Meet the Team
We work together to create an atmosphere of hope, healing, and intention to help you flourish!
Anthony Krupp
Husband, Father, TRADESMAN, Encounter Ministries Graduate
As husband and father to 5, Anthony lives to share how Christ has touched his life and transformed it after a life-changing conversion. Certified in the Encounter School of Ministries, he walks with indviduals young and old through group prayer and private inner healing sessions.
Anthony is the founder of the Men’s Mountain Retreat: Rising Embers where he vunerably shares his testimony in hopes to inspire others to “open wide the doors to Christ” and let love transform them. He is proudly on the road to recovery from decades of addictions and disordered behaviors, now walking a new way with Jesus.
He is a Master Electrician, tradesman, and has a skill for creating cozy, beautiful spaces through the art of woodworking. When he isn’t working on the family business, he is often found outdoors building something useful, starting a fire, or playing in the stream with the kids!
“We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.”
– Saint John Paul II
Melissa Krupp
Founder, JESUS-LOVER, Wife, Mother, Home-educator, student tob institute
Wife and mother to 5, Melissa loves nothing more than connecting others with the vunerable heart of Christ as she shares in a powerful Holy-Spirit led life with her husband Anthony. She has a passion and zeal for sharing in the truth most especially to those who are suffering and seeking healing. She has walked with countless of individuals towards healing in various settings, sharing in the raw emotions of her own journey through intensive trauma-recovery and a marriage on the brink of divorce.
When Melissa isn’t having babies, she is a student at the Theology of the Body Institute slowly working towards her certification. She is a proud home-educator who passionately belives in the pursuit of a Spirit-Led Homeschooling life as primary educators of our children. Melissa is a dynamic speaker and writer as she has offered talks and testimony in her local diocese, online, including written and creative content for various Catholic groups. Her former education is in Communications and Art.
Outside of her love for growing in friendship with the saints, she can be found reclaiming vintage items, making her house a home, or reading from her Magnificat while drinking her morning oatmilk cafe miel. Her niche is intersecting truth and beauty as she shares in her love for creative spaces and community building!
“I can do all things in him who strengthens me.”
– phillipians 4:13
Doug Budig
encounter ministry graduate, prayer minister, husband, father
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Fr. Chris Shofner
pRIEST, GRADUATE OF JP2 HEALING INSTITUTE, RETREAT LEADER, ENCOUNtER MINISTRIEs, SPIRITUAL ADVISOR
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Our Goal is Your Glory
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