A treatment gap that cannot be ignored
In 2025, only 16% of people who needed substance-use treatment received it.
SAMHSA source
A Christian mission taking root
Rooted in Christ.
Restoring lives.
Strengthening communities!
Wellsprings Mission is bringing people together under Christ to create pathways from crisis to healing, from isolation to community, and from brokenness to renewed purpose and hope.
“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”John 7:38
A PERSONAL WELCOME
Real people. A shared calling.
You matter here.
We are genuinely grateful that you are here!
I feel incredibly blessed to help carry this vision, but bringing it to life will take many hands, generous hearts, trusted partners, and leaders called to make parts of it their own.
Wellsprings is still taking root. If something here moves you, we would truly love to hear from you!
Trevor ChevalierFounder, Wellsprings Mission
A choice at the crossroads
Some will drive through. Others will answer the call!
The case for action · Why now
The need is growing. New ways to reach people are becoming possible.
Families are confronting rising costs, fragmented systems, treatment gaps, caregiver shortages, and long distances to qualified help. At the same time, telehealth, responsible AI, ambient sensing, assistive technology, robotics, and better coordination tools are creating new possibilities for care closer to home.
A system under financial pressure
U.S. healthcare spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024, representing 18% of the national economy.
CMS sourceRural access may become even harder
HRSA projects a 39% shortage of primary-care physicians in nonmetro areas by 2038.
HRSA sourceDisability touches every community
More than one in four U.S. adults has some type of disability.
CDC sourceLong-term support will become personal
Someone turning 65 today has nearly a 70% chance of needing long-term services and supports.
ACL sourceA care workforce under pressure
HRSA projects a nationwide shortage of 245,950 licensed practical nurses by 2038.
HRSA sourceAn evidence-led vision. This initial evidence review documents the scale of need and informs responsible planning. Additional clinical, regulatory, property, financial, operational, and market analysis will guide each stage of development.
Wellsprings is being shaped at this intersection: urgent human need, overlooked rural communities, care moving closer to home, and powerful new tools that must be developed with wisdom, dignity, consent, and human oversight.
The proposed initial Healing and Restoration Center in Dolan Springs helped reveal the urgency locally. The wider Wellsprings vision creates room to respond through many initiatives, communities, partnerships, and pathways of service.
One source. Many streams of hope.
Healing that reaches beyond a single person.
When one life is hurting, the effects reach families, caregivers, and entire communities. Genuine restoration must reach them too.
Wellsprings Mission is a developing Christian nonprofit vision created to restore lives, strengthen families, and cultivate healthier communities through faith, compassionate care, practical support, and shared purpose.
Healing and Restoration
A Christ-centered place of refuge, recovery, healing, and renewal for people confronting addiction, trauma, emotional struggles, spiritual exhaustion, and the accumulated wounds of life.
Flagship visionFamilies and Caregivers
Navigation, relief, practical assistance, and compassionate support so families facing illness, disability, aging, or crisis do not have to carry impossible burdens alone.
Care that staysCommunity Restoration
Bringing people, churches, skills, and resources together to strengthen the foundations rural communities need most.
Shared purposeA vision sharpened by experience
Even loving families can struggle to find the care and resources they need.
The vision has been sharpened by firsthand experience with family illness, caregiving strain, financial pressure, lack of options, delayed assistance, and the painful reality that even loving families can struggle to find the care and resources they need.
In remote communities, these challenges are compounded by distance, limited services, scarce transportation, food insecurity, water limitations, and too few places to turn.
Restoration reaches every part of life
Rural needs are deeply connected.
A person cannot heal in isolation from the family, resources, care, and community surrounding them. Wellsprings is being shaped to see the whole person and the whole community.
Medical and Specialized Care
Connecting people with qualified care, treatment, and services that may otherwise be hours away.
Senior and Caregiver Support
Helping older adults, caregivers, and families navigate difficult seasons with dignity and support.
Food and Community Cooperative
Exploring reliable access to groceries, nutritious food, and shared community resources.
Water and Essential Resources
Recognizing the daily realities of underserved communities, including limited infrastructure and difficult access to basic resources.
Faith, Fellowship, and Purpose
Bringing people together under Christ to serve, belong, grow, and rediscover hope.
More Needs. More Ways to Serve.
As needs change and new possibilities emerge, Wellsprings can keep listening, learning, and responding wherever God opens the way.
Our flagship healing ministry
Wellspring Healing and Restoration Center
The Center is being developed as a Christ-centered place of refuge, recovery, healing, and renewal, with distinct pathways for rehabilitation, mental and emotional healing, and restorative retreats. It is one focused expression of a much broader mission that also reaches into rural care, aging and home-based support, national platforms, responsible technology, and sustainable pathways of service.
One calling. Clear roles.
How the Wellsprings vision fits together.
Wellsprings Mission carries the Christian calling and organizational stewardship. Each connected website has one clear purpose, so people can explore the vision, meet the organization, learn about the flagship center, begin finding help, take part, or read the story without every site trying to explain everything.
StarfishFloat.comRead the story
StarfishFloat.orgExplore the full vision
WellspringsMission.orgMeet the organization
WellspringHRC.orgExplore the flagship center
HelpFindsAWay.orgBegin finding help
JoinWellsprings.orgTake part
A glimpse of what may grow
Six distinct ways the vision could become service.
These representative Emerging Initiatives span community, opportunity, nourishment, independence, and discovery. The complete portfolio belongs at StarfishFloat.org.
More Becomes Possible
Expanding opportunity when access, resources, relationships, support, and shared capacity come together.
What We Share Grows
Showing how shared resources, knowledge, compassion, and opportunity can multiply through community.
Good Is Served
Food, hospitality, and enterprise that nourish people and strengthen communities.
Care Fits Here
Bringing the right solutions into the place someone calls home—and making them work together.
Still We Seek
Advancing research and discovery for people still waiting for answers that can change lives.
Work Fits Life
Exploring flexible work models shaped around disability, caregiving, health, capacity, and real life.
These are emerging possibilities, not a representation that each service is currently operating.
Explore all Emerging InitiativesA practical invitation taking shape
Hope Shows Up.
Something you can offer may be exactly what someone else needs.
This emerging pathway is being shaped to help willing people, churches, businesses, and communities contribute time, skills, equipment, space, resources, and compassionate presence. It is a vision in development—not a promise that every kind of help is available today.
See how help can show upOne calling. Many ways to serve.
How the Wellsprings vision fits together.
Distinct areas of service can grow from one shared Christian mission, support one another, and respond to needs that rarely exist alone. Some may become Wellsprings programs, while others may grow as collaborative networks, educational resources, referral platforms, independent organizations, or mission-aligned enterprises developed through the structure best suited to their purpose.
WellspringsMissionFaith in action for rural communities
Healing and Restoration
Recovery, renewal, respite, and specialized care
Senior, Caregiver, and Family Support
Guidance, connection, relief, and compassionate care
Community Resources and Opportunity
Food, medical care, education, water, and practical support
Sustainable Mission Development
Partnerships, shared assets, and responsible enterprise
A vision built with wisdom
Beginning faithfully. Growing responsibly.
Wellsprings will not try to build everything at once. The mission will grow in achievable phases, guided by prayer, community insight, professional expertise, and responsible stewardship.
- 1
Gather
Listen, pray, build relationships, and unite trusted people around the needs.
- 2
Begin
Establish the mission, create partnerships, and launch practical ways to serve.
- 3
Build
Develop the Healing and Restoration Center, care networks, family support, national platforms, community resources, and mission-aligned enterprises in responsible phases.
- 4
Cultivate
Grow sustainable ministries, networks, platforms, partnerships, and enterprises that can serve people and communities for generations.
From vision to responsible beginning
What foundational support can unlock now.
Early support will not be used to force every part of the vision into existence at once. It can help establish the people, knowledge, relationships, safeguards, and infrastructure from which the right work can grow responsibly.
Formation and Governance
Establish legal, financial, insurance, advisory, and board foundations.
Community Listening and Trust
Deepen relationships, validate needs, and identify responsible first services.
Professional and Ministry Partnerships
Engage qualified care, recovery, ministry, operational, and community partners.
Property and Feasibility
Evaluate land, facilities, infrastructure, accessibility, utilities, and development options.
Early Service Pathways
Explore navigation, caregiver support, referrals, education, volunteer coordination, and practical assistance.
Systems and Support for Growth
Develop the communications, referral tools, platforms, safeguards, and practical support the mission needs to operate responsibly.
The vision at a glance
One mission cultivating 12 connected ecosystems, 70 emerging initiatives, and nearly 350 protected doorways to future service.
Help Finds a Way is the one shared place to begin, connecting people to relevant assistance across every ecosystem.
Human-centered technology for a changing world
The future of care is moving closer to home.
Another Way Works is the Human-Centered Innovation Ecosystem bringing together accessible design, privacy, connected technology, sensing, digital health, and assistive robotics. Care Moves Home remains within Care Multiplies as the pathway for qualified human and clinical services delivered through the door, enabled by responsible technology where appropriate.
Sense
Recognize meaningful changes through ambient sensors, wearables, fall detection, and everyday patterns.
Understand
Use responsible AI to organize information, identify emerging risks, and help people see what may require attention.
Connect
Bring families, caregivers, telehealth, navigation, transportation, and qualified professionals into a clearer pathway.
Assist
Support mobility, rehabilitation, communication, household tasks, and independence through robotics and automation.
Protect
Preserve dignity through privacy, consent, security, transparency, professional guidance, and human oversight.
And What Comes Next
New tools and possibilities will continue to emerge. Wellsprings can evaluate them carefully and use what truly strengthens human care.
Technology should strengthen human relationships—not replace them.
Wellsprings can help families, caregivers, and qualified professionals recognize needs earlier, respond more effectively, and keep compassionate care within reach.
Faithful stewardship with multiple paths forward
A mission built to endure.
Wellsprings is being developed with long-term stewardship in mind. Charitable support can help begin and expand the work, while strategic partnerships, shared resources, earned revenue, and responsibly structured mission-aligned enterprises can help sustain it.
The goal is not growth or profit for its own sake. It is faithful stewardship that creates lasting capacity to serve and sustain Christ-centered work for generations to come.
Charitable Support
Strategic Partnerships
Shared Assets and Resources
Mission-Aligned Revenue
A vision large enough for many hands
You do not have to be wealthy to help build Wellsprings.
Bring what God hasplaced in your hands!
Time, experience, professional knowledge, relationships, land, equipment, labor, financial support, or an important connection can all help move the mission forward.
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An open invitation
Help shape what comes next!
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Reach out directly. We would be grateful to begin a conversation!
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