GOD’S GOLDEN ACRE
A biography of Heather Reynolds
By Dale le Vack. Monarch Books. 319 pages. £8.99
ISBN 1 85424 706 9
‘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.
