I’ve been contacted by a high up Hillsong insider who believes that Hillsong has gone off the rails and wants to tell his story.
This article is the third in a series of articles publishing the eye-witness testimonies of this Hillsong insider.
Hillsong Insider speaks:
“Dear Donald
In 2005 Hillsong City pastors, Pastor Steve McGhie and Pastor Darren, manhandled and abused a young lady at Hillsong City Church, who was gay. She was told, “your type is not needed here at Hillsong”.
She was sitting on the floor of the Hillsong City Church front foyer, with her back to the wall. This incident took place as the church sermon was going on. Pastor Brian Houston was preaching. It was at the 5pm service.
Steve McGhie and Pastor Darren spoke to her, and in her defence, after being told “a lesbian is gay and not needed here at Hillsong”, they went to grab her and manhandle her to the front door.
The lady at this time was sitting on the floor. As the pastors tried to get hold of her, by extreme rough handling, she said, “Please stop, you are hurting me”.
Pastor Steve McGhie and Pastor Darren were saying, “It’s time to go lady lover”.
She slapped the pastor so hard that the crack was heard inside the auditorium.
The two pastors gave this women no rights of removal under the act, and twisting her limbs behind her back, they pulled her up. She was yelling abuse at the pastors. She was taken outside and then thrown to the ground outside the door. By this stage she was a crying mess and she was bleeding a little. She would have gotten bruising after all this rough handling. I didn’t see her return.
This was one incident where the reports were shredded or never made. This lady was acting in self-defence. Yes the lady was gay, but this was plain bullying and rough handling, whatever you like to call it.
I saw this all happen and did not a thing. I was told by Steve McGhie and Pastor Darren, “It’s not your place, we will handle it”.
The security team can be very rough, and they can be very aggressive, doing pay-back and stuff like that. They can be very aggressive in protecting Hillsong and throwing out dissenters like this poor lesbian who got shown the door. They also spy on people and track them. For example Tanya Levin, the Hillsong watch lady”.
My comments:
The writer Donald Elley of Bellingen
I knew Steve McGhie, who is Brian Houston’s brother-in-law, in the 1990s at Christian Life Centre (CLC), Waterloo. I was there a decade before he turned up in Sydney with his wife Judith, Brian Houston’s youngest sister, from New Zealand.
CLC Waterloo is the second name for Hillsong. The first name was CLC Darlinghurst. I was present at the first two incarnations of Hillsong at Darlinghurst and Waterloo, two inner city suburbs of Sydney.
When I was a lay pastor at CLC Darlinghurst in the 1980s, under my watch, gays and lesbians were welcome at CLC services and at the Inner City home groups, which Pastor Laurie Murphy and I oversaw. The were handled with sensitivity, care and respect. A number of homosexuals came to know the Lord Jesus Christ and forsook their sinful gay lifestyle for something far greater.
I was responsible for ten home groups which Pastor Laurie Murphy and I pioneered throughout the Inner City of Sydney. Hillsong City church is located near home groups I pioneered. Two or three streets away from the current location of Hillsong City church in Waterloo, three home groups I pioneered in the early 1980s were located. Michael Driscoll, a friend of the artist Brett Whiteley, ran one in Regent Street, Robert “Bob” Harris, a published poet who won a National Award, ran another in Baptist Street, and I ran one in Great Buckingham Street.
It was not an issue for homosexuals, drug addicts and Aborigines to attend our home groups. We had plenty of these types of people coming to our numerous home groups, which by 1987 numbered 15 throughout Inner City Sydney.
I had Aboriginals coming to my home group in Great Buckingham Street, Redfern, from nearby, and from ‘The Block’, an Aboriginal slum area, from 1982. In those days things were much rougher than the gentrified conditions of Redfern today. Redfern was challenging, dangerous and rough in those days. In fact, many at CLC Darlinghurst were scared to go south of Cleveland Street. At the time I was praying two hours a day, was very full of the Holy Spirit to overflowing, and had ‘no fear’.
Lesbians and homosexuals were not only welcome at CLC Darlinghurst, unbeknown to us, the greatest homosexual of all was our leader. That is, the famed Pastor Frank Houston, the Great Secret Gay Lord and the founder of Hillsong, and Pastor Brian Houston’s father.
When you think about it, the devil couldn’t have invented a greater pantomime and camp charade than Hillsong Darlinghurst in the 1980s. We had a secret High-Camp Head Priest, Rev William Francis “Frank” Houston, affectionately known as ‘The Bishop’, jumping on seats, throwing glasses of water over the congregation, as what he comically called ‘blessings of the Lord’, while he was secretly homosexually abusing Peter Laughton, his young gullible needy worship leader, with coke bottles and other accessories. Frank Houston, who used to yell and rail against gays as he preached, yet he was the greatest gay of Darlinghurst, the gay capital of the Southern Hemisphere. “Receive the anointing”, he proclaimed as he threw a glass of water across the assembled masses. “Homosexuals must repent of their sins or they will go to hell”, he jumped up on a vacant chair in the congregation and shouted.
Pastor Frank Houston. Hillsong’s founder. Secret High Camp Gay Lord from Hades. Homosexual and lifelong pedophile. Father of five children and many grandchildren. Total moral and sexual deviate and camp con-artist.
In his son Brian, this Great Gay Lord Frank Houston has metamorphosed into a monster from Hades. A Gay-Loving, Gay-lifestyle-tolerating narcissistic High Priest of Note. That is, Pastor Brian Houston, CEO of Hillsong International: Gay Lord of multitudes, even stretching to it’s most openly gay outpost, Hillsong New York City, where for over five years, one of the main worship leaders Josh Canfield, who is openly gay, and who lives with his male partner Reed, has been leading worship in Hillsong NYC services. Although they live together, Josh helpfully points out that their relationship hasn’t yet been consummated, whatever that means.
Hillsong NYC. Josh Canfield and Reed. Josh- open gay leading the choir. Reed in support in the choir too. Relationship ‘not consummated’, whatever that means.
Pastor Steve McGhie is a New Zealander like me. He’s married to Judith McGhie, Pastor Brian Houston’s sister.
I was informed Pastor Steve and Judith McGhie had gone back to New Zealand, but Pastor Steve’s Facebook page says he still works at Hillsong.
Judith McGhie’s Facebook lists her location as Timbuktu. It may be safer in Timbuktu than in New Zealand, although Ecuador has given Julian Assage, the Wikileaks whistleblower, asylum, so if the NSW Police were potentially interested in Steve and Judith for serious criminal offences, if I was them, I think I’d be looking at moving to South America, or maybe even Siberia, as options.
The NSW Police may be interested in both Pastor Steve McChie, and his wife Judith, because they failed in their duty as Hillsong Church leaders to report a pedophile for five years. That is Judith and Brian Houston’s father, Frank Houston, a secret life-long pedophile, who was found out in 1998/ 1999 and confessed to pedophilia. He admitted to the very minimum and lied through his teeth. Frank Houston flagged that he was a long-time pedophile, but wouldn’t tell much re the details. He never admitted the huge number of boy and teenage male victims or the sordid details of his secret extremely dark, devilish and corrupt secret pedophile and homosexual life.
Along with Pastors Bobbie and Brian Houston, Pastors Judith and Steve McGhie not only didn’t report Frank Houston to the Police, but they sheltered and protected him. These are both serious criminal offences under NSW and Australian Law.
The Australian Royal Commission barrister Simeon Beckett recommended last December that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged under NSW Law with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile.
Pastor Brian Houston. CEO of Hillsong. Criminal charges pending?
I’m not sure if those who colluded in the not reporting and sheltering Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong, are in the sights of the NSW Attorney General’s Department and the NSW Police for the criminal charges of not reporting and sheltering a pedophile.
NSW Police
These Hillsong church shelterers of Pastor Frank Houston include Pastor Brian Houston, his wife Bobbie Houston, George Aghajanian the Hillsong Business Manager, Nabi Saleh the former owner of Gloria Jean Coffee, an extremely wealthy man, Pastor Steve McGhie, his wife Judith McGhie, Pastor John McMartin the NSW President of the Australian Christian Churches (formerly known as the Australian Assemblies of God (AoG), and Pastor Keith Ainge, the Australian AOG National Secretary in 2000-2004 when Frank Houston was not reported and sheltered.
Pastor Steve McGhie. Great white hunter and lesbian basher.
That’s a pretty big deer you shot in New Zealand Steve. I hope you have a New Zealand or Australian Fire Arms license. Oh well, those are minor details. Just like not reporting a pedophile to the Police, a criminal offence. “She’ll be right mate”.
This incident of roughing up a lesbian and showing her the door is pretty rough Steve. Don’t you think it’s hypocritical that you and the Houstons love Papa Frank, a life-long secret homosexual and pedophile, yet you rough handle a poor defenceless lesbian and throw her out the Hillsong door.
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.
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.
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 articleof 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 Follow On Twitter Follow On Instagram Facebook 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
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.
Frank Houston with a young man at early Hillsong. The homosexual Frank sneaking in a little masked homo hug. Pastor Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a personification of evil. Frank Houston was a lifelong secret homosexual and pedophile.
Donald Elley of Bellingen August 15, 2021
I wrote this article and first published it on this site on November 10, 2015
Donald Elley of Bellingen November 10, 2015
“Pastor” Frank Houston was a pedophile who used Christian ministry as a cloak, disguise and instrument to access little boys and young males.
Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank thought it was the perfect disguise to access his prey. This is a common tactic of pedophiles.
Frank Houston groomed good, trusting, wholesome New Zealand and Australian Christian families, then secretly accessed, assaulted and sexually abused their innocent, young boys.
Frank Houston’s preferred pedophile victims were little boys and young males. So by clinical psychological definition he was a pedophile. A pedophile sexually abuses children aged under 13, even babies.
In his criminal pedophile mind, Frank Houston calculated that being a Christian pastor provided the safest and easiest access to innocent little Christian boys.
Innocent little boys and young males were the object of his evil pedophile desires.
Christian ministry provided ongoing access to children, with the least chance of being caught out.
The pedophile mind works like this.
A pedophile’s primary motivation and satisfaction in life is to try to satisfy his, or her, insatiable inner sexual lusts for children and minors.
In my last blog I explained how Frank Houston was a pedophile who used Christian ministry as a cloak, instrument and disguise to gain access to good, kind, godly trusting Christian families and to sexually assault their little boys and young males.
I explained how the mind and psyche of a pedophile works.
Frank Houston early 1980s The most evil and corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost 2000 years ago.
Frank Houston selected a vocation in Christian ministry because he thought that Christian ministry is the best and the safest occupation and profession in which to operate as a pedophile and not be caught and sent to jail or worse.
Nobody, especially in the more innocent pre-1990s, would have expected Frank Houston to be a secret hardened evil pedophile.
It is very unlikely Frank would have gotten away with this type of behaviour today.
I write “innocent” because in the 1940s to 1970s, when Frank Houston was very active as a pedophile, there wasn’t the societal consciousness, or the educational and social awareness, about child sexual abuse that there is today.
Nor were there child protections such as police clearances, as common procedural practice, prior to people being employed in fields where children could easily be accessed and sexually abused.
And even today, after all the scandals of the past 25 years in all Christian denominations, Christian pastors, except Roman Catholic priests, are still some of the most trusted people in society.
Could a better foil or cover for a pedophile be found than that of a Christian pastor in the 1940s when Frank Houston trained as a Salvation Army Captain at the age of 18?
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in New Zealand in the 1940s.
Could a better foil or cover for a pedophile be found than that of an Assemblies of God pastor in the 1950s to 1970s in New Zealand when Frank Houston was a leading Assemblies of God pastor aged in his 30s, 40s and 50s?
The pedophile Frank Houston looking to the Heavens while preaching in the early 1980s. A brazen act by a hardened pedophile. Flirting with judgment and mocking Almighty God.
Frank was head of the New Zealand AOG from 1965 to 1977.
Could a better foil or cover for a pedophile be found than that of an Australian AOG pastor in the 1980s when Frank Houston was a Sydney Pentecostal evangelist and leading pastor aged in his 60s?
At heart a pedophile is a coward who will scurry away into a dark corner if they feel they may be found out.
A pedophile also has a large range of ploys and strategies to keep their victims quiet, ranging from threats of violence to statements like what boy victim AHA said Frank Houston said it him.
One of the things Frank Houston said to boy victim AHA was “Even if you tell people, they won’t believe you because I’m a famous evangelist. Who would they believe? You or me?”.
This is the criminal mind of a pedophile talking. They’re talking from within their den or nest which has layers and layers of well-thought-out decoys, shields, cob-webs and protections.
The Western Australian slang word for pedophiles is “Rock Spider”.
“Rock Spider”. Jail name for pedophile. Origin: Western Australia jail slang.
The reason for the name “Rock Spider” is that pedophiles like little kids cracks. Many pedophiles do lots of darker things than to touch children. Pedophiles are child rapists and amongst the worst human beings ever on the planet.
That’s why pedophiles are at the bottom of the jail hierarchy and inmates persecute and torment them. Even felons know that pedophiles are the low of the low.
By 1965, Frank Houston was way too far into his cover as a Christian pastor to change his cover and disguise.
From the 1940s, Frank Houston had embarked on a really dark and demonic series of extremely serious assaults on little boys and male teens.
In rapid succession in the 1940s to 1970s, the pedophile Frank Houston sexually abused over 400 little boys and young teens. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
This is a projection of mine based on an enormous body of evidence I’ve collected on Frank Houston. Everything is published on this site except private conversations, mainly by email, with various victims, their supporters and others. But there is little I know that will help the reader understand Frank Houston, Brian Houston and the Hillsong organisation that I haven’t shared on this site.
The known victims of this out-of-control pedophile spree conducted by the pedophile Frank Houston in the 1940s to 1970s included at least 17 known boys aged 7 to 12. In reality hundreds, if not thousands of little boys
There were at least six known boy victims when Frank was pastor at Lower Hutt AOG.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Frank Houston sexually abused WNZ1 (my code name), now known to be Brett Sengstock.
Frank Houston sexually abused at least two other boys at a home bible group he was leading in another Wellington suburb.
The Bible study was being held in WNZ1’s parent’s home. David Cowdrey has recently gone public saying he’s that boy victim. The boys were aged about 11. He snuck down the corridor into WNZ1’s bedroom, pretending be going to use the bathroom, and sexually abused him in his childhood bed.
In 1971 and 1972, Frank Houston sexually abused SA1 (my code name) and at least two to three other little boys at Klemzeig Assemblies of God (AoG) Youth Camps at Cudlee Creek near Adelaide South Australia.
SA1 wrote in his statement to the Australian Royal Commission into Child Abuse that the epicentre of the sexual abuse of little boys was the male toilet block. I organised SA1 to contact them. He contacted me in 2012.
SA1 saw Frank Houston come out of a toilet block with another boy. Frank Houston had his trousers open and had an erection.
It is likely that there were numerous little boys sexually abused by Frank Houston at these AOG Youth Camps at Cudlee Creek in 1971 and 1972.
In the early 1970s, Frank sexually abused teen ANZ1 (my code name) at a hotel room in Auckland, New Zealand. He lured him there on the pretext of helping ANZ1 with some problems. Then he sexually abused him. ANZ1 later suicided because of the negative impact of this sexual abuse by the pedophile Frank Houston on his life.
In the 1970s, Frank Houston sexually abused Peter Fowler who was aged 15, while head pastor at Lower Hutt AOG and head of the New Zealand AOG. This abuse occurred in a motel room. I don’t know how he got Peter there. Frank would have thought of a way to lure him there.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s the pedophile Frank Houston sexually abused Royal Commission boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock) at Brett’s parent’s apartment in Coogee Beach Sydney. Frank was an honoured guest of Brett’ss parents. A famous evangelist who they felt privileged to host.
Edit August 15, 2021: There are more known victims since this article. Please see my article “Pastor Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities.” I republish this article regularly or google the title.
These are only the victims we know about. The tip of the iceberg.
From Frank Houston’s known assaults and behaviour, I believe there are a lot more victims. Probably over 400. Maybe over 1000. May 2000 plus. Plus there are thousands of victims of masked homosexual and masked pedophile behaviour by Frank Houston.
Even the pedophile Frank Houston himself said to his son Brian, after he admitted in 1999 to having committed pedophile crimes, “I was very active at the time”. He was referring to the 1960s and 1970s.
Very active. How active? We may never know.
As Pastor Brian Houston said to the Sydney media, after he appeared at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, “We may never know the number of victims”.
The average pedophile abuses 250 children in their lifetime. Staggering. Sad. Extremely sick.
By 1965, the pedophile Frank Houston, who was using the Christian ministry as a cloak for his pedophile activities, was now way too far in to go back. Frank had to continue his pretence and act as a Christian pastor until the bitter end.
By 1977, when Frank moved his family to Sydney, Australia from Wellington, New Zealand, he was a criminal pedophile on the run.
In Sydney, Frank shared with everyone that God gave him a vision of the souls of Sydney like wheat-fields swaying in the breeze ripe for harvest. The souls of men waiting for the Christian evangelist Frank Houston.
It wasn’t the souls of men he had in mind. I believe by conjecture that his purpose for going to Sydney was four-fold.
Firstly to escape the heat of protests to police about his pedophilia attacks on little boys and young males in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s.
Secondly, Frank chose Darlinghurst because he thought he’d fit in well there unnoticed amongst all the gays and deviancy there.
Thirdly, Frank knew that in Darlinghurst he could visit gay brothels where young males were available, When he couldn’t find fresh victims. I’m truly sorry to put it this way but lesbians and homosexuals have a term for it: “fresh meat”. In fact, to many homosexuals and lesbians, it’s the thrill of the chase and the challenge of initiating the uninitiated, that really turns them on.
Many heterosexual males also enjoy “the thrill of the chase”. This is a sad aspect of the fallen human condition.
The fourth reason Frank chose Darlinghurst was because he was already under attack from the conservative and wise Australian Assemblies of God establishment who’d heard Frank Houston had committed pedophile offences in New Zealand from the Executive of the New Zealand AOG and they didn’t want a deviate pedophile pastor in their midst. So they excluded him.
Undeterred the criminal pedophile Frank Houston chose a Sydney suburb where there was no AOG Church. Frank distanced himself from his attackers and accused them of being territorial and jealous. I heard him talk like this in the 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst about the AOG establishment in Australia.
In fact, in the pedophile Frank Houston’s territory anyone who questioned him about his authority and leadership, and especially about pedophile allegations, was swiftly and aggressively shown the door.
This modus operandi had been adopted throughout his life by his son Pastor Brian Houston. Any dissenters at Hillsong are quickly shown the door. At Hillsong there’s an “Us and Them” mentality, which is a very immature psychological paradigm to conduct life.
By 1980, Frank Houston was now under incredible attack. The prophet Pastor Philip Powell was out to expose the pedophile Frank Houston to the world. He’d been hounding him since the late 1970s. In the 1980s he really turned up the temperature of his attacks.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s response was to go all out and build as big a defence fortress as possible.
Frank decided “to grow” Christian Life Centre (CLC) Darlinghurst into a mega-church.
The pedophile Frank Houston shared with the congregation at CLC Darlinghurst that he had a vision for over 100 churches, all connected to CLC Darlinghurst.
He went all out to raise up as many young men as possible as preachers and evangelists. Frank knew that the more young men who believed in him, the more they’d defend him. And this was the case.
Gary Canham- now a pastor in Victoria, Sean Stanton- now on the ACC Executive and a pastor in the ACT, Australia, Trevor King, Geoff Bullock, Peter Laughton- who was seriously sexually abused by the pedophile and homosexual Frank Houston in his early 20s in the early 1980s, his son Brian- current Head of Hillsong International, Terry Appel- now a pastor in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Paul de Jong- Head Pastor of Life Church, Auckland, New Zealand, Tony Venn-Brown, Pat Mesiti- Tony Venn-Brown’s assistant, Laurie Murphy- pastor of Hillsong Glebe Outreach Church, and a friend of mine since 1981, Phil Thwaites and many others. These young men were all known at CLC Darlinghurst as “The Bishop’s Boys”.
The pedophile Frank Houston was affectionately called, “The Bishop”. It wasn’t a serious term but he was regarded with affection. He conned us all.
Pastor Sean and Linda Stanton. Met and married at CLC Darlinghurst. One of “The Bishop’s Boys”. A pastor since the early 1980s. Raised to the ministry by the criminal pedophile Frank Houston. South African of origin. Pastor in the ACT Australia. On the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) Executive. The ACC is the new name for the Australian AOG since 2007.
Pastor Gary Canham. Frank’s administrator at CLC Darlinghurst. Loyal and hard-working. One of “The Bishop’s Boys”. A strong supporter and defender of Frank Houston in the 1980s.
“Pastor” Brian Houston. Current CEO of Hillsong International The pedophile Frank Houston’s only church-going son. Almost certainly sexually abused by his pedophile dad as a boy in the 1960s. Protected his dad from criminal charges and prison. Recently charges with criminal pedophile protection charges as recommended by the Australian Royal Commission for not concealing a pedophile. That is, his old, extremely corrupt dad, the criminal pedophile Frank Houston.
Trevor King. Very talented musician. Frank Houston’s Music Director at CLC Darlinghurst. One of “The Bishops Boys”.
“Doctor” Phil Pringle founder and head pastor of C3 Global Church based in Sydney, Australia. 500 churches globally. Regarded Frank Houston as his spiritual father. Close friend of Brian Houston.
Naughty “Pastor” Pat Mesiti. Renowned for serial adultery, including having sex with prostitutes on a Hillsong credit card while a very famous Hillsong Youth Alive evangelist. Frank and Brian Houston taught him well.
Gay rights boys. Former Hillsong pastor and evangelist Tony Venn-Brown and gay pal.
Former famous Hillsong Youth Evangelist. One of “The Bishop’s Boys”. Pat Mesiti’s mentor. Now as camp as a row of tents.
Geoff Bullock. Famous Christian singer and musician. More a “Brian’s Boy” but he was one of “The Bishop’s Boys”. Brian later trashed Geoff.
The likeable Pastor Terry Appel. Brickie turned the Lord’s soldier. Head deacon at CLC Darlinghurst. A long-time AoG/ ACC pastor on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Paul and Maree de Jong. Head pastors of Life Church Auckland. Paul was one of the pedophile Frank Houston’s favourite “Bishop’s Boys”. I’m not implying Paul was sexually abused by Frank Houston. I’m not aware of anyone else in leadership at CLC Darlinghurst who was sexually abused by the pedophile and homosexual Frank Houston apart from Peter Laughton. Dave Sayers was homosexually abused by Frank Houston in two incidents.
The pedophile “Pastor” Frank Houston, Brian’s dad. Lifelong secret pedophile and homosexual. Eyes as black as Hades.
The creation of a religious monster:
Out of hatred for humanity, hatred of himself and hatred towards Almighty God, the pedophile Frank Houston decided to go all out and create a monster, a ghoulish organisation from Hell, a machination of Satanic majesty, to torment and harass mankind. That is a full-on large Christian organisation within which he could hide, defend himself in, and still continue his homosexual pedophile past-times. This is the origins of Hillsong Global Church. The founder, a lifelong secret pedophile on the run from New Zealand police, coming to Australia to escape and building a major Christian church as a defence mechanism to avoid arrest.
Building Hillsong Church was a Rock Spider pedophile ploy by Frank Houston to build as large a defensive nest as possible for his own protection.
A pedophile is the ultimate pathological narcissist, who will only act for himself. He has no genuine feelings for other people. No genuine feelings for his own family. No genuine feelings for his sons. No genuine feelings for his daughters. No genuine feelings for his faithful and trusting wife.
We can see how Frank Houston’s seed or spawn, so-called “Pastor” Brian Houston, is similarly pathological in his scorn for mankind.
A mark of a Christian pastor is that he’ll help the victims of this life- the downtrodden and dispossessed of the earth.
Hillsong do this in limited ways to make themselves look good and worthy, but, as I have shown many times, Hillsong church is just a cash-cow for the Houstons, their off-spring and the Hillsong pastors to milk. A Christian pyramid scheme whereby the currency is cash and the souls of men are traded with abandon and without control.
Hillsong, the juggernaut that the pedophile Frank Houston created when he birthed Hillsong, in liaison with Lucifer, is getting more and more out-of-control each day.
One day it will fall apart and collapse.
In fact, both Satan and Frank Houston want it to.
The more carnage and destruction of human souls, the better.
Frank Houston with young man at early Hillsong. The homosexual Frank sneaking in a little masked homo hug. Pastor Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a personification of evil. Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile and secret homosexual.
Donald Elley of Bellingen August 15, 2021
I wrote this article and first published it on this site on November 10, 2015
Donald Elley of Bellingen November 10, 2015
“Pastor” Frank Houston was a pedophile who used Christian ministry as a cloak, disguise and instrument to access little boys and young males.
Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank thought it was the perfect disguise to access his prey. This is a common tactic of pedophiles.
Frank Houston groomed good, trusting, wholesome New Zealand and Australian Christian families, then secretly accessed, assaulted and sexually abused their innocent, young boys.
Frank Houston’s preferred pedophile victims were little boys and young males. So by clinical psychological definition he was a pedophile. A pedophile sexually abuses children aged under 13, even babies.
In his criminal pedophile mind, Frank Houston calculated that being a Christian pastor provided the safest and easiest access to innocent little Christian boys.
Innocent little boys and young males were the object of his evil pedophile desires.
Christian ministry provided ongoing access to children, with the least chance of being caught out.
The pedophile mind works like this.
A pedophile’s primary motivation and satisfaction in life is to try to satisfy his, or her, insatiable inner sexual lusts for children and minors.
In my last blog I explained how Frank Houston was a pedophile who used Christian ministry as a cloak, instrument and disguise to gain access to good kind godly trusting Christian families and to sexually assault their little boys and young males.
I explained how the mind and psyche of a pedophile works.
Frank Houston early 1980s The most evil and corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost 2000 years ago.
Frank Houston selected a vocation in Christian ministry because he thought that Christian ministry is the best and the safest occupation and profession in which to operate as a pedophile and not be caught and sent to jail or worse.
Nobody, especially in the more innocent pre-1990s, would have expected Frank Houston to be a secret hardened evil pedophile.
It is very unlikely Frank would have gotten away with this type of behaviour today.
I write “innocent” because in the 1940s to 1970s, when Frank Houston was very active as a pedophile, there wasn’t the societal consciousness, or the educational and social awareness, about child sexual abuse that there is today.
Nor were there child protections such as police clearances, as common procedural practice, prior to people being employed in fields where children could easily be accessed and sexually abused.
And even today, after all the scandals of the past 25 years in all Christian denominations, Christian pastors, except Roman Catholic priests, are still some of the most trusted people in society.
Could a better foil or cover for a pedophile be found than that of a Christian pastor in the 1940s when Frank Houston trained as a Salvation Army Captain at the age of 18?
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s.
Could a better foil or cover for a pedophile be found than that of an Assemblies of God pastor in the 1950s to 1970s in New Zealand when Frank Houston was a leading Assemblies of God pastor aged in his 30s, 40s and 50s?
Frank was head of the New Zealand AOG from 1965 to 1977.
Could a better foil or cover for a pedophile be found than that of an Australian AOG pastor in the 1980s when Frank Houston was a Sydney Pentecostal evangelist and leading pastor aged in his 60s?
At heart a pedophile is a coward who will scurry away into a dark corner if they feel they may be found out.
A pedophile also has a large range of ploys and strategies to keep their victims quiet, ranging from threats of violence to statements like what boy victim AHA said Frank Houston said it him.
One of the things Frank Houston said to boy victim AHA was “Even if you tell people, they won’t believe you because I’m a famous evangelist. Who would they believe? You or me?”.
This is the criminal mind of a pedophile talking. They’re talking from within their den or nest which has layers and layers of well thought out decoys, shields, cob-webs and protection.
The Western Australian slang word for pedophiles is rock spider.
Rock spider. Jail name for pedophile. Origin: Western Australia jail slang.
The reason for the name rock-spider is that pedophiles like little kids cracks. Many pedophiles do lots of darker things than to touch children. Pedophiles are child rapists and amongst the worst human beings ever on the planet.
That’s why pedophiles are at the bottom of the jail hierarchy and inmates persecute and torment them. Even felons know that pedophiles are the low of the low.
By 1965, Frank Houston was way too far into his cover as a Christian pastor to change his cover and disguise.
From the 1940s, Frank Houston had embarked on a really dark and demonic series of very serious assaults on little boys and teen males.
In rapid succession in the 1940s to 1970s, the pedophile Frank Houston sexually abused over 400 little boys and young teens. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
This is a projection of mine based on an enormous body of evidence I’ve collected on Frank Houston. Everything is published on this site except private conversations, mainly by email, with various victims, their supporters and others. But there is little I know that will help the reader understand Frank Houston, Brian Houston and the Hillsong organisation that I haven’t shared on this site.
The known victims of this out-of-control pedophile spree conducted by the pedophile Frank Houston in the 1940s to 1970s included at least 17 boys aged 7 to 12.
There were at least six known boy victims when Frank was pastor at Lower Hutt AOG.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Frank Houston sexually abused WNZ1 (my code name) and he sexually abused at least two other boys at a home bible group he was leading in another Wellington suburb.
The Bible study was being held in WNZ1’s parent’s home. The boys were aged about 11. He snuck down the corridor into WNZ1’s bedroom, pretending be going to use the bathroom, and sexually abused him in his childhood bed.
In 1971 and 1972, the pedophile Frank Houston sexually abused SA1 (my code name) and at least two to three other little boys at Klemzeig Assemblies of God (AoG) Youth Camps at Cudlee Creek near Adelaide South Australia.
SA1 wrote in his statement to the Australian Royal Commission into Child Abuse that the epicentre of the sexual abuse of little boys was the male toilet block.
SA1 saw the pedophile Frank Houston come out of the toilet block with another boy. The pedophile Frank Houston had an erection.
It is possible there were numerous little boys sexually abused by Frank Houston at these AOG Youth Camps at Cudlee Creek in 1971 and 1972.
In the early 1970s, Frank sexually abused teen ANZ1 (my code name) at a hotel room in Auckland, New Zealand. He lured him there on the pretext of helping ANZ1 with some problems. Then he sexually abused him. ANZ1 later suicided because of the negative impact of this sexual abuse by the pedophile Frank Houston on his life.
In the 1970s, Frank Houston sexually abused Peter Fowler who was aged 15, while head pastor at Lower Hutt AOG and head of the New Zealand AOG. This abuse occurred in a motel room. I don’t know how he got Peter there. Frank would have thought of a way to lure him there.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s the pedophile Frank Houston sexually abused Royal Commission boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock) at Brett’s parent’s apartment in Coogee Beach Sydney. Frank was an honoured guest of Brett’ss parents. A famous evangelist who they felt privileged to host.
Edit August 15, 2021: There are more known victims since this article. Please see my article “Pastor Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities.” I republish this article regularly or google the title.
These are only the victims we know about. The tip of the iceberg. From Frank Houston’s known assaults and behaviour, I believe there are a lot more victims. Probably over 400. Maybe over 1000. May 200 plus. Plus there are thousands of victims of masked homosexual and masked pedophile behaviour by the pedophile and homosexual Frank Houston.
Even the pedophile Frank Houston himself said to his son Brian, after he admitted in 1999 to having committed pedophile crimes, “I was very active at the time”. He was referring to the 1960s and 1970s.
Very active. How active? We may never know.
As Pastor Brian Houston said to the Sydney media, after he appeared at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, “We may never know the number of victims”.
The average pedophile abuses 250 children in their lifetime. Staggering. Sad. Extremely sick.
By 1965, the pedophile Frank Houston, who was using the Christian ministry as a cloak for his pedophile activities, was now way too far in to go back. Frank had to continue his pretence and act as a Christian pastor until the bitter end.
By 1977, when Frank moved his family to Sydney, Australia from Wellington, New Zealand, he was a criminal pedophile on the run.
In Sydney, Frank shared with everyone that God gave him a vision of the souls of Sydney like wheat-fields swaying in the breeze ripe for harvest. The souls of men waiting for the Christian evangelist Frank Houston.
It wasn’t the souls of men he had in mind. I believe by conjecture that his purpose for going to Sydney was four-fold.
Firstly to escape the heat of protests to police about his pedophilia attacks on little boys and young males in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s.
Secondly, Frank chose Darlinghurst because he thought he’d fit in well there unnoticed amongst all the gays and deviancy there.
Thirdly, Frank knew that in Darlinghurst he could visit gay brothels where young males were available, When he couldn’t find fresh victims. I’m truly sorry to put it this way but lesbians and homosexuals have a term for it: “fresh meat”. In fact, to many homosexuals and lesbians, it’s the thrill of the chase and the challenge of initiating the uninitiated, that really turns them on.
Many heterosexual males also enjoy “the thrill of the chase”. This is a sad aspect of the fallen human condition.
The fourth reason Frank chose Darlinghurst was because he was already under attack from the conservative and wise Australian Assemblies of God establishment who’d heard Frank Houston had committed pedophile offences in New Zealand from the Executive of the New Zealand AOG and they didn’t want a deviate pedophile pastor in their midst. So they excluded him.
Undeterred the criminal pedophile Frank Houston chose a Sydney suburb where there was no AOG Church. Frank distanced himself from his attackers and accused them of being territorial and jealous. I heard him talk like this in the 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst about the AOG establishment in Australia.
In fact, in the pedophile Frank Houston’s territory anyone who questioned him about his authority and leadership, and especially about pedophile allegation, was swiftly and aggressively shown the door.
This modus operandi had been adopted throughout his life by his son Pastor Brian Houston. Any dissenters at Hillsong are quickly shown the door. At Hillsong there’s an “Us and them” mentality, which is a very immature psychological attitude to have in life.
By 1980, Frank Houston was now under incredible attack. The prophet Pastor Philip Powell was out to expose the pedophile Frank Houston to the world. He’d been hounding him since the late 1970s. In the 1980s he really turned up the temperature of his attacks.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s response was to go all out and build as big a defence fortress as possible.
Frank decided “to grow” Christian Life Centre (CLC) Darlinghurst into a mega-church.
The pedophile Frank Houston shared with the congregation at CLC Darlinghurst that he had a vision for over 100 churches, all connected to CLC Darlinghurst.
He went all out to raise up as many young men as possible as preachers and evangelists. Frank knew that the more young men who believed in him, the more they’d defend him. And this was the case.
Gary Canham- now a pastor in Victoria, Sean Stanton- now on the ACC Executive and a pastor in the ACT, Australia, Trevor King, Geoff Bullock, Peter Laughton- who was seriously sexually abused by the pedophile and homosexual Frank Houston in his early 20s in the early 1980s, his son Brian- current Head of Hillsong International, Terry Appel- now a pastor in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Paul de Jong- Head Pastor of Life Church, Auckland, New Zealand, Tony Venn-Brown, Pat Mesiti- Tony Venn-Brown’s assistant, Laurie Murphy- pastor of Hillsong Glebe Outreach Church, and a friend of mine since 1981, Phil Thwaites and many others. These young men were all known at CLC Darlinghurst as “The Bishop’s Boys”.
The pedophile Frank Houston was affectionately called, “The Bishop”. It wasn’t a serious term but he was regarded with affection. He conned us all.
Pastor Sean and Linda Stanton. Met and married at CLC Darlinghurst. One of “The Bishop’s Boys”. A pastor since the early 1980s. Raised to the ministry by the criminal pedophile Frank Houston. South African of origin. Pastor in the ACT Australia. On the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) Executive. The ACC is the new name for the Australian AoG since 2007.
Pastor Gary Canham. Frank’s administrator at CLC Darlinghurst. Loyal and hard-working. One of “The Bishop’s Boys”. A strong supporter and defender of Frank Houston in the 1980s.
“Pastor” Brian Houston. Current CEO of Hillsong International The pedophile Frank Houston’s only church-going son. Almost certainly sexually abused by his pedophile dad as a lad in the 1960s. Protected his dad from criminal charges and prison. Awaiting criminal charges recommended by the Australian Royal Commission for not reporting and harbouring a pedophile, his old extremely corrupt dad, the criminal pedophile Frank Houston.
Trevor King. Very talented musician. Frank Houston’s Music Director at CLC Darlinghurst. One of “The Bishops Boys”.
Naughty “Pastor” Pat Mesiti. Renowned for serial adultery, including having sex with prostitutes on a Hillsong credit card while a very famous Hillsong Youth Alive evangelist. Frank and Brian Houston taught him well.
Gay rights boys. Former Hillsong pastor and evangelist Tony Venn-Brown and gay pal.
Former famous Hillsong Youth Evangelist. One of “The Bishop’s Boys”. Pat Mesiti’s mentor. Now as camp as a row of tents.
Geoff Bullock. Famous Christian singer and musician. More a “Brian’s Boy” but he was one of “The Bishop’s Boys”. Brian later trashed Geoff.
Phil Pringle. CEO of C3 International. Now a Doctor. Regarded the pedophile Frank Houston as his spiritual father.
The likeable Pastor Terry Appel. Brickie turned the Lord’s soldier. Head deacon at CLC Darlinghurst. A long-time AoG/ ACC pastor on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Paul and Maree de Jong. Head pastors of Life Church Auckland. Paul was one of the pedophile Frank Houston’s favourite “Bishop’s Boys”. I’m not implying Paul was sexually abused by Frank Houston. I’m not aware of anyone else in leadership at CLC Darlinghurst who was sexually abused by the pedophile and homosexual Frank Houston apart from Peter Laughton. Dave Sayers and I were homosexually abused by Frank Houston in a low-level way in two separate incidents, but it was still ugly and still criminal assault and criminal abuse.
The pedophile “Pastor” Frank Houston, Brian’s dad. Lifelong secret pedophile and homosexual. Eyes as black as Hades.
The creation of a religious monster:
Out of hatred for humanity, hatred of himself and hatred towards Almighty God, the pedophile Frank Houston decided to go all out and create a monster, a ghoulish organisation from hell, a machination of satanic majesty, to torment and harass mankind. That is a full-on large Christian organisation within which he could hide, defend himself in, and still continue his homosexual pedophile past-times.
This was also a rock-spider pedophile ploy to build as large a defensive nest as possible for his own protection.
A pedophile is the ultimate pathological narcissist, who will only act for himself. He has no genuine feelings for other people. No genuine feelings for his own family. No genuine feelings for his sons. No genuine feelings for his daughters. No genuine feelings for his faithful and trusting wife.
We can see how Frank Houston’s seed or spawn, so-called “Pastor” Brian Houston, is similarly pathological in his scorn for mankind.
A mark of a Christian pastor is that he’ll help the victims of life, the downtrodden and dispossessed of the earth.
Hillsong do this in limited ways to make themselves look good and worthy, but, as I have shown many times, Hillsong church is just a cash-cow for the Houstons, their off-spring and the Hillsong pastors to milk. A Christian pyramid scheme whereby the currency is cash and the souls of men are traded with abandon and without control.
In fact the juggernaut the pedophile Frank Houston created when he birthed Hillsong, in liaison with Lucifer, is getting more and more out-of-control each day.
One day it will fall apart and collapse.
In fact both Satan and Frank Houston want it to.
The more carnage and destruction of human souls, the better.
Pastor Frank Houston. Founder of Hillsong. Extremely corrupt life-long secret pedophile. Used Christian ministry to access unsuspecting Christian families to sexually abuse their little boys.
Donald Elley of Bellingen January 11, 2020:
I wrote this series in early 2015 after Brian Houston head pastor of Hillsong, George Afgahjanian long-time Hillsong business manager and top ACC (Australian Christian Churches) pastors John McMartin and Keith Ainge appeared before The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and tried to explain why they didn’t report Brian’s father Frank Houston to the New South Wales police, when Frank confessed to a lifetime of secret child sex abuse while a Christian pastor.
George Aghajanian the Hillsong Business Manager.
John McMartin head of the New South Wales AOG.
Australian AOG General Secretary Keith Ainge at the Royal Commission
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong
The most prominent and famous leader in Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God circles in the 50 years from 1960 to 2010. was without doubt Brian Houston’s father, Frank Houston. Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong Church based in Sydney, Australia in 1977.
The Australian Assemblies of God is now called the Australian Christian Churches.
Pastor Frank Houston founded the Hillsong movement in Double Bay, Sydney in 1977. It was called Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre in those days.
The Sydney Morning Herald-Sat-16 July 1977
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.
Frank 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.”
Wikipedia extract
Frank Houston’s pedophilia
Now Frank Houston is famous for all the wrong reasons and is an albatross around his son Brian’s neck.
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 probably over 400 boy victims who will be aged in their 50s and 60s now. Maybe some older too.
I have established evidence of pedophile activity from the 1940s, when Frank Houston was in his 20s, to 1975, when he was 53 years old.
After relocating from Lower Hutt, New Zealand to Sydney, Australia he sexually abused Peter Lawton his young worship leader at Christian Life Centre, by then based in Darlinghurts. Frank who was in his late 50s in the early 1980s when he was pastoring Christian Life Centre Sydney and becoming prominent in Australia.
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 six 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.
Frank the homosexual
Although he fathered five children, Frank Houston was not sexually interested in women.
I have verified 17 mainly boy victims of Frank Houston. 15 boys and two male teens.
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.
I believe from the known evidence that there were over 400 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 in October 2014 the following.
When asked how many victims of his father there were he replied, “We may never know how many”.
Well, I’m giving the count a try.
Frank Houston’s boy victims
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.
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 lifelong pedophile who walked the earth in the disguise of a Pentecostal pastor. Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal pastor In know of 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 CLC Youth Pastor 1980s
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
“Pastor” Robert Fergusson. Senior Hillsong pastor. Kind of Hillsong’s “Professor of Theology” but not highly educated at a tertiary level. Empowers Brian in his lies, moral corruption and manipulations.
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.
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
Joel A’Bell.
Same for Joel A’Bell, head of Hillsong Australia, 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 Follow On Twitter Follow On Instagram Facebook 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.”
EDIT: Joel A’Bell left Hillsong in 2018 and started his own church in Sydney’s southern Sutherland Shire on the coast.
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-justifcation 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 Aghajanian Hillsong 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 on to.
Pastor Sean Stanton, Trevor King, Geoff Bullock, dare I mention Peter Laughton, Frank’s worship leader. What hell demons did Frank impart to the hapless Peter Laughton?
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 molested the six Lower Hutt AOG boys in the 1960s and there was a pay-out.
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 its infiltration 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 Bobby 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.
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- Frank Houston.
Taking royalties on Hillsong worship CDs and DVDs. 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 Houston’s future
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.
New Zealand is a sincere country, a generally moral country and a hard-working country. It was when I lived there 40 to 64 years ago.
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 peophile.
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. In Hades awaiting The Great Judgment now.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ universal. Far greater than the Houstons. Far greater than Hillsong.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
The article below was written by me and published on this, my personal blog-site, on 26 October 2014.
I’ve published new photographs and added additional information to this article each time I republish it.
Geoff Bullock and Brian Houston
Geoff Bullock was at CLC Darlinghurst in the early 1980s. Geoff was a famous Hillsong head worship leader from the 1980s to 1990s.
Geoff Bullock. Once famous Christian singer and musician. Former Head Hillsong Worship Leader.
CLC Darlinghurst (Christian Life Centre) was the second name for Hillsong. The first name was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church was started in 1977 in Double Bay Sydney by Frank Houston.
The Sydney Morning Herald-Sat-16 July 1977
In 1983, Brian Houston, Frank’s younger son, one of five children, moved to Western Sydney.
Brian Houston worshipping God with his pedophile father Frank at early Hillsong in Darlinghurst, Sydney in the early 1980s.
Brian took Geoff Bullock as his worship leader.
The church started in Greystances Public School near Parramatta. In 1984 it moved to Baulkham Hills Public School. The church experienced rapid growth. It bought a warehouse in Baulkham, Hills and converted it to a church. This was common in those days on the late 80s to 1990s.
In the early 1990s, Brian set about building the current building in Baulkham Hills. Until 2019 it was the Hillsong headquarters. In 2019, Brian bought several floors of a building in New York City which is the current Hillsong international headquarters.
CLC Darlinghurst (Early Hillsong name) musical. Peter Fitzgerald, Peter Laughton and Geoff Bullock were involved in writing and producing
Blog article of 26 October 2014.
“The king is dead, long live the King”
“And the Bishop said to the altar boy: “Come, sit on my lap”.
Pastor Frank Houston was the King and the Bishop at Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst in the 1980s and then at Waterloo from the late 1980s to 1998/99 whenhe retired.
Frank Houston. “I will never retire. I will die in the saddle”.
It eventuated that rather than being retired he was fired, and by his own son, now a King and Bishop in his own right.
Frank Houston’s offence: lifelong covert pedophilia and homosexuality while a prominent Assemblies of God clergy.
The life of Brian. My name isn’t Brian any more. I’m St Brain of the Holy Mount in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, Australia. Back in the day, my dad Frank was called the “Bishop”. Dad has been fired. I’m now far greater than Frank. I’m now His Eminence Pope Brain of Hillsong.
Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst in the 1980s was loaded with heaps of talent.
Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst was the first of many name changes of the current entity, ‘Hillsong City Campus’.
When we look at Christian Life Centre, Sydney, in the 1980s and Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophilia and homosexuality, it’s important to be objective.
Although Frank Houston did an unimaginable number of horrific deeds to innocent children, a lot of good has come out of CLC Darlinghurst.
The fruit of Frank’s life wasn’t all bad.
Pastor Frank Houston. “Friends, I want to let you into a secret today. Despite my thing about boys which was pretty bad, I’m not all bad. I’m one per cent good”.
Peter Aiton early CLC member in 1978:
“…I first attended Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre there were about 60-80 people when I started (as it was first known) in Feb 1978 when it was in Sherbrooke Hall in Double Bay until March 1982 at Darlinghurst, I made some long life friends I still see, I remember very well spending hour after hour, night after night cleaning & painting the Darlinghurst building along with many members at the time so we could move in and start the services it was the 3rd home for what was known as Sydney Christian Life Centre at that time, in the early days we all knew each other the church grew very fast.”
Tony Talifero (left) with friends at CLC early 1980s. Tony and Liz Talifero had a deaf singing ministry there, which was very progressive for that time.
Early Hillsong, then called CLC (Christian life Centre) Darlinghurst.
Here are some of the leading lights at CLC Darlinghurst who became pastors and some very talented musos and poets.
Pastors, musos and poets
Pastor Jeff Beecham
Successful evangelist for decades.
Identified with End-Time preacher Barry Smith and used his teachings in the 1980s.
Barry Smith- End-time preacher.
Organised ‘Catch The Fire’ meetings with the Arnotts in the 1990s.
Died last year in his new home, America.
Jeff Beacham. Warrior for the Lord.
Jeff Beacham in CLC church fun run 1980s
Pastor Laurie Murphy
Laurie and Heather Murphy early 1980s
Pastor of Hillsong City, Glebe Outreach Church, Sydney for decades.
Laurie is a great guy and a personal friend of mine.
He keeps trying to kill himself on motorbikes.
We worked closely together at CLC Darlinghurst in the 1980s among the down and outs of Inner City Sydney plus Uni students etc.
Laurie and Heather Murphy today.
Pastor Sean Stanton
Sean and Linda Stanton early 1980s.
ACC (Australian Christian Churches pastor and teacher. Now in Queensland.
On the ACC National Executive.
Got quite a bit of air-time in the pulpit at CLC Darlinghurst.
One of Frank’s boys. (PS. spiritual boys).
Sean and Linda Stanton
Pastor Paul de Jong
Paul de Jong CLC Youth Pastor.
Paul de Jong was CLC Youth Pastor. Frank knew the De Jong family from New Zealand and brought Paul over.
One of Frank’s golden boys (spiritual again).
Now prominent in Auckland as a pastor.
There seems to be a trend with hair-loss.
Pastor of “Life” Church, Auckland. That’s the shortest CLC/ Hillsong name change yet. Go Paul.
Paul and Maree de Jong
Trevor King
Very talented musician. Last sighted by me in Auckland, NZ.
Some years ago, I attended my parent’s church, Howick Presbyterian Church, one of New Zealand’s more successful Presbyterian Churches.
Its quite a big church by Presbyterian standards. I couldn’t see who was playing amazing piano. I thought it sounded like Trevor; and it was him. Still cheeky, perky and talented.
Fine head of hair. Looking good Trevor.
Trevor King
Geoff Bullock
Also extremely talented. Pioneered early Hillsong music at Baulkham Hills with Brian.
Still ministering.
Geoff Bullock
Pastor Terry Appel
Terry Appel early 1980s.
Northern Beaches, Sydney. Pastor of Christian Life Centre Mona Vale. Good hearted and successful.
Brickie turned the Lord’s soldier.
It’s good to see a CLC church that hasn’t had a name change, or multiple name changes.
What’s wrong with Christian Life Centre and what’s wrong with The Assemblies of God, which is one of the oldest and most successful Pentecostal Churches on the planet.
Why call it Australian Christian Churches?
I liked it when T.L. Osbourne said at Darlinghurst in about 1984, we should call CLC “Christian Love Centre”.
Best hair coverage yet.
Pastor Gary Canham
Pastor of Northside Church, Bundoora, Victoria.
Gary was Frank’s business manager at CLC Darlinghurst. He was then an AOG missionary in Eastern Europe sent out by Frank.
Gary returned to Australia to pastor.
Always enthusiastic, very polite and kind-hearted. One of nature’s gentlemen. Like the hair-style Gary.
Pastor Gary Canham
Pastor Brian Houston
Brian Houston on left in CLC church pantomime early 1980s.
The jury’s out on Brian, or may be out one day trying to decide if he’s guilty of hiding and failing to report his old pedo dad.
Guilty or not, it’s not very Christian to turn your back on the victims of the AOG/ ACC/ CLC/ Hillsong victims of abuse. Poor form Brian. Not Christian.
Receding hair-line. Hair transplants? No evidence of botox. Was Brian’s nose always that thin?
Pastor Brian Houston. A troubled soul.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson and first family early 1980s.
Now living the dream in America, as a pastor.
Churches in Orange County and Santa Monica Beach, California.
Nice work Jonathan. Santa Monica is where I like to stay in my infrequent visits to LA. Love The Pier and watching the sights at Venice Beach nearby. Mailbu Beach up the coast. All good Jonathan.
Jonathan Wilson
With second wife, Dianne
Jonathan Wilson’s first marriage fell over spectacularly in front of everyone in the 1990s. They married young and there were the usual problems.
Quite quickly soon after, Jonathan got entangled in a complex love quadrangle (new term) involving Jonathon, his daughter Besse and Dianne and Geoff, who were married.
I can’t recall the chronology, but the outcome was that Geoff and Besse got together, as did Jonathan and Dianne. All good. Life’s a beach.
Dr David Johnson head of IICM the CLC Bible College
David Johnson
David Johnson was a pastor and very talented classical violinist and orchestra conductor, Frank brought out from California.
David was brought out to set up the IICM church bible college. The full name was International Institute for Creative Ministries.
Here was a talent if honoured and used properly could do great things.
I think Frank was threatened by David and when David tried to question things to improve them, Frank cast him off.
See my blog article “Pastor Frank Houston. Part 13. Dr David Johnson- Frank Houston’s biggest hatchet job”, posted on 16 February 2013.
After being dismissed by Frank, Rev Gordon Moyes of the mega Wesley Methodist Church snapped him up. Wesley Methodist has the biggest welfare system in the Southern Hemisphere and a Bible College.
This is one of the main reasons I left CLC. I didn’t like Frank’s hatchet job on Ian Carlisle, who was struggling and his own son in law. When Frank did a severe hatchet job on David Johnson that was it for me.
David later returned to California.
Steve Coleman musician
Steve Coleman (on left) and Steve Atkins
Steve Coleman was one of the early CLC musicians who sang solos and played the guitar.
Steve liked singing Jackson Brown’s song, “I’ll be your handyman”.
Steve Coleman was convicted for pedophile acts against young girls.
Michael Driscoll
Michael Driscoll went back on heroin and died in Ireland a long time back. Suicide.
Michael was in Ireland trying to reconnect with his Irish, poetic and musical roots.
Michael Driscoll with Brett Whiteley
Michael and Brett Whiteley were artistic soul-mates, and along with Wendy Whiteley, Brett’s wife, were heroin buddies.
Brett Whiteley was one of Australia’s greatest modern painters in the 1969s to 1980s. He died from a heroin overdose, alone in a motel in a Southern part of Sydney.
Michael became a Christian in 1981 through the influence of Jonathan Page and others.
Michael tried to convert Brett Whiteley but was unsuccessful.
Michael wrote a poetry book “Desert Rose”, with poems on the Australian Outback themes and Brett illustrated it.
Managing Michael Driscoll, when he was a home fellowship leader under my leadership, required the patience of Job and the love of Almighty God in big doses.
It wasn’t Michael’s fault. He came from a privileged background, was very complex, had a sense of entitlement, was extremely talented musically, in poetry and to a lesser degree in painting, and was in recovery from heroin abuse.
A sketch of Michael Driscoll by Brett Whitely for a gig, before Michael was a Christian,
Michael was very zealous for God and led a lot of people, who others couldn’t reach, to Christ.
Michael was a bit of a Christian pied piper and had an eclectic following.
He was big on casting out of demons for a time. A lot of people coming off heavy stuff needed it.
Michael and his band, including Rick Jelliffe and Peter Fitz, put out a Christian Album in 1981. I can’t remember the name of the album but I think it had a sketch by Brett Whitely? on the front cover. Was it “Reel to Real”?
I could write a whole article on Michael and maybe I should. I’d probably need Rick Jelliffe’s help.
Michael had a good heart despite his complexities, which is normal for an artist of his talent. I handled Michael patiently and we had some great times in the home fellowships etc.
Michael found it hard to relate to Frank and his ways. Maybe he sensed something wasn’t right.
Bob Harris
Bob Harris was another talented artist who became a Christian in the early 1980s. In this case, a published poet who won awards. He died in 1994. Heart issues.
Michael and Bob were both home fellowship leaders under my leadership in the early 1980s.
Terry Darmody
Terry Darmody performing at Naphtali Cafe, a Christian cafe in Chatswood 1984.
Terry Darmody (on the right)
The loveable Terry
Terry (middle)
Terry and his wife, Deidre, attend Hillsong Glebe Outreach Church. Laurie and Heather Murphy are the pastors.
Terry is still doing a gospel slot on Radio Skid row. He’s been doing it for over 30 years. A faithful servant of the Lord.
A very talented gospel muso. Go Terry.
Terry’s knowledge of old gospel music is encyclopaedic.
Also a home group leader under me in the 1980s.
Terry used to fall asleep when I was leading the bible study so I figured the only way to keep him awake was to make him a leader.
Tony Venn-Brown
Tony Venn-Brown was a successful AOG evangelist who went out from CLC Darlinghurst to do great things.
Tony left his wife and children and went gay.
Fruity. “Hi there. I’m Tony and I’m gay”.
Gay rights bros
Tony has some kind of Christian gay rights thing going.
I read somewhere he believes the Church will eventually accept gay marriage and the right to be gay at some time in the future.
Tony thinks it will happen maybe in 30 years, after his life-time. Come on Tony, you can live to 90. (P.S. watch the HIV though)
Sorry if I missed you
I can’t think of anyone else from the CLC Darlinghurst days who is a pastor, successful muso, poet or famous or infamous.
If you think you’re amazing or important and I missed you out, don’t worry. I didn’t make it on to the list. Missed the pastor gig, only got to grade 3 piano and my poetry is for readings at the Bellingen Poetry club.
Me. Donald Elley. On Bondi Beach this winter in the cold. All year swimmer. See all you baldies, I’ve still got my hair.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ universal. Far greater than the Houstons. Far greater than Hillsong.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
The article below was written by me and published on this, my personal blog-site, on 26 October 2014.
I’ve published new photographs and added additional information to this article each time I republish it.
Geoff Bullock and Brian Houston
Geoff Bullock was at CLC Darlinghurst in the early 1980s. Geoff was a famous Hillsong head worship leader from the 1980s to 1990s.
Geoff Bullock. Once famous Christian singer and musician. Former Head Hillsong Worship Leader.
CLC Darlinghurst (Christian Life Centre) was the second name for Hillsong. The first name was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church was started in 1977 in Double Bay Sydney by Frank Houston.
The Sydney Morning Herald-Sat-16 July 1977
In 1983, Brian Houston, Frank’s younger son, one of five children, moved to Western Sydney.
Brian Houston worshipping God with his pedophile father Frank at early Hillsong in Darlinghurst, Sydney in the early 1980s.
Brian took Geoff Bullock as his worship leader.
The church started in Greystances Public School near Parramatta. In 1984 it moved to Baulkham Hills Public School. The church experienced rapid growth. It bought a warehouse in Baulkham, Hills and converted it to a church. This was common in those days on the late 80s to 1990s.
In the early 1990s, Brian set about building the current building in Baulkham Hills. Until 2019 it was the Hillsong headquarters. In 2019, Brian bought several floors of a building in New York City which is the current Hillsong international headquarters.
CLC Darlinghurst (Early Hillsong name) musical. Peter Fitzgerald, Peter Laughton and Geoff Bullock were involved in writing and producing
Blog article of 26 October 2014.
“The king is dead, long live the King”
“And the Bishop said to the altar boy: “Come, sit on my lap”.
Pastor Frank Houston was the King and the Bishop at Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst in the 1980s and then at Waterloo from the late 1980s to 1998/99 whenhe retired.
Frank Houston. “I will never retire. I will die in the saddle”.
It eventuated that rather than being retired he was fired, and by his own son, now a King and Bishop in his own right.
Frank Houston’s offence: lifelong covert pedophilia and homosexuality while a prominent Assemblies of God clergy.
The life of Brian. My name isn’t Brian any more. I’m St Brain of the Holy Mount in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, Australia. Back in the day, my dad Frank was called the “Bishop”. Dad has been fired. I’m now far greater than Frank. I’m now His Eminence Pope Brain of Hillsong.
Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst in the 1980s was loaded with heaps of talent.
Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst was the first of many name changes of the current entity, ‘Hillsong City Campus’.
When we look at Christian Life Centre, Sydney, in the 1980s and Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophilia and homosexuality, it’s important to be objective.
Although Frank Houston did an unimaginable number of horrific deeds to innocent children, a lot of good has come out of CLC Darlinghurst.
The fruit of Frank’s life wasn’t all bad.
Pastor Frank Houston. “Friends, I want to let you into a secret today. Despite my thing about boys which was pretty bad, I’m not all bad. I’m one per cent good”.
Peter Aiton early CLC member in 1978:
“…I first attended Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre there were about 60-80 people when I started (as it was first known) in Feb 1978 when it was in Sherbrooke Hall in Double Bay until March 1982 at Darlinghurst, I made some long life friends I still see, I remember very well spending hour after hour, night after night cleaning & painting the Darlinghurst building along with many members at the time so we could move in and start the services it was the 3rd home for what was known as Sydney Christian Life Centre at that time, in the early days we all knew each other the church grew very fast.”
Tony Talifero (left) with friends at CLC early 1980s. Tony and Liz Talifero had a deaf singing ministry there, which was very progressive for that time.
Early Hillsong, then called CLC (Christian life Centre) Darlinghurst.
Here are some of the leading lights at CLC Darlinghurst who became pastors and some very talented musos and poets.
Pastors, musos and poets
Pastor Jeff Beecham
Successful evangelist for decades.
Identified with End-Time preacher Barry Smith and used his teachings in the 1980s.
Barry Smith- End-time preacher.
Organised ‘Catch The Fire’ meetings with the Arnotts in the 1990s.
Died last year in his new home, America.
Jeff Beacham. Warrior for the Lord.
Jeff Beacham in CLC church fun run 1980s
Pastor Laurie Murphy
Laurie and Heather Murphy early 1980s
Pastor of Hillsong City, Glebe Outreach Church, Sydney for decades.
Laurie is a great guy and a personal friend of mine.
He keeps trying to kill himself on motorbikes.
We worked closely together at CLC Darlinghurst in the 1980s among the down and outs of Inner City Sydney plus Uni students etc.
Laurie and Heather Murphy today.
Pastor Sean Stanton
Sean and Linda Stanton early 1980s.
ACC (Australian Christian Churches pastor and teacher. Now in Queensland.
On the ACC National Executive.
Got quite a bit of air-time in the pulpit at CLC Darlinghurst.
One of Frank’s boys. (PS. spiritual boys).
Sean and Linda Stanton
Pastor Paul de Jong
Paul de Jong CLC Youth Pastor.
Paul de Jong was CLC Youth Pastor. Frank knew the De Jong family from New Zealand and brought Paul over.
One of Frank’s golden boys (spiritual again).
Now prominent in Auckland as a pastor.
There seems to be a trend with hair-loss.
Pastor of “Life” Church, Auckland. That’s the shortest CLC/ Hillsong name change yet. Go Paul.
Paul and Maree de Jong
Trevor King
Very talented musician. Last sighted by me in Auckland, NZ.
Some years ago, I attended my parent’s church, Howick Presbyterian Church, one of New Zealand’s more successful Presbyterian Churches.
Its quite a big church by Presbyterian standards. I couldn’t see who was playing amazing piano. I thought it sounded like Trevor; and it was him. Still cheeky, perky and talented.
Fine head of hair. Looking good Trevor.
Trevor King
Geoff Bullock
Also extremely talented. Pioneered early Hillsong music at Baulkham Hills with Brian.
Still ministering.
Geoff Bullock
Pastor Terry Appel
Terry Appel early 1980s.
Northern Beaches, Sydney. Pastor of Christian Life Centre Mona Vale. Good hearted and successful.
Brickie turned the Lord’s soldier.
It’s good to see a CLC church that hasn’t had a name change, or multiple name changes.
What’s wrong with Christian Life Centre and what’s wrong with The Assemblies of God, which is one of the oldest and most successful Pentecostal Churches on the planet.
Why call it Australian Christian Churches?
I liked it when T.L. Osbourne said at Darlinghurst in about 1984, we should call CLC “Christian Love Centre”.
Best hair coverage yet.
Pastor Gary Canham
Pastor of Northside Church, Bundoora, Victoria.
Gary was Frank’s business manager at CLC Darlinghurst. He was then an AOG missionary in Eastern Europe sent out by Frank.
Gary returned to Australia to pastor.
Always enthusiastic, very polite and kind-hearted. One of nature’s gentlemen. Like the hair-style Gary.
Pastor Gary Canham
Pastor Brian Houston
Brian Houston on left in CLC church pantomime early 1980s.
The jury’s out on Brian, or may be out one day trying to decide if he’s guilty of hiding and failing to report his old pedo dad.
Guilty or not, it’s not very Christian to turn your back on the victims of the AOG/ ACC/ CLC/ Hillsong victims of abuse. Poor form Brian. Not Christian.
Receding hair-line. Hair transplants? No evidence of botox. Was Brian’s nose always that thin?
Pastor Brian Houston. A troubled soul.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson and first family early 1980s.
Now living the dream in America, as a pastor.
Churches in Orange County and Santa Monica Beach, California.
Nice work Jonathan. Santa Monica is where I like to stay in my infrequent visits to LA. Love The Pier and watching the sights at Venice Beach nearby. Mailbu Beach up the coast. All good Jonathan.
Jonathan Wilson
With second wife, Dianne
Jonathan Wilson’s first marriage fell over spectacularly in front of everyone in the 1990s. They married young and there were the usual problems.
Quite quickly soon after, Jonathan got entangled in a complex love quadrangle (new term) involving Jonathon, his daughter Besse and Dianne and Geoff, who were married.
I can’t recall the chronology, but the outcome was that Geoff and Besse got together, as did Jonathan and Dianne. All good. Life’s a beach.
Dr David Johnson head of IICM the CLC Bible College
David Johnson
David Johnson was a pastor and very talented classical violinist and orchestra conductor, Frank brought out from California.
David was brought out to set up the IICM church bible college. The full name was International Institute for Creative Ministries.
Here was a talent if honoured and used properly could do great things.
I think Frank was threatened by David and when David tried to question things to improve them, Frank cast him off.
See my blog article “Pastor Frank Houston. Part 13. Dr David Johnson- Frank Houston’s biggest hatchet job”, posted on 16 February 2013.
After being dismissed by Frank, Rev Gordon Moyes of the mega Wesley Methodist Church snapped him up. Wesley Methodist has the biggest welfare system in the Southern Hemisphere and a Bible College.
This is one of the main reasons I left CLC. I didn’t like Frank’s hatchet job on Ian Carlisle, who was struggling and his own son in law. When Frank did a severe hatchet job on David Johnson that was it for me.
David later returned to California.
Steve Coleman musician
Steve Coleman (on left) and Steve Atkins
Steve Coleman was one of the early CLC musicians who sang solos and played the guitar.
Steve liked singing Jackson Brown’s song, “I’ll be your handyman”.
Steve Coleman was convicted for pedophile acts against young girls.
Michael Driscoll
Michael Driscoll went back on heroin and died in Ireland a long time back. Suicide.
Michael was in Ireland trying to reconnect with his Irish, poetic and musical roots.
Michael Driscoll with Brett Whiteley
Michael and Brett Whiteley were artistic soul-mates, and along with Wendy Whiteley, Brett’s wife, were heroin buddies.
Brett Whiteley was one of Australia’s greatest modern painters in the 1969s to 1980s. He died from a heroin overdose, alone in a motel in a Southern part of Sydney.
Michael became a Christian in 1981 through the influence of Jonathan Page and others.
Michael tried to convert Brett Whiteley but was unsuccessful.
Michael wrote a poetry book “Desert Rose”, with poems on the Australian Outback themes and Brett illustrated it.
Managing Michael Driscoll, when he was a home fellowship leader under my leadership, required the patience of Job and the love of Almighty God in big doses.
It wasn’t Michael’s fault. He came from a privileged background, was very complex, had a sense of entitlement, was extremely talented musically, in poetry and to a lesser degree in painting, and was in recovery from heroin abuse.
A sketch of Michael Driscoll by Brett Whitely for a gig, before Michael was a Christian,
Michael was very zealous for God and led a lot of people, who others couldn’t reach, to Christ.
Michael was a bit of a Christian pied piper and had an eclectic following.
He was big on casting out of demons for a time. A lot of people coming off heavy stuff needed it.
Michael and his band, including Rick Jelliffe and Peter Fitz, put out a Christian Album in 1981. I can’t remember the name of the album but I think it had a sketch by Brett Whitely? on the front cover. Was it “Reel to Real”?
I could write a whole article on Michael and maybe I should. I’d probably need Rick Jelliffe’s help.
Michael had a good heart despite his complexities, which is normal for an artist of his talent. I handled Michael patiently and we had some great times in the home fellowships etc.
Michael found it hard to relate to Frank and his ways. Maybe he sensed something wasn’t right.
Bob Harris
Bob Harris was another talented artist who became a Christian in the early 1980s. In this case, a published poet who won awards. He died in 1994. Heart issues.
Michael and Bob were both home fellowship leaders under my leadership in the early 1980s.
Terry Darmody
Terry Darmody performing at Naphtali Cafe, a Christian cafe in Chatswood 1984.
Terry Darmody (on the right)
The loveable Terry
Terry (middle)
Terry and his wife, Deidre, attend Hillsong Glebe Outreach Church. Laurie and Heather Murphy are the pastors.
Terry is still doing a gospel slot on Radio Skid row. He’s been doing it for over 30 years. A faithful servant of the Lord.
A very talented gospel muso. Go Terry.
Terry’s knowledge of old gospel music is encyclopaedic.
Also a home group leader under me in the 1980s.
Terry used to fall asleep when I was leading the bible study so I figured the only way to keep him awake was to make him a leader.
Tony Venn-Brown
Tony Venn-Brown was a successful AOG evangelist who went out from CLC Darlinghurst to do great things.
Tony left his wife and children and went gay.
Fruity. “Hi there. I’m Tony and I’m gay”.
Gay rights bros
Tony has some kind of Christian gay rights thing going.
I read somewhere he believes the Church will eventually accept gay marriage and the right to be gay at some time in the future.
Tony thinks it will happen maybe in 30 years, after his life-time. Come on Tony, you can live to 90. (P.S. watch the HIV though)
Sorry if I missed you
I can’t think of anyone else from the CLC Darlinghurst days who is a pastor, successful muso, poet or famous or infamous.
If you think you’re amazing or important and I missed you out, don’t worry. I didn’t make it on to the list. Missed the pastor gig, only got to grade 3 piano and my poetry is for readings at the Bellingen Poetry club.
Me. Donald Elley. On Bondi Beach this winter in the cold. All year swimmer. See all you baldies, I’ve still got my hair.
donaldelley 