Our Founders

Apostle Dr. Crispin B. Kamucici is the Founder, President, and Apostolic Leader of Shekinah Apostolic Ministries International.

Raised in a Christian family, he was baptized at the age of fourteen while attending high school. His early life included seasons of hardship and significant responsibility, but these experiences developed within him perseverance, faith, compassion, discipline, and a passion for personal and community transformation.

As his relationship with God deepened, he became increasingly burdened for the spiritual condition of the Church and the destiny of nations. A defining moment in his calling came through Jeremiah 1:10:

From the earliest days of the vision, Pastor Jacqueline Kamucici has stood faithfully alongside Apostle Crispin as a wife, mother, intercessor, and servant of God’s people.

Her prayer, strength, hospitality, compassion, and commitment to family have played an essential role in the development and stability of the ministry.

Pastor Jacqueline carries a heart for women, children, families, and people experiencing difficult transitions. Through her care and quiet strength, she has helped cultivate a ministry environment where people can experience love, belonging, restoration, encouragement, and spiritual growth.

Apostle Crispin and Pastor Jacqueline model a ministry partnership established upon prayer, covenant, perseverance, sacrifice, family, and obedience to God.

As Apostle Crispin studied the ministry of Jesus Christ and the Book of Acts, God repeatedly drew his attention to the love, unity, spiritual power, and Kingdom influence of the early Church.

He came to understand that religious traditions, division, lack of genuine love, and insufficient understanding of the Kingdom were preventing many believers from fully demonstrating the nature, authority, and glory of God.

In August 2002, Apostle Crispin and Pastor Jacqueline began seeking God together through prayer in their home in Rwanda. They invited others to pray with them and began teaching about loving God wholeheartedly, loving one another, and living according to the principles of His Kingdom.

Their home became a place of prayer, fellowship, biblical teaching, and spiritual preparation. In November 2003, the first church congregation, Shekinah Temple, was planted in Kigali, Rwanda.

Following further development, Shekinah Apostolic Ministries was formally established in December 2005. As the work crossed national boundaries, the ministry became known as Shekinah Apostolic Ministries International.

Apostle Dr. Crispin Kamucici has pursued extensive biblical and ministerial preparation throughout his journey. His education includes studies in Biblical Studies, training through the Bible Training Centre for Pastors, an Associate Degree in Ministerial Theology, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Ministry.

In recognition of his contribution to ministry, leadership, and community transformation, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Transformational Leadership.

His leadership has also been shaped by decades of prayer, biblical study, pastoral ministry, church planting, international missions, mentoring, writing, teaching, entrepreneurship, and service to communities.

From 2006 to 2009, Apostle John Alley, founder of Peace Apostolic Ministries in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, provided valuable apostolic mentorship. This relationship strengthened Apostle Crispin’s understanding of apostolic ministry, spiritual fatherhood and sonship, covenant relationships, Kingdom order, and the importance of developing people.

These teachings contributed to the theological foundation upon which his own Kingdom understanding would continue to grow. They helped deepen his appreciation of God’s Kingdom not merely as a subject of preaching, but as the governing reality of the believer’s life, leadership, ministry, purpose, and influence in society.

Together with other important apostolic relationships and influences God brought into his journey, the ministry of Rev. Kola and Rev. Funke Ewuosho became part of the formative process through which Apostle Crispin’s Kingdom message was progressively shaped, strengthened, and eventually expressed through his own preaching, teaching, books, leadership development, and the vision of Shekinah Apostolic Ministries International.

The books and teachings of Dr. Myles Munroe further deepened his understanding of Kingdom principles, purpose, leadership, dominion, citizenship, and the distinction between the Kingdom of God and religious tradition.

Apostle Crispin is also an author, public speaker, Kingdom teacher, and transformational leader. His books and teachings address Kingdom lifestyle, leadership, love, shepherding, stewardship, financial intelligence, spiritual maturity, personal transformation, and the responsibility of believers to influence society.

Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Apostle Crispin and Pastor Jacqueline lived with their family as refugees in Rwanda for approximately fifteen years.

During this season, they raised their family, served God, developed leaders, and built the ministry despite the challenges of displacement and uncertainty. Their experience demonstrated that difficult circumstances cannot cancel a divine calling.

In April 2016, Apostle Crispin, Pastor Jacqueline, and their ten children were resettled in Cleveland, Ohio. They carried the Kingdom vision developed in Africa into this new season and began establishing the ministry in the United States.

Cleveland became the international headquarters of Shekinah Apostolic Ministries International and a strategic base for local ministry, leadership development, community service, international missions, and the continued strengthening of Kingdom work in Africa.

Under their leadership, and through the prayer, sacrifice, generosity, and faithfulness of the Shekinah family, the ministry reached a defining milestone by acquiring its own permanent headquarters building at 4308 Pearl Road, Cleveland, Ohio.

The property was obtained after a long and challenging process that required extraordinary faith, patience, perseverance, and divine provision. God enabled the ministry to acquire the building without a traditional bank loan and at a cost substantially below its potential value.

Apostle Crispin and Pastor Jacqueline regard the headquarters not merely as a church property, but as a Kingdom resource entrusted to the ministry for worship, prayer, discipleship, leadership training, healing and restoration, refugee and immigrant support, compassionate service, economic empowerment, and international mission.

This permanent home represents both the faithfulness of God and the beginning of an expanded season of Kingdom impact.

The refugee experience of Apostle Crispin and Pastor Jacqueline has given them a special understanding of the challenges faced by displaced families, immigrants, former refugees, minorities, and people beginning again in unfamiliar environments.

They believe the Church must minister to the whole person: spiritually, emotionally, relationally, and practically.

His vision is not limited to gathering people for church services. He is committed to raising mature disciples who know God intimately, understand their identity in Christ, develop Kingdom character, walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, serve humanity, and bring godly influence into every sphere of society.

He believes transformed people can transform families, transformed families can strengthen communities, and transformed communities can influence nations.

Today, Apostle Dr. Crispin B. Kamucici and Pastor Jacqueline Kamucici continue to provide spiritual leadership and pastoral oversight to Shekinah Apostolic Ministries International.

From the ministry’s permanent headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, Apostle Dr. Crispin B. Kamucici continues to teach the Word of God, develop leaders, strengthen families, serve communities, and advance Kingdom relationships and initiatives in the United States, Africa, and beyond.

Their journey, from displacement to establishment, from meeting in a home to leading an international ministry with its own headquarters, is a testimony of God’s faithfulness.

With gratitude for what God has already accomplished and faith for the future, they remain committed to His presence, His Word, His people, and His Kingdom purpose among the nations.