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Helping people transform their lives through safe, quality, and affordable peer-to-peer small groups. Everyone is struggling with something. You are not alone!

In small group, we extend love, empathy, and respect to each other in our shared humanity. Our groups consist of 5 to10 participants and 2 trained facilitators, all who commit to an 8-week journey together. In group we get to the heart of our struggles, building intentional, healing relationships on the way. With thousands of participants worldwide, we have seen transformation in the areas of anxiety, depression, relationship issues, low self-worth, grief and loss, rage, loneliness, or anything else holding you back from a full life. Restore Small Groups was founded by Scott Reall at the YMCA of Middle Tennessee and now operates as it's own non-profit. Scott and Executive Director Sara Hamill work to intentionally provide Journey to Freedom, our flagship book, and other small groups as a means to offer a path to lasting transformation for anyone dealing with life's struggles.

10/12/2026

PARTNER FEATURE UPDATE | ZIMBABWE YMCA at Kadoma Prison

Hope continues to take root inside Kadoma Prison in Zimbabwe. 🇿🇼

This week, 102 inmates participated in Journey to Freedom, creating space for people to speak honestly about their pain, struggles, and hopes for the future.

For many, JtF is giving them something they desperately need: a safe place to be heard, to process what they carry, and to begin finding meaning and hope in the midst of difficult circumstances.

One especially powerful story is that of a husband and wife, both serving sentences related to domestic violence. They are participating in separate JtF groups without knowing the other is taking part. Both are scheduled to be released in December, and the team is looking forward to the possibility of seeing them reunite at graduation.

This is why we believe hope is essential to growth and transformation. Even in places marked by pain and brokenness, God continues to meet people, restore hope, and open a path toward a different future.

We’re deeply grateful to Francis, Dr. Vakai, and the Zimbabwe YMCA team for continuing to carry this work forward.

10/09/2026

Have you been through a Restore Small Group and want to help create that same experience for others?

Join our upcoming Journey to Freedom Facilitator Training and become part of our local facilitator community helping us spread hope and healing through Restore Small Groups.

📅 October 28 & 29
⏰ 10:00 AM–1:30 PM
💻 Online via Zoom
💵 $75

DM us for the registration link!

10/08/2026

We all need spaces where we can be honest about what’s really happening in our lives.

Restore Small Groups bring 5–10 people together with two trained facilitators for eight weeks of meaningful conversation, reflection, connection, and growth.

You don’t have to be in crisis. You don’t have to have it all figured out. Just come as you are.

Because healing and growth happen when we have safe places to tell the truth, be known, and discover we’re not alone.

Find a group or let us know you’re interested:
restoresmallgroups.org/experience

10/07/2026

You don’t have to figure it all out alone.

Restore groups offer a safe, faith-based space to slow down, be known, and experience the grace of God through the grace we give and receive from one another.

Find a group: restoresmallgroups.org/experience

10/06/2026

Restore groups are 8-week faith-based, facilitated small group experiences designed to help people slow down, explore the patterns and beliefs that shape their lives, and experience greater freedom, connection, and wholeness.

Our goal is simple: make it easy for organizations to offer a Restore group without having to build a new program from the ground up.

You don’t have to recruit and train facilitators or create the curriculum. We’ll come alongside you and provide the group structure, materials, and trained facilitators to lead it.

If your organization is already caring for people and you’re looking for a deeper resource for their mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, we’d love to connect.

10/05/2026

Partner Spotlight: Metanoia Ukraine 🇺🇦

Since 2009, Restore has been honored to partner with Metanoia Ukraine in Odesa, where Journey to Freedom has grown from a single group into an ongoing ministry reaching hundreds of people. Today, their team continues creating safe spaces for honest conversation, hope, resilience, and meaningful change, especially amid the profound stress and loss of war.

We’re grateful to see Journey to Freedom continuing to bring people together across the world. Change is possible. 💙

Learn more about Metanoia Ukraine⁠ at metanoiaukraine.org

10/02/2026

Restore groups are safe, structured Christ-centered small group experiences where people can tell the truth about their lives, experience meaningful connection, and move toward greater freedom, healing, and wholeness.

Our groups bring 5–10 people together with two trained facilitators for 8 weeks around one of our guided curricula. Each 90-minute session combines a feelings check-in, thoughtful curriculum, honest conversation, personal reflection, and the opportunity to be truly known by others.

Restore groups are not therapy, not a bible study, or a book club, and you don’t need to be in crisis to join one. They’re for ordinary people navigating real life, and for our stories, relationships, losses, patterns, struggles, hopes, and the places where we want to grow.

At the heart of Restore is a simple belief:

We heal and grow when we have safe places to tell the truth, be known, and discover that we’re not alone.

10/01/2026

We call it sacred space for a reason.

There’s something powerful about being able to share what hurts, what’s real, and what we often keep hidden, and being met with compassionate presence instead of judgment.

That’s the kind of space we work to create in every Restore group: a safe place to be known, experience connection, and grow toward greater freedom.

Interested in experiencing a group?
restoresmallgroups.org/experience⁠

09/30/2026

Restore groups are 8-week facilitated small group experiences designed to help people slow down, explore the patterns and beliefs that shape their lives, and experience greater freedom, connection, and wholeness.

Our goal is simple: make it easy for organizations to offer a Restore group without having to build a new program from the ground up.

You don’t have to recruit and train facilitators or create the curriculum. We’ll come alongside you and provide the group structure, materials, and trained facilitators to lead it.

If your organization is already caring for people and you’re looking for a deeper resource for their mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, we’d love to connect.

09/29/2026

We’re celebrating Journey to Freedom graduates in Belize—from men at Jacob’s Farm Rehabilitation Center to students at Tubal Vocational High School. Every certificate represents a story, a journey, and the courage to keep moving toward greater freedom.

So grateful for our global partners who continue creating spaces for transformation in their communities.

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326 21st Avenue North, Suite 223
Nashville, TN
37203

Website

http://www.restoresmallgroups.org/

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