STARFISH RANCH · WHERE GOOD WORKS GROW
A shared place where people can worship, find restoration, care for animals and creation, serve, learn, and belong. Rooted in Christ. United in service. Working together so more becomes possible.
THIS IS THE GROUND
In the open high desert near Dolan Springs, Starfish Ranch is being envisioned as a shared, Christ-centered place where independent ministries and community partners can make faith, restoration, service, creation, and fellowship part of everyday life.
A place to come when you need something. A place to come when you have something to give. And sometimes, both at the same time.
AN OPEN INVITATION TO BUILD TOGETHER
Starfish Ranch is envisioned as a place that independent churches, ministries, and partners could help establish, shape, and serve together. We may come from different traditions and have distinct callings, but we can meet in our shared love for Christ and in practical service to others.
We welcome conversations with churches, ministries, and people who feel led to help found and develop the Ranch. Roles, governance, and commitments would be thoughtfully explored together. Any founding relationship would be established through mutual agreement.
Participating churches and organizations could offer teaching, fellowship, practical service, restoration programs, volunteers, or resources without merging congregations or surrendering their own leadership and convictions.
Individuals, neighbors, nonprofits, businesses, and skilled volunteers could contribute to appropriate projects, care for the land and animals, share expertise, and help needs and resources find one another.
The Ranch's Christian foundation would remain clear, while meaningful opportunities to contribute could extend throughout the wider community. Begin a partnership conversation →
THE PROPOSED FOUNDING CAMPUS · BONITA DRIVE
Bonita Drive offers five acres of level, largely usable land with an existing 1,947-square-foot stick-built home, attached four-car garage, private well, mature trees, fencing, two septic tanks, and established utilities.
The immediately adjoining parcels in every direction are presently vacant land, with additional open land beyond. The setting offers a sense of space, a practical beginning, and the possibility of future expansion. No neighboring property is represented as available for purchase.
The long-term goal would be to actively explore acquiring neighboring land over time, potentially expanding Starfish Ranch to approximately 20–30 acres. That could involve purchases, donations, partnerships, or mutually beneficial property exchanges, depending on the owners, resources, and practical feasibility.
With appropriate preparations, the existing home could support small gatherings and early ministry activities. A future western-style barn facility could provide worship, fellowship, and office space, potentially freeing the home to be adapted for program residents within a developing Healing & Restoration Center.
WHY THIS AREA IS SPECIAL
The high-desert landscape offers broad skies, open country, and the chance to create a place where people, animals, and ministries can grow together. Easy road access can serve the work while the surrounding vacant acreage contributes a remarkable sense of openness.
Level land, an existing home, a private well, and spacious adjoining vacant parcels can support a thoughtful, phased approach to gatherings, animals, gardens, and future facilities.
Horses and other appropriate ranch animals, gardens, walks, and the rhythms of caring for living things could become part of meaningful work, connection, and new beginnings.
Beyond the initial five acres, the surrounding area includes hundreds of acres of privately owned, undeveloped land. Some could someday provide separate opportunities for housing, shared gardens, workshops, and community life within a broader Wellsprings vision, subject to willing owners, resources, and thoughtful planning.
THIS IS WHAT CAN GROW HERE
The Starfish Ranch mark tells the story: faith above all, restoration, community, service, creation, and partnership surrounding a shared landscape. As you move through the page, those six ideas become the way into the Ranch.
COME TOGETHER
Starfish Ranch can be a place to worship together, pray together, share meals, study, fellowship, encourage one another, exchange ideas, build relationships, and spend enough time together to discover possibilities that might never have appeared otherwise.
Traditional services, outdoor worship, Scripture, prayer, and quiet space to seek God together.
Shared meals, conversation, encouragement, recovery groups, and the kind of ordinary time where relationships grow.
Workdays, workshops, training, projects, practical service, and ideas that become possible because people showed up.
A developing church expression rooted in worship, Scripture, prayer, fellowship, service, and faith put into action — while leaving room for partner churches, visiting ministries, and other Christ-centered gatherings at the Ranch.
SERVICE · LOVE THAT SHOWS UP
The Ranch is not envisioned only as somewhere people come to receive something. It can also become a place where people do something — build, repair, grow, prepare, teach, care, organize, restore, maintain, and serve.
The Ranch can become a place where willingness has somewhere to go.
One place to begin.
What you bring can become what someone needs.
One place where needs, people, resources, service, and emerging ideas can become something tangible — without pretending the Ranch is the whole system or the only place good can happen.
DESIGNED IN HARMONY WITH CREATION
The goal would not simply be to put buildings on the land. Future facilities could be thoughtfully designed to work with the natural environment — forward-thinking about comfort, efficiency, stewardship, resilience, and long-term usefulness.
ANIMALS · LAND · LIFE
Ranch life can reconnect people with animals, soil, food, seasons, responsibility, quiet, work, and the rhythms of creation. Over time, that could include ranch animals, gardens, food-growing, trails, native-land stewardship, animal-assisted activities, rescue or foster partnerships, outdoor learning, or simply the everyday companionship that comes from caring for another living thing.
RESTORATION FOR MORE THAN ONE KIND OF LIFE
Restoration is not only for someone starting over. It can mean healing after loss, growing stronger, deepening a walk with Christ, strengthening relationships, finding new ways to serve, discovering or deepening purpose, and building a fuller life together.
The Ranch could become one place where healing happens — whether the Healing & Restoration Center ultimately develops on the Ranch, elsewhere, or across multiple sites.
Someone may come simply to worship, work, learn, fellowship, serve, care for animals, contribute to a project, rebuild daily rhythms, or become part of a Christ-centered community.
A place to heal. A place to contribute. A place to belong.
PARTNERSHIP · A SHARED OPPORTUNITY
Starfish Ranch is not envisioned as the property of one congregation in the spiritual sense. Independent churches, including Starfish Church and potentially the Cowboy Church, could serve here while retaining their identities and leadership. Other ministries and community partners could contribute in ways that fit their own callings. Any formal co-founding role would be by mutual agreement, not an assumed commitment.
Dependable water, efficient facilities, solar and battery backup, communications, storage, and practical preparedness can support everyday work while expanding what may be possible during disruption or emergency. Resilience exists in service of people.
CONNECTED TO A MUCH WIDER VISION
Starfish Ranch is one place where parts of a much larger vision could come to life. Through Starfish Float and Wellsprings Mission, connected ecosystems and emerging initiatives are taking shape around real needs, relationships, and opportunities to serve.
Some may find a physical expression at the Ranch. Others may grow in communities far beyond it. Explore the work, discover what speaks to you, and see where you might help something good grow!
A VISION TAKING SHAPE
The land, facilities, partnerships, programs, resources, and timing will continue to take shape.
Some ideas will grow. Others will change. New possibilities will emerge as we learn what the community needs, what the land supports, and where God opens doors.
Somebody can arrive needing something and discover they still have something to give. And good has somewhere to grow.
FIND YOUR PLACE AT STARFISH RANCH
Whether you would like to explore a founding partnership, bring a ministry or organization into the work, care for animals and creation, contribute resources, serve, or simply begin a conversation, tell us what you see.
Our existing Wellsprings inquiry service remains the place to connect while this independent site develops.
Connect about Starfish Ranch →Your inquiry is handled under the existing service’s privacy notice.
