Canadian to be new prez of World Vision
By Lloyd Mackey
WHEN Calgarians Kevin and Helen Jenkins first committed their lives to Christ, he was a 20-something lawyer with a Harvard MBA and she was a savvy communications specialist.
They like to recall that an early post-commitment fear, on Helen’s part, was that the couple might end up in Africa as missionaries, “serving porridge.”
On October 1, Kevin Jenkins will take over as president and chief executive officer of World Vision International (WVI), arguably the largest evangelically-based relief, development and humanitarian agency in the world. That might not mean serving porridge, he suggests, but it will involve meeting human needs in many and diverse places on the globe.
Since those days early days of their Christian experience, Kevin has served in several high-energy executive positions, including a stint during a particularly difficult period in the airline industry, as president of Canadian Airlines International. He gained a fair amount of ink, at the time, for his seeming ability to work with a 16,000-strong labour force led by people who were prepared to provide management some — but not too much — wiggle room at employee expense.
And his success at employee relations may be due to the fact that he “served porridge”, at least figuratively speaking, along with the company’s other employees.
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