About Melissa Christie

From poverty to purpose, Making childcare accessible to all.

My love for service started in childhood. I was born into a country surrounded by poverty. Though I was fortunate, I watched many of my friends struggle to access the opportunities I had. I grew up watching both of my parents serve in government roles, using their positions to lift up families in deep need.

My favorite thing about my mother was that she would cook meals not just for us, but for our entire neighborhood, often knowing that for many, it would be the only meal they’d eat that day. I was raised to give away my old clothes, toys, and school lunches without hesitation. My father, a brilliant businessman and civil servant, taught me what it meant to work hard while serving others. My parents were my first example of leadership, sacrifice, and compassion, and that shaped everything that’s followed in my life.

Since then, I’ve built my life around creating impact.

I’ve served an LDS mission in Hawaii, worked as a student midwife in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, helping women in extreme poverty deliver healthy babies and avoid unnecessary cesareans.I’ve worked with soles4shoes donating hundreds of shoes to 3rd world countries 

I am also a single mom and a survivor of financial abuse. I know the heavy weight of struggling to provide for your children, and what it feels like to have to leave your child to go work, only to come home with barely enough left after paying for care.

 If parents have to be away from their kids, it should make sense. It should work for their families, not against them. My life is guided by a simple but powerful philosophy: Work hard, serve others wholeheartedly, and keep God at the center of it all.

 I am So proud of this little daycare I work at and the many families I get to serve.

“A childcare center should work for the parent, the child, and the community, anything less isn’t success.” With love Melissa