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Characters / Jenny Roberts

Jenny Roberts is a blind girl who first comes to Odyssey as Melanie Jacobs' pen pal and later lives in town. She is cheerful and independent, and she hates being treated as though she might break. Her sharp ears and keen memory let her notice things sighted people miss, and she shows real courage under pressure. Jenny is a regular at Whit's End, where she enjoys Whit's guessing games and lessons drawn from the Bible. Her faith runs deep. She trusts that God can use her just as she is, without her sight. Melanie, once only a pen pal, becomes a true friend. She is also best friends with Courtney Vincent, whom she gently helps through hard disappointments.

Appearances

12 episodes Art Text No.

2 of 2 0361 Three Funerals and a Wedding Two destitute widows return to Bethlehem with nothing but each other, until a chance encounter in a barley field opens an unexpected path to redemption.

1 of 2 0360 Three Funerals and a Wedding When famine drives an Israelite family into a foreign land, a widow and her devoted daughter-in-law must decide what loyalty, faith, and home truly mean.

1 of 2 0318 A Touch of Healing An ambitious experiment with the Imagination Station offers two children a taste of what their disabilities have denied them, while Connie faces a family crisis at the hospital.

3 of 3 0311 The Perfect Witness A blind girl's remarkable memory for sounds and details may be the key to unraveling a bookstore robbery that's far more than it appears.

2 of 3 0310 The Perfect Witness A detective must piece together a blindfolded witness's memories of sounds and smells before the kidnappers' trail - and their hideout - disappears forever.

1 of 3 0309 The Perfect Witness When a bookstore robbery goes wrong, the thieves take a blind girl as the "perfect" hostage - never suspecting how much a witness can learn without seeing.

0253 A Time for Christmas A busy girl too wrapped up in Christmas shopping to help a friend is taken on an Imagination Station journey through Christmases past to discover what the season really means.

0242 Hymn Writers A live-from-church Kids Radio broadcast sends time-traveling microphones back to meet three hymn writers whose faith, courage, and trials gave the church its songs.

0238 For Thine is the Kingdom A young ballerina's dreams are put to the test when a moment of carelessness on her bike changes everything she thought her future would be.

0225 Count it All Joy A frustrated girl who thinks her life is rotten tries to fix her string of bad days with a Bible verse - only to discover she's got it all wrong.

0217 Rights, Wrongs and Reasons A blind girl's visit to Whit's End turns into a lively game of sorting right and wrong actions from the reasons behind them - until one biblical story proves harder to judge than anyone expected.

0206 Pen Pal A girl's excitement about finally meeting her beloved pen pal face-to-face turns to confusion when the visit reveals a secret the letters never mentioned.