman training this summer. The intensive seven-week course prepares Baptist men and women no older than 26 for two years of work overseas with career missionaries. They will train at Meredith College, NC.

Their job assignments include teaching, youth work, publishing, nursing, filming and television production, bookkeeping and secretarial work. Jenkins will assist the director of Baptist Communications, in Nairobi, Kenya. At present he is a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 29 April 1971, p 16
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Soon after arriving in Kenya in August 1971, I was asked by the Director of Baptist Communications Centre to assist in founding Afromedia, a Christian Media Production Agency, in Nairobi, Kenya. So I became a founding member of the Board of Directors and a sound producer in Afromedia's early projects from 1971.

The agency was established cooperatively by several Christian churches and missions in Kenya for the purpose of TV and film production, and in the late 1980s or early 1990s became an independent agency focusing on children's programs for Voice of Kenya (VOK).

For a period of several years, I served in production on various short projects, including short features or TV series for VOK TV, the government-owned national television entity for Kenya, commercials for local companies as income-producing projects, and a feature film in the late 1970s called "Checkpoint" with a Christian theme around the East Africa Safari Rally.

I was the producer of a children's TV series called Simba Tales, produced for several years on videotape at the VOK. I wrote and produced scripts for a children's puppet show series for several years. I served as Executive Director of the agency for several years. Then until the mid 1990s, I continued to serve as a member of the Board of Directors.

One public record reports our Dallas address on Colorado Blvd. This is actually the address of our friends, Jerry and Martha Gilmore, with whom we stayed at times on visits from our Kenya assignment and used their address as a permanent address for a time.

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville B Jenkins
Birth Date 21 Jul 1948
1608 W Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75208-2718

The following Irving, Texas, address was our permanent address for one period of our service when we were overseas. This was the first home of our son Gareth Boyd.

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville Jenkins
Birth Date 21 Jul 1948
2110 Cunningham St, Irving, TX, 75062-4292

I found it interesting that there was a directory entry for me at my mother's address in Lindsay, Oklahoma.

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville B Jenkins
403 SW 6th St, Lindsay, OK, 73052-6011

Over the years, Edith and I had several residence addresses where we lived for a period, or permanent addresses with friends or family during times we were out of the country.

U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
Orville B Jenkins
15 Brookview Dr, Little Rock, AR, 72209-2047 (1989-1990)
3937 Villanova St, Dallas, TX, 75225-5315 (1993)
521 Spinner Rd, Desoto, TX, 75115-4307 (1994)

Over the years, Edith and I were involved in overseas work assignments for 36 years. We were in Kenya over the period 1971-1973, then 1976-1997, with short periods in the US every 3 or 4 years.

I was a teacher and methods instructor in the Toronto Institute of Linguistics (TIL) in several summer sessions from 1974 through 1985. I worked there and on the field working with Dr Donald Larson of Bethel University, and TIL in Kenya, Zambia and the US in training sessions for volunteers and missionaries, focusing on language and culture learning methods.

The Toronto Institute of Linguistics was founded in 1949 as part of the Canadian School of Missions and offered intensive language and culture courses training missionaries.
Toronto Institute of Linguistics
Archives or manuscripts
Linguistic work, in the Divinity Library Collection
Yale University Library
-- Records of the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, Yale University Digital Content, http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Record/3512442/Description#tabnav

Listing for the TIL Manual;
Manual of language learning: syllabus in use at Toronto Institute of Linguistics, Toronto, Canada and Missionary Training Conference, Meadville, Pennsylvania
Author: Donald N Larson; William A Smalley; Toronto Institute of Linguistics; Missionary Training Conference (Meadville, Pa.)
Publisher: Toronto: Toronto Institute of Linguistics; Meadville, Pennsylvania: Missionary Training Conference, 1960.
-- Bethel University Libraries, http://bethellibraries.worldcat.org/title/manual-of-language-learning-syllabus-in-use-at-toronto-institute-of-linguistics-toronto-canada-and-missionary-training-conference-meadville-pennsylvania/oclc/748289200

After I went through 2 /1/2 years of further preparation in Dallas area graduate schools, Edith and I were appointed as career missionaries by the Foreign Mission Board. The Tribune-Chief was again among newspapers that carried the story.

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Former Quanahan, Wife To Serve In Kenya

Mr and Mrs Orville Boyd Jenkins were among 18 missionaries appointed at the December meeting of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in Richmond, Virginia. They expect to be assigned to Kenya where he will be a communications worker.

Rev Jenkins is the son of KOLJ Radio Station originator, Orville L Jenkins, formerly of Quanah. The elder Jenkins began the station in 1952 and it still carries his initials in its call letters. Rev Jenkins attended Quanah schools.

Rev Jenkins and his wife are now living in Dallas where he is associate director of the North Texas Christian Communications Commission. Arlington, and a student at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Mrs Jenkins is a secretary at Mountain View College in Dallas.

Rev Jenkins was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma and grew up in Quanah. He was graduated from State College of Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas with the Bachelor of Arts Degree. He also attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina and Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. Jenkins was employed by the board as missionary journeymen in Kenya where he worked in Baptist Communications.

Jenkins has served as a radio announcer for three [four] different stations; [KVEE &] KCON, Conway, Arkansas; WYRN, Lewisburg. NC and WIZS, Henderson, NC before going overseas. He has been a teacher in Dallas and has served on the language staff of the Toronto, Canada Institute of Linguistics for two summers.

Mrs Jenkins is the former Edith McSwain of Ethel, Arkansas. She was graduated from State College of Arkansas with the Bachelor of Science Degree. She has been a teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas and Dallas. She has also worked as a secretary in Raleigh, North Carolina.

-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 24 June 1976, p 7
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Among the academic institutions I studied at there were two more not listed in the story above. During my time in Dallas-Fort Worth, I also took courses at Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University (Ministry) and University of Texas at Arlington (Linguistics).

In this new assignment I was initially involved again in media production and training work, but after a short time, our mission asked me to transfer to a new assignment as Director of Language and Orientation, to develop a linguistically-sound language and culture learning program. I already had the academic and professional requirements for this assignment with the mission, having the equivalent of a Master's degree in Linguistics by the time I finished by varied graduate studies.

I worked in the East African arena, then was asked to expand to Eastern and Southern Africa areas and became a consultant and trainer for missions all over Africa. assisting them to set up appropriate training programs with whatever sources might be available, formal or informal. This grew into a broader consultancy that involved my travel to conduct seminars or field surveys and program recommendations in West African countries as well.

I developed training and support for leaders responsible for programs to enable new mission personnel to learn local languages, cultures and worldviews as the basis for developing culturally-appropriate communication strategies to engage the thousands of peoples of Africa.

I developed a community-based and culture-oriented Swahili language learning program and implemented progress and competence evaluation formats and conducted similar programs in 7 languages of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Over the years I developed methods of self-evaluation and implementation of custom programs in several languages and cultures around Africa, and served as a resource for various cross-cultural training programs and organizations. During our 25 years in Kenya, I wrote, edited and/or translated various resources for language and culture learning and Christian work and life.

Many materials and learning modules were developed for several courses I designed and implemented for cultural orientation, initially in East Africa, then over many countries and cultures of Africa. I conducted training workshops for orientation coordinators and developers in many language groups of the huge African continent.

Some resources were formally published for broader use and distribution. I was also a guest lecturer at several Universities or Christian seminaries on Culture, Islam, language and culture learning, ethnographic research, cultural worldview mapping, Orality and non-literate culture and worldview, and anthropological mission strategy approaches.

OBJ Missions A Modern Definition
Monograph by Orville Boyd Jenkins
Cover art by David Stickel
published in 1984 in Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
Published online in 2008, Strategy Leader Resource Kit, http://orvillejenkins.com/theology/missionsamd.pdf
Also available online at DocPlayer, http://docplayer.net/39293292-Missions-a-modern-definition.html

The Path of Love: Jesus in Mystical Islam
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1984 as a resource in cultural orientation to East Africa, in our module on Islam
Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
Korean version published 2011 in Daejon, South Korea
This has been online for since 2003 as part of Islam: Life and Values, http://orvillejenkins.com/islam

Planning and Evaluating Missionary Language Learning
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1989 in Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
Used in many language and culture learning programs, especially in countries of Africa
This has been online since 2000 as part of the online course and expanded resource set "How to Learn a Language and a Culture," http://orvillejenkins.com/langlearn/

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For many years Orville Boyd Jenkins has been responsible for the language learning and cultural orientation program for Southern Baptists in East Africa. During this time, methods and techniques have changed as newer and better methods have been discovered. Orville Boyd has combined cultural learning and adaptation into the language learning program where he works at the Baptist Language Centre, located at Brackenhurst International Conference Centre, near Limuru, Kenya. He says, "Learning a language means learning a culture."

More recently he has become Area Language Consultant for Africa and has traveled widely on the continent assisting missions in establishing language and orientation programs. As language learning and cultural adaptation have become increasingly more urgent in reaching people, Orville Boyd has developed methods to help those studying language to become more proficient in language and to communicate effectively. He is well qualified to assist new missionaries in developing an attitude which facilitates language and culture learning. This book demonstrates his value as a linguist, and I highly recommend it.
-- Dr John Faulkner, Foreword, Planning and Evaluating Missionary Language Learning, Limuru, Kenya: Communication Press, 1989
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"Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins is Director of the Baptist Language Centre in Limuru, Kenya, and also serves as Area Language Consultant for Eastern and Southern Africa Language Consultant for the International Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He has served as guest lecturer at St Paul's United Theological College (Kenya) and Baptist Theological College (Kenya). He has earned the degrees of bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and French), Master of Theology and Doctor of Education (Linguistics)."
-- Back Cover author information, Planning and Evaluating Missionary Language Learning, Limuru, Kenya: Communication Press, 1989

Outline Introduction to Islam
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1991
Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
This has been online since 2003 as part of Islam: Life and Values, http://orvillejenkins.com/islam

"Orville Boyd Jenkins is Communication Resource specialist the International Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (Eastern and Southern Africa). He was Director of the Baptist Language Centre, Limuru, Kenya, for 13 years. He has worked in radio-TV and music fields in the USA and Kenya. He has taught at the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, and has served as guest lecturer in communications at St Paul's Theological College and in Islam and World Religions at Baptist Theological College (both in Kenya). He has earned the degrees of bachelor of Arts, Master of Theology and Doctor of Education.
-- Author page in Outline Introduction to Islam, By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins, Limuru, Kenya: Communication Press, 1991; This has been online since 2003 as part of Islam: Life and Values, http://orvillejenkins.com/islam

Dealing with Cultural Differences: Contrasting African and European Worldviews
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1991 as a resource in Cross-Cultural Communication training at the Cross-Cultural Centre (formerly known as the Baptist Language Centre), Limuru, Kenya
Online since 2007
Dealing with Cultural Differences, Strategy Leader Resource Kit, http://strategyleader.org/langlearn/pdf/dealdiffbooklet.pdf

I was a translator and the Swahili version editor for Living the Responsible Life, by Cecil A Ray.

Kuishi kwa Wajibu / Cecil A Ray
watafsiri (translators) Wilson M Chiko and Orville Boyd Jenkins; mhariri wa Kiswahili (Swahili editor) Orville Boyd Jenkins
Nairobi: Baptist Publications House, 1986. 123p; 21cm. Kiswahili translation of Living the Responsble Life.
Legal deposit reg. no 4238 ([KE86-055] 248.4)
1. Title 2. CHIKO, Wilson M. tr. 3. JENKINS, Orville Boyd tr./ed.

Edith and I lived in Dallas again for about 6 months in 1993, hosted by Park Cities Baptist Church. Our children attended school in the Highland Park School District. We were listed in a directory at the address in Dallas that year.

U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
Orville B Jenkins
3917 Villanova St, Dallas, TX, 75225-5315 (1993)

Orville & Edith Jenkins
(Edith is not in the photo)
BSM Executive Council, p 53
(Baptist Student Ministries)
1998 The Bronco, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas

In 1998, we moved to the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, 40 miles from Turkey and 70 miles from Syria. We resided there and worked in ethnic research and cross-cultural communication strategies and training for cross-cultural workers until September 2001. We moved to the US right after travel opened up again after the 9-11 destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City. We spent 4 years in Richmond, Virginia, when I was organizing and coordinating an international research network on all the ethnicities of the world.

I was the first Editor of the Registry of Peoples (ROP), a new codeset for ethnicities of the world, designed to enable databases of any form and format to exchange and compare information to gain a more accurate picture of the peoples of the world and the changing factors generation to generation.

The ROP was a project of Harvest Information Systems. I directed this project for the first four years from Richmond, Virginia, then continued when we moved to South Africa, from October 2005 to January 2008.

I moved to South Africa in 2005, where I worked halftime or so on the international people research about half time, while working in more local settings in Eastern Central and Southern Africa with local teams in various countries working on people research and cross-cultural communication strategies. Moving back to the United States, I handed this responsibility to the succeeding editor, Dr Jim Courson, in 2009 after served as Editor for over 7 years before final retirement from service in April 2010.

"My daughter, Susanne Uno, told me about your page. You do not remember, of course, but I knew you before you were a year old, as I knew your father, Orville. He was my husband's uncle. I am the widow of Harold Christian. By the way, Harold was born in 1922, not 1919. I am still trying to find the father of Joseph Sanford Jenkins. I would enjoy hearing from you."
-- Ruth Christian, Guestbook Entry, OBJ Genealogy, 10 November 2008

When we returned to the US in 2009 to take up residence, I established myself in Real Estate investing for a few years. Following is my profile on one of the Real Estate sites on the Internet.

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Orville Jenkins
Real Estate Consultant, Investor
Specialties: Consulting, Buying As-Is with Quick Close, Creative Strategies

Can't sell your house? Call me. Helping people is my primary goal. I like people and I like to find solutions to problems. I value individuals and their unique situations. I am honest and faithful in my commitments and relationships. I believe every deal can result in a win for everybody. I provide free and confidential consultation. Let's Talk!

I grew up in North Texas (Quanah, Hardeman County). I was involved in various business enterprises in early years, in the radio business with my father, in agriculture and cattle and electronics; professional broadcasting experience in the US and overseas. I attended SMU graduate school, lived in Dallas.

I moved back to the Metroplex in 2009 and settled in Arlington with my wife, Edith. Our two sons were born in Kenya, went to university in Texas, and settled in DFW. I extended my business interests with Real Estate training first in 2002. I focused on Real Estate investing when we moved to Arlington, Texas, in 2009, learning the market and following the dramatic financial changes, building networks with DFW Real Estate professionals.
-- Zillow, https://www.zillow.com/profile/Blues-Wailer/
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Here is my profile from my Facebook Page, as of 30 March 2019.

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About You
Native of Chickasha, Oklahoma; raised in Quanah, Texas; lived in several US States, but most of my adult life in Kenya,

Some years in Cyprus and South Africa; have taught, spoken or consulted in Europe, Canada, US, many countries of Africa; research on languages or cultures in several countries of the world; some field experience, analysis or program learning design in about 55 languages of the world.

Established language and culture learning programs in several countries of Africa. Taught several summers in 1970s and 1980s in the Toronto Institute of Linguistics (University of Toronto). Founding director of Interfaith Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya (1994-1997). Director Cross Cultural Communications Centre, Limuru, Kenya, 1977-1990. Research Consultant on Ethnicity and Culture since about 1994.

Guest lecturer of several colleges in Kenya, visiting speaker in several US colleges and universities. Myers-Briggs Profile: INTJ
See my websites http://orvillejenkins.com/; http://obj.name/; genealogy http://objgenealogy.com/

Languages
Swahili language · Spanish (language) · French · Português (idioma) · German language

Religious Views
Christian - Baptist but non-denominational, focus is Jesus' teachings and New Testament writings); I enjoy discovering the meaning of the biblical texts in their own historical context, in contrast to holding them captive to the popular cultural worldview. I respect followers of other formal religions. In my living in Kenya, South Africa and the Middle East, I have had personal and business relations with people of various Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim sects.

Political Views
Independent, Libertarian, International, African and Latin Affinities; We are all genetically related

-- Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/orville.jenkins/about?section=bio&info_surface=intro_card&lst=1179614090%3A1179614090%3A1553998657
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Mullinax Descent

I am descended from the original Mullinaxes, John and Sarah. Two direct descendants of John and Sarah, the surname Mullinax are my direct lineal grandmothers. One channel of direct descent is from Sarah Mullinax, born 1826, who married Marick (Merrick) West.

Sarah Mullinax (1826 - 1914) is your 3rd great grandmother
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Augustus Lafayette West (1853 - 1888) son of Sarah Mullinax
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Lou Ada (sometimes appears as Luada) Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Augustus Lafayette West
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Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Lou Ada (sometimes found as Luada) Caldonia West
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Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green
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Orville Boyd Jenkins. You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.

Another channel of descent connects through George Ross Mullins, son of Frances Ann Mullinax and John M Mullins.

Frances Ann Mullinax (1799 - 1870) is your 5th great grandmother
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George Ross Mullins (1819 - 1896) son of Frances Ann Mullinax
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Nancy Elizabeth Mullins (1843 - 1911) daughter of George Ross Mullins
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Amanda A Tatum (1860 - 1945) daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins
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Lou Ada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Amanda A Tatum
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Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West
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Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green
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Orville Boyd Jenkins (1948 -) son of Lou Ila Gregory

You can see that from the two charts above, the dual chain of descent joins into my maternal line with Augustus Lafayette West, son of Sarah Mullinax, and his wife Amanda Tatum, daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins, who was the granddaughter of Frances Ann Mullinax.
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Sources

1. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2
2. Orville Boyd Jenkins, Personal Knowledge
3. U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
4. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999
5. Quanah, Texas, City Directory 1962-63
6. Lindsay News, Lindsay, Oklahoma
7. OBJ Publications
8. Quanah (Texas) Tribune-Chief, June 1966
9. Zillow.com
10. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
11. Vacation Bible School Certificate
12. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2
13. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013
14. Faulkner County Historical Society
15. School Yearbooks
16. Quanah Tribune-Chief newspaper
17. Pikes Peak History Book 1908-2008
- Location: Lindsay, Oklahoma; Date: 2008;