The landscape of the Church is shifting dramatically across nations and communities. God seems to be streamlining His Church, confronting familiar systems, strategies and areas stagnation. We must respond!
When we think of missionary work, our minds often wander to distant continents. Yet today, many Christian foundations in our Western nations are being challenged daily, and the mission fields on home soil grow ever larger.
To navigate the wild spiritual terrain of this season, we need change! For too long, the Church has focused primarily on raising up two key leadership gifts: teaching and pastoral care. While many teachers and pastors are wonderfully equipped and ready, they need people to disciple!
The question is, how do we shift into "missionary mode" in our own nations? The answer lies in including and activating the fivefold ministry working together in synergy.
But to do this we believe a reformation of the prophetic and apostolic gifts is needed in the mix.
The Synergy Sessions will dive deep into the reactivation of these gifts from Ephesians 4—exploring both how we can do this and what it will look like in the Church today.
What does healthy prophetic and apostolic ministry actually look like?
How do they differ from each other?
How do they work together with evangelists, pastors, and teachers?
Their purpose is to equip believers for every calling - people with healthy and mature character—disciples who represent God’s Kingdom, not just a ministry.
Come and join this important conversation!
Through engaging teaching and thought-provoking interactive discussions with experienced leaders, we will explore how the Church can rise to meet the challenges of this critical moment in history.
One Spirit. Seven Expressions. Starting our third season on the Synergy Sessions podcast, is the Friday evening session of the Synergy: Seven Gathering, that took place in Dunfermline, Scotland 18-19th September, 2026. A partnership of Streams Creative House and Cairn Movement and then many other friends. Charity Bowman-Webb and Robyn Stewart of Streams Creative House kicked off Synergy: Seven with this session teaching, preaching, and modelling healthy prophetic giftings in the Church of o...
25 May 2026
The prophetic and the local church
On this episode we have Ruth Kennedy teaching on the Prophetic & the local church. Ruth challenges us to deepen our relationship with the prophetic, rather than only a time to listen and receive a word in church but to something to continually consider, apply and pray about. As Ruth says, ‘ The prophetic is not a mic drop moment.’ Charity and Alan then have a great discussion with lots of practical wisdom on how to embrace the prophetic while keeping the church healthy. This is one ...
25 Apr 2026
Healthy Teaching
On this episode we have Gordon Kennedy teaching on 'Healthy Teaching’ Gordon discusses - word studies, bible reading, the use of questions and more! We then have Ruth Kennedy and Heather Sutherland chat about it afterwards. Enjoy!!
29 Mar 2026
Multi-Voice Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
We are back! On this episode we have Shona Stirling teaching on 'Multi-Voice Leadership and Emotional Intelligence' Shona discusses the importance of self-awareness and self-regulation when there are differing opinions in the leadership symphony. We then have Ruth Kennedy and Gordon Kennedy chat about it afterwards. Enjoy!!
23 Nov 2025
5Q in Established Churches
In our last podcast of 2025, Peter Neilson shares thoughts about 5Q in established churches and the challenges then Charity Bowman-Webb and Scott McRoberts unpack some of the teaching. Thank you for sticking with us this year, we will be taking a break in December and look forward to more releases in 2026!
26 Oct 2025
Healthy Apostolic
Alan describes the essence of apostolic ministry and the importance of collaborative leadership as mentioned in Ephesians 4. He uses a biblical plumbline to describe healthy and unhealthy apostolic ministry and explains how it can look different from person to person. Then listen to Gordon Kennedy, Lynsey Paterson and Heather Sutherland as they discuss through their own APEST (Apostle / Prophet / Evangelist/ Shepherd / Teacher) lens.
28 Sept 2025
The Pathway to the Church of the Future
Beginning with Bob Dylan lyrics, Charity Bowman-Webb shares how it is time to respond to the ‘changing times’ and how the gifts of apostolic and prophetic are foundational to the church. She shares how they have been marginalised in some contexts, resulting in their misuse. Charity also inspires us to be reignited with the wonder of God. Then listen to Ruth Kennedy, Scott McRoberts and Heather Sutherland as they discuss through their own APEST (Apostle / Prophet / Evangelist/ Shepherd /...
25 Aug 2025
Healthy Prophetic
Naomi McKinley (Wildfire Ministries) teaches about ‘Healthy Prophetic’ and shares about hard words, the secret place and character. She also challenges us to receive from the LORD for intercession rather than always for releasing. Then listen to Alan McWilliam (Cairn), Charity Bowman Webb (Streams Creative House, Streams Scotland) and Ruth Kennedy (Church of Scotland) as they comment and there their thoughts and experiences afterwards. Such a rich discussion, enjoy!
27 Jul 2025
Emotionally Healthy Ministry
Heather Sutherland (Dream House, Streams Scotland) is sharing about how to minister in an emotionally healthy way. Then we have Scott McRoberts (Minister @ St Columbas's church) Gordon Kennedy (Craiglockhart Parish and Chris Duffett (Artist and creative evangelist - www.chrisduffettART.com) unpacking the teaching. Enjoy!
26 May 2025
APEST Overview
APEST - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Teacher. Rich Robinson (Movement Leaders Collective ) gives a flavour of each of the fivefold gifts, shares about how they are centred around Jesus and how developing awareness can support community. We then have Gordon Kennedy (Craiglockhart Parish Church), Lynsey Paterson (Forge Scotland) and Ruth Kennedy (Church of Scotland) unpacking it all afterwards, enjoy!
28 Apr 2025
Healthy Prophetic Community
This month, our teaching is from John Thomas (Streams Ministries) and is about the importance of a 'Healthy Prophetic Community.' Have a listen in as Alan McWilliam (Cairn Movement), Charity Bowman-Webb (Streams Ministries, Streams Creative House) and Faith Brennan (community of Aidan and Hilda) chat about the teaching from their own perspectives. Let's listen together and journey towards the fivefold ministry working together in synergy.
31 Mar 2025
The two-winged church
Welcome to episode 2 of our Synergy Sessions Podcast where we listen to a teaching from Alan McWilliam (Cairn Movement). Alan explains how he believes God is calling us to a 'Scottish Gideon's army' to see the Gospel powerfully moving forward in a similar way to how the Celtic church approached mission. This army 'wing' works alongside the more local 'wing' and Alan highlights the importance of both. Then we have Scott McRoberts (Minister @ St Columbas's church) and Heather Sutherland (Dream ...
16 Mar 2025
Streamlining
What happens when people with different Ephesians 4 'five-fold' strengths gather and discuss a teaching? This month, our teaching is from Charity Bowman-Webb and is about 'Streamlining.' Have a listen in as Alan McWilliam (Cairn Movement), Lynsey Patterson (Forge Scotland) and Scott Brennan (Community of Aiden and Hilda, Cairn Movement) chat about the teaching from their own perspectives- what they enjoyed, what challenged them and even what they found difficult about listening to a tea...
12 Feb 2025
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Have a listen to our Synergy Sessions Podcast trailer. We invite you to join this monthly journey of discussing the current spiritual terrain in Scotland and how fivefold ministry working together can help us practically respond. Hosted by Streams Creative House and Cairn.
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