Wellspring Mission

There is a move of God stirring in the hearts and lives of men. A vast army is forming for the sake of the King’s Glory. It is driven by a passion to return to God, a fire in the core of our being, the prodigal desire to come home again. As we plow up our unplowed ground, God promises to return to us. He promises to restore our lives, our marriages, our role as fathers, and our roles as sons.

Wellspring is just one small part of all that God is doing across our land. Our hope and our desire is to help facilitate men in their journey home, to find a band of brothers to support them, and to pray with heartfelt prayers to see men return home again. So that with their hearts restored at the wellspring, men can find life again--a life with God--renewed, restored, redeemed.

Life is busy. Despite the best of intentions we sometimes get lost along the path we are following or take a turn down the wrong road. Our vision is obscured. What we thought would bring us deep satisfaction now brings only pain. We know…we’ve been there. Wellspring Outfitters was developed out of a heart to lead men back to freedom in God--to once again learn to be in the world but not of it. With busy careers of our own, we found ourselves being swallowed up with work, with meetings, with busyness, with routines, with chasing after the American dream.

To some degree we have all been blinded--what was clear previously has become a blur. We need to see again with the eyes of our heart--seeing Christ as He is, seeing ourselves as He sees us, and in turn seeing others as He sees them. This can be summed up in Great Commandment to “Love the Lord with all your Heart and Love others as you Love yourself.” This is our compass, this is our vision.

And above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life. In other words, Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts. We are warned to care for our hearts over and over in scripture, to keep from being led astray, from being polluted by the world, from being deceived into believing a lie. And we know that there is a very real enemy of our hearts whose aim is to steal, kill, and destroy--steal our zest for life, kill our marriage and our relationships with our kids and others, destroy our walk with God. Satan knows that all these things are the core of who we have become in Christ and his aim is to take us out. Even Paul exhorts us in the Epistles to be on guard, for your enemy the devil prowls around like a lion seeking someone to devour.

But God allowed us to be awakened, to have our eyes opened, and to have our hearts begin beating again for His purposes. And we realized that many men are in very similar circumstances. Although we can provide our families with all that we need financially, because we have identified ourselves with work and with being the provider, our families are suffering from the void left without Dad around. The romance we had in our marriage has faded. The joy that we shared at the birth of our kids is some distant memory. We have failed to recognize the calling God has placed on us to be the leaders of our families--for He did not call us to only be providers.