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A Convergence Q45 initiative

THE AMERICAN
FIELD YEAR

with Dr. Sherry-Ann Brown, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA

Across America. Listening deeply. Serving faithfully. Building what God reveals.

  • Faith
  • Medicine
  • Ministry
  • People
  • Places
  • Prayer

How the three pieces fit together

Walk Through the House

Think of the system as one large house.

Choose a room to read what it holds. Using a keyboard, press the arrow keys to move between rooms, then press Tab to enter the room description.

The whole house

Convergence Quotient 45

The full Christian ministry, teaching system, and formation journey. It holds the foundation, the covenant, the Six Movements, the 45 Waypoints, the labs, and the program family.

  • Christian prophetic formation and equipping
  • Nine areas of formation, five practices each
  • Six Movements and fruit over time
  • Labs, program family, and review rhythms
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The pieces work together, but they do not do the same job.

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Start with the permanent question

Why 45? Because Caleb said God had kept him alive these forty five years, and then asked for the mountain. Forty five names preserved years maturing into claimed ground.

Where does 45 come from?

The 45 years between Caleb receiving a promise and standing before the mountain connected with that promise (Joshua 14).

What does it mean?

Formation, faithfulness, and stewardship over time. A word may come in one moment; faithful formation may take many years.

What does it not measure?

It is not a score, an age requirement, a number of classes, or a number of years a participant must complete.

How does the nine-by-five framework relate?

Nine areas of formation, five practices within each area: 45 Waypoints of guided reflection and practice, walked flexibly. The mountain markers are symbolic waypoints, not levels, points, or years.

The 45 Waypoints

Nine areas of formation, five practices in each. Follow a link to read the waypoint in full, or mark one as walked to keep your place.

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Where I am in the journey

Central Florida

Location is shared as a state or broad region rather than a real-time address. Entries are released after departure, so that hospitality, households, and hosts remain protected.

Central FloridaPreparation season

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Convergence Across America

Formation, Ministry, Prayer, and Mission

The Convergence Quotient 45 Mission is a forty-fifth-year initiative that gathers the people, places, formation, gifts, work, and spiritual assignments already entrusted to Dr. Sherry-Ann Brown and stewards them through the 2027 American Field Year.

Ministry Field Notes

Short written updates from the road, published after departure from a location.

What I Am Learning With God

Carefully stewarded reflection. A personal observation is not a public prophetic declaration.

Scripture Along the Way

The passages that carried a place, a week, or a conversation.

Prayer Across the States

Current prayer themes and invitations, without exposing private information.

Prophetic Formation

The documented formation record, kept in canonical status language.

Public Gatherings

Confirmed public gatherings, teaching, livestreams, and appropriate ways to connect.

Invitations and Hosting

Churches, ministries, healthcare organizations, universities, and community leaders.

Testimonies and Fruit

Shared only with written permission and later review.

Resources Emerging From the Journey

Teachings, tools, and programs created from what the year reveals.

A Convergence Q45 initiative

One Journey. Many Places. One Life Offered to God.

This is more than a page about a prophetic teacher. It is a place to follow Dr. Sherry-Ann Brown as many parts of her life and calling come together.

  • grows in prophetic ministry and helps others hear God;
  • cares for hearts as both a medical heart doctor and a spiritual heart doctor;
  • travels across the United States during her 2027 American Field Year;
  • meets people, visits churches and cities, and follows the work God gives her;
  • shares stories, lessons, prayers, and updates from the road; and
  • creates new teachings, tools, books, and programs from what she learns.
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The mandate

What This Year Is For

  • Strengthen and renew spiritual relationships across the country.
  • Serve churches and communities through prayer, teaching, encouragement, listening, and practical contribution.
  • Explore the calling of a physical and spiritual cardiologist in real communities.
  • Identify the distinct needs, gifts, histories, and invitations present in different regions.
  • Create space for burning bush moments and proportionate faithful response.
  • Encourage healthcare professionals, scientists, innovators, students, and leaders.
  • Develop resources emerging from lived encounters across the country.
  • Cultivate an online community that can pray, learn, reflect, and participate.
  • Deepen relationships among faith, vocation, physical health, spiritual health, and responsible technology.
  • Gather stories of courage, healing, reconciliation, discernment, service, and obedience with permission and care.

Operating principle

Every invitation receives a date, a source, a status, a human decision, a proportionate action, and a later review. This is how a sacred moment becomes faithful stewardship without haste or inflation.

Upcoming public opportunities

Gatherings Become Public Only After Written Agreement

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Church-hosted regional residencies, listening, prayer, teaching, and whole-person heart ministry.

1. Exploratory

An interest exists. Nothing is announced, promised, or scheduled.

2. Relationship anchor

A named pastoral or institutional relationship carries the conversation.

3. Readiness review

Venue, safety, hospitality, audience, and purpose are assessed together.

4. Ready with completion items

A short written list of outstanding items remains before agreement.

5. Ready for agreement

A memorandum of understanding is prepared for mutual signature.

6. Confirmed

Written agreement exists. Only then does a date become public.

A state is complete after intentional presence, a relationship or learning encounter, a field note, and a recorded conclusion.

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Pray with me

Prayer Across the States

Pray for measured beginnings, for hosts not yet known, and for the discipline of proportionate response.

Prayer themes are published without exposing private information, household details, or the circumstances of people who have not given permission.

Invite, host, or collaborate

Churches, Ministries, Health Systems, Universities, Communities

Every inquiry receives a date, a source, a status, a human decision, a proportionate action, and a later review. Nothing is announced before mutual written agreement.

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Email first. Text updates may be added later, always as a separate choice. You do not need an account to subscribe.

  • Location is published as a state or broad region, never as a real-time address.
  • Entries are released after departure, on a recorded location-release date.
  • Names, photographs, quotations, and stories appear only with written permission.
  • Private journals, exact locations, and unprocessed impressions stay in the private master record.
  • Subscribing to one list never adds a person to another list.

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The ministry

The Convergence Quotient 45 Mission

A Christian prophetic formation and equipping ministry.

Founder

Dr. Sherry-Ann Brown, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHAProphetic Missionary · Founder of Convergence Q45

Accepted names

The Convergence Quotient 45 MissionConvergence Q45 · ConvergenceQ45

Online

convergenceq45.com

Full public name: The Convergence Quotient 45 Mission. Short public name: The Convergence Q45 Mission. Brand and logo: Convergence Q45. Formation system: the Convergence Quotient 45 Framework. Community: the Convergence Q45 Community. Global expression: Convergence Q45 Global. Never CQ45 or C45Q.

How the three pieces fit together

One House. Three Rooms. One Bridge.

Think of the system as one large house.

The Convergence Quotient 45 Framework

The whole houseThe full Christian ministry, teaching system, and formation journey.

The Burning Bush

The room where you turn asideThe place where a person stops, notices, listens, and records a moment that may need more attention.

From Word to Stewardship

The room where a word is keptThe place where a person carefully saves, protects, organizes, and reviews a prophetic word with help from AI.

What Is in Your Hand?

The bridgeIt helps a person see what God has already placed in their life and choose one faithful way to use it.

The pieces work together, but they do not do the same job.

The permanent clarification

Why 45?

The Convergence Quotient 45 Framework is inspired by the 45 years between Caleb receiving a promise and standing before the mountain connected with that promise. The number points to formation, faithfulness, and stewardship over time.

45 is not a score, age requirement, number of classes, or number of years participants must complete.

Nine areas of formation. Five practices within each area.

Together, these create 45 Waypoints of guided reflection and practice. Participants move through them flexibly. They are a learning framework, not a spiritual ranking system.

45 Waypoints are organized into nine areas, with five practices in each area.

The 45 Waypoints on the mountain path

  1. Attend
  2. Receive
  3. Discern
  4. Respond
  5. Release
  6. Steward and watch for fruit

Symbolic waypoints, not scores, levels, or years. The numbers are a picture of formation over time. A word may come in one moment, but faithful formation may take many years.

Convergence

Different streams come together: medicine, heart care, science, teaching, prayer, ministry, technology, travel, relationships, writing, prophetic formation, and service.

Quotient

A quotient is the result of bringing numbers into relationship. It asks: how are all these parts working together? It points to alignment and connection, never to a score for how spiritual a person is.

45

A story marker drawn from Caleb in Joshua 14, and a nine-by-five framework of formation waypoints held behind the scenes.

The Permanent “Why 45?” Card

Where does 45 come from?

The 45 years between Caleb receiving a promise and standing before the mountain connected with that promise (Joshua 14).

What does it mean?

Formation, faithfulness, and stewardship over time. A word may come in one moment; faithful formation may take many years.

What does it not measure?

It is not a score, an age requirement, a number of classes, or a number of years a participant must complete.

How does the nine-by-five framework relate?

Nine areas of formation, five practices within each area: 45 Waypoints of guided reflection and practice, walked flexibly. The mountain markers are symbolic waypoints, not levels, points, or years.

The invitation

Hear. Discern. Respond. Steward.

Hear: Pay attention.

Discern: Test what you noticed.

Respond: Choose a loving and faithful action.

Steward: Care for what happens next.

The Six Movements

Attend → Receive → Discern → Respond → Release → Steward → Fruit Over Time

Movement 1

Attend

Stop and notice.

  • · What caught my attention?
  • · What really happened?
  • · What did I see, hear, feel, or remember?
  • · What was happening in my body and emotions?

Movement 2

Receive

Save the first thing clearly.

  • · Write the exact word, phrase, image, Scripture, feeling, memory, dream, burden, or question.
  • · Protect the original moment before later thoughts change it.

Movement 3

Discern

Slow down and test.

  • · What did I truly receive, and what did I add afterward?
  • · What are the other possible meanings?
  • · What does Scripture say, and what facts do I know?
  • · Who can help me think wisely, and does more time need to pass?

Movement 4

Respond

Choose what to do.

  • · Speak, pray, act, wait, ask a question, offer help, seek counsel, refer to qualified help, or release.
  • · Not every impression must be spoken.

Movement 5

Release

Share with care.

  • · Weigh permission, timing, place, privacy, tone, and amount of information.
  • · The person receiving a word stays free to accept it, question it, pray, wait, or set it aside.

Movement 6

Steward

Care for what comes after.

  • · Write down feedback, check in later, and pray.
  • · Correct the record, repair harm, and watch for fruit.
  • · Record what remains unclear, and know when the assignment is complete.

The full life of a word

A Word Is Not Finished When It Is Spoken

Perception

What did I notice?

Interpretation

What might it mean?

Testing

How should it be weighed?

Delivery

Should it be shared, and how?

Response

What does the person choose?

Stewardship

What care is needed afterward?

Fruit

What grows over time?

Release

Is the matter now complete?

Notice the moment. Preserve the source. Protect the person. Discern with people. Respond with love. Steward the fruit.

The Convergence tools

Three Pauses, One Compass, Three Acrostics

The Three Pauses

  • · Before deciding what it means: what did I actually notice?
  • · Before sharing: what does love ask me to do with this?
  • · After sharing: what, if anything, is mine to care for now?

The Discernment Compass

  • Scripture. What does the Bible say?
  • Nature. Does this fit the nature and ways of God shown through Jesus and Scripture?
  • Witness. What facts, patterns, later events, or other information should be considered?
  • Counsel. What do mature Christian leaders and other wise people say?
  • Fruit Over Time. Does the matter lead toward love, wisdom, peace, obedience, service, repaired relationships, and responsible action?

HEART

How a person walks an impression.

Hear. Notice the impression.
Examine. Separate facts from feelings and guesses.
Assess. Look at Scripture, timing, context, consent, and safety.
Respond. Choose a fitting response.
Tend. Care for the person and review the fruit.

CLEAR

How a person shares well.

Capture precisely. Keep the original message clear.
Love the person. Put the person before the performance.
Express proportionately. Do not say more than is needed.
Allow discernment. Give the person room to weigh it.
Release responsibly. Do not control the person afterward.

TRACE

For interruptions, repetition, and unusual timing.

Take Notice. Name what happened.
Request Clarification. Ask clean questions and gather facts.
Align. Bring Scripture, prayer, counsel, safety, and duties.
Choose. Take one fitting step.
Examine. Review what happened afterward.

Impact and Responsibility

Strengthening

The message may offer simple encouragement or comfort.

Significant

The message may affect an important part of the person's life.

Consequential

The message may touch health, marriage, money, work, moving, legal matters, safety, or another major choice.

The larger the possible effect, the more a person slows down and uses privacy, time, documentation, wise counsel, pastoral leadership, and qualified professional help.

Inference distance

Inference distance is the space between what was actually noticed and what someone later claims.

Near the perception: I saw a bridge.

A very large jump: God says you must move to another country next month.

The larger the jump, the more humility, testing, and restraint are needed.

  • · Am I making a large jump from what I noticed?
  • · Could this deeply affect someone's life?
  • · Do I feel pressure to act very fast?

When all three are high, slow down, pray, gather facts, and seek help.

Prayer Before Expression

Does this need to be spoken, or does it first belong in prayer? Sometimes prayer is the whole assignment.

Pre-Release Pause

Before speaking, review permission, timing, tone, privacy, wording, and possible impact.

Post-Release Review

Afterward, ask whether the person was treated with care, whether only what was received was said, whether repair or follow-up is needed, and whether the matter is now mine to release.

Faithful Next Step

One action small enough to complete, clear enough to understand, loving, responsible, and meaningful enough to show real obedience.

Corroboration Integrity Review

Does the later event truly match the original record, or are we changing the old record to make it fit?

Whole-Person Baseline

Check physical, emotional, relational, thinking, and spiritual conditions before an activity, so stress, sickness, fear, or tiredness are named rather than mistaken for a message.

Guidance Circle

Name trusted people: a pastor, a formation guide, a mature Christian, and medical, mental health, legal, or financial professionals where relevant.

Sphere of Service Map

Church, family, healthcare, science, education, business, government, community, media, arts, missions, and nations.

Formation Biography

The story of how a person has been shaped: early faith, teachers, churches, training, hard seasons, healing, work, relationships, repeated themes, important words, and places of service.

Formation Thread Timeline

The themes that have continued through different parts of life, showing that one lesson may have appeared in many places and seasons.

The Perception Pathway

Separates what was noticed, what it may mean, what response may be wise, and what should be reviewed later.

Responsible emergence

Visibility Is Something to Steward

Step 1

Private Naming

Write it privately.

Step 2

Trusted Witness

Share with one mature person.

Step 3

Guided Practice

Practice in a safe, led group.

Step 4

Community Contribution

Serve in an accountable community.

Step 5

Public or Vocational Service

Carry a mature gift into the right place, in the right season.

A person does not have to jump from hiding to a public platform. Visibility grows with character, boundaries, consent, wisdom, accountability, service, and the right season.

  • Hidden Face
  • Small Key
  • Entering the Room
  • Kindled to Kindle
  • Formed and Sent
  • Known by Name
  • Threshold
  • Returning
  • Witnesses
  • Open Hand

Sixfold Stewardship

1. Steward the Revelation

Keep an honest record of what was actually received.

2. Steward the Delivery

Weigh who, when, where, how much, what words, what tone, and how urgent it truly is.

3. Steward the Person

Care about readiness, culture, pain, freedom, privacy, support, and ability to respond.

4. Steward the Relationship

Release, pray, reconnect, offer a resource, refer to qualified help, or walk beside the person for a time.

5. Steward the Assignment and Community

Choose the smallest faithful action and connect it with the right local support.

6. Steward the Fruit and Testimony

Keep dates and original words, ask permission before sharing another person's story, watch what grows, and know when the work is complete.

Formation of the person

The Secure Prophetic Son or Daughter

A secure prophetic son or daughter receives identity from God, remains teachable, forms reciprocal relationships, welcomes healthy guidance, and prophesies from love rather than from the need to earn belonging.

Identity received, not achieved

Belovedness is given by God before any gift is exercised. A word never has to prove that a person belongs.

Teachable

Correction is received as care. A secure person can say I was mistaken, I misread that, or I need more time.

Reciprocal relationships

Friendships run both directions. The person is known, not only useful, and can receive ministry as well as give it.

Welcomes healthy guidance

Pastoral leadership, mentors, and a guidance circle are treated as protection rather than as competition.

Prophesies from love

The motive is the strengthening, encouragement, and comfort of the person, not attention, access, or standing.

Two Ways to Carry a Gift

Earning belonging

Secure in belonging

Speaks to be seen

Speaks to serve

Needs the word to land publicly

Is content when a word stays in prayer

Defends every impression

Holds impressions loosely and tests them

Collects followers

Builds accountable community

Escalates urgency

Keeps response proportionate

Avoids review

Invites review and records the outcome

Practices

  • Name where identity is being sought from people rather than received from God.
  • Keep one relationship where you are ministered to, not only ministering.
  • Bring one impression a month to a guidance circle before speaking it.
  • Record one correction received and what you changed because of it.
  • Choose one Faithful Next Step that no one else will see.

Security is formed, not announced. It grows as identity, teachability, reciprocity, guidance, and love are practiced over years.

Part two

The Burning Bush

Turn aside. Pay attention. Respond faithfully.

The Burning Bush is a Convergence Live Lab, journal system, and digital application. It helps a person notice when an ordinary moment keeps drawing their attention.

  • an email
  • a conversation
  • a memory
  • a dream
  • an image
  • a person
  • a changed schedule
  • a repeated question
  • a Scripture
  • a strong inner pause
  • an ordinary task that suddenly feels important

Exodus 3, in order

  • · Moses was doing ordinary work.
  • · He saw a bush burning, and the bush was not being destroyed.
  • · Moses turned aside to look.
  • · God spoke, and the place became holy ground.
  • · God showed care for people and gave Moses an assignment.
  • · God promised to be with him.
  • · Then the conversation moved to the staff already in his hand.

Attention came before assignment.

What a participant leaves with

  • · One recorded burning bush moment.
  • · One careful discernment record.
  • · One fitting next step.
  • · One date to review what happened.

Notice → Name → Weigh → Respond → Steward → Return

The Journal Fields

Context

Date, time, place, and ordinary activity.

Trigger

What caused the pause: an event, phrase, image, email, memory, person, or interruption.

Raw Impression

The exact first impression or question.

Associations

Scripture, an earlier word, a memory, a job, a person, a symbol, or a past season.

Possible Meanings

More than one may be listed. No single answer is forced.

Status

Open, Developing, Corroborated, Reframed, Fulfilled, or Released. The original record stays in place even when the status changes.

The Burning Bush Movement

Attend

What really happened? What drew my attention? What was happening inside me? Was I tired, afraid, excited, hurt, or under pressure?

Remember

Has something like this happened before? Does it connect with an earlier season? Is there a repeated question? Does a person or memory keep returning?

Receive

Save the exact word, image, Scripture, memory, body feeling, burden, thought, or circumstance.

Discern

Separate perception, association, interpretation, application, counsel, and time.

Respond

Choose one fitting action: pray, write, ask, wait, call someone, serve, seek counsel, rest, or take one small step.

Steward

Return later to record fruit, correction, new facts, support, changes, open questions, and completion.

The Application Screens

Home: Turn Aside

Asks what keeps drawing your attention. Shows a New Moment button, open records, upcoming reviews, one short Scripture, one gentle reminder, and the current Turn Aside practice.

New Burning Bush Moment

The main journal form: context, trigger, raw impression, associations, possible meanings, privacy level, and first status.

Attend

Keeps the user close to the facts: what happened, what was directly observed, what caused the pause, what was happening in body and emotions.

Receive

Separates word, image, Scripture, memory, body sensation, circumstance, and repeated thought.

Discern

What did I receive, what did it remind me of, what might it mean, what else might it mean, who may be involved, who can help me weigh it, what may become clearer with time.

TRACE

Take Notice, Request Clarification, Align, Choose, Examine.

What Is in Your Hand?

Gifts and abilities, formation and testimony, tools and resources, relationships and support, fields of service, and the present invitation.

Whole-Person Check

Physical, emotional, relational, thinking, spiritual, and care needs.

Trusted Witnesses

A pastor, a mature Christian, a mentor, a trusted friend, a ministry leader, or a qualified professional. The app never contacts anyone without the user's clear choice.

Faithful Next Step

One small step and a date.

Review

What happened, what did not happen, new facts, feedback, fruit, correction, remaining questions, and whether the status should change.

Journey Timeline

Moments in date order, searchable by date, place, theme, person, status, Scripture, and sphere of service.

Private and Shareable Copies

A complete private record and a shorter copy the person may choose to share. Private details never move into the shareable copy by accident.

Reminders

Seven days, 30 days, 90 days, or another chosen date.

Profile and Privacy

What stays private, what may be shared, whether AI may be used, whether exact locations are saved, whether another person's name is included, and whether reminders are on.

Whole-Person Care in the Application

  • sleep
  • food
  • water
  • pain
  • medication effects
  • fatigue
  • fear
  • grief
  • excitement
  • conflict
  • loneliness
  • pressure
  • mental overload
  • prayer
  • Scripture
  • peace
  • support needs

A strong feeling in the body is recorded as a body feeling. It is not automatically called a message from God. The app tells users to seek proper medical, mental health, pastoral, or emergency care when needed.

Responsible Emergence in the Application

  • fully private
  • shared with one trusted person
  • shared in a guided group
  • shared with a church community
  • carried into public or work-related service

The app never pressures a person to become public. A small faithful step may be enough.

The Live Burning Bush Lab

During the Live Lab each person works with a real moment from life, or a safe practice story supplied by the leader.

Each person answers

  • · What happened?
  • · What did I receive?
  • · What might it mean?
  • · Who can help me weigh it?
  • · What is my next step?
  • · When will I review it?

The Seven-Day Commission

  • · Preserve one burning bush moment.
  • · Speak with one trusted person when helpful.
  • · Complete one fitting act of faithful response.

Live Q&A covers: attention · symbols · work and calling · confirmation · timing · boundaries · health · community · response.

Turn Aside: The Nine-Month Invitation runs privately for Dr. Brown from August 7, 2026, through May 7, 2027. Other participants choose their own length of time.

What Is in Your Hand?

Gifts and Capacities

What can I already do?

Formation and Testimony

What has shaped me?

Tools and Resources

What can I already use?

Relationships and Support

Who is already near me?

Fields of Service

Whom can I serve?

Present Invitation

What may be the next faithful use of what I carry?

Seven-Day Step

What can begin within seven days?

The point is not to invent a grand new life. The point is to notice what has already been entrusted and place it into loving service.

Turn aside. Listen. Carry what is entrusted.

Part three

From Word to Stewardship

AI preserves the record. People discern the word.

A 90-minute prophetic and AI stewardship experience. A participant brings a prophetic word received before the session, or receives a short strengthening, encouraging, or comforting word during the opening practice.

What happens before the lab

  • · a previous prophetic word when available
  • · the original written message or approved recording
  • · a Bible
  • · a journal
  • · something to write with
  • · a phone, tablet, or computer when using AI

Using personal material with AI is optional. A participant may use a safe practice record instead; simulated training words are clearly marked as practice material, not words received from God.

What AI may do

  • · transcribe an approved recording
  • · add a date and time
  • · organize fields and make a table
  • · create an index and find exact words
  • · show a timeline
  • · help remove unnecessary names
  • · format the participant's own writing
  • · create an image chosen by the participant
  • · find older records
  • · ask approved review questions

What AI may not do

  • · tell the person what the word means
  • · say that God spoke
  • · make, complete, or extend a prophetic word
  • · choose a Bible verse as confirmation
  • · decide that an event fulfilled the word
  • · tell the person what action God wants
  • · make marriage, health, money, job, legal, or relocation decisions
  • · score prophetic accuracy or give a chance of fulfillment

Human work

receive · discern · weigh · respond · steward

AI work

preserve · protect · structure · create from chosen material · retrieve and revisit

The Six AI Safeguards

No AI Interpretation

AI does not tell the participant what the word means.

No Synthetic Prophecy

AI does not make, extend, or complete a word.

No AI Witness

A computer pattern is not spiritual confirmation.

No AI Decision-Making

AI does not direct major life choices.

No Prophecy Scoring

AI does not rate whether a word came from God or how likely it is to happen.

Provider Privacy

Participants check the AI service's current privacy controls, and use simulated material when privacy is unclear.

Source Fidelity and the Two Records

Source fidelity asks how close a record is to the original message. It does not ask how sure we are that the message came from God.

Verified Recording

Checked against an approved audio or video recording.

Original Written Word

Taken from the original written message.

Contemporaneous Record

Written soon after the word was received.

Reconstructed Record

Written later from memory.

The original source stays stable. Later thoughts do not rewrite the original word; corrections are added with dates.

Private Source Record

The full record, including details the participant wishes to keep private.

AI Working Copy

A smaller, safer copy using only the information needed for the AI task, with names, cities, health, family, relationship, and job details replaced.

My word may contain part of someone else's story. Their story still belongs to them.

The Four Source Categories

Original Word

The prophetic communication as it was received.

Recipient Record

Later reflections, prayers, choices, actions, Scriptures, memories, and observations.

External Source

Human counsel, a pastor, a later word, a document, a recording, a factual event, professional guidance, or a human witness.

AI-Generated Resource

Transcription, formatting, indexing, retrieval, timelines, layouts, and participant-directed visuals.

The Ninety Minutes

0–8

Holy Ground and AI Boundary

8–22

Receive

22–32

Preserve: the Private Source Record

32–40

Protect: whose story is inside this word?

40–50

Structure

50–60

Discern With People

60–68

Create: one wordless visual

68–77

What Is in Your Hand?

77–84

Entrusted Pieces and Response

84–90

Commissioning

The literal source index

Find the literal details in the record. Use the source words. Do not give them meaning.

May list: exact phrases, names, stated places, dates, numbers, objects, colors, actions, direct quotes, Scriptures already named in the source.

May not add: themes, symbols, hidden meanings, interpretations, spiritual lessons, conclusions.

Human discernment workspace

  • Scripture. Which Scriptures are you personally considering?
  • Nature. What are you considering about God's nature and ways?
  • Witness. What facts or later information do you believe should be considered?
  • Counsel. Whom did you ask, and what did that person truly say?
  • Response. What response are you considering?
  • Stewardship. What do you want to preserve or review later?

Strict Source Mode

The image uses only details chosen by the participant from the source, plus ordinary background needed to make the picture.

Participant Creative Mode

The participant may add their own interpreted images, marked clearly as their choice.

Visual Record

Source details, participant additions, AI picture-making additions, creation date, privacy level, and approval are all saved. The image remains wordless.

Return to the Source

Show only the original word.

Show the History

Show later records in date order without deciding what they mean.

Record My Reflection

Save present thoughts as a new dated entry.

Reviews: 72 hours · 30 days · 90 days · six months · one year.

Practice Words

  • The Lighthouse
  • The Garden and the Gate
  • The Bridge Under Construction
  • The Orchestra
  • The River and the Backpack

Each practice word is clearly labeled as a simulated training word. None is presented as a message received from God.

What Each Participant Takes Home

  • one preserved prophetic word
  • one verified Private Source Record
  • one safer AI Working Copy when AI is used
  • one literal Source Index
  • one Human Discernment Record
  • one Scripture Record chosen by the participant
  • one Counsel Record
  • one Witness Record
  • one Fruit Record
  • one wordless visual and the record of how it was made
  • one Entrusted Pieces Map
  • one gift, tool, relationship, or resource already in hand
  • one seven-day act
  • one support or reconnection point
  • one 30-day review date
  • one record that can grow over time

App Sections

  • Start
  • Source Locker
  • Source Check
  • Privacy Gate
  • Source Index
  • Human Discernment
  • Counsel and Witness
  • Word-to-Image Studio
  • Entrusted Pieces Map
  • Faithful Next Step
  • Timeline
  • Reviews
  • Audit Center
  • Export and Delete

The founding journey

Ten Labs, Then the Wider Family

Lab 1

Attention

Notice before deciding what something means.

Lab 2

Language

God may use things a person already knows.

Lab 3

Discernment

Keep different thinking steps separate.

Lab 4

Love

The person matters more than the performance.

Lab 5

Expression

Share clearly, briefly, and humbly.

Lab 6

Intercession

Not every burden belongs to you.

Lab 7

Confirmation

A match is not always confirmation.

Lab 8

Courage

Come out of hiding in a wise way.

Lab 9

Stewardship

Care for what happens after a word is given.

Lab 10

Convergence

Bring the whole life together.

A Normal Ninety-Minute Lab

0–5

Whole-Person Baseline

5–10

Prayer and the gathering covenant

10–15

One short lesson

15–60

Three guided practice activities

60–70

Discernment rounds

70–78

Feedback and another try

78–84

Private reflection

84–90

Faithful Next Step and prayer

The Program Family

Convergence Foundations

A four-session beginner path teaching the basics.

Convergence Journey

The ten-session Founding Journey.

After the Word

A six-session advanced path on what happens after a word.

Convergence in Motion

Local and traveling practice in churches, cities, field visits, retreats, ministry trips, and the American Field Year.

Heart + Wholeness

Physical health, emotional health, spiritual life, body awareness, heart care, and sustainable service.

Faith, Science + the Listening Life

For clinicians, scientists, students, teachers, researchers, and other thoughtful Christians.

Across Communities + Nations

Serving across cultures, churches, communities, countries, languages, and symbol systems.

Consequential Settings

Healthcare, leadership, business, government, education, public service, and crisis settings. Earlier materials called this Rooms of Influence.

Strengthened to Strengthen

Facilitator training, teaching, practice leadership, feedback, safety, and multiplication. Earlier materials called this Kindled to Kindle.

Access & Sending Fund

Sponsors, scholarships, payment plans, and support for sending people into service.

Ways It Can Be Offered

  • A 90-minute encounter
  • A three-hour lab
  • A one-day intensive
  • A ten-session journey
  • A leadership roundtable
  • A faith-and-science session
  • A retreat
  • A church workshop
  • A digital gathering
  • A traveling field experience

Access & Sending Fund: sponsors, scholarships, payment plans, and support for sending people into service, so money is not the only reason someone cannot take part.

Foundation and boundaries

Christian, Accountable, and Clear About Limits

The Christian foundation

  • · Centers Jesus Christ.
  • · Honors the Bible.
  • · Welcomes the work of the Holy Spirit.
  • · Values the church and Christian community.
  • · Teaches humility and keeps love at the center.
  • · Welcomes correction and looks for Christlike fruit.

The Fire and Holy Ground Covenant

  • · Treat every person as made in God's image.
  • · Approach ministry with prayer and humility.
  • · Care about character as much as gifting.
  • · Honor consent and privacy.
  • · Respect each person's pace.
  • · Use kind and careful language.
  • · Welcome feedback and correction.
  • · Seek fruit that looks like Jesus.
  • · Remember that spiritual moments need faithful care.

What Convergence Is Not

  • A promise that every impression is from God.
  • A promise that every word will happen.
  • A replacement for a healthy church.
  • A replacement for pastoral care.
  • Medical treatment, mental health treatment, or emergency care.
  • Legal advice or financial advice.
  • A way to control another person.
  • A place where leaders make major choices for participants.
  • A place where AI acts as God.

How Growth Is Reviewed

Convergence does not use a simple prophecy score. It looks for growth in:

  • attention
  • clear records
  • separating perception from interpretation
  • biblical testing
  • healthy community
  • consent
  • communication
  • correction
  • whole-person awareness
  • stewardship
  • service
  • sending

Reviews may happen before, midway, at the end, after 30 days, after 90 days, and sometimes after one year.

One example, all three pieces

Notice. Preserve. Protect. Discern. Respond. Steward.

The Burning Bush

A person receives an email that keeps drawing her attention. She records the email, what caught her attention, what she felt, what she directly observed, several possible meanings, and one open question. She does not rush.

Human Discernment

She prays, reads Scripture, checks facts, and speaks with a trusted person.

AI Stewardship

AI helps her save the exact wording, remove private names, create a literal index, place events in date order, and set a review date. AI does not tell her what the email means.

What Is in Your Hand?

She realizes she already has a useful skill, a trusted relationship, a small amount of time, and a way to serve. She chooses one seven-day action.

The Convergence Quotient 45 Framework

She attends, receives, discerns, responds, releases only what should be shared, and stewards the result over time.

The Convergence App Map

Home

A clear welcome to The Convergence Q45 Mission.

What Is the Convergence Quotient 45 Framework?

The meaning of the name, the Christian foundation, and the full journey from word to fruit.

Founder

Cardiologist, physician scientist, teacher, Christian ministry leader, prophetic learner, founder, and traveler.

Book

Chapters, sample readings, visuals, and ways to purchase or learn more.

Programs

The ten-lab journey and the future pathways.

The Burning Bush

The Live Lab, journal, application, and Turn Aside journey.

From Word to Stewardship

The AI Stewardship Signature Program.

Resources

Journals, guides, cards, wordless visuals, videos, prayers, and learning tools.

Convergence Across America

Ministry field notes, church visits, public gatherings, prayer themes, teachings, testimonies, new resources, and hosting opportunities.

Events

Upcoming gatherings, courses, live labs, and public ministry.

Host or Invite

For churches, ministries, schools, healthcare groups, and other approved hosts.

Participant Area

Lessons, journals, records, reviews, next steps, group information, and participant choices.

Safety, Privacy, and Boundaries

Consent, AI use, health boundaries, privacy, complaints, and help.

SCAN TO FOLLOW THE JOURNEY

https://convergenceq45.lovable.app/journey

One journey, two ways to follow

One journey. Two ways to follow.

Dr. Sherry-Ann Brown's American Field Year is one journey told in two ways. The Journey Within shares what she is noticing about life, people, homes, beauty, and belonging. The Convergence Q45 Mission shares what God is teaching, forming, and releasing through the journey.

Visit The Journey Within to follow Dr. Brown's reflections on homes, places, beauty, belonging, and the everyday experiences of the American Field Year.

A leather field notebook, fountain pen, pressed leaf, and folded map in lamplight
Capture once. Preserve the private record. Publish only after privacy, permission, and safety review.