Pastor Barry Smith, Pastor Jeff Beacham and End-Time Prophecy and “Catch The Fire”

Jeff Beacham in New Zealand rock band 1970s. Front and centre. Jeff was a drummer.

Donald Elley of Bellingen:

This article was published on this site on 22 October 2014.

I knew Jeff Beacham, Barry Smith, Frank and Brian Houston and all the players at CLC Darlinghurst in the 1980s to 1990s.

Blog article of 22 October 2014

Early Hillsong

I was at CLC Darlinghurst, the second name and second location of Hillsong, from 1981 and knew Jeff Beacham.

Pastor Jeff Beacham formed an end-time prophet style ministry

In the 1990s, Pastor Jeff Beacham formed an end-time prophet style ministry based at Christian Life Centre (CLC) Sydney. Former names: CLC Double Bay, CLC Darlinghurst. Later names: Hillsong City Church, Hillsong City Campus.

Jeff’s ministry was derived from Barry Smith, a self-styled end-time prophet from New Zealand.

Frank on Barry Smith: “Barry Smith fills the church coffers”

Although no intellectual, Barry had devised a complex system of end-time interpretation of the scriptures related to current events. Some people would write off Barry Smith as a misguided mad false prophet. Frank Houston liked Barry and gave him a lot of playing time at CLC Darlinghurst in the early days.

Although Frank liked Barry he secretly thought Barry was a bit of a looney. Frank told me, “Barry is a looney but the people love him. Every time he comes here, he packs in the crowds and fills the church coffers”.

Barry Smith was popular and filled the house at CLC Darlinghurst. Translate “filled the church coffers”. Frank told me Barry’s ability to draw the crowds, and intrinsically the cash, was a plus for Barry, “even if I don’t believe everything he says”.

Impressionable young people believed every word Barry said.

Jeff was greatly influenced by Barry Smith, a fellow New Zealander and similar personality type to Jeff.

Barry died before his time. He was a tall solid man and he liked hamburgers and used to make negative jokes about health foods. He died from a heart attack.

Pastor Jeff Beacham or “Jeff” as he was commonly known, took over from Barry Smith and formulated his own end-time ministry.

In those days, Jeff was a bit of a knock-about man. Like Terry Appel, a bricky who became a pastor at CLC Darlinghurst and operates on the Northern Beaches as a pastor. Terry Appel started ministry as a head deacon at CLC Darlinghurst.

Terry Appel was a kind of spiritual bouncer meets servant of God. Solid and strong but big-hearted behind that rugged exterior and gingery beard.

Similarly Jeff Beacham had a bit of a Sylvester Stallone edge but again he was good-hearted and well-intended.

After his formation of his End-Time ministry, the prophecies hadn’t come to pass as quickly as Jeff had thought, so he decided to focus on the Holy Spirit.

Jeff hooked up with John and Carol Arnott, who were having success in Toronto, Canada and he brought their “Catch the Fire” ministry to CLC at Waterloo, its current location. Its now called Hillsong City Campus.

Jeff Beacham was an astute businessman, but Pastor Frank Houston, that old fox, was far craftier

Jeff Beacham was an astute businessman, but Pastor Frank Houston, that old fox, was far craftier. Jeff was born in the late 1940s but old Frank had been around 28 years longer.

Jeff Beacham had a large family to feed. Five kids. He was serving God, and Jeff is a very genuine guy, but a man’s got to provide for his family.

Jeff told me the following story in about 1998, before the Frank Houston pedophile scandal hit the fan. At the time of the story, Frank was still the great man of God. Highly respected and almost revered.

Jeff had been ripped off by that cunning old fox Frank Houston the first time he brought Catch the Fire to Australia. Jeff’s Ministry was independently incorporated to CLC Waterloo with no legal ties or obligations to CLC. But Jeff made the mistake of not setting up a bank account separate from the treasury of CLC.

The first Catch the Fire made a healthy profit and the profit was, by verbal agreement with Frank, supposed to go to Jeff’s ministry. But CLC were a bit short of cash as always, and Frank took the profit.

Undeterred, Jeff forgave old Frank and decided to stage a second Catch the Fire. This time, remembering his first experience with Frank, he got Frank to sign a contract with the profits going to Jeff’s ministry coffers.

The 2nd Catch the Fire was an even bigger success. It made a profit of $150,000, which was a decent sum in the late 1990s. Still is today.

Cunning old Frank eyed the profit and took it into the CLC coffers. Jeff was very upset about this and shirt-fronted Frank.

Old Frank said to Jeff, “Sorry, we need the cash”.

Jeff replied, “But Frank, you signed a contract”.

To this Frank retorted, “It doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, sue me then”.

Jeff, who greatly respected Frank, although this respect was being severely tested, decided to forgive him, give it to God and move on. There was nothing that he could do about it.

Frank Houston at early Hillsong in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1980

Frank Houston was a crook of the highest order

Frank was a crook of the highest order. This was soon to be revealed when his secret homosexuality and pedophilia was exposed in 1999.

It’s taken another twenty years for everything about Frank Houston and Brian Houston to be exposed to the whole world.

Jeff with his second wife Melva.

Jeff Beacham died from throat cancer in 2013

Jeff Beacham died from throat cancer in 2013. He’d been a heavy smoker in the 1960s to 1970s when he was a rock musician in New Zealand.

Gallery of Rogues: Frank Houston, his son Brian Houston, Neville Johnson, Jim Williams, Wayne Hughes, Ian Bilby. How the corrupt priests of Pentecost sowed devils on each other. Part 12. Australian and New Zealand errant Pentecostal pastors who couldn’t keep it in their trousers or sexually abused little kids. March 1, 2015

March 4, 2023

I wrote this series in 2015. This article 12 in this series.

Please bear in mind that this article was written in 2015 and read the article with this in mind. I wrote in this article of March 1, 2015 that Brian Houston will be charged with concealment of a pedophile. This occurred in 2021.

The Houstons

I started writing about the Houstons in 2012 after my father died. I wrote a series on dad and in the process wrote a blog article comparing my father to Frank Houston. Dad wasn’t perfect but Frank Houston was a nightmare from Hell itself.

After my series on dad, I wrote a 14 part series on Frank, detailing everything I knew about Frank’s pedophilia and other defects. His bad temper, bullying, manipulations, duplicity, arrogance, penchant for axing leaders publicly, secret homosexuality and so on. Most of Frank’s defects are found in his son Brian.

I didn’t know who Frank was in 1976 when I first heard him preach at Wellington Central AOG in New Zealand. There was a Jesus People rally there and Frank was the preacher.

I didn’t meet Brian Houston until 1980. We were young men at early Hillsong then.

Brian was the same as he is now. Pushy, rude, smart-mouthed, narcissistic, entitled and very arrogant. Nothing has changed except he’s fat, an adulterer and an alcoholic, far more narcissistic and arrogant, entitled and smart-mouthed.

Brian publicly called me “a looney” at court when I was videoing him and his group going to and fro court. I was getting under his thin skin. Brian snapped. I wonder how he’ll go in jail?

Brian’s alcoholism

Back in the late 1970s to 1980s, I didn’t drink alcoholic drinks. I was a teetotaller like dad. Frank was a teetotaller too.

Teetotaller is a term from the prohibition era in America in the 1930s to 1950s. A term originating in temperance movements of the 19th century in America and England.

Brian has certainly made up for his father’s abstinence from alcohol. Brian is a fish with booze. So is his sister Maureen. Maureen likes red wine. Older brother Graeme likes beers and whisky. Wife Bobbie likes campers, wines and cocktails. anything really sometimes. Brian and Bobbie are drinking buddies.

People like Brian with addiction issues are better off being teetotallers and abstaining from all alcoholic drinks.

This series on “Australian and New Zealand errant Pentecostal pastors who couldn’t keep it in their trousers or sexually abused little kids”.

Below is article 12 in this series on “Australian and New Zealand errant Pentecostal pastors who couldn’t keep it in their trousers or sexually abused little kids”.

Pat Mesiti got really upset about me including him in this series. Pat Mesiti is a no names nothing now. I notice he didn’t even make it into this article of mine from 2015.

Pat was mad because he thought there is an implication that he’s a pedophile. I don’t know if Pat Mesiti is a pedophile. And whether he visits or visited under-age prostitutes. Or gays like his mentor Frank.

Pat Mesiti got caught out by Hillsong admin using his Hillsong Gold Credit card to pay for prostitutes.

Here is article 12 in this series.

Gallery of Rogues: Frank Houston, his son Brian Houston, Neville Johnson, Jim Williams, Wayne Hughes, Ian Bilby. How the corrupt priests of Pentecost sowed devils on each other. Part 12. Australian and New Zealand errant Pentecostal pastors who couldn’t keep it in their trousers or sexually abused little kids.

March 1, 2015

Lucifer angel of light

If you’re a Christian you’ll know that the Biblical ‘angel of light’ is Satan. He appears as a good angel when he is really as evil as all Hell.

The great Apostle Paul writes:

‘And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light’.

2 Corinthians 11:14

The Holy Scripture in context:

‘For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds’.

The following men are all false men of God.

False prophets, false apostles, false teachers, false pastors or false evangelists. Or a combination of these.

 

The Gallery of Rogues:

Neville Johnson is a false prophet.

Neville Johnson. Liked oral sex with church secretaries. Now into false teaching and necromancy (talking to the dead).

Benny Hinn is a false prophet.

Benny Hinn on his Roman affair

Benny Hinn. False prophet.

Benny had an affair recently while married and hasn’t admitted to it despite being photographed holidaying in Rome with his lover, another evangelist.

He also practices necromancy, talking to the dead. He is deluded.

Frank Houston was a false apostle, a false evangelist, a false teacher and a false prophet.

Pastor Frank Houston. Founder of Hillsong. Extremely corrupt life-long pedophile.

Frank Houston. Died in 2004. Talking to God now.

No shame. Preached, taught, prayed for healing, spoke in tongues, prophesied and pretended to be an Apostle while all this time for many decades he was sexually abusing little boys.

Frank Houston’s son, Brian Houston is a false apostle, a false evangelist, a false teacher and a false prophet.

The life of Brian.

priming up the bull-shit levels big-time

I’ve written many articles on this site explaining how Brian Houston is a liar, a deceiver and a total fraud.

He is soon to be charged with sheltering a pedophile by the NSW Police which is a criminal offence.

He lied to the Australian public for 14 long years about the extent of his father Frank Houston’s pedophilia.

He sheltered his father for 5 years and didn’t report him to the NSW Police, which was his statutory duty.

Jim Williams is false apostle, a false evangelist, a false teacher and a false prophet.

Jim Williams got kicked out of both the New Zealand and Australian Assemblies of God (AOG) movements for serial adultery. The Australian AOG is now called the Australian Christian Churches.

Jim Williams is no longer associated with the Assemblies of God in Australia. They have disowned him.

Jim Williams  is now pastoring a church The House of Praise in Springwood, Queensland. Everyone should avoid this man at all costs.

 

Jim Williams and his long-suffering wife. It begs the question, “why do these faithful women stick around when their husbands are pedophiles or can’t keep it in their pants?

Wayne Hughes is false apostle, a false evangelist, a false teacher and a false prophet.

Wayne Hughes committed at least one pedophile offence.

This is established fact.

Any pastor who commits even a single pedophile offence is finished. Period. No argument.

I believe he is guilty of a lot more than one offence. Pedophiles always are. Anyway. whatever the case, he’s in God’s Hands.

Wayne Hughes. Pedophile. No photo but cherub Benny Hill can fill in for him.

Ian Bilby of the Elim Church in New Zealand is a false apostle, a false evangelist, a false teacher and a false prophet.

This man is another serial adulterer who had affairs with at least 10, and probably 20 women, while he was a married man and a prominent Elim pastor in New Zealand. In fact he was the head of the NZ Elim Church for most of the time he was committing adultery.

 

Ian Bilby. Serial adulterer. 10-20 affairs while married and a prominent Elim church pastor in New Zealand.

Frank Houston. How the corrupt priests of Pentecost sowed devils on each other. Part two. New Zealand errant Pentecostal pastors who couldn’t keep it in their trousers or sexually abused little kids

Frank Houston founder of Hillsong

February 17, 2023

I knew Frank Houston from back in New Zealand in 1976. I was 19. Frank was 54. I heard Frank preach at Don Cosby’s AOG church in Central Wellington. New Zealand’s capital and second largest city. Frank was lead pastor at Lower Hutt AOG. Lower Hutt is a suburb of Wellington near the northern shores of Port Nicholson, Wellington’s harbour.

I didn’t speak to Frank in 1976 when I heard him preach. The meeting was a Jesus Movement event. I guess Pastor Don Cosby was trying to reach out to all the young people. Hippies and counter-culture youth.

The next time I heard Frank preach was at Kapiti Christian Centre in 1977. I didn’t speak to him then either. The first time I talked with Frank was in 1980 at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst in Sydney, Australia. Frank arrived there in 1977. One year after preaching at Kapiti Christian Centre. Frank was on the run from New Zealand police in 1977 when he arrived in Australia.

The Kapiti region is about 40 minutes north of Wellington on the west coast. It is popular with retirees today, as it was fifty years ago.

An older couple at Kapiti Christian Centre were unhappy about Frank preaching there. They expressed their concerns to the lead pastor and founder of Kapiti Christian Centre, Pastor Tom Marshall. The married couple was Stan and Sheila Carter. They were both in their 60s. Stan was a retired plumber. Sheila was a retired AOG missionary. It was Stan’s second marriage. His first wife had passed away. Sheila had spent her whole life in Africa as an AOG missionary and had never married. She told me stories of those times. Stan and Sheila were building a smart new home across the road from Raumati Beach. Stan died from a heart attack after the house was completed. This was after I moved on from that church. Stan and Sheila were living in a caravan and building the house when I knew them. Stan was doing labouring for the brick layer and cleaning up after trades.

Stan and Sheila were very unhappy with Frank. Very angry because of things Frank was accused of doing to boys at Lower Hutt AOG. Stan was a longtime elder there. Stan and Sheila were part of a group who confronted Frank about his behaviour. They wouldn’t tell me what Frank did to the boys. I had no idea it was about having sex with them. I didn’t know people did that until the 1990s. I grew up in a sheltered environment. I’d never heard of child sex. I couldn’t have conceived it. I couldn’t have imagined back then the horrors of pedophilia. Pedophilia wasn’t in the media, wasn’t taught about at schools, wasn’t mentioned by my parents and wasn’t at all in the public consciousness. There was no child protection and child safe programs in schools or anywhere in society. This was the case all over the planet until the 1990s. It took to about 2015 for child safe programs to be widely established in Western society.

It was only in the 1990s when the Sydney Morning Herald and other media started covering Royal Commission investigations in New South Wales and Victoria into abuse of children and teens by Roman Catholic priests that I started to understand this topic.

It’s only in the past 11 years since I started writing on this topic on this site that I gained a fuller understanding of this sad topic.

So Stan and Sheila were angry with Frank about somethings he did to boys at Lower Hutt AOG. But they wouldn’t say what he did. This was the first time I heard that Frank had done something bad to boys. It was only in 2012 when I started to write on this topic on this blog-site that I joined the dots and realised what Frank had been up to with boys at Lower Hutt AOG. And elsewhere, all over the planet.

I’m republishing this series from 2015 unedited. This is the second article in this series. I republished the first article yesterday.

Please bear in mind that my knowledge of some things like the number of Frank’s boy victims was less than what I know today. And that 2015 was a year after Brian Houston and top Hillsong and top AOG leaders appeared at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in October 2014.

Title of this article as published on January 28, 2015:

Donald Elley blog article of January 28, 2015

Frank Houston. How the corrupt priests of Pentecost sowed devils on each other. Part two. New Zealand errant Pentecostal pastors who couldn’t keep it in their trousers or sexually abused little kids

Date published: January 28, 2015

Pastor Frank Houston. Founder of Hillsong. Extremely corrupt life-long pedophile.

The most prominent and famous leader in Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God circles in the past 50 years without doubt was Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong Church based in Sydney, Australia.

The Australian Assemblies of God is now called the Australian Christian Churches.

Pastor Frank Houston founded the Hillsong movement in Sydney in 1977. It was called Christian Life Centre in those days.

Frank Houston died in Sydney in November 2004 at the age of 82.

Frank Houston was the 8th General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in New Zealand from December 1965  to June 1977, eleven and a half years.

He was preceded by R R Read and succeeded by Jim Williams.

William Francis “Frank” Houston  was born on 22 April 1922 in Whanganui, New Zealand. He died on 8 November 2004, Sydney, Australia.

Frank Houston commenced ministry training as a Salvation Army officer shortly after turning 18.

He married Hazel and they had five children.

The couple transferred their allegiance to the Baptist church, and later to the Assemblies of God in New Zealand.

Houston initially attended the Ellerslie Assembly in 1960, but later transferred to the Lower Hutt Assemblies of God. Then he moved to Sydney and founded Christian Life Centre which later changed its name to Hillsong Church, which his son Brian is now running.

Now Frank Houston is famous for all the wrong reasons and is an albatross around his son Brian’s neck.

Cunning deviant old Frank Houston would have known full well that Brian was going to be the fall guy for his sins.

 

Frank Houston’s pedophilia

I have established beyond doubt that Rev William Francis “Frank Houston” committed pedophile acts on young boys mainly aged 7 to 12, homosexual abuse acts on older teen males, and masked homosexual acts on males over 18, throughout his whole life-time.

There are possibly over 200 boy victims who will be aged in their 50s and 60s now. Maybe some older too.

I have established evidence of pedophile activity from 1960, when Frank Houston was 38 years old, to 1975, when he was 53 years old.

Then he abused Peter Lawton his young worship leader who was in his early 20s in the early 1980s when he was pastoring Christian Life Centre Sydney and becoming prominent in Australia. Frank Houston was in his 60s at the time.

It is understood that the old guard of the Pentecostal movement in Australia didn’t want him in Australia. It is thought they were tipped off by their New Zealand counterparts about the 6 Lower Hutt boys who were abused in the 1960s by Frank Houston at Lower Hutt AOG.

I was a leading lay pastor and builder at Christian Life Centre in Darlinghurst through most of the 1980s. Frank Houston was so cunning at concealing his pedophilia that I didn’t find him out, even though I knew allegations since the late 1970s.

Why I ever got associated with the Houston’s I don’t know.  Maybe it was for such a time as this.

Although he fathered five children, Frank Houston was not sexually interested in women.

I have verified 14 mainly boy victims of Frank Houston. There are more if you count low level and masked homosexual abuse.

There are articles on this site about these sad events, including the stories of four boy victims, one in Auckland, New Zealand, who suicided after Frank Houston interfered with him. Extremely sad, tragic and culpable.

I sense that there were over 200 boy victims. If one includes the older male victims and masked homosexual contacts there could be over a thousand.

Even Frank Houston’s son Brian, of Hillsong fame, said to the Australian media after the recent Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse the following.

When asked how many victims there were he replied, “We may never know how many”.

 

Well, I’m giving the count a try.

None of the six Lower Hutt victims from the 1960s have contacted me to share their stories. It would help greatly if they did.

Do the victims want the world to know exactly how bad this man was who abused them?

No pressure guys. I understand it’s a difficult one for you. But it would help if you had the courage of AHA, SA1 and WNZ1 who have all spoken out anonymously and shared their stories in the loving and safe environment of this site.

Today is the day 92 of 100 days I’ve dedicated to caring about, mourning for, loving and honouring the many boy victims of Frank Houston’s sexual abuse, who are now men in their 50s and early 60s.

The three boy victims I am in contact with have all been greatly affected for their whole lives by Frank Houston’s abuse.

Royal Commission victim AHA is an invalid pensioner because of Frank Houston’s abuse. He struggles daily with life. The abuse was very severe over 5 years from the late 1960s when he was a mere innocent 7 years old.

 

Pastor Frank Houston was a sicko such has not walked the earth ever before in the guise of a Pentecostal pastor. Since the day of Pentecost 2000 years ago.

Every single offspring of this man has been spiritually infected and corrupted by Frank Houston’s bad seed anointing.

When Frank laid his corrupt pedophile hands on people’s heads, as he liked to do, and prophesied, he was pouring unclean counterfeit spiritual energy and demons into the receivers.

I repeat every single spiritual offspring of this man Frank Houston has been corrupted spiritually or in some other way.

Paul de Jong

Paul de Jong of Life Church, Auckland, had Frank Houston’s corrupt hands on his head untold times from when he was a little boy at Lower Hutt AOG to when he left Hillsong in the 1990s to found a Hillsong type church in Auckland, New Zealand.

Frank Houston imparted unclean counterfeit spiritual energy into him including demons, from his pedophile hands and body.

Frank Houston regarded Paul de Jong as a favourite spiritual son. He was always prophesying great things over him.

Paul de Jong needs massive deliverance from the soil and demons Frank Houston has cast on his soul.

Robert Ferguson

Robert Ferguson, the long-time back-up man at Hillsong Church, an elder and a senior pastor, was brought over from England by Frank Houston.

Similarly Frank Houston laid his pedophile hands on him and prophesied over him many times.

I think Robert has essentially a good heart from my few dealings with him, which were a long time ago.

Like Paul de Jong and everyone else who was under Frank’s leadership and got laying on of hands and prophecies from Frank Houston, they all need massive deliverance from the soil and demons Frank Houston has cast on their souls.

Joel A’Bell

Same for Joel A’Bell, although he is more Brian Houston’s spiritual son.

I remember Joel A’Bell from the 1990s when he was just a young man trying real hard as a youth pastor at City Hillsong.

I noticed he was Brian’s companion at the Royal Commission.

I’ve watched one Hillsong service ever on-line and that was in October after the Royal Commission.

Joel A’Bell led the service, his wife, who he repeatedly complimented and called his best friend, which is nice, took the offering talk and Brian Houston preached.

Hillsong website:

Joel A’Bell
Lead Pastor Australia
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About Joel A’Bell

Joel is the Lead Pastor of Hillsong Australia alongside Senior Pastors Brian & Bobbie Houston. Joel is an innovative thinker, leader and communicator. He is passionate about building and growing the local church. His fresh leadership ideas and style have helped shape Hillsong’s flourishing multi-campus church.

Joel is a team-focused leader dedicated to seeing all involved reach their full potential. He has been married to his best friend Julia for 21 years and is a dedicated father to Harmony & Eli.

My comment: 

Note: Joel is a ‘team-focused leader’.

Translate puppy to Brian Houston and unwavering and strong indoctrinator of others in the Hillsong way.

I wish I could find a wife who would be my ‘best friend’. They all like to play.

Brian Houston

I’ve yet to write a blog on that very interesting sermon of Brian’s I mention above. It was one of the best examples of personal psychological self-analysis, auto debriefing and embarrassing public self-relief and ministerial self-justification that I’ve ever heard from the pulpit. And that was only one Sunday.

Watch this space.

And Brian Houston. What kind of deliverance would this man need. The mind boggles.

Others

Then there’s the ebullient George, Hillsong’s business manager, Nabi Saleh, the McDonald’s bag-man and Hillsong elder, Pastor John McMartin, Pastor Keith Ainge and all the other AOG/ ACC Pastors Frank laid hands on and imparted stuff to.

Sean Stanton, Trevor King, Geoff Bullock, dare I mention Peter Lawton, Frank’s worship leader. What hell demons did Frank impart to the hapless Peter?

Tony Venn Brown now a Christian gay rights dude. What anointing did Frank impart to him? Horrors.

Peter Lawton, now a hard core gay. Great anointing there Frank…I could go on and on.

I knew most of these men in the 1980s and 1900s, except John McMartin, Keith Ainge, George and Nabi Saleh.

It’s not their fault. They didn’t know about Frank’s pedophilia until 1999.

But they do need deliverance and prayer from what Frank imparted to them.

 

I never let Frank lay hands on me. I was never sure about Frank Houston after I heard in 1977 that he’d done things to boys at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s 

I don’t let anyone lay hands on me.

In the late 1970s the Holy Spirit showed me to be very careful spiritually.

Once and only once, I went to a Roman Catholic Charismatic meeting.

I was sceptical about the Church of Rome and it’s grasp of the Charismatic Renewal. I’m sorry folks but please put the Roman Catholic Charismatic Movement in the Cult and Deception Bin. It’s all Mother Mary idols, idols of departed saints, Roman Catholic deceptions, icons and blasphemies poured into a broth of counterfeit Holy Spirit and poured on mankind.

At the meeting I sensed clouds of demons whirling through the spiritual realm and clouds of Roman Catholic darkness.

At this meeting a lady came over to me with really weird eyes and wanted to pray for me. I said no. But she insisted. I said, and I was only 19, “Back off lady, you’re not praying for me”.

The lady with the occult eyes was very offended. But I didn’t care. It was her or me, and unlike Bobbie Houston, I didn’t want what she’s having.

Even at the tender age of 19 I could see the demons riding on her soul.

Lost a few friends there. I was starting to sound like the recently departed from this site, Paul Sheehan of Fire and Power Ministries, whatever that is.

Donald Elley of Bellingen, the writer. Getting fired up now.

 

This does not mean that all the men who became leaders under Frank Houston weren’t Christians. God is way bigger than that. God is the judge of mankind individually.

In Brian Houston and those close to him at Hillsong Church I notice the following sins: 

Spiritual pride

Spiritual and emotional dominance

Spiritual and emotional intimidation and bullying

Vast uncontrolled egos

Stealing from of the treasures of the temple of God

Having their snouts in every church financial trough available

Deceiving the church and unchurched masses with blatant lies.

Not giving a toss about or helping the boy victims of sexual abuse

Not reporting a pedophile to the Police

Sheltering a Pedophile

Taking royalties on Worship recordings. This is stealing from the Holy of Holies, the place of the Holy Divine Shekinah Presence of the Almighty God

Lying to the Australian and international public for 14 long years that there was only one victim of Frank Houston’s abuse in New Zealand and that abuse was almost nothing.

Lies. Deceit. 14 long years of lying, deceit, avoidance, denial, spin, lying, abuse of boy victims. 14 long years of this behaviour by Brian Houston of Hillsong and his associates.

 

Brian’s time is coming for judgment on earth. I’m not sure he sees it coming.

Watch out there’s a semi behind you guys

You’re from Australia. Cool. “Put another shrimp on the barbie, mate”.

Brian. Nervous about the Police

Jim Carey in Dumber than Dumb. Will Brian Houston have a police mug shot taken soon?

At the Royal Commission into the Mt Erebus crash, New Zealand’s worst airline disaster in 1989,  the New Zealand Royal Commissioner Justice Peter McMahon in tabling his submissions on the Mt Erebus crash called Air New Zealand’s cover ups after the crash, “an orchestrated litany of lies”.

Air New Zealand Flight TE-901,was a scheduled Air New Zealand Antarctic sightseeing flight that operated between 1977 and 1979. The flight left Auckland Airport in the morning and spent a few hours flying over the Antarctic continent, before returning to Auckland in the evening via Christchurch.

On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth flight of TE-901, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, collided with Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board.

The accident is commonly known as the Mount Erebus disaster.

The initial investigation concluded the accident was caused by pilot error but public outcry led to the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the crash.

The Commission, presided over by Justice Peter Mahon, concluded that the accident was caused by a correction made to the coordinates of the flight path the night before the disaster, coupled with a failure to inform the flight crew of the change, with the result that the aircraft, instead of being directed by computer down McMurdo Sound (as the crew assumed), was re-routed into the path of Mount Erebus.

In Justice Mahon’s report, he accused Air New Zealand of presenting ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’ and this charge in the end led to changes in senior management at the airline. The accident remains New Zealand’s deadliest peacetime disaster.

At the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney last October it seemed like Brian, his associate pastors and George had got together and agreed on a plan about what to say at the Commission.

It seemed like ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’.

Unfortunately Brian couldn’t remember the script and got badly lost in the witness seat.

I am ashamed to say that I am from the same country as Frank Houston, New Zealand.

I am not ashamed of New Zealand which is the home to the Mighty All Black rugby team.

The All Blacks had better stop leaving their winning ways until the last minute or they’ll be choking again. England is going to be hard to beat at home.

The All Blacks need more mongrel up front in the pack to counter the English cockney mongrel forwards. 

New Zealand is a sincere country, a moral country and a hard-working country.

Yet from the verdant soil of this country of 40 million sheep and 4 million humans of many types and colours, although it was mainly White Europeans and Maori in the 1920s to 1960s, came an errant corrupt pedophile who decided in his 20s to use the woolly disguise of a minister of the holy gospel to fulfil his lusts and desires.

 

The Houston dynasty of devils through the laying on of hands on other subservient ministries has spawned a cart-load of monkey pastors. Spiritually corrupt pastors such as the world hasn’t seen, or at least not seen often.

I know of no more corrupt Pentecostal pastor since the blessed day of Pentecost than this errant devil pastor Frank Houston.

Not only was this man Frank Houston a New Zealander, even worse he was born in the same city as me, Whanganui.

Whanganui is a former port town lying sleepily on the banks of the Whanganui River. It’s a pretty nondescript town. It’s not as though you’d drive out of your way to visit there. The ski fields at Mount Ruapehu to the north hold far more attraction. Lost a few friends there. There’s always something amazing in a town that one hasn’t heard of. I don’t think Frank Houston would be honoured with the keys of the city.

There is a long list of Assemblies of God pastors in Australia and New Zealand who have been found to be morally and spiritually corrupt.

In the 1970s there were two Assemblies of God pastors in New Zealand vying for prominence. One was Frank Houston in the south of the North Island in Lower Hutt, part of Greater Wellington, New Zealand’s capital.

In the more prosperous and developing north in Auckland was Pastor Neville Johnson.

Frank Houston, although a secret pedophile from at least 1960, and probably 1940 or earlier, all through the 1960s and 1970s he was abusing little boys. Victim AHA who testified at the Royal Commission was horribly abused for five long years from the late 1960s to the early 1970s at his home in Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia from the tender age of a mere 7 years old to 12 years old. Victim SA1 my code name) at an AOG camp in Cuddly Creek, Adelaide at the Klemzig AOG camp located there. The abuse occurred in the bunk-room and showers. SA1 says other boys were abused there. I’d like to hear from them and any other victims anywhere in the world.

At least 6 boys aged about 10 were sexually abused by Frank Houston while he was head pastor at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s.

Frank Houston abused boy victim WNZ1 at a bible study in his parents home a few times. Frank Houston pretended to go to the toilet and sneaked in to WNZ1’s bedroom and abused him.

In fact, Frank Houston was so into pedophilia at this period, so rampant, that he commented to his son Brian, “yes I was very active at the time”. Meaning active as a pedophile in the era he abused AHA. My research verifies that the 1960s to 1970s, when Frank was in his 40s to 50s, was his most active period as a pedophile.

This may have been related to availability and confidence.

Frank Houston told victim AHA, “if you tell anyone, no one will believe you”.

Frank Houston

Rev William “Frank” Houston. The corrupt father of Pentecost in Australia

Frank Houston. Died in 2004. Talking to God now.

Pastor Frank Houston. Pastor from Hell.

Pastor Barry Smith, Pastor Jeff Beacham and End-Time Prophecy and “Catch The Fire”

Jeff Beacham in New Zealand rock band 1970s. Front and centre. Jeff was a drummer.

Donald Elley of Bellingen:

This article was published on this site on 22 October 2014.

I knew Jeff Beacham, Barry Smith, Frank and Brian Houston and all the players at CLC Darlinghurst in the 1980s to 1990s.

Blog article of 22 October 2014

Early Hillsong

I was at CLC Darlinghurst, the second name and second location of Hillsong, from 1981 and knew Jeff Beacham.

Pastor Jeff Beacham formed an end-time prophet style ministry

In the 1990s, Pastor Jeff Beacham formed an end-time prophet style ministry based at Christian Life Centre (CLC) Sydney. Former names: CLC Double Bay, CLC Darlinghurst. Later names: Hillsong City Church, Hillsong City Campus.

Jeff’s ministry was derived from Barry Smith, a self-styled end-time prophet from New Zealand.

Frank on Barry Smith: “Barry Smith fills the church coffers”

Although no intellectual, Barry had devised a complex system of end-time interpretation of the scriptures related to current events. Some people would write off Barry Smith as a misguided mad false prophet. Frank Houston liked Barry and gave him a lot of playing time at CLC Darlinghurst in the early days.

Although Frank liked Barry he secretly thought Barry was a bit of a looney. Frank told me, “Barry is a looney but the people love him. Every time he comes here, he packs in the crowds and fills the church coffers”.

Barry Smith was popular and filled the house at CLC Darlinghurst. Translate “filled the church coffers”. Frank told me Barry’s ability to draw the crowds, and intrinsically the cash, was a plus for Barry, “even if I don’t believe everything he says”.

Impressionable young people believed every word Barry said.

Jeff was greatly influenced by Barry Smith, a fellow New Zealander and similar personality type to Jeff.

Barry died before his time. He was a tall solid man and he liked hamburgers and used to make negative jokes about health foods. He died from a heart attack.

Pastor Jeff Beacham or “Jeff” as he was commonly known, took over from Barry Smith and formulated his own end-time ministry.

In those days, Jeff was a bit of a knock-about man. Like Terry Appel, a bricky who became a pastor at CLC Darlinghurst and operates on the Northern Beaches as a pastor. Terry Appel started ministry as a head deacon at CLC Darlinghurst.

Terry Appel was a kind of spiritual bouncer meets servant of God. Solid and strong but big-hearted behind that rugged exterior and gingery beard.

Similarly Jeff Beacham had a bit of a Sylvester Stallone edge but again he was good-hearted and well-intended.

After his formation of his End-Time ministry, the prophecies hadn’t come to pass as quickly as Jeff had thought, so he decided to focus on the Holy Spirit.

Jeff hooked up with John and Carol Arnott, who were having success in Toronto, Canada and he brought their “Catch the Fire” ministry to CLC at Waterloo, its current location. Its now called Hillsong City Campus.

Jeff Beacham was an astute businessman, but Pastor Frank Houston, that old fox, was far craftier

Jeff Beacham was an astute businessman, but Pastor Frank Houston, that old fox, was far craftier. Jeff was born in the late 1940s but old Frank had been around 28 years longer.

Jeff Beacham had a large family to feed. Five kids. He was serving God, and Jeff is a very genuine guy, but a man’s got to provide for his family.

Jeff told me the following story in about 1998, before the Frank Houston pedophile scandal hit the fan. At the time of the story, Frank was still the great man of God. Highly respected and almost revered.

Jeff had been ripped off by that cunning old fox Frank Houston the first time he brought Catch the Fire to Australia. Jeff’s Ministry was independently incorporated to CLC Waterloo with no legal ties or obligations to CLC. But Jeff made the mistake of not setting up a bank account separate from the treasury of CLC.

The first Catch the Fire made a healthy profit and the profit was, by verbal agreement with Frank, supposed to go to Jeff’s ministry. But CLC were a bit short of cash as always, and Frank took the profit.

Undeterred, Jeff forgave old Frank and decided to stage a second Catch the Fire. This time, remembering his first experience with Frank, he got Frank to sign a contract with the profits going to Jeff’s ministry coffers.

The 2nd Catch the Fire was an even bigger success. It made a profit of $150,000, which was a decent sum in the late 1990s. Still is today.

Cunning old Frank eyed the profit and took it into the CLC coffers. Jeff was very upset about this and shirt-fronted Frank.

Old Frank said to Jeff, “Sorry, we need the cash”.

Jeff replied, “But Frank, you signed a contract”.

To this Frank retorted, “It doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, sue me then”.

Jeff, who greatly respected Frank, although this respect was being severely tested, decided to forgive him, give it to God and move on. There was nothing that he could do about it.

Frank Houston at early Hillsong in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1980

Frank Houston was a crook of the highest order

Frank was a crook of the highest order. This was soon to be revealed when his secret homosexuality and pedophilia was exposed in 1999.

It’s taken another twenty years for everything about Frank Houston and Brian Houston to be exposed to the whole world.

Jeff with his second wife Melva.

Jeff Beacham died from throat cancer in 2013

Jeff Beacham died from throat cancer in 2013. He’d been a heavy smoker in the 1960s to 1970s when he was a rock musician in New Zealand.

Australian Christian Churches (ACC) Code of Conduct

Donald Elley of Bellingen:

Below is the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) Code of Conduct.

 

Title: Ministerial Code of Conduct

Document Type: Movement Policy

Version: 2015:1

Date: April 2015

Approval: Amendments approved National Conference 2015

MINISTERIAL CODE OF CONDUCT FOR ACC CREDENTIALED MINISTERS

The Rationale for a Code

Ministry is a call to serve both God and people. Credentialed Ministers are firstly accountable to God (1 Corinthians 4:4-5), but also to church members and those who receive ministry (Ephesians 4:1-2). Ministers are public figures whose lives are on display and are viewed with considerable public scrutiny. A high degree of conformity is expected with the biblical call to holiness (Matthew 5:48; Titus 2:7-8). Accordingly, pastoral relationships are to be characterised by love, justice, care, and compassion (Micah 6:8). A minister is firstly a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, (1 John 2:6) and as such ministry is grounded by prayer, Bible study, regular worship and a readiness to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19-20).

Ministers of our Movement are to live and minister in accordance with biblical values. Additionally, it is expected that every profession have a code of conduct that sets an example of excellence for the society in which it seeks to minister. Ministers are to be examples in the creation of healthy communities.

The following are guidelines are designed to identify areas, articulate relevant principles, note areas of caution, and state what is clearly prohibited in terms of biblical conduct for Ministers in our Movement.

The Purpose of the Code

This code is intended to guide the behaviour of Ministers in our Movement. It is articulated to assist leaders to serve in such a manner that it will cause our churches and ministries to be safe places for all; places where integrity is honoured, accountability is practised, misconduct is not concealed, and forgiveness is encouraged to bring about healing and restoration.

Article 11.7 of the United Constitution provides for action that may be taken where the holder of a ministerial certificate has committed improper conduct.

Improper conduct is generally regarded as behaviour that in all the circumstances of a case is an inappropriate or incorrect way of discharging a person’s duties, obligations, or responsibilities.

This Code of Conduct sets out the standard that is expected of credentialed Ministers, and therefore is an important document for determining whether a person has committed improper conduct.

A breach of a “Prohibited” provisions will always be improper conduct and will result in disciplinary action. A breach of a “Cautionary” provision, depending on the circumstances may be improper conduct, and may result in disciplinary action.

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1. Pastoral Example

The Code of Conduct

Ministers should be “above reproach” (1 Timothy 3:2). The values of the Gospel of Christ should be obvious to members of the church and wider society (Matthew 5:16; 1 Corinthians 11:1). It is also important for an effective minister to have a healthy lifestyle and a balance of service, recreation, and family (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11; Titus 1:6). This lifestyle should also be supported and encouraged for all members of church staff.

Ministers should be good citizens and obey the laws of the community (Proverbs 24:21; Romans 13:1- 4; 1 Peter 2:11-17). The only rare exception may be when a Christian engages in non- violent civil disobedience as a matter of protest (Acts 4:18-20).

Caution
Addictive behaviours: Scripture requires that we exercise caution in the use of alcohol (Proverbs 20:1; 1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corinthians 8). Abstinence is a stand that is highly respected in our Movement. Extreme caution must also be exercised with all potentially addictive and harmful behaviours that bring unwarranted harm to the body or jeopardise our own or another’s faith.

Language: The use of offensive language should also be avoided (such as swear words, sexual connotations, and racial or religious slurs).

Prohibited

A Minister must avoid drunkenness, gambling, and abstain from the use of all illegal drugs (Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:21). A Minister must not smoke.

2. Ministry Matters

Authority to minister comes from Jesus Christ; the head of the Church (Matthew 28:18; 1 Corinthians 12:27). Christian leadership must never be manipulative or authoritarian (John 15:15). Ministers are servants of Christ, who should endeavour to become servant leaders as modelled by Jesus (John 13:3- 14). Leadership in all its dimensions must always be accountable, and it is essential that ministers act responsibly in the best interests of those they serve (James 3:1; 1 Peter 5:2-4).

Caution
Qualifications: Ministers must not misrepresent their competence, qualifications, training, or experience. Ministers should recognise their level of skill and experience. If they are unsure, they must seek additional advice from other colleagues or other professionals.

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Pastoral relationships: Ministers should also be aware of the danger of dependency developing in pastoral relationships, and seek supervision or advice when such concerns arise. A balance should be found between the need for mutual support and the need for accountability.

Ministry gifts: It is a Pentecostal distinctive to honour the role of the Holy Spirit who imparts spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12:7). There are a variety of gifts (1 Corinthians 12:4) and the true exercise of these gifts will always be consistent with the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22- 23). For example, prophecy is to be exercised for “strengthening, encouragement and comfort” (1 Corinthians 14:3). A leader must always be willing to held accountable, admitting to the possibility of human error when exercising the gifts of the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19-21).

Public statements: We live in a society that has become increasingly sensitive to matters of discrimination and vilification. A Minister must show respect and godly care to all people, inside or outside the Christian community (Colossians 4:6). Care must be taken in how Ministers speak of the ministry of others in public (Mark 9:40) since reputation is something highly valued in Scripture (Proverbs 22:1).

Care must be exercised when Ministers express a personal opinion on controversial matters. They must distinguish expressing an opinion from speaking on behalf of a local church or the Movement (1 Corinthians 7:12).

Staffing and volunteers: There is a need for transparency and Godly motivation in any employment or ministry offer extended to a Minister, staff member, or volunteer serving in another church . The offer must only be made with the prior knowledge and agreement of the Senior Minister of the church where they currently serve. It is inappropriate that an approach be made to a Minister or staff member serving in a church that is geographically local. It is additionally inappropriate for a Minister or staff member serving in a pastoral team to seek a position in a neighbouring church without the endorsement of their Senior Minister.

After retirement or resignation from a ministry, the Minister must terminate existing pastoral relationships to allow their successor to assume responsibility. Friendships may continue as long as the end of the pastoral relationship is mutually recognised. Any request for a continuing pastoral relationship must only occur with the permission of the new Senior Minister or the person who has overall pastoral oversight.

It is unethical to be employed by a church, to build up that ministry, and then resign or be dismissed and then start a new work incorporating former church members without the prior knowledge and consent of the former Senior Minister. It is also unethical for a Minister to do anything to encourage a member of another church to join his or her church/ministry.

Conflicts of Interest: It is important to avoid any actual, apparent or potential conflicts between personal interests and pastoral responsibilities. If there is anything that could lead to a conflict of interest that will or could have an effect upon or undermine an individual’s impartiality in a given situation, then it must be immediately disclosed in full outlining the nature and extent of the conflict

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of interest to the Relevant Persons as set out in the ACC Conflicts of Interest Guidance Statement.

Prohibited

A Minister must not be abusive in any way toward others (1 Timothy 3:2-5; Titus 1:7).

The misuse of authority can be a particular temptation in leadership and must be avoided. Ministers must not attempt to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit to manipulate or coerce a person. This includes attempting to use healing for financial gain; attributing miracles for personal glory; or using a word of knowledge to control an individual; or using prophecy to change church membership or to enlist support for a ministry. Accountability in all areas of ministry is essential.

3. Sexual Behaviour

Sexuality is a gift from God and integral to human nature. Ministers must value this gift by maintaining chastity in singleness and faithfulness in marriage (Proverbs 5:18, 6:32; 1 Corinthians 7:2). Homosexual behaviour is forbidden by Scripture (Romans 1:24-25).

Caution
Children: Being especially vulnerable, children are entitled to be safe and protected. Ministry to children needs to be characterised by absolute trustworthiness. The Senior Minister and leadership of the local church are responsible to implement the appropriate Child Protection Policy for their State or Territory.

Physical contact: Caution must always be exercised when initiating or receiving physical contact including gestures of comfort that may be unwanted or misinterpreted.

Pastoral conversations: A Minister must be careful in pastoral conversations when a person talks about sexual problems. Consideration must always be given to whether it is appropriate to refer a person to a suitable counsellor.

Ministry to people in the sex industry requires clear boundaries, a high level of accountability and mixed gender peer support (Proverbs 5:21).

Pastoral relationships: It is only in the rarest of circumstances that a pastoral relationship can legitimately develop into a romantic relationship. If two single people meet in a pastoral setting (not a counselling relationship), and there is mutual attraction, then it is important for both parties to acknowledge that the nature of the relationship is changing. Once mutually recognised and acknowledged, it is the responsibility of the Minister to disclose this to the Senior Minister or their supervisor, and to arrange for someone else to assume pastoral responsibility for that person.

Prohibited

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All inappropriate sexual behaviour is forbidden. A Minister must not have a sexual relationship with a member of the church or anyone who is receiving, or has recently received, pastoral ministry. It is never acceptable to blame the person who has received counselling or ministry.

Sexual innuendo or compliments of a sexual nature are always inappropriate.

A Minister must not view pornographic material or go to places of commercialised sex such as strip clubs or visit a brothel (Matthew 5:28; 2 Peter 2:14a; Proverbs 5:3-6; 1 Corinthians 6:18- 20; Ephesians 5:12). Additionally, they must avoid chat rooms or internet sites of a sexual nature.

A Minister must adequately respond to reported instances of sexual abuse. An adequate response requires complete and timely adherence to all policies and procedures adopted by the ACC surrounding the reporting of sexual abuse.

Ministers must consider their other duties, such as their duty of confidentiality, and the duty to avoid conflicts of interest in discharging their duties to adequately respond to reported instances of sexual abuse.

Apart from strict adherence to all policies and procedures adopted by the ACC, a Minister who has been notified of an instance of sexual abuse must not engage in poor administrative practices, which include, but are not limited to:

1) Failure to take any action that should reasonably have been taken;
2) Failure to notify the relevant State President, their appointee or other relevant officer; 3) Failure to follow an appropriate consultative process;
4) Excessive or unreasonable delay in process;
5) Inadequate record-keeping;

4. Financial Matters

A Minister must set an example and have integrity in all their financial dealings. This would include the timely payment of debts, the effective management of finances, as well as providing for their family (Romans 13:7-8). Failure to do so will have a significant impact on the church and the perceptions of the wider community.

The Senior Minister and the leadership of the local church have responsibility for the sound management of church and ministry finances. They may or may not be involved in actual transactions, but must ensure the implementation of a proper system for financial integrity and accountability. All church and ministry accounts should be independently audited.

Caution
Conflicts of interest: It is important to avoid any potential conflict between personal finances and pastoral responsibilities. If there is anything that could lead to a conflict of interest, then it

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must be immediately disclosed to the Board or Elders. It is important to disclose to the Senior Minister or Board or Eldership any personal gift or bequest (2 Corinthians 8:21; James 2:1, 2-4).

A leader must avoid borrowing money from, or lending money to, a person with whom there is a pastoral relationship.

Particular care must be exercised in the appointment of a spouse or family member to a paid position in the church or ministry. It must be done only with careful consultation with the Board or Eldership.

Taxation: A Minister must exercise caution with tax minimisation strategies and must not improperly use fringe benefit allowances.

Prohibited

A Minister must not seek additional personal advantage or financial gain because of a pastoral role. Naturally, this includes any benefit to a spouse and/or immediate member of his or her family. Various professions forbid dual relationships (2 Timothy 2:4). For example, a doctor cannot enter into a business relationship with a patient. A Minister must disclose to their Board or Eldership any situation that could be viewed as a dual relationship, including business agreements.

A Minister must never borrow or take church funds without proper authorisation. A Minister must not seek financial support from people in a previous church or ministry unless there is authorisation by the current Senior Minister, Eldership, or Board. On termination of employment with a church (ministry or agency), a Minister must not expect a payment that is excessive, illegal or by private arrangement. In cases of dispute, the matter must be referred to the State President or their appointee.

5. Confidentiality

Trust is essential in pastoral ministry. Those involved in pastoral care must note that both formal interviews and casual conversations in a ministry context are pastoral encounters where confidences are shared and confidential information received. This information must not be disclosed, and must be treated with the utmost care. Exceptions include when disclosure is required by law (subpoena or abuse notifications), there are concerns for the safety of the person or others, or when the information is in the public domain.

Caution
Pastoral records: Pastoral notes and records are important, but caution must be taken with securing them. Any record of a pastoral counselling session is considered a health record, which is governed by national legislation. Computer records must be password protected and access limited to authorised persons. Paper records must be locked up and access limited to authorised personnel.

Particular care must be exercised in the publication of personal information in church directories, Ministerial Code of Conduct – April 2015 Page 6 of 8

newsletters, rosters, and websites, etc. This also extends to publishing voices and images of individuals.

Confidentiality should be preserved in peer supervision or in mentoring relationships. All care should be taken to avoid disclosing those being discussed. Preachers should be careful with sermon illustrations, in teaching and especially in publications (Proverbs 11:13).

Prohibited

A Minister must not disclose confidential pastoral conversations except if required by law or if there is a concern for the safety of the person or another person (James 5:16).

6. Ministerial Development

It is important to continue to develop ministry skills through a variety of means including education, professional supervision, peer support, mentoring, and a regular ministry review (Proverbs 27:17). It is expected that Ministers will regularly attend District, State, and National Conferences and special events, and undertake ongoing professional development (Romans 13:7). This includes an expectation the Ministers demonstrate a loyalty the Movement and its vision, values, and mission.

The Implementation of the Code
If questions arise with areas of “Caution,” the individual Minister must talk to a supervisor,

mentor, consult with peers, and if necessary pursue voluntary counselling.

With any breach of the Code of Conduct in a “Prohibited” area the Minister in breach must notify the State President (or the person fulfilling those duties at that time) within 7 days (24 hours if civil or criminal action is involved). The State President will implement the Grievance Procedure for Certificate Holders upon notification.

Failure to notify in accordance with the paragraph above will itself be a “Prohibited” breach of the code.

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Acknowledgements.

This code has drawn on the following codes of conduct, ethical statements, and ministerial guidelines:

Faithfulness in Service: A national code for personal behaviour and the practice of pastoral ministry by clergy and church workers (General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia Child Protection Committee, Draft – 2004)

Code of Professional Ethics for the practice of Pastoral Ministry: A guide for church workers and their communities (General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia Child Protection Committee, Draft – 2003)

The Code of Good Practice: (Anglican Church of Australia Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, 2005)

Code of Ethics applicable to ministers of Churches of Christ and The protocol for investigating complaints on matters pertaining to Sexuality: (Churches of Christ in Australia adopted 1997 and amended for Churches of Christ in Queensland 1998-1999)

Pentecostal Ministerial Ethics: Pastor Harry Leesment (1988)
Statement of Moral Integrity: Pastor Rick Warren.
A Statement of Restoration and Re-instatement of Disciplined Ministers. New South Wales Registration Board Guidelines for Psychologists.

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Hillsong Church- meet Hillsong’s sex deviate founder Frank Houston. Part 13. Rev Frank Houston youth pastor Pat Mesiti. Domestic Violence Conviction 2016. Adulteries 1998-2016. Hillsong and C3 Pastor. Visited prostitutes on his Hillsong credit card. Hillsong Youth Pastor. Youth Alive evangelist. Fell from grace and “restored” by “Doctor Phil” Pringle head pastor of C3 Church

Pastor Pat Mesiti- Now Millionaire Mindset Club wife basher

“Pastor” Pat Mesiti of C3 Church, Hillsong Church and Mexican Millionaire Mindsets Club. A product of Hillsong and C3 Babylonian Whorehouse Pty Ltd which are part of The Great Whore of Babylon.

 

Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong- gay- and a child rapist

 

Francis “Frank” Houston the Rock Spider (jail name for child rapist)- the pedophile founder of Hillsong and Brian Houston’s father, Phil Pringle head pastor of C3 Church and Pat Mesiti’s spiritual father.

 

“Doctor” Phil Pringle head pastor of C3 Church about his role in helping to restore “Pastor” Pat Mesiti to the Christian ministry from 2002 to 2006:

“So Brian Houston and myself..we are good friends ….I said….”look…I’ll put my hand up…I’d like to ..help…and I’ve known Pat ..forever and he’s good friends with a lot of the people on this staff …and has been…..and I thought this’d be great if he came..and was in our church…and we would seek to see him & standing on his feet again.”

Super Phil. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Super Phil. Did you hear that you and Brian Houston’s spiritual son Pastor Pat Mesiti recently bashed his wife, got caught out with loose ladies again and his second wife Andrea has dumped him? “”Doctor” Phil Pringle CEO of C3 International Prosperity Gospel Church Pty Ltd: “I’m glad you asked me that question. I was personally assigned the task of restoring the errant Pasquale “Pat” Mesiti the holy brat pastor to the holy ministry of both Hillsong and C3 Church. I’ll have to do some more reformation on young Pasquale. It’s clear I forgot to tell him some things”.

Note of 24 August 2016

Pastor Pat Mesiti is still a Hillsong Global Church pastor and still a C3 Global Church pastor, despite what Pat Mesiti has done as described in all that follows in this article.

This article is a chronological account of Pat Mesiti’s amoral life from 2016 back to the late 1990s. A kind of Pat Mesiti diary of dysfunction.

I am not judging Pat Mesiti for what he has done in the sense that “we’re all sinners”, as Pastor Brian Houston head pastor of Hillsong Global Church likes to say to rationalise every sin under God’s fair earth going on at Hillsong Global Churches all over the world.

What I am judging is what Pat Mesiti has done while pretending to be a Christian pastor.

What Pat Mesiti has done is reflective of Pastor Brian Houston’s and “Doctor Phil” Pringle’s amoral corrupt approach to being a Christian pastor, and what they allow to go on in their pastors’ lives.

It is also reflective of the father of Brian and the spiritual father of Phil and Pat, Pastor Frank Houston.

That is Pastor Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong Global Church who was for seven decades a secret pedophile.

Pat Mesiti’s secret sex holidays behind his second wife Andrea’s back

Brian’s father, Pastor Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who sexually abused hundreds of little boys in his lifetime in Australia and New Zealand and in other parts of the world where he went for “evangelism” while pretending to be a Christian pastor.

Like Pat Mesiti, Frank Houston’s evangelistic travels were really secret sex holidays.

In Pat Mesiti’s evangelistic travels the objects of his desire were any available Christian young ladies and prostitutes.

In Frank Houston’s evangelistic travels the objects of his desire were any available little boys aged 7-12 from Christian families.

If little boys weren’t available he’d opt for male teens or older males.

I believe he also went and procured “rent boys”- underage male prostitutes. I have some evidence of this from the 1980s but no definite proof. However it is almost certain he did.

I do have evidence of the sexual abuse by Frank Houston of 12 little boys and 2 teens in the 1960s and 1970s. I believe he was active as a pedophile from the 1930s until his death in 2004.

Pat Mesiti has used the Christian ministry to access young women to sexually abuse them. Like his second wife Andrea who was a young Hillsong worship leader in the late 1990s who he seduced and bedded while married to his first wife.

Pat Mesiti is a close friend of Pastor Brian Houston and Brian has protected Pat.

Pastor Pat Mesiti is still a Hillsong mega-church pastor and still a C3 Church pastor, despite what Pat Mesiti has done in all that follows in this article which includes being a long-time self-confessed sex addict, committing adultery against both his first and second wife, secretly visiting prostitutes while a famous Hillsong Youth Alive evangelist, using his Hillsong credit card to procure prostitutes and physical domestic violence against his second wife Andrea who has since divorced him this year.

“It’s all jobs for the boys at Hillsong”. Pat holidaying with Brian. “Pastor” Brian Houston (right) on holiday in Positano, Amalfi Coast, South Italy with “Pastor” Pasquale “Pat” Mesiti (left) the wife bashing sex addict preacher and Brian’s close friend. With Pasquale’s Italian relatives.

Note of 23 March 2016

The Daily Telegraph Sydney

Thursday 24 March 2016

page 23

reporter: Leigh Van Den Broeke

“A former Hillsong preacher turned motivational speaker believes he is “more qualified” to help people after domestic violence charges against him were dismissed because he was suffering depression.

Pat Mesiti, 56. was charged after grabbing his now ex-wife Andrea by the neck during an argument over a party at their family home on Glenhaven on New Years Eve last year.

Parramatta Local Court heard Mesiti, who pleaded guilty to assault, was struggling with the separation from his second wife and was taking anti-depressants.

Magistrate Gary Still dismissed the charge for mental health reasons and ordered Mesiti to follow a treatment plan a set out by his doctor.

Outside court, a repentant Mesiti said he had learnt a lot in the past three months. “I will keep doing what I am doing and try to help people”.

Note of 29 February 2016

At Parramatta Court today, “Pastor” Pat Mesiti admitted bashing his second wife Andrea on New Years Eve 2015, including a punch to her head.

Former preacher “Pastor” Pasquale “Pat” Mesiti, 56, appeared in Parramatta local court today Monday 29 February 2016 and admitted physically assaulting his second wife Andrea on New Year’s Eve. 

On New Years Eve 2015 Pat Mesiti was charged by the NSW North-West Police with bashing his wife.

Today he was convicted at Parramatta Court Sydney with one count of common assault for actual physical assault on his second wife Andrea- “in a fit of rage while heavily intoxicated”. He awaits sentencing.

Here is a News.com article of today explaining the situation in more detail.

News.com.au

Self-help guru admits NYE attack on wife

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

3:33PM

By Sophie Tarr

AAP

Self-help guru admits NYE attack on wife

A former Hillsong preacher arrived on his estranged wife’s doorstep drunk and grabbed her “by the neck” after learning she had green-lit a New Year’s Eve party at their home, court documents reveal.

Pat “Pasquale” Mesiti pleaded guilty to one count of common assault on Monday, two months after the attack on his wife Andrea in her northwest Sydney home.

Prosecutors have agreed to drop a more serious charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

A fact sheet tendered in Parramatta Local Court states Mesiti and his wife have been married for 13 years but are now in the final stages of divorce, having separated last April.

Mesiti moved out of the family home in Glenhaven the following month.

The former evangelical preacher, who now lives in Kellyville Ridge in Sydney’s Hills district, has penned a number of self-help books including Staying Together Without Falling Apart, billed as a definitive guide to helping men and women “thrive together in a modern day relationship”.

Documents tendered in Parramatta Local Court suggest the 56-year-old earns $2500 a week on the public speaking circuit.

The documents state Mesiti and his wife were both out separately with friends on December 31 last year when Mesiti saw photos posted on Facebook by a young female relative, showing a party in full swing at the Glenhaven house.

He immediately began calling and texting Mrs Mesiti, warning her he was calling police.

“After arriving home, the accused, being intoxicated, has begun arguing with all the partygoers including (the young relative), demanding them all to get out,” the documents state.

“About 10pm the victim has arrived at the home before walking down the driveway and into the front door.”

After a heated verbal argument during which Mrs Mesiti defended allowing the party, Mesiti grabbed his wife by the neck.

“A physical altercation has ensued during which the victim has felt an impact to the right side of her head,” the documents state.

Police arrived as Mrs Mesiti and the young relative were leaving in tears.

Mesiti will remain out on bail until his sentencing next month but must comply with a 12-month apprehended violence order, which bars him from assaulting or stalking Mrs Mesiti or approaching her within 12 hours of consuming alcohol.

“In a nutshell, that means that you cannot do anything that makes her fear for her safety,” Magistrate Karen Stafford told Mesiti on Monday.

“If you have a glass of wine with dinner at 7pm at night, you cannot go and see her until 7am the next morning.”

Mesiti did not comment as he left court.

Note of 12 January 2016

PAT MESITI’S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

PAT MESITI RECEIVED AN INTERIM POLICE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORDER AT PARRAMATTA COURT, SYDNEY FOR PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING HIS SECOND WIFE ANDREA AT THEIR HOME IN NORTH-WEST SYDNEY ON NEW YEARS EVE. PAT MESITI CANNOT CONTACT HIS SECOND WIFE ANDREA WITHIN 12 HOURS OF CONSUMING DRUGS AND ALCOHOL. PAT MESITI ELECTED TO PLEAD “NOT GUILTY” TO THE CRIMINAL CHARGES OF ACTUAL DOMESTIC PHYSICAL VIOLENCE. PAT MESITI WILL APPEAR IN COURT AGAIN NEXT MONTH FOR A HEARING OF THE CHARGES. PAT MESITI ELECTED NOT TO APPEAR IN COURT TODAY. A BARRISTER APPEARED ON HIS BEHALF.

Note of 3 January 2016

PAT MESITI HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY THE NSW POLICE AFTER PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING HIS SECOND WIFE ANDREA IN A TEMPER RAGE ON NEW YEARS EVE, 31 DECEMBER 2015.

Please see the article on this site of 3 January 2016, “Pastor Pat Mesiti of Hillsong. “Restored” Hillsong pastor faces domestic violence charges”.

Note of 22 October 2015

PAT MESITI’S SEX WITH PROSTITUTES USING HIS HILLSONG CHURCH CREDIT CARD WHILE A FAMOUS HILLSONG YOUTH EVANGELIST AND HILLSONG PASTOR

PLEASE NOTE, TO MY KNOWLEDGE PAT MESITI HASN’T COMMITTED PEDOPHILIA OFFENCES, UNLESS ANY OF THE PROSTITUTES WERE UNDER THE LEGAL AGE OF CONSENT OR THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE I DON’T KNOW ABOUT.

For details, please see my articles on this site:

Article published on 15 October 2015, ‘Hillsong scandals and improprieties. Hillsong insider speaks out. Part one. The truth about Pat Mesiti’s adulteries with prostitutes’.

Another article published on 16 October 2015, ‘Hillsong scandals and improprieties. Hillsong insider speaks out. Part two. Should Pat Mesiti ever have been a pastor again?’

I’ve reprinted these articles at the bottom of this article.

Pastor Pat Mesiti of Hillsong. 

MULTIPLE ADULTERIES WHILE A FAMOUS HILLSONG YOUTH EVANGELIST AND HILLSONG PASTOR

Sydney Morning Herald

Disgraced evangelist in hiding after being stripped of licence

Kelly Burke, Religious Affairs Writer

SMH, Wednesday, 27 March 2002, Page 8

NEWS AND FEATURES

He was one of Australia’s most prominent and internationally lauded evangelists, a champion of Christian youth and a motivational speaker who convinced thousands that the pursuit of money and fame was a godly business. Now Pat Mesiti is in disgrace and in hiding, sacked as a National Director of the Australian Christian Churches and stripped of his licence to minister.

Gone is the Pat Mesiti Ministries signage that distinguished the entrance of his Castle Hill mansion. But the 4000-strong congregation of the Assemblies of God church Hillsong, where Mr Mesiti is based, remains in the dark. According to Assemblies of God (AOG) documents obtained by the Herald Mr Mesiti was sacked after allegations of sexual misconduct. It is understood the allegations were not of a criminal nature.

“We are aware that the above information may be a surprise and shock to some of you and therefore we have deliberately chosen to restrict this letter to our ordained and probationary ministers”, the confidential document said.” We cannot see any reason for this to be announced to your church or further afield”.

The National President of the AOG, Brian Houston, who is also Hillsong’s Senior Pastor, denied there was a cover-up. “This whole area of sex abuse and predatory behaviour is devastating … but I believe we have tried to deal with this issue with integrity and honesty”, said Mr Houston, speaking from Los Angeles. But the scandal may prove devastating on more than one front for the church, which has spent two years rebranding itself as Australian Christian Churches and persuading other less powerful pentecostal denominations to climb on board.

In 2000 Mr Houston was forced to sack his father, Frank, after he confessed to what the AOG Church’s National Executive has described as serious moral failure while he was an AOG minister in New Zealand. Mr Houston senior was NSWs most senior AOG figure and the man credited with converting the champion jockey Darren Beadman, who later trained as an AOG pastor.

The AOGs National Executive Vice-President, John Lewis, conducted the Frank Houston investigation at the invitation of his son.

Mr Lewis said the offences were so serious that Mr Houston senior, now in his early 80s, was not even given the option of quietly retiring. The Herald has been contacted by one of Mr Houstons alleged victims, who is now considering legal action against the church.

Brian Houston said that of the AOGs 2000 Australian ministers, no more than five in any year were exposed and disciplined for sexual misconduct. He went on to defend the former AOG New Zealand General Superintendent Jim Williams, who serves as a pastor in Brisbane but whose licence in New Zealand was permanently revoked for sexual misconduct. Mr Mesiti is undergoing what the church terms a three-year restoration process.

Pat Mesiti now attends C3

In his glory days Pat Mesiti was a National Director of Australian Christian Churches.

My comments:

What the Sydney Morning Herald article didn’t know was that the adultery was with prostitutes while Pat Mesiti was a very famous Hillsong Youth pastor. Pat Mesiti was preaching to thousands of innocent young people, including my children at times, and after the services going down to Darlinghurst to have sex with prostitutes. It is unknown whether the prostitutes were male or female or underaged. Pat Mesiti also used Hillsong credit cards to pay for some of these services. That is how he got caught. Unauthorised use of Hillsong credit cards.

Since Pastor Brian Houston called Pat Mesiti’s adultery with prostitutes ‘serious moral failure’ and Brian, as Superintendent of the ACC movement, instructed by letter all the Australian Christian churches not to tell their congregations about it, and just as he called his old life-long pedophile dad Frank’s pedophilia ‘serious moral failure’, and instructed all the Australian Christian churches by letter not to tell their congregations about it, I feel it is my duty to tell everyone the facts of both of these cases of spiritual fornication, adultery, homosexuality and pedophilia.

It is unknown to me if Pat Mesiti committed pedophilia with underage boy or girl prostitutes or with any other children. Pat Mesiti needs to clarify what he did and with whom. The comments box at the bottom of this article is available for Pat to clarify these questions.

THE RESTORATION

C3 Watch:

Phil Pringle ‘Restoring’ Pat Mesiti As A Church Pastor

Pat Mesiti was, in Pastor Phil Pringles words, re-instated as a preacher on Sunday 19 February 2006 and now serves God with a new awareness and humility.

In the transcript below, Phil Pringle shares that Brian Houston and he “are good friends” and that Phil Pringle has known Mesiti “forever”.

Was Pat Mesiti’s Christian character restored?

Hillsong and C3 seem to think so.

Pat Mesiti said that when he came out of this restoration process he believed, “in the message of prosperity more now than I ever did”.

Many are cynical about this “message of prosperity” that Mesiti got from this process from both Hillsong and C3.

Below is a transcript of Pat Mesiti’s restoration.

Pat Mesiti’s restoration

Christian City Church, Oxford Falls 6pm service, Sunday February 19, 2006

“Doctor Phil” Pringle

Phil Pringle:

“I know a lot of you were not in this morning’s service…and I need your attention ….I need your full attention people…I need you to be looking this way ..and listening….thank you very much.

Because this morning I made an announcement …and in last night’s service..that I need to make again and .. it’s a great announcement …a very joyful announcement.

About four-and-a-half years ago …there was an evangelist in this country by the name of Pat Mesiti.

Most of you I think will know of him.. some of you may not.

Padre Pasquale “Pat” Mesiti. Restored. Contrite. Embarassed  Older, wiser and greedier.

He had a television program and was regularly conducting crusades … where through..500/1500 people would come to Christ.

He was an initiator of many great youth programs, including Youth Alive here in New South Wales… and accomplished a huge number of things for the nation ..in the realm of evangelism and.. touching people’s lives with the gospel.

However, four-and-a-half years ago, Pat had a terrible, terrible tumble….a moral collapse which resulted in his marriage breaking ..and ..was a sad moment.

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He was taken out of ministry…and ..stepped down.

He was an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God ..and after attempting to retrace..recover ..and after a year…it seemed it wasn’t going quite how it was anticipated.

So Brian Houston and myself..who are good friends ….I said….look…I’ll put my hand up…I’d like to ..help…and I’ve known Pat ..forever and he’s good friends with a lot of the people on this staff …and has been…..and I thought this’d be great if he came..and was in our church…and we would seek to see him standing on his feet again.

A number of years ago…I said to the Lord….’I’m so busy being a pastor….I don’t feel like I’m being a Christian.’

“Doctor Phil”. Used to hand out pizzas. Now hands out false prophecies and dodgy restorations.

And…that just meant I was so busy leading and preaching ..doing all the stuff I wanted… I felt like…going and handing out pizzas to the homeless in Hyde Park ..or visiting people in old folks’ homes or reading books…or people in prison.

I’ve done all that..and used to teach in a school for handicapped children ….and …I go and visit prisons …just tell them to send up a prisoner if they didn’t have a visitor ..and I’d be there….and they didn’t know me…so.. when you get to be a pastor…you get a lot of other things going on ..

But He said to me …’no you’ve got a church full of people who can do that’……so I pray you do it man…

And He said….’no..no..no..what I want you to do is reach out to people that other people can’t reach out to..and that’s pastors …who are having troubled times…

And so…I try to do that…and there’s a few …who…I have no judgements on men and women who’ve found their life in trouble ….

Who knows what pressures they’re facing and what things they’ve gone through …but I do know they need to be recovered and restored.

And there is a pathway for that…repentence …restoration…restitution ..and making things right.

So Pat came….and I said to him…’Pat ..I want you to do several things…..one….turn up to church..’

Doctor Phil: “Pat, listen up. Turn up at church and listen to me, I’m the great “Doctor Phil” Pringle. I’m amazing”.

And even with the shame and the awkwardness and the emotional difficulty of all that …I said ..’that’s what you’ve gotta do’.

Because the church is the best place you can be…rather than a counselling room ….just being in the worship…being in the local church …being involved in some ministry …of serving in the House.. all of those things are the best healing processes you will ever find yourself engaged in….because you’re forced to modify your behaviour and get things right and overcome …and all kinds of things….and relate to people…

And then just the Spirit of God working amongst us..

I believe in the power of the local church …it is the most powerful thing on Earth …to actually affect all sorts of things in people’s lives.

So Pat did that..and one year after his marriage had broke…he met a lady called Andrea ..and I was happy to participate in their marriage …three….two-and-a-half years ago …two years ago? Two years ago ….and that was a really joyful occasion.

And Pat and Andrea served in the visitors’ lounge …helping us there …and have continued to be involved… in our church over that time.

And he’s been relating to Greg French….Simon McIntyre ..Mark Kelsey and myself …over that period of time.

We’ve had times where we’ve needed to say things…or help him understand things..or whatever ..and Pat has been exemplary in all his ways of handling it.

I have tried this with a number of ministers and leaders over the years ..and I’ve got to say not without a lot of success.

It’s been unfortunate..because people find it difficult ..find it tough to recover…old steps.

But Pat has really displayed a repentent attitude ..and a commitment to a pathway ..that will bring him fully back into that way…

Very Naughty Little Pat. Now repentant.

And the ministry team…we’ve all talked to each other…..and quite satisfied that he has fulfilled all those obligations.

The Assemblies of God asked him to do three years of restoration……it’s actually been four-and-a-half years now…that he has been out of ministry…and …as I said…we are happy that…

….So in the 10 o’clock service this morning… we laid hands on Pat and Andrea…and restored them to the ministry that God has called them to…(applause)..

In those services……well..actually…only in the 10 o’clock service….I asked Pat just to share something briefly..and he did… and so…I said…I want you to share in that service just briefly…..but what I really want you to do is preach in our church on Sunday night….

So…I want you to welcome Pat Mesiti as he comes…” (applause/cheering/Mesiti hugs Pringle)

Yo Pat. This is your life. This is your second chance little man. Go forth and conquer. Make us all millionaires.

My comments:

The writer, Donald Elley of Bellingen.

C3 Watch blog-site are very down on Phil Pringle.

I attended the C3 for about six years in the late nineties until 2002.

I renovated C3 City Campus (another trendy name for Church) in Darlinghurst for no charge re my time. It’s a beautiful old 1860 sandstone church and the oldest building in Darlinghurst.

I was always blessed by C3 at Oxford Falls back then however “Doctor Phil” Pringle has gone off the rails with false prophecies and delusions go grandeur particularly in relation to his spiritual progeny, the errant “Pastor” Kong Hee head pastor of City Harvest Church Singapore.

C3 wouldn’t suit me now because culturally I’m a hippy bourgeois farmer and the hype, loud noise and spin would make me go troppo.

 

Whether Pat Mesiti has been restored I wouldn’t have a clue. Phil Pringle thinks he has.

 

I’ve heard Pat Mesiti preach and personally the hype and weirdo levels are way too high for me. Is that a biblical term to describe high velocity, uninhibited, in-your-face preaching from an ill-educated, well-dressed small Italian?

Like I sense about Brian Houston,  I sense no good thing in God about Pat Mesiti. No anointing of the Holy Spirit. I doubt he’s had deliverance and been baptised in the Holy Spirit.

What’s the point in taking people seriously in God who are like that?

I’m not sure why Phil Pringle can’t see through these men. I thought he was a smart guy. 

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For more than 35 years Pat has worked and shared the stage with speakers such as Robert Kiyosaki, Jim Rohn, Donald Trump, Denis Waitley, Dr John Demartini, Sir Richard Branson and Mark Victor Hansen just to name a few.

Pat is committed to helping raise 10,000 millionaires through his works. He will shift your mindset, touch your heart and increase your wealth.

My comments:

A few questions come to mind.

What is in it for Pat as he makes his clients into millionaires?

Is Pat himself a multi-millionaire?

If not, you’d be better off listening to people like me who are and don’t charge.

Extra note 20 October 2015:

I’m adding here two extra articles with additional information about Pat Mesiti’s adulteries, including with prostitutes while at the same time being a famous Australian Youth pastor preaching to thousands of trusting young people.

Padre Pasquale Mesiti- amazingly “restored” by Pastor Brian Houston and “Doctor” Phil Pringle.

Article on this site, ‘Hillsong scandals and improprieties. Hillsong insider speaks out. Part one. The truth about Pat Mesiti’s adulteries with prostitutes’ published 15 October 2015.

I’ve been contacted by a high up Hillsong insider who believes that Hillsong has gone off the rails and wants to tell their story.

This article is the first in a series of articles publishing the eye-witness testimonies of this Hillsong insider.

Hillsong insider reports:

“Pat Mesiti committed adultery with Darlinghurst prostitutes while he was a famous Hillsong Youth Alive pastor preaching to thousands of young people.

Pat Mesiti was caught by paying for the services of prostitutes using a Hillsong Church credit card.

Pat Mesiti had an adulterous affair, while he was married, with a young Hillsong worship leader.

He divorced his wife and married the young Hillsong worship leader who he had the affair with.

The pursuit and even harassment of young attractive women in Hillsong church by older Hillsong men and leaders is common. In fact it is part of the inner culture of Hillsong church”.

My comments:

I’d already heard these allegations from other sources about Pat Mesiti using a Hillsong credit card to pay for Darlinghurst prostitutes and getting caught out.

What I’d like to know is were the prostitutes male or female or bisexual or did he visit all of these three options?

Also were any of the prostitutes underage? If they were, that’s pedophilia.

Pat Mesiti could verify this by posting a comment in the comments box at the bottom of this article.

I’d also like to refer the reader to my previous article about Pat Mesiti published on 24 February this year entitled, ‘Pat Mesiti. Adultery. Hillsong Youth Pastor. Youth Alive evangelist. Fell from grace and restored by Phil Pringle. How the corrupt priests of Pentecost sowed devils on each other. Part 8. Australian and New Zealand errant Pentecostal pastors who couldn’t keep it in their trousers or sexually abused little kids’.

I’ll have to upgrade this article to mention the allegation of Pat Mesiti committing adultery on a Hillsong credit card with Darlinghurst prostitutes.

I’ve heard allegations that Pat Mesiti used to go and visit Darlinghurst prostitutes, circa 2000, after preaching to thousands of innocent believing young people at Hillsong Youth Alive meetings in Sydney. My older children used to go to these meetings.

I wonder how Pat’s first wife is getting along these days?

Another article on this site, ‘Hillsong scandals and improprieties. Hillsong insider speaks out. Part two. Should Pat Mesiti ever have been a pastor again?’, published 16 October 2015.

I’ve been contacted by a high up Hillsong insider who believes that Hillsong has gone off the rails and wants to tell their story.

This article is the second in a series of articles publishing the eye-witness testimonies of this Hillsong insider.

Today I’m going to continue on from my first article on this site in the current series, ‘Hillsong scandals and improprieties. Hillsong insider speaks out. Part one. The truth about Pat Mesiti’s adulteries with prostitutes’.

To recap this is what the Hillsong insider reported to me.

Hillsong insider speaks:

“Pat Mesiti committed adultery with Darlinghurst prostitutes while he was a famous Hillsong Youth Alive pastor preaching to thousands of young people.

Pat Mesiti was caught by paying for the services of prostitutes using a Hillsong Church credit card.

Pat Mesiti had an adulterous affair, while he was married, with a young Hillsong worship leader.

He divorced his wife and married the young Hillsong worship leader who he had the affair with.

The pursuit and even harassment of young attractive women in Hillsong church by older Hillsong men and leaders is common. In fact it is part of the inner culture of Hillsong church.

My comments:

A number of questions come to mind after hearing this series of statements from the Hillsong insider.

Firstly, why hasn’t Hillsong informed us, the Body of Christ, or even it’s own members, or even the pastors in the Australian Assemblies of God movement (AoG) or even it’s own pastors at Hillsong of the facts about what Pat Mesiti did?

After all, in the years around 2000 when Pat Mesiti committed these spiritual and moral offences, Pastor Pat Mesiti, as he was known then, was by far the most prominent Christian Youth Pastor in Australia. Even I’d heard of him.

I heard of him because I had to hear from him because until 2001 I was attending the Hillsong organisation at Christian Life Centre (CLC), Waterloo, the second incarnation of Hillsong. The first incarnation was CLC Darlinghurst where I spent eight years from 1981 when we all moved across to the new building at Waterloo.

I’ve known Brian Houston since before he became a pastor. In 1981-3 a young Brian with longer hair than his current hair transplant enhanced crop and a trendy moustache, was ‘preaching up a storm’, like his old pedophile father Frank Houston did, at CLC Darlinghurst.

This was before Hillsong’s third incarnation as Hillsong Baulkhams Hills.

When a young Brian preached in say 1983, it was like twin jet engines spluttering on the tarmac. At first there was a loud roar, followed by a series of splutters and then the fuel hit the pay-load and it was all on. Seagulls scattered and a foul wind of burnt high-octane aircraft fuel poured out of the engines. The roar became unbearable and then it faded into the distance as Brian stopped preaching.

And we, the poor guinea pigs, at CLC Darlinghurst had to grin and bear it.

Pat Mesiti’s preaching is much the same. Thankfully Pat flies a smaller aircraft. But the assault on the senses, particularly the ears, is still the same. A cacophony of sounds delivered at high speed and high intensity without much content.

I don’t know if Pat Mesiti went to Bible College but if he did he didn’t listen, and he certainly didn’t attend or listen to the ethics class.

What’s wrong with having sex with prostitutes?

It’s quite common in Italy, where Pat Mesiti’s ancestors came from, to visit prostitutes, even after you’re married. Decades ago, say in the 1960s and before, it was even socially acceptable in Italy to visit prostitutes and to have a mistress when you married, particularly if you were wealthy. The French still think like this, even today. It’s a European thing. And it’s become an Australian thing. The Australian sex industry and the brothel industry turns over billions of dollars annually. It has for decades.

I don’t know where Pat went and what naughty Pat did with whom?

I hope Pat used condoms, otherwise he might have Aids, HIV, another STD like gonorrhoea, or hepatitis B.

Whether Pat used a Hillsong credit card to have sex with a young woman, an older more experienced cougar, a man, a bisexual or whatever, I simply don’t know.

I’d like to think Pat visited a nice attractive top-end expensive female prostitute on that Hillsong credit card. Someone who insists her clients use condoms and washes with disinfectant between clients. I have no idea. My Hillsong insider didn’t know any more. I don’t know any more. Does anyone want to know anymore? Probably only naughty Pat Mesiti knows the full story. And he’s not telling.

I’d like to know the gender of the prostitutes, the age, how many times Pat visited prostitutes, which suburb did he go to etc etc…just the general details would be enough.

The general details would be enough.

What’s wrong with having sex with prostitutes on a Hillsong church credit card?

If a man goes to a brothel in his spare time, isn’t a Christian, isn’t a pastor, wears a condom and behaves properly, and pays for the experience out of his own hard-earned cash, that’s one thing.

But when a man is not only a Christian, but is a very prominent Youth Pastor preaching to thousands of innocent believing young people, is going to a brothel on a Church credit card wrong?

I think I just answered the question. It’s prima facie wrong. You don’t even need to open your Bible. Any average Joe or Jill non-church-goer wouldn’t support the action.

What’s wrong with having sex with prostitutes on a Hillsong church credit card when you’re a famous trusted Christian Youth evangelist preaching to thousands of innocent believing young people, including Donald Elley of Bellingen’s older children?

Everything.

So what should have happened to Pat Mesiti when he got caught having sex with prostitutes on a Hillsong credit card, and cheated on his wife with a young Hillsong worship leader, at the same time? An unholy mess. And should he have been ‘restored’ by Pastor Phil Pringle, the CEO of C3 international Church, which has it’s headquarters on Sydney’s Northern Beaches?

Firstly, what should have happened to Pat Mesiti when he got caught having sex with prostitutes on a Hillsong credit card, and also cheating on so wife with an young attractive female worship leader?

If I was Brian Houston, Pat Mesiti’s boss at the time, the first action I would have taken is to send Pat to a Medical Centre for an Aids/ HIV/ STD/ Hepatitis B blood and skin test. Then I would have asked the young worship leader Pat was involved with at the time to go and do the same thing. Then I would have told his wife to do the same thing. Then I would have verified whether Pat had slept with any other women besides prostitutes. If there were any I would have told them to do the same thing. Yes, it’s quite messy when we play around when we’re married, especially if we’re a prominent Christian Youth pastor and famous evangelist, and especially if it’s with prostitutes and with an attractive young Hillsong worship leader.

What does the New Testament in the Holy Bible say about famous pastors who do very public sexual sins like Pat did?

Sure King David did some bad stuff and God blessed him despite this. But he was a king and times were different back then.

Our guide book for sexual sins and the sexual sins of pastors is the New Testament.

I’m not going to do a whole Bible teaching on the subject.

The grace of God is very great, but there are very high Bible standards for pastors and teachers.

When we commit extremely serious sexual sins like Pat Mesiti did, it’s important to be honest. I think the worst thing about what Pat did is that he’s never come clean about what he did. He’s tried to cover it up, rationalise his addictive sexual sins, minimise them, and sanitise them, in the same way that his mentor, so-called Pastor Brian Houston, who is in reality not a pastor at all, more of a money-making charlatan than anything else…in the same way that so-called Pastor Brian Houston has tried to minimise and sanitise the sins of his old life-long pedophile father, Frank Houston against little boys.

The Brian Houston, Phil Pringle and Hillsong spin words for extremely serious spiritual and moral sins like pedophilia and visiting prostitutes on church credit cards is “moral failure”, “serious moral failure” or “addiction issues”.

These are the terms Brian Houston, Phil Pringle and Pat Mesiti himself have used in all communications to the Hillsong movement, C3 movement, and the media, since circa 2000, when the pedophile Frank Houston, and the then sex-addict Pat Mesiti, were both caught out for their repeated long-term sins by Hillsong. In Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong’s case, the repeated sins were lifelong pedophilia. In Pat Mesiti’s case I’m not sure how long Pat was a sex addict and whether he still struggles with that issue.

“Moral failure”, “serious moral failure” or “addiction issues”. This is the problem with Hillsong. They try to ‘spin’ their way out of everything. Lies, half-truths, reinventions, even ‘restorations’. These are the grubby circus tricks of the Houstons and those associated with them.

Was Pat Mesiti restored?

I doubt it. I can see zero evidence of it.

I don’t think Phil Pringle did anything at all to restore naughty Pat.

Pat is still the greedy man full of avarice and financial ambition that he was before the restoration, and probably worse.

Is Pat Mesiti still seeing prostitutes on church credit cards?

I hope not. His second wife, the one he was seeing behind his wife’s back, the young Hillsong worship leader, looks like a nice person.

Pat Mesiti with second wife Andrea in Positano Italy. On holiday with their close friends Bobbie and Brian Houston.

I wonder how Pat’s first wife is getting on these days.

The trouble for Pat is that the New Testament has very high standards for Christian pastors, teachers and evangelists.

As the great Apostle Paul taught, there’s a much greater standard and a much greater accountability for pastors, teachers and evangelists.

By New Testament teaching on pastors and teachers if you do what Pat Mesiti did as a famous preacher and teacher, you’re finished. Hang up the pastor hat and do something else.

It doesn’t mean you’re finished as a Christian. It may be that if you truly repent and seek the face of God, you’re only just beginning.

But as far as being a pastor is concerned, forget it. What Pat did as a famous Christian pastor is just too bad.

This is the problem with Christians today. In John G Lake’s time and Smith Wigglesworth’s time the questions I’m exploring wouldn’t have been explored. In those days it would have been simple morality math:

Being a very famous Christian Youth Pastor plus cheating on your wife plus pursuing a young Christian worship leader at your church and having sex with her behind your wife’s back plus cheating on your wife with prostitutes plus using a Church credit card to cheat on your wife with prostututes equals “You’re finished as a pastor…goodbye and goodnight”.

I’ve invited His Holy Eminence Brian…err St Pete of Hillsong, also known as Saint Copulator II, to share his thoughts about Pat Mesiti and the restoration of pastors, like he tried to do to his dad Saint Francis the rock spider pedophile.

Saint Copulator II: “Thank you Donald Elley of Bellingen, so pleased to see you again”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “What do you think was the cause of Pat Mesiti’s adultery?” Saint Copulator II: “Now, Donald Elley of Bellingen, I didn’t say the word adultery, I said serious moral failure”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Why did you tell all the ACC churches not to share this with their congregations?” Saint Copulator II: “It’s all about the sanctity and sacredness of the holy priesthood”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Do you mean that ACC pastors are to be protected and shielded if they do something morally wrong?” St Copulator II: “We at the Holy Basilica of Hillsong have a long-standing tradition of brotherhood and godly fellowship. Some things are better kept in the Holy Temple”. Donald: “Are you aware of how Pat Mesiti’s wife is faring after the affair”. Saint Copulator II: “We have a large and caring pastoral care team. She is free to contact them any time. The number is 1800…”

I’ll now interview Holy Black Jesus about Pat Mesiti, Brian Houston, Hillsong and “Doctor Phil” Pringle.

Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Holy Black Jesus, who do you think is greater, the Holy Pontiff Saint Francis of Rome or Saint Copulator II, formerly plain old Brian Houston of Lower Hutt, New Zealand”. Holy Black Jesus: “Well, they were both poor peasants, one from South America and one from grey fibro Lower Hutt, New Zealand, who’ve made it big on the holy religious world stage. What do you think Black Madonna Momma?” Black Madonna Momma: “Saint Copulator II by a whisker. I’m a big fan of Bobbie Houston”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Holy Black Jesus, how do you feel about your holy son Pat Mesiti being restored to the ministry after being caught with his pants down?” Holy Black Jesus: “Well, if the holy parsonage Doctor Phil Pringle diagnosed Pat Mesiti as being in good spiritual health then he must be. After all Doctor Phil Pringle is a Doctor”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Holy Black Jesus, who do you think is greater, Doctor Phil Pringle or Saint Copulator II, formerly plain old Brian, the boy who used to play marbles at Lower Hutt Primary School and jump in dirty New Zealand puddles with his class-mates?” Holy Black Jesus: “Well, Doctor Phil Pringle after all is a Doctor but on the other hand, Brian has Bobbie. Come to think of it, the jury’s out on whether Bobbie is an asset or a liability. I think Doctor Phil Pringle by a whisker because he’s a Doctor”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Holy Black Madonna Momma, have you read Bobbie Houston’s book, Kingdom women love sex?” Holy Black Madonna Momma: “I’ve never heard of that book. Here in Positano Italy we only have junk tourists leave behind on the floor after they’ve taken photographs of me and my son Holy Black Jesus in this Holy Roman Church. Is it pornography?”

Australian Christian Churches (ACC), Hillsong, C3 Church, Australian and New Zealand Assemblies God (AOG) of and Elim churches- the dark stain of corrupt Pentecostal leaders in Australia and New Zealand in the past 50 years

The Holy Spirit, the Gentle Dove of Heaven, loves you deeply.

 

Conventionally speaking and out of the greatest respect for God, if we write an adjective before or after one of God’s Names, after I did then, we should use a capital letter on the first letter of that adjective.

A small point. The benefits and wisdom with Christianity and life are in grasping and applying the detail well.

 

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

 

In context:

Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness…

2 Timothy 2:15

 

My skills with words, writing and in knowing and understanding the Holy Bible and the ways of God weren’t established in five minutes.

It has taken a lifetime of tuition and diligence.

 

The writer Donald Elley. Likes to dot his ‘i’s and cross his ‘t’s.

 

My dear father and mother imparted to me all they knew.

 

This is my all-time favourite foto of dad: on holiday, wind-blown hair, his hairy eyebrows, his trusty binoculars, that quizzical “who-me” look. The ultimate free-spirit.

Dad. A gentle and loving father. Dad used to think it was funny to wear silly hats and glasses.

Mum and dad in Khandallah days. Dad, always free-wheeling and confident. Mum, faithful, very godly and a rock of God. A pinnacle of dad’s life. 1970s.

A hard-hitter. No lightweight. You knew where you stood. But he was very gentle and highly sensitive. Strength mixed with grace. Very godly. Very dignified. Dad wouldn’t take a backward step in the things of God. God’s causes. Dad and his evangelical ministerial colleagues and friends took on the liberals in the Presbyterian Church in the late 1960s and 1970s.

 

These are the types of men and woman we so need God to raise up in this generation, even if all my generation are sweep into the gutter.

 

When I think of the errant men of God who I have been writing about on this my personal blog-site since September 2012 I weep.

Literally weep.

Not feel like weeping. I weep.

 

My heart is in the greatest pain when I think about the carnage these errant men have caused.

 

I also get very angry about these men.

 

Frank Houston.

 

Pastor Frank Houston. Founder of Hillsong. Extremely evil and corrupt life-long pedophile.

 

I started writing about Frank Houston on 13 September 2012 with my article on this site, ‘Pastor Frank Houston. part 1. Frank’s Houston’s pedophile activities’.

This article has been viewed by 16,000 people.

 

If you google ‘Frank Houston abuse’, it is the first article that will appear.

My article comes up ahead of Wikipedia, the Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, London Daily Mail and other media.

It has been the first article if you google ‘Frank Houston abuse’ for over two years.

 

I started writing about Frank Houston, his pedophile activities and his many other faults, in September 2012 before the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

 

My articles were influential in the Royal Commission examining the Houstons, the ACC/ AOG and Hillsong church.

In fact Simeon Beckett, a leading Commission lawyer, quoted directly from the above article on Frank Houston when he outlined the history of the Assemblies of God and other introductory facts.

 

The Royal Commission has contacted me three times for information.

 

I introduced the Royal Commission to victim SA1 (my code name) and organised for him to give them a statement.

 

At that time in October last year, to my knowledge, no victims of Frank Houston were known to the Royal Commission in Australia apart from victim AHA from Coogee Beach, Sydney.

 

I also told them about victim WNZ1 from Wellington, New Zealand, who few people know. Only some immediate family, one pastor in New Zealand and me.

WNZ1 contacted me after reading my blog-site. The Australian Royal Commission have noted his existence.  They don’t need a statement off him because their brief is only to examine Australian cases of sexual abuse of minors (under 18’s).

 

The Royal Commission has uncovered 160,000 victims of Institutional Abuse of minors.

Staggering when you think that’s only the Institutional abuse. The problem of pedophilia is of epidemic proportions in Australia.

 

Neville Johnson

Neville Johnson. Liked oral sex with church secretaries. 

 

This man has never repented of crimes against God and man in the 1970s, including having oral sex multiple times with a series of three young church secretaries, including his right hand man’s daughter, spiritual and moral deception and trashing and dumping Queen Street AOG Auckland and running away to Perth.

 

Queen Street AOG was the largest church in Australia or New Zealand at the time.

The  greatest of sins.

Frank Houston was far worse but Neville Johnson is up there in the bad pastor dudes stakes.

Neville Johnson is still ministering from an internet site “Academy of Light’ in Perth, Western Australia, and in a teaching ministry.

Avoid Neville Johnson like the plague.

 

Jim Williams Serial adulterer

 

Jim Williams. Now senior pastor House of Praise in Springwood, Queensland. Don’t go near the place.

 

This man is still ministering and should not be.

Jim Williams is another errant New Zealand pastor who should just go fishing or do gardening for old ladies and leave the Blessed Body of Christ, God’s Precious Jewel from Heaven, alone.

 

Jim Williams followed Frank Houston as the Head of the New Zealand Assemblies of God Church (AOG).

He was the 9th General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in New Zealand was from October 1977 – 1985, an eight year term.

Sydney James “Jim” Williams was born on 11 September 1935.

Jim Williams is a former pastor and former leader of one of the most influential churches in the Assemblies of God in New Zealand in Hamilton.

He is currently pastoring in Queensland, Australia.

Jim Williams became a published author with a work based on the book of Proverbs called “Wisdom – the missing link”, a book on handling pastoral problems.

One of the most difficult things he had to manage as General Superintendent was the fallout following the revelation of the financial and moral failure of Neville Johnson then pastor of the largest church in Australasia, the Queen Street Assembly of God.

 

Departure from New Zealand

Williams left for Australia in March 1989, the leadership of the AOG then passing to Pastor Wayne Hughes. In Australia Williams served in what was then known as the Garden City Church in Brisbane.

 

Adultery

In 1994 the Executive of the NZ AOG received a letter from the Australian Assemblies stating that Williams had been guilty of adultery while pastor at the Hamilton AOG Assembly.

Williams was replaced as Pastor of the Garden City Christian Church by his deputy Senior Pastor, Pastor Geoff Holdway. Pastor Holdway differed from Williams charismatic style by focusing on a more fundamental adherence and teaching of scripture. This was based on his background in the Baptist theological seminary with a much more Pentecostal emphasis on scriptural interpretation.

At this time Williams was pastoring in Australia.

He lost his Australian credentials, but these were eventually returned after a time of counseling.

However he remained barred from ministry in the NZ AOG due to a failure to make any efforts to put the matter right in New Zealand.

In 2000 it became apparent that the extent of his sexual impropriety was much greater than admitted to the Australian body.

His credentials in New Zealand were permanently revoked for adulterous offences and other indiscretions involving different women over an extended period of years.

Following this the Hamilton Assembly (Gateway Christian Centre) left the denomination.

 

Current Ministry

Jim Williams is no longer associated with the Assemblies of God in Australia, and is now pastoring a church The House of Praise in Springwood, Queensland.

 

Jim Williams. Now senior pastor of House of Praise, Springwood, Queensland. Don’t go near the place.

 

Pastor Frank Houston founder of Hillsong- eternal bum caresses and endless masturbation into bottles with his young worship leader Peter Lawton

Pastor Frank Houston. Founder of Hillsong. Extremely corrupt life-long pedophile, many of them little boys aged 7 to 12 years old.

 

Here is an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on 4 August 2007. 

 

The writer David Marr is a gay man who writes for the SMH and who is interested in subjects like religion and organisations like Hillsong.

The first part of the article is about Tanya Levin’s book. Tanya is an ex-Hillsong lady who is now an atheist and a Hillsong watch type person.

Information about Peter Laughton, Frank Houston’s former young worship leader is in the second part of the article.

Peter Laughton was staying as a boarder with Frank Houston and his wife Hazel when the abuse occurred.

Although Peter was in his 20s he feels Frank Houston, who was 60, took advantage of him and abused him.

 

David Marr’s article in the SMH: Hillsong – the church with no answers

 

Tanya Levins

 

August 4, 2007

When a former member of the Hillsong congregation started asking hard questions, she was thrown out,

By the miracle of YouTube, we can take a helicopter ride over Sydney any time we like with Pastor Brian Houston as he lays out Hillsong’s Vision 2007. In a voice that has coaxed fortunes from the faithful, he talks prosperity, vision, growth and God’s strategy as the helicopter swoops down on the “beautiful piece of property” Hillsong bought last year in inner-city Rosebery for $28 million.

“I think the finances are where we’re going to have to have the greatest faith.”

His confidence is absolute that the mortgage will soon be paid. To a sceptical outsider, Houston looks oddly like Spike Milligan with cans on his ears and a microphone to his mouth as he looks down on the suburbs where Hillsong’s “state-of-the-art worship centres” are booming already or will soon be delivering the goods for Christ. He shrugs off ridicule. The nation’s most triumphant preacher lives in a world without doubt and without dissent.

“Jesus said a house divided against itself cannot stand,” Houston reminds the thousands who have viewed this film clip and left adoring messages behind. (“Please come to Sweden! We need ‘fire’ here!!!!!!!!!”) Authority is a big deal at Hillsong. You don’t mess with Brian or his wife, Bobbie. “The great strength of our church has always been our unity. A single vision is critical to where we’re going.”

So Tanya Levin is a problem. She asks questions. She wants explanations. She challenges the vision of Hillsong’s leadership. In short, she’s trouble.

Two years into writing People in Glass Houses, her insider’s account of Hillsong, she was finally – and literally – shown the door. “There is no debate within Hillsong,” she says. “That’s fundamentalism. It’s not open to free thought and question, not at all.”

The church wasn’t answering her emails about the book. Houston had ignored her calls. She defied orders not to turn up at the Castle Hill “campus”, until the night came when two security guards carried her from the church and “a very tall, handsome Maori man of about 24” called Dion walked her to her car.

“I cried at Dion,” she writes. “I told him about my dad, and faithfulness and loyalty … whatever kind of Hollywood angel he was dressed as that night, there would come a time when he would outlive the usefulness to the Firm. And then he would lose that simple genuine look he stared at me with. I told him to go home and read his Bible and go ask the preachers why it doesn’t match what they say. He listened like one does to the ravings of a lunatic and I made him listen because that’s his job.”

It was the end of a long affair that began when Levin was 14, the daughter of a banker and his Jewish wife who were brought to God by Billy Graham back in South Africa. The family turned up in the early days of what was to become the behemoth of Hillsong.

“My impressions in September of 1985 were of a bunch of nice people,” Levin writes. They waved their hands and spoke in tongues. Houston preached. “Even today,” she confesses, “when I hear Brian Houston’s voice I feel better.”

People in Glass Houses is a naked account of the joys of religious infatuation and the messy business of re-entering the real world as an adult five years down the track.

Levin fitted the Hillsong pattern perfectly: “There is a 50 per cent turnover every five years. Hillsong is renowned for having a very big back door.” The churning of people through the church is not something they talk about. “Or they say people don’t have the faith to hang on; they’re unable to take it through the tough times. It’s always the fault of the person. It’s never the fault of Hillsong.”

But the ties were deep. University and then a child took her away from the Hills for a decade. She returned as a single mother with a job as a social worker in a Salvation Army women’s refuge and something more than curiosity about the fate of her old church and the friends she still had there. “I’d go sporadically just to have a look.”

Rumours of scandal sharpened her interest. After one hugely popular pastor was expelled in 2001, Levin began asking questions about Brian Houston’s father, Frank – a preacher so powerful he was thought to be able to raise the dead – who was being accused on the internet of pedophilia. But Hillsong was in the dark.

Brian and Bobbie won a standing ovation from the congregation when they finally broke the news that old Frank had an unwavering love of God and deeply repented his moral failings. His crimes were not named that day. Levin was furious: “I had a near-irresistible urge to yell out like the boys used to do in the old days, ‘What did he DO, Brian?’ ”

Levin was asking questions again, this time to write this book. Frank was not her target. She set herself the task of explaining the inner workings of the most successful religious operation in Australia: the joy and despair of faith; the mass hypnosis of worship; the Jesus-centric remedies offered in Hillsong’s outreach programs for drug addiction, domestic violence, unemployment and homosexuality; the ideological submission of women; and the bleeding of money from the faithful.

Levin’s family is among the financial casualties of Hillsong. They’re out of the church now after more than 20 years and her mother’s sardonic joke is that People in Glass Houses might earn a little of their money back. Hillsong’s 19,000 members are expected to tithe – give a 10th of their income to the church – and make big donations on top of that. Levin wrote the book as a warning: “The intention was to tell people, ‘Hey, by the way, they’re taking your money.’ ”

A couple of years ago, Brian Houston boasted on ABC television that Hillsong’s income for the financial year 2004-2005 was $50 million. It’s tax-free, of course. Accounts are never published. Year after year, Hillsong’s music arm has albums high in the charts. When All of the Above faded after many months this year, Saviour King took its place. The earnings are enormous but the begging bowl is always out.

“It’s a corporate organisation being run by corporately trained people to achieve economic outcomes,” Levin says. “Economic outcomes are the new measure of spiritual success and sign of blessing. The fact that Brian Houston is driving a Harley is a sign that God is looking upon him favourably.”

For Levin, the core lie of Hillsong is the claim that God will repay everything you give. And the longer you have to wait, the greater the return. “How do you actually stand in front of people and say if you give me your money God will give it back to you – and actually sleep at night when you’re taking old people’s money? It’s obviously the more desperate people who want to make an investment decision like that. Very vulnerable people.”

Four or five years ago Levin typed “ex born again Christian” into Google and found that “from Sweden to Nevada and back again there were people with the same story”. They are welcomed into a small, warm, friendly congregation with one or two charismatic preachers. But a few years later they’re out the door: “Kicked out and told they are the work of the devil.”

That early friendliness is part of the big sell. “They don’t preach against much. There’s a new movement that’s come through America called Seeker Sensitive – in other words we want people who come into our church to feel comfortable. And we want to be sensitive to their needs. So we won’t say anything too outrageous and we’ll tone the whole thing down.”

But tough rules – often about sex – are waiting to be enforced. “Painted into a corner, they’re explicitly homophobic, but up to that point they don’t want to be seen as an unfriendly, judgmental place. They want to be seen as warm, inclusive, loving, embracing. But they’re not. They are of their own kind: if you’re in the system and you behave accordingly, the system will reward you.”

Levin thought that with so many casualties of the system around, writing the book would be easy. “What I found – and what other media have found – is that it’s almost impossible to get other people to come forward and talk about this. People will write things on websites, they will send emails: ‘I’ve been through this, I’ve done this, I can help you, I know these things, I am the voice of expertise.’ Then they disappear again because it’s too painful and it’s too confrontational.”

Hillsong won’t comment on the result.

“We have no control over what people decide to say and write,” Brian Houston says. “We keep our focus on helping people with hope in Jesus Christ.”

But Levin has a fair idea what they’re thinking out in the Hills. “Bobbie Houston announced at the Colour Your World conference in 2005 that there the only three types of media about Hillsong. They are the positive, the neutral and the anti-Christ.”

Levin doesn’t fit that picture. She doesn’t hate. Something in her seems to yearn for those exhilarating years fighting the good fight against the devil in all his disguises right down to the voodoo beat of rock’n’roll. “We were told you can’t have it because it’s incantation and you’re going to raise all these demons.” How different things are now. Levin begins to sing some Hillsong Christian trance music: “Doof, doof, doof. Christ is the future. Doof doof doof …”

Is she entirely free of the place? If Houston rang today and asked her to dinner, would she go?

“Yes, very much so. My main aim is to keep the dialogue open. To encourage questions. To encourage debate. And when somebody or a group of people make you feel like family for a number of years, it’s difficult to shake that feeling even when reality tells you something different, and when relationships break down. Go do dinner with Brian?” She laughs. “It would be nice.”

 

A fallen leader of faith

FRANK HOUSTON was a charismatic preacher and a sick man. He won famous souls for Hillsong – jockey Darren Beadman was one of his scalps – and sexually abused young men.

He was about 60 when he undertook to cure 23-year-old Peter Laughton’s homosexuality. “My counselling sessions by the senior minister were nothing more than sexual abuse disguised in the form of the need of a father’s love and discipline,” Laughton says. “Through my naivety, I endured the naked beatings, the eternal bum caresses and masturbating into bottles, among other things.”

Laughton was training to be a pastor. He says the abuse continued for about four years until 1984. “I look at it now and think, ‘God, I was really naive to fall for that.’ ” And believing himself cured, he married.

Laughton’s faith went first. He tells the Herald that before leaving the church in the early 1990s he gave an account to another pastor of the abusive therapy he’d received. But as far as Laughton is aware, no action was taken against the old man until he was forced into retirement by his son Brian after an allegation of pedophilia emerged in about 2000.

Houston denies categorically knowing of any claims of sexual abuse by his father before this time. He initiated a church investigation, which saw the old preacher’s credentials permanently removed. “I was completely devastated by the realisation that my father had hurt people in this way, and I believed it related to events more than 30 years before when he was a New Zealand credentialled pastor. Until recently I knew nothing of Peter’s claims.”

Laughton took a long time to come to grips with his sexuality. He’s now a university lecturer in his early 50s who finds it in himself to forgive Frank Houston. “Despite all his downfallings I think he was genuinely a good person. It is an important part but it still is only one aspect of a person’s life. I’ve come through the other side and appreciated how this man was trapped like many of us were in a system and in a place where you couldn’t really even talk about what you were struggling with.”

Burying his father in 2004, Houston declared him a man who made mistakes but a preacher “in a class of his own”.

David Marr

People in Glass Houses (Black Inc, $29.95) by Tanya Levin was published this week. edit: 4 August 2007.

David Marr has also published with Black Inc.

 

My comments:

From 1981 to 1990 I was involved at Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst, which is now called Hillsong Church.

Frank Houston was the head pastor and the founder of Hillsong Church in 1977.

He came over from New Zealand, in the guise of church planting, but he was really a crafty old pedophile who felt the noose tightening on his pedophilia activities which he’d been doing for decades in New Zealand, while at the same time being a very prominent AOG pastor.

Frank Houston is a devil, a son of lucifer of old, who preyed on and molested little boys, teens and older men all his life.

 

On this site you’ll find over 100 articles on Frank Houston, his pedophilia, his very corrupt son Brian Houston, Hillsong Church, the Australian Christian Churches which was until 2009 called the Australian Assemblies of God (AOG), the New Zealand Assemblies of God and errant Pentecostal pastors in Australia and New Zealand.

For a summary of Frank Houston’s pedophile history please read my article on this site, ‘Pastor Frank Houston, Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities’, published on 9 September 2012.

 

Peter Laughton was the young Worship Pastor at Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst in the early 1980s.

There is no way possible anyone at Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst could have known what Frank Houston and Peter Laughton were up to. I’d heard allegations of Frank Houston’s pedophilia back in New Zealand and I always had a half-eye on him in this respect but you’d never have picked it

Trevor King was the Music Director.

In 1981 Brian Houston wasn’t a pastor. He was extremely ambitious and very pushy. He wanted to go places and make it big. Its a pity he didn’t get born again properly, receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, deal with his lust for money and power, get deliverance and get a godly foundation in his life of truth, honesty and good morals before he set out to conquer the world for his Jesus.

 

Brian Houston’s Jesus is no closer to the Lord Jesus Christ of the New Testament than some statue of the black Jesus in Southern Italy with its holy red heart open to mankind.

 

 

Let’s hear from the great man himself

 

Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Welcome to my blog site again Your Most Holy Parsonage”. Saint Copulator II: “Thank you Donald Elley of Bellingen, my old holy comrade from Darlinghurst days and now my greatest most holy heretic”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Your Eminence, have you read my article about Peter Laughton and the eternal bum caresses?” Saint Copulator II: “Hahaha..hahaha..you’re cracking me up Donald Elley of Bellingen..haha..hell-ova-holy hyisssssteriacal half bred hares…hahaah”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “What’s so funny? Share the joke”. Saint Copulator II: “Hahaha…holy haha..I just can’t believe Peter Laughton fell for dad’s old tricks”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “Do you mean you knew your father holy saint Francis was like that?” Saint Copulator: “Eternal bum caresses. How did Peter Laughton think that was going to heal him and make him feel like he had a dad..haha..holy haha”. Donald Elley of Bellingen: “But this is a serious subject. Peter Laughton felt abused”. Saint Copulator II: “Bobby Bobby fair eternal virgin of the night. Where is my black Jesus that I bought in Positano?”. Bobby: “In your private chapel along with the pictures of your blessed father saint francis, your mother Hazel dear and the myriad golden candles burning 24/7″. Saint Copulator II: “How’d you feel about trying what Peter Laughton and dad were doing”. Bobby: “Bugger off Brian…I’ve had enough of your black Jesuses, your golden candlesticks and your kinky fetishes”.

The Assemblies of God International should ex-communicate the fully corrupt Pastor Brian Houston and the fully corrupt Hillsong Global Church and the fully corrupt Australian Christian Churches (ACC) movement

 

 

Australian Christian Churches (ACC) pastors and members should remove Hillsong Church from being part of the ACC movement.

The Australian Christian Churches was known as the Australian Assemblies of God (AOG) until Pastor Brian Houston renamed it in 2007.

The ACC is a Pentecostal movement and Hillsong isn’t Pentecostal in any way.

None of the core Pentecostal doctrines of the great International Assemblies of God Movement, of which the ACC is a part, are practiced at Hillsong Church.

The ACC website explains the ACC Church as follows:

 

The ACC Website. acc.org.au

WHO WE ARE

AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES is a movement of Pentecostal Churches in voluntary cooperation. Each individual church is self-governing, but commits itself to work together with other churches in the movement for the purpose of mutual support and the spread of the gospel in Australia and the world.

The Assemblies of God in Australia was formed in 1937 and has experienced consistent growth. It adopted a new name of Australian Christian Churches in 2007 and currently consists of over 1,000 churches with over 280,000 constituents, making it the largest Pentecostal movement in Australia.

In our churches you’ll find vibrant, contemporary Christians who love the Lord Jesus Christ and express that love in lively praise and worship and in caring relationships. Australian Christian Churches are Bible-loving, evangelical and Pentecostal, and are about connecting people to Jesus Christ.

 

OUR HISTORY

THE AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES (formerly called Assemblies of God in Australia) was formed in 1937, and is unique among Christian movements in the world in that we are unable to trace our origins to any human leader.

Australian Pentecostalism in the early decades of the 20th century was greatly influenced by such figures as Mrs. Janet Lancaster, AC Valdez, Smith Wigglesworth, C L Greenwood and P B Duncan but none of these were individually responsible for the formation of the Assemblies of God in Australia.

The Assemblies of God in Australia formed out of a conference of the Assemblies of God – Queensland and the Pentecostal Church of Australia in Sydney, Easter 1937. It was recognised by the leaders of both movements that a more harmonious, co-operative and unified relationship was needed. C.L Greenwood was elected the first Chairman of the Assemblies of God in Australia and every state was granted autonomy in its own affairs as was each registered assembly.

In the early years of the movement growth was very slow but firm foundations were set in place. In 1948 the Commonwealth Bible College was established in order to train men and women for ministry. Various leaders also arose to bring leadership and direction to the movement such as Henry Wiggins, Philip Duncan, Edward Irish, James Wallace, Alec Davidson and Ralph Read.

In 1977, when Pastor Andrew Evans became the General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Australia, the movement experienced great growth, multiplying by over 13 times in the number of members and adherents and planting over 700 churches.

In May 1997 Pastor Brian Houston was elected the new National President of the Assemblies of God in Australia, and under his leadership, the movement continued to grow and expand its influence into the 21st century. It was renamed the Australian Christian Churches in April 2007.

Pastor Wayne Alcorn was elected the new National President by the National Conference in April 2009. Today, the ACC represents over 1,000 churches and more than 280,000 believers across Australia.

 

My comments:

The ACC Constitution published on the ACC website acc.org.au is a lengthy document.

The ACC Doctrines are outlined in Article 4.

I’ll publish Article 4 and then comment on the Pentecostal doctrines which Hillsong don’t teach and practice.

 

The ACC Constitution

Title: United Constitution

Document Type: Movement Constitution

Version: 2015:1

Date: April 2015

Approval: Amendments approved National Conference 2015

ARTICLE 4

Preamble

To plant and sustain churches that provide a safe and nurturing environment in which Christians can grow and others can find faith in Christ.

To engage in Christian action in the relief of human suffering and need by all available means and in development programs appropriate to developing countries and disadvantaged groups.

To train, ordain and send out ministers of the Gospel, missionaries and other ministries, for the work of God in Australia and overseas.

To allow and encourage individuals and churches to fulfil their God-given purpose without undue interference or restriction on their activities and ministries.

To establish a code of conduct, policies and standards of behaviour, endorsed by the National Conference, that will be required standards for credential holders and churches.

To establish and maintain such departments and institutions as may be necessary for the fulfilment of the Movement’s mission both in Australia and overseas.

To establish corporate entities on the basis set out in ARTICLE 22, under the ultimate control of its elected executives (National and State), to carry out the business of the Movement in an efficient and lawful manner.

To use whatever means are available, whether traditional or electronic, to communicate information to its ministers, constituents and the community at large.

To, either directly in its own right where possible or by it’s corporate entities, own, hold in trust, use, sell, convey, lease or otherwise dispose of such property, real or otherwise or engage in any lawful activity whatever, as may be considered necessary to fulfil the objectives of the Movement.

 

DOCTRINAL BASIS

 

The Holy Scriptures, known as the Bible, is the inspired Word of God and our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice.

These articles of faith of the Australian Christian Churches, grounded in these scriptures, are given as a basis for belief, fellowship and ministry “that we all preach the same thing” (1 Corinthians 1:10). Let it be remembered, however, that this is not given as a summary of the complete revelation of biblical truth, only that it covers our present needs as to these fundamental doctrines.

 

4.1 The Eternal Godhead

We believe in the unity of the true and living God who is the eternal, self-existent one, who has revealed himself as one being in three persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and who is the Creator and preserver of things visible and invisible (Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 86:9-10; Isaiah 43:10-11; Matthew 28.19, Mark 12:29; John 1:1-3).

4.2 The Lord Jesus Christ

We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the second person of the triune Godhead, who was and is the eternal Son of God; that he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary.

We believe in his sinless life, miraculous ministry, substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, glorious ascension, and abiding intercession (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; Luke 24:39; Acts 1:9; 2:22; 10:38; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 4:8-10; Hebrews 7:25-26; 9:12; 1 Peter 2:22).

4.3 The Holy Spirit

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the triune Godhead, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, and is ever present and active in the work of convicting and regenerating the sinner, and sanctifying and guiding the believer into all truth (John 14:26; 16:8-11; Romans 8:14; 1 Peter 1:2).

4.4 The Holy Scriptures

We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, namely the Old and New Testaments in their original writings. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is infallible, inerrantly revealing the will of God concerning us all in all things necessary to our salvation, and is absolutely supreme and sufficient in authority in all matters of faith and conduct. The Bible does not simply contain the Word of God, but is, in reality, the complete revelation and very Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, so that whatever is not contained therein is not to be enjoined as an article of faith (Matthew 5:17-18; 24:35; John 4:39; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21).

4.5 The Devil

We believe in the personality of the devil, who, by his influence, brought about the downfall of man, and now seeks to destroy the faith of every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ

(Genesis 3:1-15; Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13; John 13:2; James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8).

4.6 The Fall of Man

We believe that man was created by God by specific immediate act and in his image and likeness, morally upright and perfect, but fell by voluntary transgression.

Consequently, all men are separated from original righteousness, being depraved and without spiritual life (Genesis 1:26-31; 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-21).

4.7 The Atonement

We believe that God’s answer to man’s sinful state is in the death of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, on the cross, whose sufferings and shed blood have made full atonement for the sins of the whole world, both original and actual, and that there is no other ground for salvation (2 Corinthians 5:18-21; Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14; Hebrews 9:25-26; 1 Peter 1:19-20).

4.8 Salvation of Man

We believe that salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This experience is also known as the new birth and is an instantaneous and complete operation of the Holy Spirit whereby the believing sinner is regenerated, justified, and adopted into the family of God and becomes a new creation in Christ Jesus and heir of eternal life (Titus 2:11; 3:5-7; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 John 5:1).

4.9 The Church

We believe that the church is the body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfilment of its great commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the general assembly and church of the first-born whose names are written in heaven (Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:22; Hebrews 12:23).

4.10 Water Baptism

We believe that baptism, by single immersion, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is enjoined on all who have repented and have believed in Christ as Saviour and Lord, and that it is symbolic of our identification with Christ in his death, burial and resurrection (Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:16; Acts 10:47-48; 2:38-39; Romans 6:4-5; Colossians 2:12).

4.11 The Lord’s Supper

We believe that the Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements of bread and the fruit of the vine, is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4); a memorial of his sufferings and death (1 Corinthians 11:26); and a prophecy of his second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and is enjoined on all believers “until He comes” (Matthew 26:26-28; Luke 22:1520; Acts 20:7).

4.12 Sanctification

We believe that sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil, and of dedication unto God. We believe it is the glorious provision for every believer in Christ to be made pure in heart and wholly sanctified, through the operation of the Holy Spirit, by the blood of Jesus and the Word of God (John 17:15-19; Acts 15:8-9; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4; 5:23-24; Hebrews 2:11; 10:16-19).

4.13 The Baptism in the Holy Spirit

We believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is the bestowing of the believer with power to be an effective witness for Christ. This experience is distinct from, and subsequent to, the new birth; is received by faith, and is accompanied by the manifestation of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, as the initial evidence (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-5, 8; 2:1-4; 8:15-19; 11:14-17; 19:1-7).

4.14 Gifts

We believe in the present day operation of the nine supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. We also believe in the ministry gifts of Christ, as recorded in Ephesians 4:11-13.

4.15 Divine Healing

In accordance with the teachings of the scriptures, we trust our heavenly Father to protect and heal our bodies from sickness and disease. We believe that divine healing for the body, as with all redemptive blessings of God, has been provided for us by the atoning death and victorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is the privilege of all believers and it is appropriated by faith in our heavenly Father’s unfailing promises (Exodus 15:26; Psalms 103:3; Isaiah 53:4; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16:17-18; 1 Peter 2:24; James 5:14-15).

4.16 The Second Coming of Christ

We believe in the premillennial, imminent and personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ to gather his people to himself. Having this glorious hope and earnest expectation, we purify ourselves, even as he is pure, so that we may be ready to meet him when he comes. (John 14:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:1; Titus 2:13; James 5:7-8; 1 John 2:28; 3:2-3).

4.17 The Millennium

We believe in the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to set up his millennial reign on this earth (Psalm 11; 96:10-13; Daniel 7.22; Zechariah 14:5; Revelation 5:9-10; 20:1-10).

4.18 The Punishment of the Wicked

We believe in the everlasting punishment of the wicked (in the sense of eternal torment) who wilfully reject and despise the love of God manifested in the great sacrifice of his only Son on the cross for their salvation (Matthew 25:46; 13:49-50; Luke 12:47-48; Romans 6:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9; Revelation 20:11-15).

We believe that the devil and his angels and whoever is not found written in the book of life shall be consigned to everlasting punishment in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Revelation 19:20; 20:10-15).

4.19 The New Heavens and the New Earth

“We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation chapters 21-22).

4.20 Creation

We believe that the heavens and earth and all original life forms, including humanity, were made by the specific immediate creative acts of God as described in the account of origins presented in Genesis, and that all biological changes which have occurred since creation are limited to variation within each species.

 

My comments:

The following Doctrines are not taught and practiced by Hillsong Church.

4.12 Sanctification

We believe that sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil, and of dedication unto God. We believe it is the glorious provision for every believer in Christ to be made pure in heart and wholly sanctified, through the operation of the Holy Spirit, by the blood of Jesus and the Word of God (John 17:15-19; Acts 15:8-9; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4; 5:23-24; Hebrews 2:11; 10:16-19).

4.13 The Baptism in the Holy Spirit

We believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is the bestowing of the believer with power to be an effective witness for Christ. This experience is distinct from, and subsequent to, the new birth; is received by faith, and is accompanied by the manifestation of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, as the initial evidence (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-5, 8; 2:1-4; 8:15-19; 11:14-17; 19:1-7).

4.14 Gifts

We believe in the present day operation of the nine supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. We also believe in the ministry gifts of Christ, as recorded in Ephesians 4:11-13.

4.15 Divine Healing

In accordance with the teachings of the scriptures, we trust our heavenly Father to protect and heal our bodies from sickness and disease. We believe that divine healing for the body, as with all redemptive blessings of God, has been provided for us by the atoning death and victorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is the privilege of all believers and it is appropriated by faith in our heavenly Father’s unfailing promises (Exodus 15:26; Psalms 103:3; Isaiah 53:4; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16:17-18; 1 Peter 2:24; James 5:14-15).

 

The Pentecostal/ ACC doctrines not taught and practiced by Hillsong Church with my comments:

The following doctrines aren’t taught and practiced by Brian Houston and Hillsong Church.

Sanctification

4.12 Sanctification

“We believe that sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil, and of dedication unto God. We believe it is the glorious provision for every believer in Christ to be made pure in heart and wholly sanctified, through the operation of the Holy Spirit, by the blood of Jesus and the Word of God (John 17:15-19; Acts 15:8-9; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4; 5:23-24; Hebrews 2:11; 10:16-19)”.

This Doctrine is not taught and practiced at Hillsong Church.

Hillsong is a great Apostate Church who allow homosexuals in positions of leadership. For example for five years until recently Josh Canfield has been a worship leader at Hillsong New York City, even though he is an open practicing homosexual who lives with his boyfriend Reed.

Josh Canfield and Reed his male live-in partner host a Hillsong home Bible study group in their New York apartment.

There are many open gays attending Hillsong including in the choir and other positions of service to the Lord in Hillsong New York City and Hillsong Los Angeles.

Brian Houston smokes cigars. He openly shared about this from the Hillsong pulpit in Sydney.

It has been reported that Brian Houston likes excessive amounts of alcohol. This should be investigated.

Brian Houston has a very bad temper. He has punched Hillsong church walls in anger and punched a man he was unhappy with in the Hillsong church car park.

Hillsong City Church shows no compassion for the local Aboriginal community and treats them with disdain and harshly. Sometimes they are roughly man-handled by Hillsong pastors and security in Hillsong City Church premises. The worst perpetrator of this is Pastor Steve McGhie, Brian Houston’s brother-in-law.

Brian Houston, Bobbie Houston, and other prominent Hillsong and ACC leaders sheltered the pedophile Frank Houston from the Australian Police and Authorities for five years from 1999 to 2004. They have been recommended for prosecution by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Brian and Bobbie Houston should resign or be stood down until this situation is clarified and fully resolved with the Australian Government.

 

The Baptism in the Holy Spirit

4.13 The Baptism in the Holy Spirit

“We believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is the bestowing of the believer with power to be an effective witness for Christ. This experience is distinct from, and subsequent to, the new birth; is received by faith, and is accompanied by the manifestation of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, as the initial evidence (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-5, 8; 2:1-4; 8:15-19; 11:14-17; 19:1-7)”.

The doctrine of The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is not taught and practiced at Hillsong.

In 2000 Brian Houston shut down all Pentecostal practices associated with the Holy Spirit and His power at all Hillsong Churches.

This situation should be investigated and Hillsong Church removed as an ACC and International Assemblies of God Church.

 

The gifts of the Holy Spirit

4.14 Gifts

We believe in the present day operation of the nine supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. We also believe in the ministry gifts of Christ, as recorded in Ephesians 4:11-13.

Hillsong does not teach and practice the “operation of the nine supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit”.

This should be investigated and Hillsong Church removed as an ACC Church.

 

Divine Healing

4.15 Divine Healing

In accordance with the teachings of the scriptures, we trust our heavenly Father to protect and heal our bodies from sickness and disease. We believe that divine healing for the body, as with all redemptive blessings of God, has been provided for us by the atoning death and victorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is the privilege of all believers and it is appropriated by faith in our heavenly Father’s unfailing promises (Exodus 15:26; Psalms 103:3; Isaiah 53:4; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16:17-18; 1 Peter 2:24; James 5:14-15).

This doctrine is not taught or practiced at Hillsong.

 

Recommendation:

Hillsong should be investigated and then excluded from the fellowship of the Australian Christian Churches and the International Assemblies of God for the above stated reasons.

 

Open male homosexuals part of Hillsong New York City worship team. Visiting Hillsong Los Angeles which is also likes homosexuals to be part of their team.

 

Beverly Houston, Pastor Frank Houston’s daughter, goes off angrily again on my blog site.

Rev William Francis “Frank” Houston. Cranky Franky. Kiddly fiddly. Along came a spider, who sat down beside Beverly Houston…

 

Of all the Houston family, the Adams Family or Osbourne family or Kardashian family of Pentecost, Beverly Houston is my favourite reality TV character.

 

Beverly Houston, Brian Houston’s sister: “Donald (who ever you are) give me a call”

 

The following remarkable and highly insightful comments by Beverly Houston, Pastor Brian Houston, the current head pastor of Hillsong Global’s, sister, were made on 16 December 2014.

 

Blog article of 17.12.2014.

Beverly Houston got angry last night about me and my articles about her dad Pastor Frank Houston, self-confessed pedophile and her brother, Pastor Brian Houston, pedophile shelterer and protector, and rejector of his father’s numerous boy victims.

I think Beverly might have been on the house-wife’s sweet remedy (again).

Last time Beverly got angry she let fly with another batch of comments.

The Houston sisters can get quite fiery.

This time Beverly wrote numerous comments on my blog site.

 

Here they all are published unedited:

Beverly Houston’s comment about my article written on 7 October 2012, “Pastor Frank Houston. Part 2. Pedophile. Frank’s Jackyl and Hyde persona”.

Hope you are all enjoying your witch hunt of Brian Houston, it is not going to help victims of my father. Get real you grow up to think your father is an awesome person and then you find out all this, it takes years to comprehend it. I don’t believe in God but if I did I think you would be all condemned to hell. Think somewhere in the bible it talks about the log in your eye!! You can condemn Brian all you like but I guess at the end of the day he has been a victim of his father too and as sad as I feel for AHA, attacking Brian is not really going to help him heal. I think maybe he should be looking at his mothers position on this!! Very sad.

I don’t have much to say about Peter Lawton, except very different situation, he was a consenting adult!!

 

Hope you are all enjoying your witch hunt of Brian Houston

 

Beverly Houston’s comment about my article written on 20 September 2014, “Hillsong. Brian Houston. Part one. Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse. Hillsong and Pastor Brian Houston’s spin and cover up over his father Pastor Frank Houston’s eleven or more pedophile and homosexuality victims over four plus decades”.

Hey Donald (who ever you are) just want you to know you are an awesome fuck wit. Are you getting some notoriety out of this, can’t see how in any way this is of help to victims of my father. I do not believe in God, but if I did I would see you as the biggest hypocrite out. You should do some research in to Stan Carter, I have childhood memories!!! Condeming/jailing Brian is not going to help victims, and yes as a family member we are victims too!! Can you imagine the father you looked up to did this, it takes a long time to believe and accept it and yes we feel very sad for AHA but unfortunately his misplaced anger at Brian is not going to help him heal, should have done it before my father had dimensia and made him face up to his own sins, sorry it’s a witch hunt, they weren’t Brian’s sins!!! Just want to say your a hero!!

 

The writer Donald Elley of Bellingen. Beverly Houston: “Hey Donald (who ever you are) just want you to know you are an awesome fuck wit.”

 

Beverly Houston’s 1st comment about my article written on 18 November 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 52. Lower Hutt Assemblies of God. New facts reported to me in an email”.

Hey Donald I’m so impressed for your heart for God!! your amazing, you even know my sisters break up business funnily you have better recollections than she does. You are amazing, soooo helpful to victims of my father. Guess by making my family all look bad some how consuls you and everyone else, but really my father did what he did, we were children and still find it hard to believe. As I’ve said before your a total wanker and I guess your godly outlook makes you amazingly awesome. Go for it mate we unfortunately are victims too, including Brian!!

 

Hey Donald I’m so impressed for your heart for God!! your amazing

 

Beverly Houston’s 2nd comment about my article written on 18 November 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 52. Lower Hutt Assemblies of God. New facts reported to me in an email”.

Maybe you should be scrutinising your emails for truth more than what you do!!

 

 

Maybe you should be scrutinising your emails for truth more than what you do!!

 

Beverly Houston’s 3rd comment about my article written on 18 November 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 52. Lower Hutt Assemblies of God. New facts reported to me in an email”.

Hey Donald, and another thought is, don’t you think ‘Rose has a lot to answer for, because I’m god dam sure if my kids said they were molested by someone I would check it out!! I feel very sorry for AHA, I remember him, but he hasn’t tried to track any of us, unfortunately I go by the name of Houston and I’ve never heard from him, if I did I (like Brian) would do any thing to try and help him, I don’t have any money but would try in other ways!! Hate the way you are trying to make my family pay for the sins of our father, Brian included and yes we have all suffered post traumatic syndrome, not that you would understand that cause you are HELPING down trodden people, your awesome!!

 

Brian included and yes we have all suffered post traumatic syndrome

 

Beverly Houston’s 4th comment about my article written on 18 November 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 52. Lower Hutt Assemblies of God. New facts reported to me in an email”.

Hey

Donald another thought, hein sight is an amazing thing, you obviously knew all about this long before you did or said anything, maybe if you had spoken up earlier it would have protected someone, just saying!!

 

Hey
Donald another thought, hein sight is an amazing thing, you obviously knew all about this long before you did or said anything, maybe if you had spoken up earlier it would have protected someone, just saying!!

 

Beverly Houston’s 1st comment about my article written on 9 December 2014, “Pastor Frank Houston part 11: should Pastor Frank Houston be honoured in any way”?

Love the way you are all are so virtuous!! Yes apparently my father was a pedophile and for that I feel very sad, but you know what, we were children (including Brian) and yes it has taken us some time to realise these accusations are true because we loved and adored him, but when I read these messages, even though I don’t believe in God I find it amazing the witch hunt on Brian and just want to say you are all amazing christians and I think this is an amazing witch hunt and why is it that this Donald (who ever he may be ) never reported it sooner and maybe could have protected someone, just saying!!! Moron!

 

just saying!!! Moron!

 

Beverly Houston’s 2nd comment about my article written on 9 December 2014, “Pastor Frank Houston part 11: should Pastor Frank Houston be honoured in any way”?

and now he is such a caring person of the victims, really?? have to question that!! I’m sure god will shine on you because your awesome, destroying my family is really going to help the victims with what my father has done!! you are an amazing christian and I so never what to be like you wanker!!

 

you are an amazing christian and I so never what to be like you wanker!!

 

Beverly Houston’s comment no 1 about my article written on 30 October 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 33. Honouring victim SA1 the first South Australian boy victim of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse”.

Hey Donald (who ever you are) you are a wanker, destroying my family is not going to help any victims of my father, but maybe will score you brownie points when you go to heaven hehe. Your awesome you found out about my father and just wondering how long it took you to do anything about it?? your a moron you think by bad mouthing my sisters divorce makes my father look worse, nothing to do with it, your a total wanker, give me a call Beverley Houston (edit: Beverley shares her mobile number) if you have the guts, or are you just trying to make us pay for the sins of our father!!

 

 

your a total wanker, give me a call Beverley Houston

 

Beverly Houston’s comment no 2 about my article written on 30 October 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 33. Honouring victim SA1 the first South Australian boy victim of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse”.

Hey

Donald (who ever you are) give me a call because as far as I know there are six victims and now suddenly you are reporting 200!! Don’t you think that minimises the victims claim, interested to know if you can give me 200 names, call me I think your a bit like the media and 1 becomes 100, call me I’m interested and no I have no interest in the church, think the whole god thing is a total fast!! but yes I think your after notoriety, and people are sucked in by you, call me!

 

Donald (who ever you are) give me a call

 

Beverly Houston’s comment no 3 about my article written on 30 October 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 33. Honouring victim SA1 the first South Australian boy victim of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse”.

And don’t fucking say to me Brian won’t pay etc etc. Did he commit these crimes, no he didn’t and he is like the rest of my family trying to come to terms with it it. Get a life as much as I feel sorry for AHA we are suffering to, ask him has he tortured his mother over her disgusting response, put that in the media,absolutely disgusting!! So over this!

 

And don’t fucking say to me Brian won’t pay etc etc

 

Beverly Houston’s comment no 4 about my article written on 30 October 2014, “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part 33. Honouring victim SA1 the first South Australian boy victim of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse”.

Brian didn’t try to hide anything, he actually didn’t know, just like all my family and amazingly other people knew (NZ AOG) but you know it’s the usual witch hunt, but you are all amazing christians and when you go to heaven I’m sure you will score brownie points for this. and do you really think AHA will be healed by demonising Brian, I don’t think so, he wasn’t the perpetrator and AHA was 7-12yrs old and Brian has a very different memory of it believe it or not, but he like the rest of my family have no desire to protect our father from the terrible things he did. I am so over this shit Donald that you are portraying Brian as not wanting to pay victims (even though they weren’t his victims), the royal commission is nothing to do with compensation, another one of your attention seeking tactics. Just want to remind everyone that you knew about it before we did and let it go on and now you are trying to make my family look bad, god bless you your awesome I’m sure you will score a very high seat in heaven for being a wanker!! Call me.

 

I’m sure you will score a very high seat in heaven for being a wanker!! Call me.

 

My comments:

Beverly supplied me with her mobile phone number. I’ll bear it in mind. If I ever feel like calling someone to be abused.

It’s always a pleasure to have Beverly Houston as a guest on my blog site. Her comments became less coherent, but more passionate as the sauce bit in. But that’s OK. Anytime Beverly. It was nice to hear from you again.

I’d now like to have Beverly’s virtuous brother Brian on this blog-site.

Oops wrong photo. 

St Pete of Hillsong New York, the Great Financial Babylon which lieth on the Hudson River. “My name is no longer boring old Brian. I’m St Super-Pete. The Anything Is Possible, Amazing Vision Super-Modern Pope, late of Baulkham Hills, but now the World and the great Cosmos. Close to Mother Mary, St Carl Lentz and all the young sanctified hipster preachers of the globe. Bobby Bobby, my celestial princess of the heavens, my love, my fair lady of the night. Beverly my holy sis just slam-dunked that scoundrel heretic Donald Elley of Bellingen. Sweet hip holy hallelujahs to that. Bobby listen to this. Beverly’s called him a fuck-wit. Holy hilarious hyenas. Hyisssssterical. Hahah holy mary hah haas to that. And “Brian didn’t hide anything, he actually didn’t know”. Bless her. Beverly, she’s such a drip believing my holy spin and sanctimonious holy bull-shit. And Beverly wrote, “And don’t you fucking say to me Brian won’t pay…” Oh Beverly. Ha hah Holy hissy-fit Hah hah hahs.  Holy Hysterical Hybrid Hyenas. Bobby, please get daddy on the phone, I’ve got to share this with him. Bobby, what dad’s dead? Well, then get mummy dear on the phone. Bobby, what? She’s dead too. Bobby, I’m hearing those dark voices again. Get me those PTSD pills again. What I’ve just swallowed the whole bottle. Bobby, I’m feeling sleepy. Bobby, fair lady of the night. Come. Read me what Beverly wrote again. Bobby reading, “Hey Donald, whoever you are, you’re a wanker…”