Destiny House

Oct 22, 2009


Well on October 6th I moved into my new home stay Destiny House, for the year. So I’m living with 4 young girls who are in their gap year between high school, and university, who are part of church Christian group called Destiny Project. There are 11 in this group, and they are from SA, but one a girl from Germany. The girls I’m living with are Nandi, Chloe, and Thuli from SA, and Rebekka from Germany. Living with us is our house mother Lucille from SA too! We make our selves a very mixed bunch consisting of 2 whites, 2 coloured, and 2 blacks! Destiny House is owned by a church called New Covenant Fellowship (NCF), which is a Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelical church, and the home is located right outside the church building. NCF has three locations within the city area, and the one I’m living beside is the South one. This church has three services on Sundays, one at 8am 10am, and 6pm, and at the maximum it can hold 2000 worshipers. I have attended one of the other church locations, the West, which is a new church plant in the township of Imbali, and is one of the poorest parts of the outer city area.

Some of the houses down the streets are built of sheet metal, or concrete cement bricks; which aren’t very big, with a long drop out behind the house building. Wondering down the streets, or the ditches you wouldn’t be surprised to see pigs, goats, cattle, or chickens. There is always lots of garbage scattered in the streets as well. The next street over you may find nicer houses, that look more normal and better.

When I first moved in here it was the hardest two weeks of my journey thus far. I hit a low, and it was really hard, I missed home so very much. I hadn’t spoken to my family in weeks and I all I wanted to do was pack everything up and go back home. But I couldn’t, I am here until July next year and there is still so much I want to do. What I have found about with working at Project Gateway is the amazing community of family, and support, and the strength that they give me. If it wasn’t for my family of friends at Project Gateway, my MCC Reps, and family back home, I may still be at my low.

Two weeks later now, I am doing great, I am making friends with these roommates of mine, and I know that when their program is finished the 30th of November I will miss them when they leave. But there will be new girls moving in next February for next years Destiny Project group. I have also now started attending church activities and making friends with young adult at NCF. I am looking forward to the many activities and functions at NCF (Alpha, and home cell group).

Signing out...