Trina Jenkins is the devoted wife of the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Glenarden, Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr.  They have been united as one for more than 25 years. She enjoys being a homemaker and mother to their six children and one granddaughter.

Trina received Christ as her personal Savior in 1976 at the Good Hope United Methodist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, during a service in which her future husband (Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr.) was the youth preacher.

Trina is very interested in the natural development and spiritual growth of families and women. At FBCG, she oversees more than 20 ministries relating to families, men and women as Director of the Family Life Ministries Department. She also preaches and teaches at churches, retreats and conferences around the United States and Africa.  The Lord is using this well-respected, godly woman to train Christian women to reach their utmost potential in Christ Jesus.

After successfully completing the requirements of the Instructor Training Program offered by the Natural Family Planning Providers Association of Maryland and the District of Columbia, Trina has worked for Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., as a certified Natural Family Planning Instructor.

Trina Jenkins earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from the University of Maryland in 1982, and in 2004 received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Truth Bible College in Jacksonville, Florida.