Paul Jennings MSC, Golden Jubilee of ordination, August 29th.
Congratulations to Paul Jennings on the occasion of this Golden Jubilee. This year he has been at Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington. Most of his ministry has been in Papua New Guinea.
This is a reprint of a tribute to him when he received the OBE, reminding us of his achievement in PNG.
Fr Paul Jennings MSC was awarded an OBE by the Government of Papua New Guinea in the Queen’s birthday honours list, for services to education and the Church in Milne Bay and Papua New Guinea.
Paul has worked in education in Papua New Guinea for most of his life as a priest, since 1971. He was a long serving Headmaster of Sacred Heart High School at Hagita, in Milne Bay, for 12 years and at the same time worked on several Department of Education committees in curriculum and teacher capacity building. He was a member of the Ministerial “Matane Commission” in 1986 and 1987 which was tasked with developing a home grown philosophy of education for Papua New Guinea and mapping a way forward for a restructure of the whole education system.
At present Paul is Executive Director of St Joseph’s International Catholic College in Port Moresby, Chair of the Governing Council of a new Sacred Heart Teachers College which specialises in recruiting and training Primary teachers for remote and isolated schools; a member of the National Catholic Education Board and an advisor to several government education committees. He is also completing writing a revised curriculum for Upper secondary Religious Education for catholic schools in Papua New Guinea.
