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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.
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] As of February 2022 [update] the city church is called the "Sydney Waterloo" [ 13 ] or "Sydney City Campus" of Hillsong Church . [ 14 ]
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.
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston was ruled not guilty Thursday of an Australian charge of concealing his father’s child sex crimes. Houston, 69, was the Sydney-based church’s senior ...
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.
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.
Brian Charles Houston was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 February 1954. [3] [4] His parents, Frank and Hazel, were then Salvation Army officers.When Houston was three his parents joined the Assemblies of God in New Zealand and began pastoring a church in Lower Hutt, near Wellington, [5]: 62 where Houston and his brother and three sisters spent their childhood.
Hillsong Church, Sydney. The polity of the Assemblies of God is based on the principle of voluntary and cooperative fellowship. "Registered" churches (mature and self-supporting) are autonomous but agree to abide by the United Constitution, state by-laws, and policies of the National Conference, the highest governing body of the Assemblies of ...