MEET MELISSA TAFT,
Founder & Deliverance Minister

Melissa, like most women, grew up in a dysfunctional home environment. Her parents ended up divorcing when Melissa was in high school, which left a single, stay-at-home mom and two siblings navigating through the collateral damage left behind.

Melissa always knew God existed but because she only knew Him through her traditional religious Catholic upbringing, she never felt close enough to Him to develop an intimate relationship with Him.

The enemy knew this and used her childhood rejection, insecurity, and ignorance to wage war in every area of her life.

At the age of 17, she excitedly left home to attend college, spiritually unarmed and ready to conquer the world. The devil strategically planted her in a sorority where she felt she could finally fit in. Melissa was like a kid in a candy store. Cute fraternity guys vying for the attention she never received from her father combined with a wide array of unsupervised parties, became an active breeding ground for the spirits of rejection and rebellion.

Melissa became saved during a Sunday morning church service, a few blocks away from her sorority while experiencing a severe hangover. She felt ashamed for her promiscuous choices, which led to an abortion. Unfortunately, nothing really changed for her because she still felt unlovable by an Almighty God. 

Years later, without the degree that the enemy and her parents convinced her was vital for her self-worth, Melissa ended up in various sales jobs where she mastered the art of manipulation in order to survive as a single parent in her 20’s.

In her 30’s, after failed relationship number 2, she realized she had to get her act together. So she did what many Christians do, she and her daughter started attending a non-denominational Christian church. She assumed this would satisfy her spiritual void. Meanwhile, she put all of her attention into a career in network marketing.

One day, the Lord challenged Melissa (she talks about it often) to do one act of obedience that would change her entire life forever. Looking back at all the fake and unfulfilled years pursuing a worldly kingdom she hoped would gratify her needs and desires, she took God up on His offer.

This one simple act back in 2010 is what actually began to birth Mountain Movers. Melissa sold her second successful internet business and resigned from her thriving life coaching business so she could fully sell out for God and the plan He had for her life. She attended Charis Bible College, through Andrew Wommack Ministries, and also worked as a counselor and deliverance minister for a very well-respected deliverance center/ministry in Arizona.

Melissa has helped hundreds of men and women realize freedom through deliverance in both one-on-one and corporate settings.

Melissa’s fearless and passionate dream to see women from every age and demographic find and follow their God-Calling is what she has committed the rest of her life to do, hence The Mountain Movers Movement. She believes deliverance ministry (the missing link) has been strategically stolen from the church by the enemy. Now it’s Payback time!

Today, Melissa lives in Gilbert, Arizona with her husband and partner, Ryan, their three totally spoiled puppies...Odie, Ava and Chadwick.