A CHURCH TAKING ROOT

A different kind of Church

Gather around Christ.
Grow together.
Go where you’re sent.

A Christ-centered church being shaped for real people, real community, and faith that moves beyond a building — locally, online, and wherever God sends us.

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Ordinary People. Extraordinary Purpose.

FOUNDING STAGE

Starfish Church is being formed. This site describes the vision and the model taking shape; it does not represent a full public-service schedule that does not yet exist.

WHY STARFISH?

Christ at the center.
A church designed to move.

A starfish became meaningful to us because the life of the Church was never meant to depend entirely on one building, one program, or one human personality. Christ is the Head. The Church is His body.

Starfish Church is a Christ-centered community where people can deepen their relationship with God, strengthen their faith, discover their God-given gifts, grow in their calling, and find meaningful ways to serve God and others.

Above all, our desire is to grow closer to Christ. Everything else flows from that relationship.

We are being shaped as a community grounded in Scripture, strengthened through genuine relationships, and equipped to carry Christ’s love outward.

The goal is not simply to gather more people in one place. It is to help more people become the Church wherever God places them.

GATHER • GROW • GO

OUR FOUNDATION

Rooted in Scripture.
Centered on Christ.

God’s Word is our foundation, and Jesus Christ is our center. We believe the Holy Spirit is still at work, drawing people, growing faith, and sending love into the world through willing hearts and open hands.

Starfish Church is being shaped by Scripture, grounded in the life of Christ, and stirred by a vision of faith that gathers in community, grows in discipleship, and goes where love is needed most.

Guided by Scripture. Centered on Christ. Moved by love.

Explore what we believe, the Scriptures that shape us, and the heart behind this different kind of Church.

Explore What We Believe

HOW IT WORKS · GROWING IN CHRIST TOGETHER

How We Gather, Grow, and Go

More than a place to attend. A community where fellowship opens doors, faith takes root, and love finds ways to serve.

You can participate alongside your home church, wherever you live, or wherever you are in your journey of faith. Our center is Christ. Our invitation is open.

Not three separate programs or a rigid sequence. Three connected movements that strengthen one another.

1 - Gather

We gather because together, more becomes possible.

Gathering is more than attending a service. We bring our stories, questions, skills, experiences and hopes. Through fellowship, we discover what we can share, and what God may be growing among us.

Fellowship

Where friendship begins, belonging deepens, and no one has to walk alone.

An older mentor and younger woman exploring Scripture together

Shared Wisdom

Where Scripture, experience, knowledge, and life lessons enrich one another.

Neighbors sharing tools and working together in the high desert

Shared Resources

Where what one person has can make a meaningful difference for another.

Community members collaborating around plans for a project

New Possibilities

Where conversations become ideas, collaboration begins, and new beginnings take shape.

First, why we gather. Then, where and how we gather.

CHURCH IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT

Church does not begin with a building.

A beautiful chapel can be a gift. So can a repurposed storefront, a living room, a barn, a borrowed room, a tent, a beach, a backyard, or a circle under the stars. What matters is that people genuinely gather around Christ, grow together, care for one another, and live what they believe.

Neighbors meeting in a living room with open Bibles, watching an interactive study on a television

In a home

Small enough to know one another. Real enough to matter.

A cowboy-hatted teacher addressing a small gathering on folding chairs in a rustic barn, a horse in its stall nearby

In a shared space

A barn, community center, storefront, or wherever doors open.

Friends studying Scripture together on a beach at sunset with a connected tablet nearby

Outside

Under the stars, beside a fire, on a beach, or in the desert.

Laptop showing an interactive online Scripture study, live participants and conversation beside an open Bible

Connected online

An interactive platform to learn, share, and engage.

Where two or three gather in His name, the size of the room is not the point. The center is Christ.

Grow chapter in the life of Starfish Church

2 - Grow

Faith takes root in relationships.

We grow through Scripture, shared questions, discipleship, encouragement, prayer, and everyday care. Not just by receiving information, but by learning and walking alongside one another.

Discover your giftsLearn from one anotherBuild lasting relationshipsGrow in Christ

DIGITAL BY DESIGN · LOCAL BY NATURE

More than a livestream.

Technology can become connective tissue — not simply a camera pointed at a Sunday service.

Starfish Church can make teaching, prayer, a Weekly Focus, testimony, conversation, Table connection, Emerging Initiative updates, ways to ask for help, and ways to offer help available wherever people live.

ATTENTION→RELATIONSHIP→PARTICIPATION→MEANINGFUL ACTION

Be here with us. Or meet us where you are.

ONE CENTERChrist

HOMETable-sized community

LOCALGatherings & service

ONLINETeaching & connection

SENTFaith in action

Family participating together in an interactive Bible discussion on a television, with Scripture, community needs and shared messages — Scripture and relationships can connect us wherever we gather.

CONNECTED IN FAITH

Growing together, even when we are apart.

Small gatherings, online Circles, and shared teaching can strengthen relationships without requiring everyone to be in the same room. Technology can help people connect, but the heart is always genuine fellowship and discipleship.

Discover ways to connect →

Go chapter in the life of Starfish Church

3 - Go

Love that shows up.

GO can begin with an ordinary act of care, a conversation, or one neighbor helping another. Some ideas grow into initiatives. Others change one person's day. Every faithful beginning matters.

Volunteers helping an older homeowner build a safer handrail outside a rural desert home — Different gifts. Shared purpose. Practical care.

LOVE IN ACTION

Faith that reaches beyond our walls.

Some acts of service begin simply, with a neighbor showing up. Others grow through collaboration with churches, organizations, and Wellsprings Mission. We can take part without expecting every initiative to belong to Starfish Church.

Meet the wider mission ↓

BRING WHAT YOU HAVE

What has God already placed in our hands?

Starfish should not begin every problem by asking what needs to be purchased. Communities already contain enormous capacity that is often waiting to be connected with purpose.

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What can you bring and where might it matter?

MORE CONNECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT

Called to connect. Connecting for good.

Two distinct pathways in the wider Wellsprings vision explore how calling, relationships, practical solutions, and thoughtful technology can help good things grow. Both are developing concepts, not established Starfish Church programs.

Servant Signal

Called to Connect

Where Calling Finds Connection

Helping people, churches, and ministries discover their gifts, build meaningful relationships, and turn faith-inspired calling into action through service and shared initiatives.

Loaves & Links

Connecting for Good

Bringing Possibilities to Life

Helping organizations overcome barriers and bring ideas to life through practical technology, meaningful connections, digital solutions, and thoughtful innovation.

FAITH IN EVERYDAY LIFE

What if you began today?

You don’t have to wait for everything to be in place to begin making a difference.

Sometimes it begins with one small moment of kindness. Here are eight simple ways to start right where you are.

Two neighbors sharing a warm conversation on a porch at sunset

Brighten someone’s day

Share a smile, a compliment, or a little encouragement.

Lend a helping hand

Notice someone who needs help and offer what you can.

Be someone to lean on

Listen, offer comfort, or simply be there.

Notice someone overlooked

Help someone feel seen, valued, and included.

Share something helpful

Pass along knowledge, an opportunity, or a useful connection.

Bring a little sunshine

Choose warmth, patience, and kindness wherever you go.

Make room for someone

Extend an invitation and help others feel they belong.

Help hope take root

Encourage someone to see the possibilities still ahead.

Start small. Start where you are.You never know how far one act of goodness might reach.

FAITH IN ACTION · PARTNERSHIP IN PURPOSE

No church has to do it all. Together, more becomes possible.

Starfish Church is an emerging, Christ-centered community with a calling to gather, grow, and go. Through Wellsprings Mission, we envision serving alongside other churches, nonprofits, care providers, businesses, and neighbors. Each partner keeps its own identity while finding meaningful ways to contribute and collaborate.

THE SHARED MISSION

Wellsprings Mission

Where committed partners and resources can come together to move promising ideas toward practical action, service, and restoration.

Explore Wellsprings Mission ↗

THE IDEA-DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

Starfish Float

An open invitation to explore, propose, and develop emerging ideas, including opportunities for people from every background to participate.

Explore emerging possibilities ↗

A PLACE FOR COMMUNITY

Starfish Ranch

A developing place-based vision for faith, restoration, community, service, creation, and partnership.

Discover Starfish Ranch ↗

HEALING & RESTORATION

Wellspring Healing & Restoration Center

A developing collaborative vision for coordinated care, compassionate support, and pathways toward restoration.

Explore the Center ↗

Does your church or organization want to collaborate?

There's room for many churches and partners, each with their own calling, gifts, and resources. Shared participation does not require joining Starfish Church.

Explore collaboration ↗

These are developing visions and opportunities, not claims of operational services, confirmed outside sponsors, or legal oversight by Starfish Church.

WIDER MISSION PATHWAYS · NEED · CAPACITY · FIT

Three ways the wider mission can connect good works.

Help Finds a Way, Help Shows Up, and Good Works Out are connected ideas and developing pathways within the wider mission. They are not three ministries of Starfish Church.

START WITH A NEED

Help Finds a Way

I need help.

Make a need visible and begin exploring a path toward the right kind of support.

Explore Help Finds a Way

BRING WHAT YOU HAVE

Help Shows Up

I have something to bring.

Time, skills, experience, relationships, and resources can become practical ways to serve.

Explore Help Shows Up

HELP MAKE THE FIT

Good Works Out

Let's make the fit happen.

Explore how needs and available capacity can come together in meaningful action.

Explore Good Works Out

These are connected resources within the wider Wellsprings Mission vision. They are not automatically Starfish Church ministries.

GIVE A CALLING ROOM TO GROW

Small beginnings. Wider possibility.

Not every good idea needs to become a permanent program. Some initiatives emerge, take root, become sustainable, and are ready to be sent.

STAGE 01 OF 04

Every beginning matters.

It starts with noticing a need, recognizing a calling, or imagining what could be possible.

What this can look like

Listen and understand the opportunity
Gather the first people and ideas
Take a thoughtful first step

These stages describe how opportunities may develop, not a promise that every idea will follow the same path.

A LOCAL BEGINNING · A WIDER COMMUNITY

Rooted in Christ. Connected wherever we are.

Starfish Church envisions fellowship growing wherever believers gather, whether in homes, online Circles, or communities across the world. Our first local expression is being prepared in Dolan Springs, Arizona, but no single location defines the Church.

We want to listen, gather around Christ, grow in Scripture and relationship, and discover how we can serve. Small beginnings, caring relationships, and faithful leadership matter far more than the size of any building.

Local communities can take root in different places, connected by shared faith, mutual care, and discipleship.

A PERSONAL WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER

A journey I never expected.
A vision I feel blessed to carry.

There are experiences in life we never would have chosen. For me, a motorcycle accident and traumatic brain injury began a long journey through suffering, healing, caregiving, and finding my way closer to God through a renewed and deepening relationship with Him. Along the way, I began to see how often people face their hardest moments without the care, connection, or encouragement they need.

My background is in technology and entrepreneurship, but I feel incredibly blessed to have had this vision placed before me. I find myself asking how the gifts, experiences, and resources already among us might be brought together to serve people in ways that genuinely change lives.

My hope for Starfish Church is that we keep Christ at the center, make room for real people and real lives, grow together in faith, and carry His love beyond any one gathering place. A healthy local church can be a beginning, not a boundary.

I do not know exactly where this journey will lead. Perhaps what begins here can encourage people in other communities to discover their gifts, answer needs around them, and put faith into meaningful action. Perhaps it could become part of something much larger.

The vision is bigger than any one of us. And that is part of what makes it so exciting.

Perhaps you are part of what God is bringing together.

Trevor ChevalierFounder & Ministry Leader

An invitation to take part

Find your place in what God is growing.

There is more than one way to begin. Come as you are, discover where your gifts might fit, and help shape a Christ-centered community that gathers, grows, and goes.

For individuals and families

Find Your Place

Explore gatherings, online fellowship, prayer, discipleship, serving, or simply getting to know the church.

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For pastors and partners

Connect in Ministry

Explore conversations, shared teaching, local expressions, advisory relationships, and partnerships. You do not need to be applying for a position to reach out.

Explore Ministry Connections →

A particular calling

Founding Pastor Opportunity

Learn about the invitation to help establish and shepherd Starfish Church in Dolan Springs, Arizona.

Explore the Opportunity →

Good works that can grow

Propose an Emerging Initiative

Bring an idea, a need, a resource, or a first step that could grow into a ministry or community effort.

Propose an Initiative ↗

Not sure which fits? Start with a conversation. There's no expectation to have everything figured out.

A CALLING TO SHEPHERD A NEW BEGINNING

Could you help shepherd what God is growing?

We are seeking a biblically grounded founding pastor to help establish Starfish Church in Dolan Springs. This is an invitation to relational ministry, faithful teaching, discipleship, and serving a small beginning with vision for what it may become.

The role and financial arrangements are still being developed. We welcome an initial conversation, not an immediate commitment.

A small beginning.
A meaningful calling. Explore the Founding Pastor Opportunity

GOOD WORKS CAN BEGIN SMALL

What if one good idea could grow into something more?

People bring needs, callings, practical skills, and a willingness to act. An emerging initiative starts with listening and a small, thoughtful first step. As people gather around it, that work may grow, become established, and eventually be sent to serve in other places.

Emerging initiatives in the wider Wellsprings Mission vision are not automatically Starfish Church ministries. Church participation or partnerships require separate discernment and oversight.

Six people collaboratively reviewing a practical outdoor structure prototype, specifications, requirements, materials and components at a whiteboard

See how initiatives grow Propose an emerging initiative on StarfishFloat.org

PART OF A WIDER VISION

A church with a distinct calling. A vision that reaches further.

Starfish Church envisions participating alongside other independent churches and partners in Wellsprings Mission. StarfishFloat.org is the open idea-development platform, where possibilities can be proposed and explored. Its own purpose remains clear. We gather around Christ, grow in Scripture and discipleship, care for one another, and go into our communities in service.

Promising initiatives may attract collaborators through Wellsprings Mission, but they do not automatically become church ministries or assets. Starfish Church is being organized as its own independent nonprofit church, with separate spiritual oversight, finances, and accountability. Partnerships with the wider vision will require appropriate agreements rather than being assumed.

Wellsprings Mission ↗Explore the wider vision ↗

AN OPEN INVITATION · A CLEAR CENTER

Our center is Christ.
Our invitation is open.

Someone should not have to pretend to believe what we believe in order to help another person. People from the wider community can share expertise, volunteer for suitable opportunities as they develop, offer resources, build relationships, partner, or simply do good alongside us.

You don’t have to share our faith to share a meal, repair a home, contribute a skill, support a caregiver, or help a neighbor.

Everyone is welcome to help.Everyone is welcome to receive help.Everyone is welcome to ask why.

ONE CENTER · MANY VOICES

Many voices. One Gospel.

Starfish Church should have real, accountable pastoral leadership and clear biblical grounding without becoming built around the personality of one preacher.

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One spiritual anchor. Many trusted voices.

PASTORAL CARE

Care happens close to the person.

People need to be known, prayed for, visited, encouraged, discipled, supported through grief and hardship, and cared for spiritually. Tools can help needs become visible and connections happen, but Starfish Church carries the pastoral responsibility.

Anyone can show up. Not everyone is automatically a pastor.

HOW WE MEASURE GROWTH

Not everything that matters fits in an attendance count.

Gathering and giving matter — but they should not be the only signs of health.

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We don’t have to own the good in order to help it grow.

START WHERE YOU ARE

There’s a place for you in what God is growing.

Interested in future gatherings, prayer, volunteering, helping establish a local gathering, or simply following the vision? We would be glad to hear from you.