Faith Like Potatoes
Have you ever had that experience where something you didn’t seek out keeps being put right in front of you with ever increasing urgency? For the past 5 days in different ways the global orphan crisis has been surfacing over and over. Last night I watched a movie that for some reason I thought was a fictional story based in Australia. Instead it was the true story of a Scottish farmer in South Africa. A farmer that eventually starts an orphanage.
Watching the movie, “Faith Like Potatoes” I thought it was kind of interesting but too smarmy and far fetched until I reached the end of the movie and realized with astonishment that it was based on the real life story of Angus Buchan and his wife Jill. You can read more about their orphanage at http://www.shalomtrust.co.za/inside-shalom/bethhatlaimchildrenshome
If you watch the movie on d.v.d. I highly recommend you watching the documentary and other special features that go along with it. I found the documentary even better than the movie. Directed by Regardt van der Bergh, it features Frank Rautenbach as Angus Buchan.
