Melanie serves as the director of INSAAF: Justice and Compassion of Jesus, a ministry serving migrant domestic workers (MDWs), and works with women from Africa and Asia who are in Lebanon working as maids. She connects with local partners to run an integrated care center that provides for the physical, professional and spiritual needs of the MDWs. Services at the center include medical care and food security, computer and entrepreneurial skills classes, language courses and Bible studies. Melanie also teaches English at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut, Lebanon.