[Meet the Team]

Steve & Missy Crowder

Lead Pastors
Steve and Missy Crowder met in 1996 at Applied Life Christian College in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and were married in April of 1998. After finishing college, they moved to Russellville, Arkansas, where they served as Youth, College, and Associate Pastors. They have been in the ministry together for twelve years.

Following the direction of God, they incorporated High Way Ministries International in December of 2006 and moved to Boulder, Colorado, the following July. They have three beautiful children: Lance, Derek, and Amber. The Crowders desire nothing more than to be used by God to strengthen the Body of Christ and reach into a dark world with the truth of his love.

Email Steve: steve@highwaycommunity.com

Email Missy: missy@highwaycommunity.com

Blogs
Steve's Blog
Missy's Blog

Melinda Stokes

Worship & Creative Arts Pastor
Mel felt called into the ministry in her teen years, during which she was involved in the worship team at her church. She spent three years in Australia at Bible College, where she discovered her passion for the global Church and Thai food. She is currently a student at Colorado Christian University and is majoring in Global Studies. She has a passion to see people genuinely connect with their Creator and to see restoration and justice brought forth in their lives.

Email Melinda: mel@highwaycommunity.com

Becki Becker

Bookkeeper
A graduate of Metropolitan State College of Denver, Becki has been in accounting-related fields for nearly 15 years. Back in Black Bookkeeping was launched in January 2008 as a means to be a mom to her 3 children while still keeping food on the table! She is mom to twins Claire and Jacob and also to Erin. She is a native of Colorado and loves all that this beautiful state has to offer. Becki is actively involved in her children’s school PTO and classrooms as well as her church.

Brett Butrick

Welcome Team Leader
Brett has lived in Boulder County his entire life. Working with teenagers is the most exciting thing that Brett has done. He worked in youth ministry in Longmont for 7 years and has also coached soccer in Longmont for traveling teams and for high school since 1998.

Brett was the Parking Director for Heaven Fest, a huge Christian music festival in 2008. It is AWESOME to see God reaching into our community and embracing so many people. He tries to find ways to connect with people and to relate to them. Brett loves people and he loves making a fool out of himself (which comes naturally at times). Reaching out to people to show them the love of God is a motivating factor in his actions.

Brett graduated with a degree in Social Sciences and a minor in History from UNC in Greeley, CO. He now works in a small machine shop, creating plastic helicopter parts. Socially, Brett loves a great movie and watches them often with friends.

Email Brett: brett@highwaycommunity.com

Jared Cole

IT Director / Music Director
Jared was born on a stormy summer's eve in 1982 (the best year ever), and throughout his childhood, he moved around a lot with his family. When he was thirteen, he became interested in thinking machines (computers), web design, and other things that are slightly geeky and awesome. At the age of fifteen, Jared started playing the electric git fiddle (or guitar, if you will) and started getting involved with worship music. He has been involved in the creative arts areas of many ministries throughout his lifetime.

In 2008, following the call of God, he moved to Colorado to be a part of launching High Way Community in Boulder, where he serves on the creative arts team as a web designer/web programmer/IT director (the geek stuff) as well as serving on the worship team as the Music Director, playing lead guitar, and occasionally the synthesizer. Jared is excited about seeing what God has in store for him and the Community of Boulder, CO!

Email Jared: jared@highwaycommunity.com

Chad Hoffman

Born To Serve Director
Chad joined the High Way family in the fall of 2008 and became a part of the leadership team in 2009. His ministry and leadership gifts have been shaped by his training and service as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has had educational and outreach experiences with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and Get the Word Out! (a Bible training ministry). He enjoys soccer, motorcycles, and all things China. His passion is to see each person take their unique place in the Body of Christ. As the Born to Serve Director at HWC, he coordinates the volunteers and gets to walk with them through the process of discovering, developing and engaging their talents and spiritual gifts.

Email Chad: chad@highwaycommunity.com

Travis Melton

Community & Missions Director
After spending time in collegian ministry on the campus of Eastern New Mexico University and traveling around the world through missions, Travis realized his passion for the global Church was expanding and decided to move to Boulder in January of 2007. Although he is passionate about skiing, recycling and climbing, Travis’s greatest desire is to let his life be an example of Christ’s love for the world, and to impart to others the same desire. Travis has found his home at High Way through helping others to pursue God’s call on their life and their role within the body of Christ.

Travis is a cool dude, come to High Way to meet him!

Email Travis: travis@highwaycommunity.com

Justin Renfroe

Production Director
In 2006, Justin joined the vision of Highway Community. He currently resides in Broomfield, CO, working as a speech language pathologist. Each week he also runs the sound and oversees the production team for High Way’s Sunday gatherings. In his spare time, Justin enjoys being outdoors, listening to music, and traveling. He has a vision not only to bring a passionate, life-giving church to Boulder, but also to the world. In his day-to-day life, he is consumed with a hunger and need to pursue a more personal and intimate relationship with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Justin lives by the following quote: “Live life as though it were impossible to fail.” This maxim is backed by his favorite Bible verse, Philippians 4:13: “I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Email Justin: justin@highwaycommunity.com

Rachel Strobel

Outreach Coordinator
Rachel, a Boulder native and student at CU, rediscovered her passion and love for others in college. She loves Boulder and seeks to inspire a shared vision in its inhabitants to manifest Christ’s love in their city and beyond. “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoner.” Isaiah 61:1 NIV

Email Rachel: rachel@highwaycommunity.com

Anna Tuell

Early Childhood Director
Early in her life, Anna felt a deep passion for children's ministries, working in the nursery and teaching Children's Church in her home town. Her love of kids led her to pursue a degree in Early Childhood Education. During her freshman year of college, she felt a calling to Boulder, Colorado, and she now attends classes at Colorado Christian University in addition to teaching toddlers at a Boulder daycare center.

Email Anna: anna@highwaycommunity.com