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Hillsong Church, commonly known as Hillsong, is a charismatic Christian megachurch and a Christian association of churches based in Australia. The original church was established in Baulkham Hills , New South Wales , as Hills Christian Life Centre by Brian Houston and his wife, Bobbie Houston , in 1983.
The church was established in 1955 as Mt. Gravatt Assembly of God by Pastor Garnett Budge. In the 1980s, under the leadership of Senior Pastor Dr. Reginald Klimionok, [1] the church experienced growth, with a second new church building being constructed and opened, adjacent to its Rover Street site, seating over 2,000 persons, and membership soared to over 3,500 persons. [2]
The Hills Christian Life Centre, was founded by Houston's son, Brian Houston, and his wife Bobbie, at Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, in 1983, as an AOG church. [12] Frank Houston's Waterloo church merged with the Hills CLC in May 1999, [12] after he had been exposed as a paedophile, [6] and the church was renamed Hillsong Church in 2001. [12]
Former Senior Pastor of Richmond Assembly of God (now Bridge Church) (Australia's first Pentecostal church, Former Vice President and State President of Victoria. Bobbie Houston: 1957 – Founding Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, women's ministry including Colour Your World Women's Conference: Brian Houston: 1954 –
Australian Christian Churches Classification Protestant Orientation Pentecostal Theology Finished Work Pentecostalism Associations World Assemblies of God Fellowship Region Australia Origin 1937 Sydney, New South Wales Merger of Assemblies of God Queensland and Pentecostal Church of Australia Separations Christian Revival Crusade Hillsong Church Official website www.acc.org.au The Australian ...
Hillsong Conference is a mid-year week-long annual Christian conference hosted in Sydney, Australia, with a smaller three-day event held in London later each year. It is the largest annual conference in Australia of any kind. [2] [3] The event is hosted by Hillsong Church at the Qudos Bank Arena and surrounding Olympic Park precinct.
In 1983, they moved to Sydney's north-western suburbs and hired the Baulkham Hills Public School hall to start a new church, Hills Christian Life Centre. [4] The first service was held on Sunday 14 August 1983 and is today Hillsong Church. [5] Hillsong Church is located in major cities around the world.
William Francis "Frank" Houston (22 April 1922 – 8 November 2004) was a Pentecostal Christian pastor in the Assemblies of God in New Zealand and Australia.Frank Houston founded Sydney Christian Life Centre, which would eventually come under the leadership of his son Pastor Brian Houston before merging into Hillsong Church.