One of Arizona’s highest suicide rates
Suicide deaths per 100,000 Mohave County residents in 2022—roughly three times Maricopa County’s rate.
its formative stage.
We are building the foundation, gathering experienced people, developing partnerships, and identifying responsible paths toward property, programming, and qualified care.
The Center is not yet accepting clients or providing treatment services.
Part of a broader vision
The flagship healing ministry of Wellsprings Mission
Wellsprings Mission is bringing people together under Christ to restore lives, strengthen families, and cultivate communities where hope can flourish. The Center is its flagship healing ministry and a focused first expression of that much larger calling.
Beyond the Center, the growing vision reaches toward care and aging support, rural health access, transportation and logistics, caregiver resources, digital connection, community opportunity, and sustainable pathways that can strengthen Christ-centered service for generations.
The local case · Why this proposed initial location. Why this moment.
A healing center can answer human need while strengthening the region around it.
Dolan Springs is the proposed initial location for the Center. It offers stillness, open land, proximity to major Southwestern population centers, and a community where access barriers are visible. The long-term opportunity is not simply to place a program in the desert, but to responsibly build a destination for restoration that can create employment, partnerships, visitation, purchasing, training, and new service capacity.
Lives lost to suicide
Suicides recorded by the Mohave County Medical Examiner in 2024. Twenty-nine were residents age 65 or older.
Drug-involved accidental deaths
Deaths listed across fentanyl, methamphetamine, combined-drug, and other drug categories in the county’s 2024 report.
An older region
Of Mohave County residents are age 65 or older—nearly twice the national share.
What Mohave County residents and health leaders identified
Mental health and substance use were named among the county’s most important health issues.
Mental health and aging were among the three most common community health problems identified by residents.
Provider access remains a central barrier, with residents reporting difficulty reaching mental-health specialists and primary-care providers.
Potential regional value
A center can become more than a place of treatment.
- Qualified jobs, training pathways, and meaningful local work
- Demand for housing, food, transportation, maintenance, and professional services
- Partnerships with churches, clinicians, educators, nonprofits, employers, and public agencies
- A destination that can draw families, retreat participants, professionals, volunteers, and supporters into the region
Research foundation: Arizona Department of Health Services suicide surveillance · Mohave County Medical Examiner 2024 report · 2025 Mohave County health assessment · U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts . 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.
He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.Psalm 23:3 KJV
Restoration is more than returning to where life was. It is God’s work of healing what is broken, renewing what has been depleted, and leading people toward hope and purpose.
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The vision
Healing should reach the whole person!
People are more than a diagnosis, an addiction, a crisis, or the worst chapter of their lives.
Healing can take many forms. Wellspring Healing and Restoration Center will address the spiritual, emotional, relational, practical, and physical dimensions of rebuilding a life. Our goal is not simply to interrupt destructive patterns, but to help people discover the strength, support, skills, and purpose needed to move forward sustainably.
Restoration in every direction
The whole person. The whole journey!
Needs rarely exist alone. Lasting restoration becomes more possible when faith, qualified care, practical stability, healthy relationships, and renewed purpose reinforce one another.
Healing reaches beyond one person
When one life is affected, an entire family can need restoration.
Addiction, mental-health challenges, serious illness, and trauma can reshape relationships throughout a family. The developing vision includes pathways for family counseling, education, emotional support, reconciliation, and restoration alongside the care provided to each individual.
Different needs. Distinct pathways. One hope.
Meeting people where healing begins.
Recovery and
Rehabilitation
For people confronting substance use, destructive behaviors, relapse, and the loss of structure, relationships, or stability.
Freedom. Responsibility. Rebuilding.Mental and
Emotional Healing
For people working through trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, family breakdown, emotional distress, or major life transitions.
Truth. Support. New direction.Restoration and
Renewal Retreats
For people who need to step away from relentless demands, reconnect with God, regain clarity, and restore healthier rhythms.
Rest. Reflection. Renewal.A pathway forward
Healing is not one moment. It is a journey.
- 01Refuge
Step away from chaos and find safety, rest, and room to breathe.
- 02Truth
Face what is broken with honesty, grace, qualified guidance, and biblical hope.
- 03Healing
Develop healthier patterns while addressing spiritual, emotional, relational, and practical needs.
- 04Rebuilding
Strengthen routines, relationships, responsibility, skills, and stability.
- 05Purpose
Move forward with direction, community, meaningful work, and opportunities to serve.
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The Wellspring approach
Christ at the center.
Restoration in every direction.
Professional care and biblical faith do not need to compete. Wellspring will bring together qualified expertise, Christian compassion, honest accountability, and a supportive environment centered on the dignity and potential of every person.
- Faith and spiritual renewal
Prayer, biblical truth, Christian fellowship, and the transforming hope of Christ.
- Nature, animals, and purposeful work
Healthy routines, meaningful responsibility, open space, and connection with God’s creation.
- Professional and practical support
Qualified care, life skills, relationships, employment preparation, and sustainable next steps.
- Community that continues
Healing strengthened by belonging, mentorship, service, and support that reaches beyond a program.
An environment designed for restoration
More than a program. A different way of living.
The long-term vision is a healing environment where daily life itself can support restoration through rhythm, responsibility, community, creation, worship, and meaningful contribution.
Healthy Rhythms
Rest, structure, movement, nourishing meals, prayerful stillness, gentle breathing practices, reflection, and consistent daily routines.
Safe Community
Belonging, accountability, mentoring, fellowship, and relationships that continue.
Creation and Animals
Open desert, gardens, animals, stewardship, and purposeful connection with the land.
Work and Service
Practical skills, meaningful responsibility, contribution, and rediscovered purpose.
A setting that supports restoration
A refuge shaped by stillness, dignity, and hope.
The vision is not simply for a building or a program. It is for an environment where qualified care, Christian compassion, healthy rhythms, purposeful activity, and the restorative character of the desert can work together.
The property, care model, professional partnerships, and phased development plan are still being responsibly explored.
Why the proposed initial location
Space to breathe.Stillness to listen.Room to begin again.
Dolan Springs is more than a point on a map. Set within the vastness and stillness of the Mojave Desert, it possesses a character that is difficult to explain but immediately felt. Perhaps it is the elevation, the open sky, the quiet, or the ancient landscape. Whatever draws people here, there is something about this place that invites stillness, perspective, and renewal.
Dolan Springs stands at the gateway to nearly 40,000 acres of protected Joshua tree country, including the nationally recognized Grapevine Mesa forest, considered the finest existing display of Joshua trees in the United States.
For Wellspring’s founder, this is personal. Living with chronic pain and persistent headaches, he was drawn to the Mojave Desert seeking healing. In its warmth, steadier rhythms, quiet, and open space, he found greater room to be still, breathe, listen, invite God in, and begin rebuilding his own life.
The need is also deeply local. Dolan Springs is a community facing tremendous unmet needs, including the ways substance use can destabilize individuals, families, safety, relationships, and trust where qualified treatment and continuing support are difficult to reach. It is also a place with a remarkable capacity to become a refuge for healing and restoration.
The flagship healing ministry of Wellsprings Mission
The Center is one stream within a much larger calling.
Wellsprings Mission is building a connected, Christ-centered vision through ministries, collaborative networks, referral and service platforms, practical resources, and responsibly structured mission-aligned enterprises. The Center gives that wider calling a focused place for recovery and whole-person restoration.
WellspringsMission
Faith in action. Hope taking root.Healing and Restoration
The flagship Center
Care, Aging, and Family Support
Rural Access and Connection
Sustainable Mission Development
Emerging initiatives
The Center is one beginning. The calling reaches farther!
Wellspring Healing and Restoration Center is the flagship healing ministry within a broader Christ-centered portfolio for service. As the Center develops, related initiatives may grow alongside it wherever human need, capable people, responsible partnerships, and God-opened doors meet.
These initiatives are in exploration and formation. They are not yet operating programs or promises of service.
Healing & Restoration
A future place for whole-person healing, restorative support, and medical and clinical partnerships.
Caregiver, Family & Elder Support
Christ-centered encouragement, practical help, education, respite, and support for those who give and receive care.
Community Care & Rural Outreach
Partnerships, resource navigation, volunteer service, and practical responses to unmet community needs.
Education, Resources & Sustainable Service
Faith-based resources, training, retreats, storytelling, and thoughtful enterprises that can help the mission grow.
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Building responsibly
A bold vision.
An achievable beginning.
- 01Gather
Bring together prayer, wisdom, community insight, and qualified professional experience.
- 02Establish
Build the ministry, governance, partnerships, property plan, and clinical pathway responsibly.
- 03Begin
Launch practical initiatives that meet real needs, demonstrate value, and build trust.
- 04Grow
Develop the Center in phases while strengthening families and the surrounding communities.
Help shape the foundation
Wellspring begins with people who believe healing is possible!
We are seeking prayer partners, advisers, treatment and mental health professionals, ministry leaders, community partners, volunteers, property connections, and people who feel called to help turn this vision into a responsible and lasting place of hope.
Can you answer the call?
Help create a place where lives can be restored!
If God has entrusted you with experience, expertise, resources, relationships, a property lead, professional knowledge, or a desire to serve, we would be grateful to hear from you.
- Pray with us
- Bring professional experience
- Explore a partnership
- Help open a door
Follow the Center as it takes shape
Walk with us!
Not ready to reach out directly? Join the Center’s email list to receive occasional updates as the vision develops and learn about meaningful ways to pray, support, or become involved.
Behind the Vision
The journey that led to Wellspring.
The Center grows from a lifetime shaped by treatment and family counseling, firsthand encounters with addiction and loss, disability, caregiving, service, and the search for healing. At a young age, Trevor entered a demanding financial-services interview process without the conventional education, securities credentials, or industry experience—and advanced through every stage to an unexpected final conversation in the president’s office. That early experience revealed the curiosity, resourcefulness, persistence, and drive that would continue throughout his career. In Dolan Springs, those experiences met an urgent rural need and began forming a Christ-centered calling to help individuals and families rediscover hope and renewed purpose.
The fuller journey is the story behind Starfish Float: a life of building, breaking, surrender, and the faith that brought seemingly separate experiences together as one calling.
Explore Our Founder’s Story