Rick Hayes is General Manager of New Wine Scotland and Conference Manager of CLAN Gathering and in those administrative capacities draws on his 30 years experience as a manager with the Forestry Commission.   After being radically impacted by the ministry of John Wimber, Rick served for several years on Vineyard conference ministry teams in the UK, Europe and USA.  During one of his trips top California he met and subsequently married Cynthia. John Wimber would often quote the words of Jesus, “Freely you have received, freely give” and Rick is committed to sharing the words and works of the kingdom and passing on all he has learned to others – especially in the area of kingdom ministry expressed through local churches.   Rick is also an Alpha Advisor, part of the North-east region Alpha advisory team, and a founding member of Leaders Together for Scotland.  

Cynthia Hayes became a Christian in the in the 1970s Jesus People revival in California.  Her first calling was to be a missionary and after 4 years in an evangelistic role in a youth ministry called Young Life, followed by helping to start a new Vineyard church in Los Angeles, she went into Youth With A Mission.  After her Discipleship Training Course and School of Evangelism in the Hawaiian Islands, she was sent out as part of a team to start a YWAM base and bible school and spent over 4 years in Malaysia.  Eventually heading the team and the new base, she took groups on outreach to India, Indonesia, the Phillipines and briefly experienced smuggling bibles into China before returning to LA to be part of the leadership team of her home church.  In 1991 she met Rick on one of his Vineyard trips and they married in 1994, crossing the Atlantic to Scotland just ahead of the Toronto outpouring and became founding members of the conference that became CLAN Gathering.

Heather Sutherland's introduction to the work of the Holy Spirit came after hearing reports from meetings held by John Wimber’s team who visited Aberdeen in 1988. Heather has a passion to worship and serve the living God. She is committed to the biblical fusion of Word and Spirit in ministry and believes God is definitely still speaking today in a variety of ways. Heather is currently working towards becoming a Master Certified Dream Interpreter and as well as being one of the primary Streams teachers in Scotland also handles much of the administration for the Training Centre. Heather is married to Iain, a Church of Scotland minister and has two children. They recently moved to Gillespie Memorial Church in Dunfermline after serving in parishes in Caithness and Aberdeenshire.