A Heavy Mantle
- Conscious Coore
- Sep 26, 2025
- 3 min read
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The Future Within Reach
God often calls us to do things that have never been done before.
He’s prompting us to create, serve, and study for a picture of the future the world hasn’t yet seen. And when the fear of being misunderstood creeps in, I remind myself: obedience is not a group project.
Being the only one to carry something new is rarely about personality or preference—it’s about a mantle.
This past Saturday, in the middle of a Trauma-Informed Deliverance prayer team workshop, I was confronted with mine. While the group was fully engaged in an interactive task, I found myself standing in the doorway with questions. After 10 years in deliverance ministry, I still have plenty of them.
And honestly, that’s a good thing. Having questions means I’m not relying on my own strength, experience, or intellect. But on the way home, I realized what I was wrestling with wasn’t just questions... it was the mantle.
The responsibility to solve problems others can’t yet see. To create resources that don’t exist. To develop people so they can pour into others. To dig wells for communities I may never meet.
The weight of that mantle has often made me think: “I’m not sure I want to do this.”
Saturday, it was loud in a moment, “I don’t want to do this.”
I want to do the work I wake up every morning to do. It’s deeply fulfilling and fruitful. What I sometimes don’t want to do is step into the unknown.
And if you’re in ministry at any capacity, you know how much of it involves the unknown. You know what God said, you may even have a structure to follow, but part of it will always remain uncertain because that’s where God’s wisdom, direction, and glory reside.
Still, not all the unknown is holy.
Some of it comes from a lack of training, from gaps in development, from spiritual neglect. And that kind of unknown? It causes harm.
That’s why my mantle is what it is. To help close those gaps. To provide the frameworks, structures, and training that keep people aligned and safe.
So I’ll ask you: What is God calling you to carry in this season? What responsibilities come with your mantle?
To help you walk this out with both emotional safety and doctrinal soundness, I’ve made a few major resources available since the last Safe and Sound: Lead Edition:
7 Reasons Why Ebook – practical insights on why Christian spaces struggle to be trauma-informed.
Safe and Sound Monthly Mentorship Community – ongoing support and accountability for leaders like you.
Trauma-Informed Deliverance Course – equipping you to minister safely and powerfully.
All of these—plus every free resource created to help build trauma-informed, spiritually safe communities—are now available in the Resource Center. Whether you’re equipping a church team or a therapy group, there’s something here for you.
Your obedience matters. Your mantle matters. And the work you’re building today may just be the future the world hasn’t seen yet.
Conscious Coore is the founder of Flamingo Trauma Recovery, the creator of the Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention® framework, and author of Fundamentals of Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention. With a background in psychology, education, and inner healing ministry, she equips faith-aligned professionals to integrate clinical care and biblical wisdom for lasting transformation. Through her work with Jesus in the Marketplace, she highlights where Safe and Sound work is happening, even in spaces that often overlook the need for it.
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