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A leap of new discovery
Anne Heading reflects on her journey from scientific research to rural ministry
OFTEN I SAW THE SUN RISE over my doctoral research laboratory. Never one for burning midnight oil, I would begin experiments (or more accurately dissecting seeds - I worked in plant biochemistry) early in the morning. A change of direction into growing bacteria led to work on infectious diseases and gene cloning. As a lecturer in microbiology and molecular biology I was involved in a DNA fingerprinting project as a part of a multidisciplinary team looking at the bacteria that infect cystic fibrosis patients, many of whom were children. One day, a child caught my eye through a glass panel in the office door as we waded through sample numbers. In that moment the Lord God made a claim on my life. Suddenly the individuals behind the sample numbers became the most important thing in the world.
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