Melissa Holbert was born in Durango, Colorado in 1990. Her family moved to Elko, Nevada when she was one year old and she considers it her “HOME”. She went to Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada and graduated in 2011 with her Associates of Applied Sciences with an emphasis on welding technology. She worked in the trades industries for nine years and pursued her career which took her to San Antonio,Texas in 2018. She lived there for two and a half years until she married Levi Holbert in September of 2020 and they were expecting their first child, at which point they decided to move back home to be closer to family. She started working with the Gift family during the summer of 2022, through a program called Foster The City, which was adopted by her church. The vision of Foster The City is to come alongside foster children and families to help form a support network by supporting them in practical ways as well as wrapping them with prayer. Melissa saw what a huge need there was in her community for a program like The Moses Project and began helping out however she could with the nonprofit as well. When the Gift family made the decision to move to South Dakota, they approached her and asked her to prayerfully consider taking on a bigger role in the nonprofit, so that it could continue to serve the community and care for as many children and families as possible. “I am humbled and honored and joyfully accept this responsibility! It is my hope and prayer that we can continue to carry on John and Elishia‘s vision and come alongside our most precious and vulnerable!” ~Melissa Holbert
Melissa Holbert: Director