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Wellspring Group Equipping people to live wholeheartedly! Present. Surrendered. Overflowing.
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Norcross, Georgia

What began as a single weekend retreat became the Battle for the Heart – a leadership development process for pastoral teams and lay leaders that includes retreats (and follow-through experiences). Since then, Wellspring events have been held for churches across different denominations and in places as far away as Switzerland, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Today, Wellspring Group provides teaching, coac

hing, and materials for these events as well as consulting with church and business leaders. The men and women of Wellspring share a great vision for the Body of Christ and are generously giving of themselves and their resources to see this vision fulfilled.

09/05/2026

Lies We Believe: “My past disqualifies me.”

Most of us have a version of this lie running quietly in the background. We replay the things we've done, the seasons we're not proud of, the choices we wish we could take back. Or maybe it's not even something we did. Maybe it's something that was done to us, something we carry that feels like it marks us in a way that can't be undone. Either way the conclusion feels the same: the things I've done, the things done to me, are too much. Whatever God can do with someone else's life, it probably doesn't apply to mine.

But scripture tells a different story. Moses was a murderer before he led a nation to freedom. Peter denied Jesus three times before he became the rock the church was built on. Paul spent years persecuting the very people he would give his life to serve. The pattern throughout scripture isn't that God uses people who have clean records. It's that He consistently uses broken, complicated, sinful people. When we repent, He redeems our stories, even the parts we are most ashamed of.

Romans 8:1 may be one of the most powerful verses for anyone carrying the weight of their past. "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Not less condemnation. Not condemnation with exceptions. None. The past that we've been using as evidence against ourselves is not the evidence God is looking at. The shame that tells us we're disqualified is not the verdict He has spoken over us.

Our past doesn't have the final word on our story. In God's Larger Story it can become the very thing that equips us to sit with others in the painful parts of their own stories.

What is one area of your life where you've seen God redeeming the broken, painful parts of your story, and using them to point others to His Larger Story?

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08/29/2026

Lies We Believe: “I have to have it together before I can come to God.”

So we wait. We tell ourselves we'll pray more when we're in a better headspace. We'll open the Bible when we're not so angry. We'll go back to church and we'll come to God when we have something better to bring Him than this mess. And so we keep our distance, not out of rebellion, but out of something that almost feels like respect. Like we need to clean ourselves up before we knock on the door.

But we were never meant to clean ourselves up before coming to the One who does the cleaning. That's not how He works and it was never what He asked of us. The very premise of grace is that we couldn't get there on our own.

Romans 5:8 tells us that while we were still sinners, Christ came anyway. Not after we figured it out. Not once we were further along. Right in the middle of it. That wasn't an accident. That was the point. He has never been waiting at the finish line for us to arrive worthy. He meets us in the middle of the mess, in the undone places, in the moments we feel least qualified to show up.

Coming to God undone isn't a lack of faith. It might be the most honest act of faith there is. The invitation was never "come when you're ready." It was always "come as you are."

What would it look like to come to God exactly as you are today?
As you think about coming to God this way, what are you feeling and desiring?

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

We’re almost there. 🤍$262,170 raised. $37,830 to go.This is the moment. The matching campaign ends August 31 and we are ...
08/28/2026

We’re almost there. 🤍

$262,170 raised. $37,830 to go.

This is the moment. The matching campaign ends August 31 and we are so close to the finish line.
Every gift given before midnight on August 31 is still matched, dollar for dollar. That means right now, your $250 becomes $500. Your $100 becomes $200. Every dollar you give between now and then counts twice.

We’ve watched this community show up in ways that have genuinely moved us. Leaders, teams, and churches being transformed.

There are two ways to finish strong with us:
💙 Give a one-time gift and double your impact before the deadline.
💙 Become a Multiplier: A monthly partner whose entire first year of giving is matched. It’s the longest-lasting way to fuel this movement.
We don’t want to cross this finish line without you.

Give now or become a Multiplier → link in bio!

08/24/2026

A Wellspring Word: Disconnect

The Disconnect is the gap between what we think we believe and what we truly believe, often at a subconscious level, about God, ourselves, others, and life. �
It’s not enough to know biblical truth. If what we say we believe and try to live by doesn’t shape our choices, it’s a sign of a disconnected heart. Disconnects can be caused by fear, unresolved pain, or subconscious beliefs we develop based on life experiences. They leave us wondering, like Paul, why lasting change is hard to achieve.

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. “ Romans 7:15 (see also vs 16-25)

We’ve all had those moments when shame swamps us and guilt points its accusing finger our way. It doesn’t matter what “it” is that you messed up. The sense of failure burns like acid, choking out the hope that you could ever live up to your own standards, much less God’s.

I remember a long season when I struggled to pray and read the Bible. Condemnation was a close companion. I should do better. I had done better. What changed? God felt distant—until the moment he opened my eyes to a subconscious belief born out disappointment in my life: God doesn’t see me or care about me personally. He only loves me because he’s chosen to love human beings collectively. I thought I was solid in my belief in God’s love. But this was the true belief that drove my behavior, including my angry and bitter responses toward God and others.

Awareness opened the door to repentance and change. I still struggle with sin and find myself placing distance between myself and God. Now, though, I’m much quicker to pause and ask God to search my heart, to surface the fears, pain, and beliefs that underlie my choices.

What about you?
What is one area in your life where you’re struggling with repeated sin that leaves you feeling guilt and shame?
How is fear or pain contributing to the choices you make?
What are you subconsciously believing about yourself, God, the situation, or others?

- Anisa Sumlar, Creative Director at Wellspring Group

08/15/2026

Lies We Believe: “If I ignore it long enough, it will go away.”

Most of us have tried this one. We stay busy enough, distracted enough, productive enough, and we tell ourselves that if we just don't look directly at it, whatever it is will eventually lose its grip and fade out on its own. It feels like a reasonable strategy. And sometimes it even works for a little while.

But what we avoid doesn't disappear. It waits. And while it waits it can quietly become something else — anxiety that shows up out of nowhere, a numbness we can't quite explain, a slow distance that grows between us and the people we love most.

Psalm 139 reminds us that God has already searched us and known us. There is nothing tucked away inside us that He hasn't already seen. Which means the thing we've been avoiding isn't hidden from Him. It never was. And if He already knows, there can be something freeing about stopping the avoidance and simply letting ourselves look at it too.

We don't have to have it resolved to bring it to Him. We don't have to have the right words or the right amount of faith. What we resist, we carry. But what we're willing to acknowledge, we can begin to bring into the light, and that's where healing can find an open door.

What might you be carrying today, that’s been waiting to be acknowledged?

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

What is a Multiplier?A Multiplier is a monthly partner who doesn’t just give to Wellspring - they help sustain it. Month...
08/14/2026

What is a Multiplier?

A Multiplier is a monthly partner who doesn’t just give to Wellspring - they help sustain it.

Monthly giving creates the predictable foundation that frees Wellspring to plan and build the next five years of this movement with confidence.

When you become a Multiplier before August 31, your entire first year of monthly giving is matched.

Dollar for dollar.

That’s not just one gift doubled.
That’s 12 months of doubled impact.

With a reliable foundation of monthly partners Wellspring can plan farther ahead and say yes to opportunities as they come!

Whether you’ve given to Wellspring before or you’re stepping in for the first time, we would love for you to join us!

The match ends August 31.

Become a Multiplier today and lock in a full year of doubled giving.

To learn more about how to become a Multiplier, click the link in our bio today!

You’ll leave this evening with:→ A clear vision for why your heart is worth fighting for. → A framework for the disconne...
08/11/2026

You’ll leave this evening with:

→ A clear vision for why your heart is worth fighting for.

→ A framework for the disconnect between what you believe and how you actually live.

→ Real stories of transformation from people who have began to close this disconnect.

This event is for anyone longing for deeper authenticity, freedom, and love with God and others — and for pastors, small group leaders, and ministry leaders who care for the hearts of those around them.

August 16 · 3–5 PM
Perimeter Church, Johns Creek, GA
Register at the link in bio!

In 2003, Wellspring began with a simple, audacious belief: your heart is worth fighting for. Since then, we’ve witnessed...
08/07/2026

In 2003, Wellspring began with a simple, audacious belief: your heart is worth fighting for.

Since then, we’ve witnessed a transformational work.
When a person is transformed from the inside out — their team feels it. Their church feels it. Their family feels it.

One leader at a time. One team at a time. One church at a time.

Twenty-three years later, that belief hasn’t changed. But the vision is expanding.

We’re stepping into the next five years with a discipleship pathway that can grow beyond geography — reaching leaders and communities we’ve never been able to reach before.

A movement that doesn’t stand still.

And right now, you can be part of launching it.

Now through August 31, every gift to Wellspring is matching dollar for dollar. That means your generosity doesn’t just contribute to the movement — it multiplies it.

This is 23 years in the making. Help us carry it forward.

Give now → link in bio!!

Two weeks from today, we’re gathering at Perimeter Church for an evening that could change the way you see your heart — ...
08/05/2026

Two weeks from today, we’re gathering at Perimeter Church for an evening that could change the way you see your heart — and yourself.

Winning the Battle for Your Heart is a free, two-hour interactive workshop introducing you to a path toward deeper freedom, connection and becoming who God created you to be.

August 16 · 3–5 PM · Johns Creek, GA

Register at the link in bio!!

08/01/2026

Lies We Believe: My feelings don't matter.

Many of us learned this one early. Push through. Stay strong. Don't be so sensitive. It didn't always get said out loud but the message came through clearly in the families we grew up in, the churches we sat in, the classrooms we raised our hands in. And so we learned to minimize what we feel. To dismiss it before anyone else could. To apologize for having an emotional life at all.

But here's what we've come to understand: our feelings aren't interruptions to our faith. They aren't signs of weakness or spiritual immaturity. They can be information. Every emotion we carry has the potential to point us somewhere, toward a desire we haven't named yet, a longing that hasn't been acknowledged, something we care about so deeply that it's showing up in how we feel.

Psalm 139 reminds us that God has already searched us and known us. He knows when we sit and when we rise. He is familiar with all our ways. Every fear we haven't said out loud. Every grief we've tucked away. Every longing we've been too afraid to name. He already knows. Which means there is nothing we could bring to Him that would surprise Him, nothing we could confess that would change how fully He sees us or how deeply He loves us.

So if He already knows, if He has already searched the parts of us we work hardest to hide, what would it look like to stop pretending those parts don't exist? What would it look like to stop managing our feelings into silence and start bringing them honestly to the One who already sees them anyway?

We might as well be honest. With God. With ourselves. With the desires underneath what we feel.

What desire might our feelings be asking us to acknowledge today?

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

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