KELVIN LEON FYNN works at the water bottling plant at KwaSizabantu Mission in Kranskop, KwaZulu-Natal, where the raw material is received. But he grew up in Durban. Kelvin says that cigarette smoking is the gateway to drugs. It is not hard to move from smoking cigarettes to drugs, and that is what happened to him.
He says, “I befriended the outcasts and started to smoke weed with them, but I quickly surpassed them and started using drugs. I was only 13 years old at the time! I used drugs for almost the most significant part of my life – daily. Drugs, alcohol, sex, and gangsterism were the order of the day, and I was part of that fast life. Those things were ‘normal’ to me.
“I started selling drugs at our flat building when I was around 14. At some stage, I did not pay the drug lord, and he came to my house and took most of our stuff as compensation – even things that belonged to my mother.
“By the age of 17, I was a gang member and had to draw blood to earn my status. When you are on drugs, there is no distinction between you and a mad person. You give up on life; that is a reality. You lose your soul – that is what drugs do to you. My life spiralled out of control. My mother lost her decent job. She had to take time off from work so many times to be in court because of my behaviour that she lost her job. In the end, she lost it all because she started to use alcohol. My brother followed in my footsteps, and she could not handle it anymore. My brother got killed because of his choice to follow in my footsteps”.
Things started to change for Kelvin on Friday, the 13th of January, 2023. By then, he had suffered severe paranoia as he had not slept for a very long time. He heard about the CYPSA restoration program at the KwaSizabantu Mission in Kranskop and started hitchhiking to the mission station.
“When I saw the place the next day, the beauty of it captivated me”, Kelvin says. “The landscaping, neat gardens and houses, the rondavels – all looked well maintained. KwaSizabantu restored my dignity and that of my family. They are doing God’s work, and you can see it; everywhere you walk on KwaSizabantu soil, you can see God is at work here. I have a twinkle in my eye again and am happy for the first time.”
“I chose to be here. I asked for help, and I asked for people here to pray for me. They do not judge you. They pray for you, and they accept you for who you are. They are happy, and I wanted to share in that happiness.”
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