Nobantu Addis was called to serve as a child.  After graduating with a Bachelors of Arts in Education from Kent State University she returned to Cleveland, Ohio and taught for five years before moving to Houston, Texas and there teaching for another six years.  While living in Houston Minister Addis joined Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church.  Her membership at Wheeler was an integral part of her growth as a missionary.  In 1982 Minister Addis was licensed to preach and was ordained.   While at Wheeler as an Associate Minister, she publicly announced her call to missions.  She then attended Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas.  Before leaving Houston, Texas Minister Addis was commissioned by Rev. W. H. Lawson as the first commissioned missionary of that church.  As part of her seminary training Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church sent her to the capital Port-au-Prince, Haiti as her first overseas missionary assignment.

In January of 1993 Minister Addis was commissioned as a Missionary by the American Baptist Churches USA and served in Johannesburg, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the invitation of the Western Congo Baptist Community Churches. Because of warring factions, she was evacuated twice from the Congo and returned home.  In 2001 Rev. Addis joined the newly established Imani Temple Ministries. Before retiring as a special education teacher for the Cleveland Municipal Schools she has been blessed to serve as the Assistant Pastor to Pastor Rodney S. Thomas establishmentarian of Imani Temple Ministries for the past twenty plus years. After graduating in June of 2018 from the Chaplaincy Internship Program of the On One Accord Ministry Pastor Addis completed her Clinical Pastoral Education studies of four units at Cleveland Clinic Hospital. She is now employed as a chaplain at University Hospitals.  She lives to serve.