Sunshine Acres Children’s Home recently dedicated Bonnie’s Place, a home to 10 deserving girls, as well as their house parents and their own four children.
Bonnie’s Place is a 6,700-square-foot girls’ home donated and built by Blandford Homes, with support from their trade partners.
Blandford Homes, with Jeff Blandford and Bonnie Blandford, have been generous donors to Sunshine Acres for more than 27 years. Last year, they joined forces with Executive Director Carol Whitworth, to inquire as to the home’s current needs and future plans. At that time, the inspiration for Bonnie’s Place was born. The new facility is named after Bonnie Blandford, Jeff’s mother who has been very involved with the building of this home.
Blandford Homes is proud to be a small part of such a loving and giving place as Sunshine Acres. The company continues to work with the home to contribute more building projects over the next five to seven years.
About Blandford Homes
Blandford Homes is built on a foundation of success, which began in 1979. Over the years, the company has built thousands of homes in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The owners of Blandford Homes and its affiliate companies, Pinnacle Ridge Holdings, LLC, City View Properties, LLC, and other entities, are involved in major master-planned communities, land development, and custom homesite communities in various locations in the Phoenix area.
Dedicated to the total commitment of overall value, quality and customer satisfaction, Blandford Homes took a very unique step in the Phoenix housing market. Specifically, the company elected to become a smaller, mid-size builder rather than continue to grow larger and larger like so many other home builders have done in this growing market.
Blandford Homes’ select team of employees consists of the most knowledgeable and caring people in the industry—dedicated to each and every customer.
About Sunshine Acres
The miraculous story of Sunshine Acres Children’s Home encourages and inspires people all over the world.
Rev. James and Vera Dingman (Uncle Jim and Aunt Vera) opened Sunshine Acres Children’s Home in 1954, with a desire to give their lives to caring for children who are hurting, and faith that God would provide all they needed. The Dingmans had spent their entire lives serving those forgotten by society—the sick, the poorest of the poor, migrant families and people in prison.
For 17 years, they had prayed for a place to take care of homeless children. In 1953, they sold their home, and, with the help of the Mesa Optimist Club, made the down-payment on 125 acres of Arizona desert, complete with a few run-down buildings.
They were grandparents with no income, 11 years of mortgage payments, no electricity and a well with a broken pump. Aunt Vera writes, “That day, we both felt we should never solicit money, or a board, or a brick, and no child would ever be turned away for financial reasons. God impressed upon us very strongly that this was His work. We were to take care of the children, and He would take care of the finances.” This was the beginning of the Miracle in the Desert.