Acres of Hope: The Miraculous Story of One Family’s Gift of Love to Children Without Hope
Patty Anglin
This inspiring memoir by a mother who has adopted eight special-needs children calls readers to regard every child as precious in God’s sight. Anglin and her husband, Harold, made a commitment, while fostering 50-odd children through the years, to adopt “the ones no one else wanted.” These include two crack-addicted babies born to a 13-year-old prostitute; a son with severe emotional problems whose birth parents had tortured him with cigarettes and hung him upside down for punishment; a Nigerian boy born without lower arms and legs; and a five-year-old quadriplegic from India who weighed only 16 pounds at adoption. Anglin emerges not as a self-righteous attention-seeker but a woman of deep faith firmly committed to the individual nurturance of children.
From Publishers Weekly Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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