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 PrintableVersion God's golden acreThe biography of Heather ReynoldsServing little childrenGOD’S GOLDEN ACRE ‘We are here to serve little children who find themselves in dire circumstances. The real purpose comes home when we stand around these little graves and know that we served them well. We were there for them in the worst, most painful, moments of dying.’ So writes Heather Reynolds about whom Dale le Vack has written this inspirational story of one woman’s fight for some of the world’s most vulnerable children. Herself a native South African, Heather believes that Jesus’s directive from Matthew 25.34 onwards clearly led her to found a home for maternal AIDS orphans in KwaZulu-Natal. She and her husband Patrick, a successful sculptor whose income largely funded the work initially, encountered many obstacles as they sought to establish God’s Golden Acre in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in the mid-1990s. From humble beginnings, the project rapidly gained momentum as Heather became aware of the vast need of so many ‘families’ where the only ‘parent’ was a teenage girl caring for her younger siblings in broken-down mud huts with little or no roof for protection. The teenage ‘parents’ often become prostitutes in order to earn a subsistence living to support their families and inevitably the vicious cycle continues. The work also embraces an extensive rural food distribution project on which countless families have become dependent for their survival. At a time when we’re being challenged to make poverty history, Heather’s vision witnesses to the power of prayer in action. No reader can fail to be challenged about their own commitment to the world’s poorest people. Pippa Underwood, © Evangelicals Now - September 2005 |
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