 Arthur and his wife were forced into early retirement from missionary work in 1971 due to Arthur's angina.In retirement they settled in Wallington, Surrey.During retirement Reynolds was part-time Teacher and Chaplain at the Abbey Christian School (Abbey Road, London), a school for prospective missionaries to learn English as a foreign language, translated the writings of Chinese Christian leader Wong Ming-Dao and worked on his magnum opus, a book on preaching, which was finally published in 1997.