Our Mission
Sharing Christ – Loving People
Shekina International Ministry is called to share the Gospel, disciple nations and extend the love of Christ. We teach people how to apply biblical truth to every aspect of their lives and encourage God’s people to serve the world around them. Through our missions arm, Shekina Charities, we provide global humanitarian aid, feed the hungry, clothe the poor, minister to the elderly, widows and orphans, visit prisoners and reach out to people of all ages and in all walks of life. Shekina International Ministry is built on a foundation of faith, integrity and dedicated supporters who share this call.
Our Vision
Teach the Word and make a difference in the poor, sick and marginalized.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Apostle Dr. Patience Ogechi Oti, is the Senior Pastor of New Jersey Tabernacle in Edison, New Jersey, Shekina House of Worship in Queens, New York, Maryland International Tabernacle, Maryland, and the President of Shekina Charities. Apostle Oti also works as the Assistant Vice President of WIN’s Transitional Housing in New York.
She was born on July 16, 1954 to late Benjamin Eke and Elder Chief Eunice Chinyere Eke both of Igbere in Bende LGA of Abia State, Nigeria. She is married to Engineer Obioma Oti, and is blessed with three wonderful children and three amazing grandchildren.
Dr. Oti is a conference speaker and a missionary. She has taken the Word and her charity work to all the continents of the world except Australia and Antarctica. Her churches own an Orphanage, School and a Church in Haiti. Dr. Oti is also the President of ISOM Bible Schools in Sri Lanka. Patience holds a Ph.D. in Guidance and Counseling. She is an Ordained Minister of Assemblies of God, General Council, USA and serves as the Vice President of Nigerian Assemblies of God Fellowship, USA.
Though born into a Christian family gave her life to Christ at 15. Her day starts at 3:30 am to study the word for herself and then feed the Tribe from the overflow. She leads a “Tribe” of over 150 families that read the bible from cover to cover each year. Her favorite Scripture is Provebs 22:29 – “Seeth thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings. He shall not stand before mean men’.
Apostle Oti chronicles her life and her journey via journals. It is safe to say that her best selling autobiography is already written. She is a published author of 8 books, the last four being: God Calls Me an Eagle, Sixty Pearls in Sixty Years, Stretch, Women Arise. She is result – oriented and her last minute ideas are truly divine. Reading is one of her hobbies, and it just might be the only quiet time she has.
A true worshipper that loves to dance, jumps in 6 inches heels.
A fair woman, a bundle of joy, with an undignified but spirit filled laugh that speaks to her joy and not her happiness, as she preaches, ‘Joy, is internal it comes from within but happiness comes from happenings’.