Thursday, November 7, 1985 - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Page 5B
Rev. Jenkins Is Homecoming Worship Service Speaker
The Rev. Carroll Douglas
Jenkins will be the guest
speaker for the homecom
ing worship service on
Sunday, November 8. The
service will begin at 11
a.m. in the University
Church, on the campus,
Carroll Douglas Jenkins
was born in Chicago, IL, on
July 16, 1935. His family
returned to South Carolina
very early afterwards and
he started school. He re
ceived his secondary edu
cation in the Philadelphia
public schools.
In 1958, he graduated
with honors from Johnson
C. Smith University, with a
Bachelor’s of Arts De
gree. In 1966 he graduated
with honors from Conwell
School of Theology, Tem
ple University, Philadel
phia, with a Bachelor’s of
Divinity Degree.
Other academic achieve
ments include studies at
the University of Pennsyl
vania School of Social
Work, the University of
Michigan and the Middle
Atlantic Training Con
ference.
In 1958, Rev. Jenkins was
employed with the State of
Pennsylvania Department
of Public Welfare for five
years, where he was a
social worker. During this
time, he was a volunteer
counselor for youth
groups at the First Afri
can Presbyterian Church
in West Philadelphia.
In 1963, he became
Director of the First Afri
can United Presbyterian
Church Christian Educa
tion Program. In his role as
Director, he was responsi
ble for developing the after
school community pro
gram which included tu
toring and recreation. Dur
ing the summers, there
was an extensive Day
Camp and Vacation Bible
School Program. He also
continued to work with
teenagers and young
adults. The youth group
continued to develop and
grow under his leadership.
After graduation from
seminary at Temple Uni
versity, he was ordained
and installed as the Assist
ant Pastor of First Afri
can in September 1966
during which time he
worked in the community
and the Presbytery and
was asked to work with
community and parent
groups in Chester, PA. He
worked with the Awaken
ing Conference of Parents
as they tried to more ade
quately integrate the
public schools and secure
better services. By the
summer of 1%8 the situa
tion had heated-up and he
was asked to come to
Chester, PA, as the Pastor
of the Fifth Presbyterian
Church (now Thomas M.
Thomas United Presby
terian Church). After his
installation in September
1968 as Pastor of Fifth
Presbyterian Cburch, he
created a church and com
munity education program
on Black awareness and
involvement and was
instrumental in organizing
the Black coalitions in
Chester and worked with
the Ministers Association
to build new housing in
Chester.
During those years Rev.
Jenkins participated in the
organizing the BPU in
Philadelphia, the Council
of Black Clergy in Phila
delphia and the Institute of
Black Ministers in Phila
delphia. He was the chair
man of Philadelphia BPU
when it sought to press the
Presbytery into open and
honest conversations with
the Black Economic De
velopment Conference. The
end result was the Pres
bytery began to utilize its
ethnic racial persons more
in the life of the Presby
tery.
After becoming the first
black Association execu
tive in the history of Phila
delphia Presbytery, he was
active in the work of the
Synod as it sought to
broaden its understanding
and its programs related to
ethnic racial ministry,
church development and
mission work as a whole in
the ever changing world
that it was called to serve.
He is married to Nancy
Tann Jenkins and they
have four children.