This is not a typical conference.
What sets this conference apart is that our understanding does not come from theory, speculation, or podcast discussions alone. It comes from thousands of combined hours spent doing the daily, hands-on work of walking with survivors through healing, restoration, identity work, and discipleship through Yeshua.
The voices you will hear are actively engaged in helping survivors navigate trauma, fragmentation, programming, and truth discovery in real time. This conference is built not only on information, but on lived experience and practical application.
This year’s theme, Trust the Journey: Becoming His Warrior Bride is an invitation to step into deeper truth, greater discernment, and practical equipping for the road ahead.
There is a gap in the Body of Christ.
Survivors are speaking, but many do not know how to hear them. Leaders want to help but often lack the framework to do it safely. This conference exists to bring clarity, language, and understanding to the hidden places many survivors have had to navigate alone.
This is not about creating an emotional moment. This is about equipping people to walk in truth, wisdom, and responsibility.
This conference is for:
Survivors of childhood trauma, exploitation, ritual abuse, and mind control
Churches
Deliverance ministers
Counselors and coaches
Safe houses and recovery programs
Intercessors and prayer ministers
Anyone called to walk with survivors but needing clarity and discernment
At Counting the Cost, you can expect:
Biblically grounded teaching and worship
Trauma-informed language and framework
Survivor perspective and lived experience
Practical tools for ministry and support
Honest conversations about what healing really requires
Community with others who are willing to count the cost
Trust the Journey
Everyone needs to understand the war we are in and the truth within it. With so much disclosure, the enemy is doing what he does best - causing confusion.
Join us as we hear from survivors and the warriors who walk beside them every day to gain a clearer picture of the enemy’s blueprint and what YHWH is doing to expose and dismantle it.
Many who have been used by the enemy do not even recognize it themselves until truth begins to surface and YHWH starts revealing what has been hidden. As the Body of Christ, we must become educated on this war so we can help expose deception, diffuse the enemy’s agenda, and partner with Yeshua in the rescue, healing, and redemption of His people.
We’re not avoiding the hard questions; we’re addressing them directly.
We’ll answer questions such as:
Why does it seem like YHWH is not doing anything?
Why does it seem like the enemy is winning?
Is the narrative true? Are we the “aliens” children?
Should we be warring in the second heaven, astral projecting, and remote viewing or is it a trap?
Join us as we aid in releasing truth and show you how to trust the journey with YHWH.
Learn concrete steps you can take to walk in victory both with individual survivors and as a collective.
Meet the Speakers
Hear from survivors, leaders, counselors, and warriors walking this journey firsthand.
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Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Winthrop University and brings over 19 years of direct experience serving individuals and families impacted by complex trauma and exploitation.
Through years of hands-on ministry, Kelly recognized a significant pattern among those she served; many were survivors of organized abuse and trafficking, often presenting with dissociative identity disorder and complex trauma histories. This exposure led her to pursue advanced training, mentorship, and specialized education with experienced professionals in the field, equipping her to address the unique needs of survivors of SRA and mind control with greater spiritual and practical understanding.
In response to the critical gaps in survivor care, Kelly founded Warrior Bride Ministries to provide safe, informed, and comprehensive support for survivors who often fall outside the scope of traditional services. Under her leadership, the ministry now provides survivors with donation based services, education, and hands-on care, while also equipping churches, ministries, and safe houses to respond effectively and responsibly to this population.
Kelly is deeply committed to mobilizing the Body of Christ to become educated, engaged, and trauma-informed in both rescue and long-term healing. She advances this mission through strategic ministry partnerships, hosting the annual Counting the Cost Conference, and delivering specialized trainings and presentations for safe houses, churches, and allied ministries.
Her heart’s cry is rooted in Isaiah 61 to see believers equipped to bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to the captives, and walk with survivors toward lasting restoration. Kelly continues to pursue ongoing education and professional development as the Lord reveals deeper insight into both the enemy’s strategies and God’s redemptive blueprint for survivor healing.
She considers it a profound honor to walk alongside survivors and witness the ways Yahweh brings healing, restoration, and deliverance in uniquely personal and transformative ways for each individual.
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She has spent more than 30 years looking for techniques that work to bring healing to spirit, soul and body Dr. Robin is passionate about educating people in holistic wellness, understanding ourselves from a quantum energy perspective, learning how to live a life of thriving and fulfilling our destiny. Daily, she helps people release blocks to having all they desire, ultimately to living a life of peace and joy.
Dr. Robin is the author of Living Like a Son: Releasing Blocks to Truly Knowing a Loving Father God: Thrive: Applying Biblical and Quantum Energy Principles to live a transformed life; A believer’s Guide to the Law of Attraction; 30 days to peace and joy, and Journey through the storm, overcoming the pain of your husband’s sex/porn addiction. She also has specialized experience in sex addiction, SRA/DID, and eating disorders. Dr. Robin has had a thriving private practice for the past 13 years in, TX and virtually all over the world. She is the mom of four amazing girls and 3 grandsons. She travels to speak, do retreats and live trainings and believes in empowering healers to be more effective with this modality. She loves collaborating with other like-minded healers and believes in the synergy of different giftings and anointings.
Dr. Robin also has a non-profit ministry called, Thrive Holistic Healing Ministries. This 508C1A helps fund therapy for survivors of trafficking and Ritual Abuse, train practitioners in her modality who work with this traumatized population and support orphans in third world countries who are vulnerable to being trafficked.
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Vicki Joy was born with a craniofacial deformity called Hypertelorism and as a result had dozens of reconstructive surgeries on her face from 10-days old until she was 15. The surgical procedures, bone and skin grafts, scarring, and as a result, the bullying from peers created a vicious circle of PTSD, trauma, anxiety, and depression that also brought on a 4-decade-long struggle with sleep paralysis, nightmares, and astral abductions. Vicki Joy currently writes for Real Dark News.com and L.A. Marzulli’s Politics, Prophecy, and the Supernatural magazine, as well as writing books and articles on apologetics, poetry, and fringe topics. Vicki Joy’s latest book, “They Only Come Out at Night: Exposing the Dark Weapon of Sleep Paralysis” is available now on lamarzulli.net.
Vicki Joy can be found at:
Website: https://www.vickijoyanderson.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vickijoyauthor/
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@VICKIJOYANDERSON
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Dr. William J. Hurst, B.Th., M.Th. D.Ths. Ph.D., D-C.P.C., D.P.C.(H), D.D.(H)
In 1981 he established and operated Kingdom Seed Ministry, a religious organization for the establishing of churches and other ministries. He operated it for twenty years, until he released its leadership to others in 2001. He has traveled overseas to Asia, Africa, India and Central America and has a specific ministry to people in leadership.
From 1990 - 2002, Dr. Hurst taught at Canada Christian College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he was the Dean of Leadership. He holds doctorate in Theology from Canada Christian College and received his Ph. D, in Christian Education, from Shalom Bible College and Seminary in Des Moines, Iowa. He is also a psychotherapist holding his Diplomate of Certified Pastoral Counseling certificate. He was honored by his peers in 2006 with an honorary Doctor of Pastoral Counseling from Canadian Seminary. In 2011 He was honored again by his peers with a Doctor of Divinity from The Canadian Christian Clinical Counsellors Association, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. For several of its formative years, he was the Head of the Theological Studies for Zion College which is the correspondence degree program for Zion Ministerial Institute in Waverly, New York, USA.
Dr. Hurst has developed over 60 courses and curriculum at the college level, covering subjects relating to the needs, function, and development of integrity of character in leadership. Several of these courses are in use in other colleges. The material for these courses is drawn from research into the lives of Biblical leaders, following the processes they went through on their way to becoming leaders of stature. He has also drawn from the wealth of personal experience in relating to and counseling leaders through crisis situations, over the years.
Because of his involvement with Canada Christian College, as the Dean of Leadership there, he has done extensive counseling to leaders in both personal and congregational matters. Out of that counseling experience he has developed several counseling courses from unique Biblical perspectives. These delineate the makeup of man, helping the student understand the reasons people function the way they do.
Through the years of working with congregations and leaders, Dr. Hurst has learned much about the care and restoration of leaders. Dr. Hurst’s vision is to build in people’s lives, encouraging them in what they perceive is God’s call and purpose for their life. He has ministered to many whom the church at large has rejected, and seen lives changed and restored through counsel and ministry.
By seeing in men and women God’s purpose for the individual, he calls forth the precious from the vile, by focusing on the positive in their lives, and their potential. (Jeremiah 15:19), He has been allowed to be a repair breaches or separations in relationships in both the family and church relationships, by taking this approach (Isaiah 58:12)
Although currently living in the United States, as a Canadian, he still has some involvement in the lives of some of his former students. He serves as Senior Overseeing Ministry for His Banqueting Table, a fellowship with a Bible school, which is based in Toronto, Ontario, and functions in the capacity of an overseer to a number of congregations and ministries throughout Canada and internationally.
He pastored in Watertown, NY for three and a half years before the man he was training assumed that position. He continues to relate to that assembly.
In September of 2007 he was installed as president of The Institute for Strategic Christian Leadership. He is currently restructuring both the administration, and the education arms of the Institute. Since taking office he has helped one church structure their training program so that ISCL can lawfully grant degrees to the students that apply.
Because the College organization is sound, he is endeavoring to create an atmosphere and organization, where those who are wounded in spirit and soul can be restored, as well as trained to reintegrate, after their healing, into community life and ministry. In progressing toward these goals he is selecting a mobile staff, preparing programs in a multitude of areas including restoration and counseling, along with ministry and theological courses. Also included in the restructuring the administration are aspects of consulting for the setting up in local assemblies the ability to train their own leaders with quality and according to their vision. This consulting include the ability to train the local leaders to fully develop a school including curriculum, grading structure, administrative counsel depending on the vision and purpose of the local church for a school. Every avenue of education can be covered from home schooling through to full degree granting schools.
Dr Hurst has taught school at the elementary level as well as overseen groups of home school programs, and written courses for all levels.
Dr Hurst now travels throughout the Body of Christ, setting up training programs that will instill the unique vision of that local church in the leadership, so that the spiritual DNA of the assembly can cause them to produce in the light of that vision. He also ministers in seminars, class courses in modular form, and regular services.
The main office for ISCL remains in GA.
Dr. Hurst can be reached at the address below for meetings, seminars, teaching modules and information.
Currently Dr. Hurst and his wife Eleanore are associates with Dr. Edward Bez at Christ The Messiah Church in Jacksonville, Fl., as well as on traveling in ministry.
The Institute for Strategic Christian Leadership
c/o Dr. Wm. J. Hurst,
3209 Mountain Ash Rd. S. Jacksonville, FL. 32223
https://www.theinstituteforstrategicchristianleadership.com/
https://www.drwmjhurst.com/
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With extensive knowledge and expertise in various therapeutic modalities, he has studied trauma therapy in depth including working alongside Dr. Alphonse Monzo and Kimberly at Well-Being by Design. In addition to his training with these esteemed professionals, Gerbrand has undergone specialized training with Discovering ME, focusing on the intricate dynamics of being human. This comprehensive education has equipped him with a profound understanding of the unique challenges individuals face when seeking healing and transformation. What sets Gerbrand apart is his holistic approach, which integrates his Christian background and prayer into the trauma healing process. He recognizes the profound impact trauma can have on physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being and addresses the spiritual aspects of trauma by incorporating spiritual practices and principles into his therapeutic work. This integration allows clients to experience deep healing and liberation from emotional and psychological pain. Seven years of training with Kanaan Ministries, specializing in inner healing and bloodline cleansing along with two years in the Bride Ministry DID Mentorship Program has equipped Samuel with a deep understanding and practical techniques to address root issues and bring healing to generational wounds, DID and SRA. gscoaching.co.za
Event Details:
6th Annual Counting the Cost Conference
Theme: Trust the Journey: Becoming His Warrior Bride
Hosted by: Warrior Bride Ministries
Location: Folly Beach, South Carolina
Dates: August 21–23, 2026
Friday Evening
Ticketed Dinner, opening session, and special survivor-led entertainment
Saturday
Full day of worship, teaching, equipping, and practical training
Sunday Morning
Worship, final sessions and closing
A more detailed schedule will be released closer to the event
Early Bird Tickets
Main Conference Early Bird: $129
Friday Dinner Add-On: $129
Seating is limited. Early registration is strongly encouraged.
Important Information
Lodging is not included.
Meals are limited to Friday ticketed dinner only.
This is a teaching-focused conference, not an individual prayer ministry event.
Some content may be intense and is best engaged with appropriate personal support.
FAQ’S
Is this only for survivors?
No. This conference is for both survivors and those called to support them.
Will there be individual ministry sessions?
No. This event is focused on teaching, training, equipping, and gathering.
Can leaders, counselors, and safe houses attend?
Yes. This conference is especially helpful for those working with survivors or preparing to.
Are meals included?
No. We will break for meals during the main conference. Drinks and snacks will be available throughout conference.
Friday dinner with survivor led entertainment is a ticketed event.
Is lodging included?
No. Attendees are responsible for their own lodging and travel.
There comes a point where we realize the cost of not understanding is too high.
Whether you are a survivor, a leader, or someone called to walk with those coming out of darkness, this is an opportunity to gather, awaken, and be equipped.
