Early Foundational History
A Sacred Heritage—Juliette’s Physician Grandfather
The grandfather of Wellhouse Without Borders founder was a physician, surgeon, and diagnostician who set a remarkable precedent. He was a man of deep compassion and he stood for the rights of minorities long before it was popular to do so. The good doctor founded two hospitals and a nursing school in rural America. Keeping the doors of his practice and hospital open throughout the Great Depression, he never turned anyone away because of an inability to pay.
For years, following the example of her grandfather, Juliette used her own resources to bring hope and healing to those from under-served rural communities in Idaho, Eastern Washington, Montana, and Wyoming. She also has served those among the very wealthy, providing for them a place where unconditional love is freely offered and healing is not for sale. Juliette also has served those in crisis, grief, and loss through four national disaster Hurricanes. Most recently she served with 24/7 nursing care, taking a temporary leave to assist her beloved senior stepdad, a retired psychologist and author, who was dying of Parkinson’s Disease. Her training in grief recovery and outreach to those in medical crisis expanded to a deeper personal level when four out of five members of her own family faced the life threatening challenge of cancer. Juliette’s family enjoyed sharing many fond memories of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in her formative years. Wellhouse Ranch Ministries was birthed at the foot of the Tetons, portrayed in our website by the lone Moose traveling through a snow covered meadow.
Juliette sees this and other wilderness areas of unspoiled creation as a hospital for the healing of the human heart.
A Statement from Juliette
Incredibly, each member of my immediate family has faced the challenge of life-threatening cancer. Someone once said, “When you learn that someone you love is dying, it feels as though time skips a beat—and when the clock resumes ticking, nothing is ever the same again.” I believe that God walks with us in such intimacy that He weeps with us in the sorrows and losses of our lives, calling us to this depth of love for one another. I believe that my own journey through grief has prepared me for service to others who are traveling through the wilderness of suffering, seeking a place to heal. As I invest my life in this dream and vision for faith and for service to humanity, may it be a place where people see the light on in the window, welcoming them to come in out of the storms of life, finding Wellhouse Ranch Ministries: a legacy of hope, healing, renewal and unconditional love—for those in pain of any kind. As we seek to live well this gift of time, will you join with me in lighting that lamp as a beacon of hope for our world?
Juliette Anderson
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in
where nature may heal
and give strength to body and soul alike.John Muir