The RESTORE Healing Model (RESTORE) is a healing and research project developed through Choice Driven Ministry for people who know something needs care — body, heart, mind, spirit, or community.
RESTORE is built on the truth that healing should not be separated into “inner” healing over here and “physical” healing over there. What happens in the body can affect the heart. What happens in the heart can affect the body. Trauma, grief, sickness, spiritual heaviness, isolation, and pain can overlap and show up in the body, thoughts, emotions, and spirit at the same time.
RESTORE looks at healing as a whole-person journey. It creates space for inner healing, physical healing, deliverance, reflection, and restored connection with God and healthy community. It is not a one-time event, but a guided process that includes a virtual preparation session, in-person participation, reflection, and follow-up.
What Is RESTORE?
RESTORE is a healing pathway designed to help participants engage the work of God in a thoughtful, biblical, and Spirit-led way.
The model walks participants through seven movements:
Receive → Explore → Sense → Treat → Order → Recheck → Encourage
Participation Commitment
RESTORE is free to attend, but it is not a one-time drop-in event. It is a full healing journey with a beginning, middle, and follow-up.
The format is hybrid:
1. Virtual pre-session
2. In-person seminar/workshop
3. Virtual follow-up
The overnight stay is optional. You may attend the in-person portion without staying overnight.
Because RESTORE is also part of a ministry research project, participants are asked to complete the full process. This helps us understand what people experience during the event and what changes over time.
Full participation includes:
1. Completing the pre-session form or survey
2. Attending the virtual pre-session
3. Attending the in-person seminar/workshop
4. Completing the post-session survey
5. Completing 3 short e-journal reflections
6. Completing the virtual follow-up session
Cost to participate: $0
Who Should Participate?
RESTORE is for people who know something needs care — even if they do not have the words for it yet.
Some people come because their body is hurting. Some come because they are living with sickness, disease, chronic pain, or physical symptoms that have not fully resolved. Some come because their heart is tired from grief, trauma, abuse, rape, heartbreak, rejection, fear, or disappointment. Some come because they feel spiritually heavy, oppressed, tormented, or bound and need freedom.
Sometimes pain shows up emotionally. Sometimes it shows up physically. Sometimes it shows up spiritually. Sometimes it shows up in sleep, anxiety, exhaustion, anger, isolation, recurring cycles, sickness, or feeling disconnected from God, yourself, or others.
RESTORE is a space to slow down, be seen, receive prayer, and begin walking through healing and freedom with God in a safe and guided way.
This may include people who are:
– Living with physical pain, illness, disease, stress, or exhaustion
– Seeking prayer for physical healing in the body
– Carrying grief, heartbreak, trauma, abuse, rape, rejection, or disappointment
– Trying to understand why emotional pain may be showing up in the body
– Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, numb, anxious, angry, afraid, or disconnected
– Experiencing spiritual heaviness, torment, oppression, bondage, or recurring destructive cycles
– Seeking deliverance, inner healing, physical healing, or restoration
– Wanting a safe place to reflect, pray, and be supported
– Open to healing and freedom, even if they are unsure what that looks like
– Willing to participate in the full RESTORE process
What Participants Can Expect
RESTORE is designed to be safe, honest, prayerful, and grounded in Scripture. You will not be pressured to perform, explain everything, or pretend you are okay.
Your survey and journal responses will be kept confidential and used for research and ministry improvement.
Participants can expect:
– A virtual pre-session to help you understand the process
– An in-person seminar/workshop focused on healing, freedom, and restoration
– Teaching that connects physical healing, inner healing, deliverance, and spiritual growth
– Time for prayer, reflection, worship, and guided ministry
– Space to notice what may be happening in your body, emotions, thoughts, and spirit
– Optional overnight stay for those who want more time away to rest and reflect
– Short e-journal reflections after the event
– A virtual follow-up session to help you process what happened and what comes next
The RESTORE Journey
RESTORE is a guided healing journey with three parts:
1. Virtual pre-session
2. In-person seminar/workshop
3. Virtual follow-up
Participants will be invited to slow down, reflect, receive teaching and prayer, and notice what may need healing, freedom, or restoration.
The ministry team uses the RESTORE Healing Model to guide the process with care, order, prayer, Scripture, and follow-up support.
The goal is not pressure, performance, or hype. The goal is a safe, prayerful process where people can begin or continue healing with God.
Register for RESTORE
RESTORE is free to attend, but registration is required because space is limited and participants must complete the full process.
Event format:
1. Virtual pre-session to prepare and orient: May 22, 2026, 7:30pm-8:30pm (EST)
2. In-person seminar/workshop: May 23, 2026, 10:00am-4pm (EST)
3. Virtual follow-up: July 15, 2026, 7:30-8:30pm (EST)
Location:
The in-person seminar/workshop will take place at:
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, MD
The full address will be provided to registered participants after prescreening and confirmation.
Optional overnight stay may be available at no cost for eligible participants, based on prescreening and space availability. Overnight space is not guaranteed. Participants may also attend the in-person seminar/workshop without staying overnight or arrange their own lodging if desired.
Cost: $0
To participate, please register and watch for follow-up instructions by email.
Register for RESTORE
RESTORE will take place May 22–24, 2026.
This is a free hybrid healing event with a virtual pre-session, an in-person seminar/workshop, and a virtual follow-up session. Registration is required because participants must complete the full RESTORE process.
Cost: $0
Optional overnight stay may be available at no cost for eligible participants, based on prescreening and space availability. Overnight space is not guaranteed. Participants may also attend the in-person seminar/workshop without staying overnight or arrange their own lodging if desired.
To participate, please complete the registration/prescreen form. The RESTORE team will review submissions and send next steps by email.
Event Flow
RESTORE is designed to move at a thoughtful pace. Each part of the gathering has a purpose.
Friday — Prepare and orient
Participants arrive, settle in, and receive an overview of the RESTORE process.
Saturday — Teach, reflect, and receive ministry
Participants engage teaching, reflection, prayer, worship, and guided ministry focused on healing, freedom, and restoration.
Sunday — Encourage and reintegrate
Participants are guided to reflect on what they experienced and consider their next step: returning to God with renewed hope, returning to healthy community, and sharing testimony about what God has done.
As part of the RESTORE model, the follow-up process will help measure whether participants feel encouraged to reconnect with God, reengage community, and tell others about their experience.