Prophetess Ivery is the founder of Focus on Jesus International Prophetic Ministries an organization that
has been teaching and preaching the Gospel throughout the Delaware Valley for over two decades.  She
has ministered in the missionary fields of Puerto Rico, Haiti, Bermuda, and received outreach missionary
training in Jerusalem, Ghana and Zambia where she appeared on TBN Zambia. 

Prophetess Ivery was ordained as a Missionary and Minister in 1993.  In 1997, she was ordained as an
Elder at the Rock Church Family Worship Center under the leadership of Pastors Bryant-Lee and the late
Charlene Phillips where she served as an Executive Board member and Minister Director of the new
Member’s Training classes.  In 1999, Prophetess Ivery completed her specialized training in the
Prophetic, which involved the “Five-fold” Ministry Gifts, specifically in the Office of Prophet from the
Eagle’s Nest Prophetic College where she later severed as an Instructor and Board Member of the
International Apostolic Prophetic Network (I.A.P.N.) founded by Apostle Ricci J. Hausley.  She also
earned accredited ministry training from the Mount Airy Religious Training Institute (M.A.R.T.A.
Philadelphia, PA 1992), the Jameson School of Ministry (Philadelphia, PA, 1994) and the Victory Christian
Center’s School of the Word, (Philadelphia, PA, 1994). Maria Ivery is a Global Intercessor and Director of
the tribe of Issachar 3rd Generation under Dr Cassandra Scott Int’l Prayer Ministries. 
Presented, she a leader at Word of Restoration International Church under the leadership of Pastor
Charles Perry Jr and Lady Charlotte Perry and actively apart of the Harvest Ministry and Triumph Woman
of God. 

Prophetess Ivery is a certified life coach and a registered nurse who graduated from Albert Einstein
School of Nursing in 1983, received her BSN at GCU March 2021, and presently pursing a master’s in
nursing education.Her spiritual gifting has also offered the opportunity to have serve psychiatric patients at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Well-traveled, Prophetess Ivery has presented numerous seminars, workshops, and lectures on the Gift
of Prophecy, the Office of the Prophet, Prophetic Intercession, the “Five-fold” Ministry Gifts, Spiritual
Birthing classes and Spiritual Midwifery for Expecting parents, Specialized Instruction for Menopausal
Women, Women’s Ministry Summits, and Ministry Design Training Conferences. She’s the founder of Focus on Jesus Int’l Ministry, training and activating many in the prophetic as well as a midwife assisting those in birthing out their vision. Maria is the author of two publications Do You See What I See and Workbook.
Prophetess Ivery is the daughter of the late Elder Lillian Brooks, one brother Pastor Billy Ivery, one
daughter, Prophetess Marquisha Ivery , and one granddaughter, Hanniah  Maria Brown.