Page 4 - Consider The Lillies of the Field - My Story: Jill Kemp

My story.

Consider The Lilies Of The Field.
This is a transcript of a recording.
Speaker: Jill Kemp

My name is Jill Kemp and for more than 14 years I organised and
facilitated a very large mainly music pre-school pro-gramme, for
the community, held twice a week at a church in Tauranga.

I was born at the end of the Second World War and married Bob when
I was 19 years old. We have four adult children and had 13 foster
children, for up to 2 year periods, as well. Many of these have become
part of our extended family long term. Now they all have families of
their own we love being “Granny” and
“Grandpop,” or “Aunty & Uncle,” to them all.

Several years ago I was asked to tell my story, one Sunday evening,
in my local church. My sister’s husband really didn’t understand the
difficulties we had both experienced as chil-dren and as he is hearing

impaired I transcribed the recording made that evening. This is word
for word as it was spoken (without the
“umms!”) The few photos we had of us as chil-dren are included. I
never realised, in doing this, the impact our story would have on other
people’s lives.

Bob and I have a world - wide ministry equipping teachers, parents
and missionaries, with free resources on our website.
www.lambsongs.co.nz. It is amazing what comes out of a sack.
Read on!
Jill

lambsongs@xtra.co.nz
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