Our Mission:
To facilitate those who are in transition from a temporary shelter to a permanent home and re-establishing each homeless person’s dignity into becoming a productive citizen.

Our Vision:
To construct a facility that can accommodate (short-term) a person in transition with food, shelter, vocational, educational and spiritual guidance toward permanent housing and employment.

Our History
In month of November, 1994 we began to transport and feed a few homeless individuals on a weekly basis as we held our worship services at 26 E. Baseline Road . A small but dedicated staff of volunteers from our ministry cooked homemade meals and used their own means of transportation to accommodate the homeless. As the ministry grew, so did the needs of the community’s homeless. Since then, we have maintained this community outreach solely on the individual contributions of the members of the New Destiny Christian Church.

In the winter of 2000, our pastor purchased a used transit city bus to transport the homeless from the shelters to weekly worship services until it finally broke down. In the spring of 2005, again solely on individual contributions, the ministry purchased two turtle-top mini buses (28-30 passengers each) to transport the homeless to and from worship services on a weekly basis. Each week an average of 50 people are picked up from various shelters in Phoenix , brought to church, fed a home cooked meal, invited to worship with the congregation and then returned to the shelters.

Many of the homeless would rather not return to the shelter and ask for help with their various needs, e.g. employment, and housing.

Having never missed a week, the ministry decided to answer their pleas and formed the DESTINY HAVEN FOUNDATION as of December 1, 2005 .

 

For now, the foundation operates under the 501©(3)-non-profit status of New Destiny Christian Church, but is currently applying for independent non-profit status. The first goal is to break ground for construction of a facility that will:

• Accommodate a minimum of 50 persons for 30-60 days at its capacity(50 per month).
• Provide adequate food, clothing and bathing needs.
• Provide training relative to the person’s need in job skills & education.
• Help to negotiate permanent housing for those who qualify to go back into the work force gainfully employed.
• Operate a full-time daycare for those with children.
• Provide voluntary spiritual oversight and family counseling.

Until this facility is built, the operation of weekly ministry continues by members of the New Destiny Christian Church’s Community Outreach without regards to race, national origin sex or religious affiliation. Funds are being solicited from corporations and other philanthropic means that share a common interest in providing this facility to aid the homeless population in Phoenix .