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.
The pedophile Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. While New Zealand young men went to war in Europe and elsewhere fighting for their country, Frank Houston was sexually little boys in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages. Frank sexually abused boys from the 1930s to his death in 2004. Over 70 years. Frank’s son Brian, wife Hazel and the whole Houston family concealed, sheltered, protected and financed their pedophile patriarch until his death.
Donald Elley of Bellingen
August 16, 2023
Brian Houston, Frank’s only church-going son, concealed his pedophile from at least 1999 when Frank confessed, until Frank’s death in 2004.
Tomorrow Brian Houston faces a Sydney court to hear the verdict for his criminal actions of concealing a pedophile.
March 9, 2023
Between 1940 and 1945, New Zealander men aged between 18 and 45 were conscripted to fight in WWII.
It was similar in Australia.
World War II – Wikipedia extract ‘Conscription in Australia’
“In 1939, at the start of World War II, all unmarried men aged 21 were to be called up for three months’ military training. The men could serve only in Australia or its territories. Conscription was effectively introduced in mid-1942, when all men aged 18–35 and single men aged 35–45 were required to join the Citizen Military Forces (CMF).”
My family and WWI and WWII
My paternal grandfather, Jim Elley, a New Zealander, was a merchant engineer during WWI (1914-1919). On ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. These were unarmed vessels travelling in convoy with war supplies and other goods with protection from German warships and submarines.
Bert Brooker, my maternal grandfather, a New Zealander, was in his forties when WWII started. He was married and a barrister and solicitor. He wasn’t required to go to WWII. Grandad served in the Home Defence Force. A ‘Dad’s Army’ type of arrangement. ‘Dads Army’ is a British WWII comedy from the 1960s.
My father Rev Don Elley was training to be an airforce pilot in 1945 when WWII ended.
During WWI and WWII, New Zealand women could serve as nurses and support personal.
During WWII Frank Houston avoided going to war by joining the New Zealand Salvation Army
In comparison with other New Zealand young men, canny Frank Houston found shelter from conscription by joining the Salvation Army. Frank became a Lieutenant there. Later a Captain.
Frank lived in Salvation Army orphanages with his wife Hazel, sexually abusing little New Zealand boys.
Hazel was aware of Frank’s pedophilia. She called it, “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Frank was kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the late forties for sexually abusing boys. He avoided prosecution using the mental health card and being consigned to a psychiatric hospital.
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12. Frank’s boy victim Brett Sengstock told the Royal Commission that Frank lost interest him when he turned 13.
Although Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12, he sexually abused male teens and men aged to about 35 if young boys weren’t available. This is normal pedophile behaviour.
We’re talking about the founder of Hillsong Church here. Not some low-life from the street. Not some evil Illuminati or Satanist. Yes, we’re talking about Frank, the founder of Hillsong. What evil this family has launched upon the planet.
Hopefully Frank’s son Brian Houston will be dealt with severely by the courts and imprisoned for many years. This is what Brian Houston deserves.
December 26, 2022
Of all the thousands of articles on this, my personal blog-site, this is my article which causes me the most pain in my heart. It’s about the boy and male teen victims of Hillsong’s founder Frank Houston.
Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used Christian ministry to gain access to little boys from 1940 to 2004 when he died.
Frank’s son, Brian Houston, allowed Frank access to little boys and children until Frank died. Even after Frank was banned from preaching in 1999 by Brian and the Australian AOG, Frank continued to preach. Even the next week on Hillsong TV in Canberra. Brian denies this. But Brian couldn’t deny an audio of Frank preaching at Maitland AOG just north of Sydney in September 2004. This was two months before Frank died.
Brian tried to argue at court Frank had dementia. I know what dementia sounds like and looks like. My mother Valerie died of dementia almost three years ago in January 2020. She was non compos mentis.
Latin: non compos mentis translates as “not of sound mind.”
Frank was compos mentis (of a sound mind) and full intelligible until the end of his life.
Frank did repeat himself a few times in the audio. But no more than Brian repeats himself in very sermon he preaches. And Frank was always far more lucid and entertaining than Brian.
Brian’s preaching is for the lunatic asylum, not a learned Christian pulpit.
Frank’s preaching is for the pedophile caverns of Hades.
What Brian can’t deny is the testimony of eye-witnesses who saw what was going on. Including me. I wish Detective Hamil had had a good chat with me to fill in the gaps. I should have approached him before the matter made it to court.
Detective Hamil, who led the second investigation into Brian’s concealment of Frank from police, is a nice guy. A family man. I think he was thinking of his kids as he tried to unravel Hillsong.
It’s a shame Brian didn’t think of his kids and grandkids. How many little Houston boys did Frank sexually abuse in his lifetime? Starting with Brian and his brother Graeme to Brian’s and his siblings children and to all the many Houston grandchildren.
Now I’m finding out Frank sexually abused girls too.
Folks, we are still only seeing the acidic black top of a very dark and evil rabbit-hole. I intend to do a deeper dive to find out all. Pray for me. It will be my privilege to reveal everything I find out.
It is in the service of humanity to expose the Houstons and all the Prosperity Gospel crooks, not just in Australian and in New Zealand, my country of origin, but globally. Particularly in America where there are so many.
Donald Elley of Bellingen on Australia’s nightly Channel Nine program “A Current Affair” on December 5, 2022. The first day of Brian’s Sydney court case. The charge is a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The maximum jail term is seven years. You can find this program on Channel Nine’s website.
December 9, 2022
I’ve added reader’s comments from my original article of September 13, 2012 to the end of this revision.
This article was first published on this, my personal blog-site on September 13, 2012
I’ve been writing on the subject of Hillsong and the Houstons for over a decade now. I first touched on this subject in 2012 while writing on my father’s life. Dad was a Christian clergy like Pastor Frank. They preached and worked in Christian ministry on opposite sides of town. My father Rev Don Elley in the elite Wellington suburb of Khandallah. Pastor Frank in down-market Lower Hutt. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital. Lower Hutt is very different today. Khandallah is much the same.
Pastor Brian goes to court December 5, 2022
Pastor Brian is currently appearing in Downing Street Local Court in Sydney’s CBD for a three week trial which started on Monday December 5, 2022.
Pastor Brian has been charged by New South Wales police with a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The pedophile Pastor Brian concealed is his father Frank Houston. For many decades, seven decades, Frank pretended to be a Christian pastor to access little boys and sexually abuse them. This started in the 1940s back in New Zealand when Frank was in his twenties. Frank chose the Salvation Army as his first port of call for secret pedophile activities.
Frank in his first disguise as a Salvation Army officer in the 1940s. He rose in ranks to a Captain. This was during WWII. While Australian and New Zealand troops were fighting the Nazis, Italy, Japan and their allies like Turkey, Frank was avoiding New Zealand war service by pretending to be a caring Salvation Army officer. This was in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages. A survivor of sexual abuse by Frank aged in his 80s recently appeared at the ongoing New Zealand Royal Commission into Care. The New Zealand government is doing the same kind of investigation into pedophile activity in institutions, churches and orphanages as was done in Australia from 2013 to 2016. This abuse survivor testified that he was sexually abused as a boy by Frank Houston in a Salvation Army orphanage in New Zealand’s South Island.
Frank abusing boys in the New Zealand AOG 1950 to 1977 when he moved to Australia
After being kicked of the Salvos in the late 1940s, for abusing boys, Frank had ‘a nervous breakdown’ and was in psychiatric institutions. It is likely he did this to avoid being handed over to police and being put in jail.
All this time his wife Hazel, Pastor Brian’s mother, was supporting Frank and in effect enabling him in his pedophilia. She later labelled her husbands fetish for boys as “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Undeterred in the late 1940s, Frank got involved with the New Zealand AOG. This was in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, at Ellerslie AOG. His mentor there was Pastor Ray Bloomfield. I don’t know if Ray Bloomfield was a pedophile. If anyone can help me out on that one, it would be appreciated.
In time Frank became an AOG pastor. Innocent AOG pastors and congregants in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond had no idea what Frank was up to. Frank became a famous New Zealand AOG pastor and evangelist by the 1960s. Untouchable. he could do what he wanted a regarded boys. The number of Frank Houston boy victims from the 1940s on is unknown. It may be thousands. Several thousand. Do the math.
Frank abusing boys in Australia and beyond 1960s to 1970s
Frank rose to be head of the New Zealand AOG. His tenure was from 1965 to 1977. During the 1960s and 1970s Frank abused boys all over New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Sri Lanka, South Pacific Islands and elsewhere.
Frank abusing Maori boys 1960s to 1960s
During the 1960s to 1970s, Frank was abusing Maori boys as a famous AOG evangelist. I find this aspect of what Frank did particularly disturbing.
On the run from New Zealand police
By the 1970s, Frank was out of control in his abuse of boys. Parents of abused boys at Lower Hutt AOG, Frank’s church where Pastor Brian was raised, became very upset. There was a confrontation and many congregants left. I heard about this in 1977 from Stan and Sheila Carter.
So the heat was on Frank and he up and moved to Australia. To escape arrest by New Zealand police.
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was a year before his son Brian arrived in Australia. Brian likes to say he founded Hillsong. This is a Brian lie. One of many.
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong.
Pastor Brian with his father Pastor Frank in the 1970s
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women.
These offences include visiting a young Hillsong female’s hotel room and being alone with her in the middle of the night after Hillsong Conference. I think they had sex but no one is talking (yet).
Sydney media are trying to get the young Hillsong lady to talk on camera.
This would really rock Brian, and Brian’s wife Bobbie’s, world.
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board. Bobbie has got a bit more crazy than her normal unhinged self recently. Some of her sermons, if you could call her convoluted and sometimes irreverent blurbs a sermon, have been off-the-dial.
Bobbie does this coughing, burping and tears thing while preaching. Quite bizarre. I think Bobbie has trouble controlling her personal demons who want to speak to the planet too.
Brian Houston was charged by New South Wales police with concealing a pedophile on August 5, 2021
Brian Houston of Hillsong was charged with pedophile concealment crimes by Australian police on Thursday August 5, 2021. The maximum penalty is seven years in jail. Brian appeared in court in Sydney on October 5, 2021 for a First Mention. There was a Second Mention on Tuesday November 23, 2021 and a Third Mention on January 27, 2022. There was a fourth mention on March 3, 2022.
The Hearing is in December 2022
Brian has plead “not guilty” at each mention.
Brian will get a lesser jail sentence if he pleads guilty. Like Pharaoh before Moses, Brian won’t negotiate. Brian will only fly the white flag of surrender in jail. Even there, Brian will still be maintaining his innocence.
Brian Houston stepped down as global head of Hillsong
The Australian Royal Commission
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in its Findings, recommended Pastor Brian Houston, the then head of Hillsong Church, be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
An official recommendation was passed on to NSW Police and the NSW Justice Department by the Royal Commission.
The crimes are that Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches top leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Pastor Brian Houston, his wife Pastor Bobbie Houston, Hillsong business manager George Aghajanian, Hillsong elder Nabi Saleh, President of the New South Wales Assemblies of God John McMartin, National Assemblies of God General Secretary Keith Ainge and all the other top Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leaders had a fiduciary and legal duty to report Brian’s father Frank to Australian police when he confessed in 1999.
They failed to do this.
The fiduciary duty of a church leader comprises a duty of care towards their congregation. To lead them, to protect them and to care for them.
Instead of reporting Frank Houston to police, the above Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leadership, gave Frank a slap on the hand and allowed him to go on preaching, prophesying and (God forbid) laying hands on AOG congregants wherever he fancied to go in his misnitry. Nothing changed.
They moved Frank to quiet, off-the-grid localities so no one would report him to police. They told AOG congregants that Frank and his wife Hazel “had retired” and were AOG Royalty. No mention was made of Frank’s “problem with boys”, as Hazel liked to call Frank’s lifelong past-time or hobby of child rape.
At this stage only Brian has been charged.
The Origins of Hillsong Church
Rev Frank Houston the Night-Stalker, preying on little boys in their childhood beds.
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade.
Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
New Zealand Herald July 11, 2020
Frank Houston at Coogee Beach, Sydney in 1969.
The First Hillsong
The first name of Hillsong was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church met in Sherbrooke Hall, Double Bay, Sydney. The first meeting was on 16 July 1977 led by Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father.
Rev Frank Houston with young congregant at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst then, in 1980. This is the pedophile Frank Houston sneaking in a little homo hug on an unsuspecting young man who is lapping up the attention. There were hundreds like him. At this time Frank was having a secret homosexual affair with his young worship pastor Peter Laughton aged 23.
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong’s boy and teen sex abuse victims.
I have revealed them all to the world on this, my personal blogs-site. This has always been with their permission and their desire if their names are mentioned.
I do not search for victims. They always contact me.
I do not seek media publicity. They approach me for information.
Three new accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston 11 July 2020
Two New Zealand Herald articles of 11 July 2020 mention three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now.
The number of known Frank Houston boy and male teen victims I have identified is now 17 or more.
Recent revelations that Frank sexually abused boys in a New Zealand Salvation Army boys home in the 1940s and on evangelistic crusades amongst New Zealand Maoris have thrown the needle off the dial of my boy victim count.
It is no longer possible for me to put an accurate figure on the number of Frank Houston’s boy victims globally.
When I add in sexual abuse of little boys at a Salvation Army Boys Home in New Zealand in the 1940s and add in AOG crusades and ministry trips from the 1950s to 1960s in New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, Chile and other the countries, the possibilities of the number of boy victims is almost endless.
I believe from the evidence there are over 400 boy and teen victims, maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Frank’s son Brian, who I know personally, said to Australian media in 2014, “We may never know the number of victims”. I knew Brian from 1981 at early Hillsong. I haven’t talked with Brian since early 2000s when I left Hillsong for good.
Pastor Brian Houston current head of Hillsong: “We may never know the number of dad’s boy sex abuse victims”‘
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020 mentions three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now
Frank Houston preaching in in 1969 during his time as Assemblies of God in New Zealand General Superintendent from 1965 to 1977.
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020:
Three Frank Houston child sex abuse accounts which are new to me.
New abuse account one:
“From 1945 to 1948, Frank Houston worked at a boys’ home in Temuka run by the Salvation Army, which has confirmed receiving a complaint in 2003 from someone who said they suffered abuse at his hands during that time. A spokeswoman for the Salvation Army said it had provided information relating to the complaint to the Royal Commission.”
New abuse account two:
“In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.”
“Then came a second knock on the door. Barry was approached by a church elder who – aware of the complaint over Williams – disclosed an allegation of sexual offending by Frank Houston.
New abuse account three:
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade. Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
My comments:
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. I’ve believed for a long time that the reason was because of complaints of child sexual abuse.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
Crikey (Australian media) August 25, 2021. Journalist David Hardaker on Frank Houston and the NZ Salvation Army
“It has since emerged that Frank Houston’s offending stretched back 50 years to the 1940s when he was a lieutenant in the Salvation Army in New Zealand, his country of birth. The New Zealand Salvation Army has confirmed to Crikey that in 2003 it received an allegation of abuse by Houston during his tenure at the Temuka Boys’ Home, near Dunedin on the South Island, between 1945 and 1948. (Houston resigned from the Salvation Army in 1952.) The Salvation Army said it met with the survivor of the abuse in 2003. The case has been sent to New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, set up three years ago”.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
I’ve heard about Frank Houston doing crusades in rural areas of New Zealand, particularly amongst indigenous New Zealanders, the Maoris.
Frank’s son Brian mentions this in a romantic and euphoric way in his last book, ‘Live, Love, Lead’.
However, I’ve always had bad feelings about these crusades of Frank and his “love” and interest in the Maori people.
It’s sad to think that Frank was sexually abusing heaps of Maori boys in rural areas of New Zealand in the 1960s to 1970s.
Note of 18 November 2018
Frank Houston boy sex abuse victim, Brett Sengstock, known as boy victim AHA, who appeared anonymously at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has appeared on the Australian Channel Nine Sixty Minutes TV program recently to tell his story in person because he is dying of cancer.
Boy victim AHA Brett Sengstock – Brett is dying of cancer. Brett wants Brian Houston brought to justice for hiding and protecting his old pedophile dad from going to the clink – from 1999 when Frank confessed to November 2004 age he died.
Note of 22 April 2018
I know Hillsong and the Houstons better than anyone, having been at Hillsong from its beginnings.
Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father, came to Sydney from New Zealand in 1977. He was on the run from New Zealand police for untold and almost innumerable sex offences against little boys during the previous four decades.
I was at Hillsong before Brian Houston became a pastor in 1982, and before Hillsong was called Hillsong.
I helped Frank Houston build up Hillsong for a decade from 1981 to 1990.
The more I write about Hillsong, the sicker I feel. And the more I know about Hillsong, the sicker I feel.
But I go on writing, to warn people off Hillsong and to give Frank Houston’s multitudes of boy victims a voice.
My mission and goal is to destroy Hillsong. To expose it. To warn people off it. To set the record straight. To outline the truth about Hillsong.
Note of 27 October 2017
Pastor Brian Houston, the current head pastor of Hillsong Church Global is to face pedophile protection charges some time in the near future from the Australian police and authorities.
I’ve edited the article below reflecting current up to date information.
“Pastor” Brian Houston pictured with his child rapist dad Frank. Brian hid and protected Frank from the Australian police from when Frank confessed in 1999, to when Frank died five years later in 2004.
This article and its updates
This article outlines the history of Pastor Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong and his secret sexual abuse of hundreds of little boys, male pre-teens and male teens over seven decades. This occurred for possibly 70 years if you include his grandchildren and ‘rent boys’ (underage male prostitutes).
This site is the most authoritative and comprehensive site on Hillsong corruption, Houston corruption and Hillsong pedophilia.
This article was first published on this site on 9 September 2012, prior to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of 2013 to 2016.
It has been updated since as more facts have come to light and more events have unfolded.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed from the New Zealand Salvation Army for sexually abusing boys.
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a lifelong secret pedophile
I’ve come to the conclusion from the evidence I’ve compiled over many years, and from my experience from 1981 to 2000 as an attender of Hillsong, in the 1980s as a senior lay pastor, and especially since hearing boy victim AHA’s testimony, that the Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used the Christian ministry to secretly and stealthily, access little boys and young teens for child and under-age sexual abuse and child rape.
In other words, Frank Houston was first a pedophile. He was not at any time a genuine Christian or a genuine Christin pastor. Frank Houston was a wolf in sheep’s clothing all his life from his early teens.
Frank used Christian ministry to access little children.
Frank Houston’s primary sexual focus and preference was little pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
Frank liked male teens or young adult men if little boys were not available.
In his prime as a male in the 1960s to 1970s Frank had an insatiable sexual desire for little boys and young male teens. But mainly little boys.
A pedophile with a primary focus on pubescent children is a hebephile, a clinical psychological term.
Hebephilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14 and showing Tanner stages 2 to 3 of physical development. It differs from pedophilia (the primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children), and from ephebophilia (the primary sexual interest in later adolescents, typically ages 15–19). While individuals with a sexual preference for adults may have some sexual interest in pubescent-aged individuals, researchers and clinical diagnoses have proposed that hebephilia is characterized by a sexual preference for pubescent rather than adult partners.”
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile in that his sexual orientation and focus was primarily on pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
In my mind, this sexual orientation makes Frank Houston’s sex crimes against children even more heinous, especially since he was masquerading and pretending to be a Christian pastor.
Frank Houston’s crimes were not a one-off or an occasional dalliance in child sex crimes, but a lifelong secret and persistent activity involving hundreds, if not thousands of boy and male teen victims.
Frank was bisexual
Frank was bisexual in that he had five children.
It is probable that Frank did not have sex with his wife after the birth of their five children.
No one will ever know since they both died in 2004. And Hazel was not the type to tell.
Hazel knew Frank was a pedophile from the 1940s when he was reported for abusing children while working at a New Zealand Salvation Army home in the 1940s. He was removed from the Salvation Army.
So Hazel was complicit, codependent, a protector of Frank and an enabler.
Hazel and Frank Houston founders of Hillsong. In New Zealand in the 1940s.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed as a Salvation Army captains for sexual abuse of little boys.
Frank was a homosexual
In 1980, Frank Houston, aged 58, embarked on a four year homosexual affair with his young 23 year old worship leader Peter Laughton.
Peter Laughton, Frank Houston’s young worship leader and homosexual lover aged 23 in 1980.
Sexual involvement with a 20-year-old male, rather than with little boys and early teen boys, was an exception, although there is evidence of countless masked homosexual encounters over Frank Houston’s whole lifetime with males over the age of homosexual consent which is 16 to 18 in most Western countries.
Pastor Brian Houston, current head pastor of Hillsong – Brian, who I knew personally for twenty years, has been recommended to the Australian police by the Australian Royal Commission to be charged with pedophile protection crimes.
Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church has been recommended for prosecution for pedophile protection crimes
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in its Findings recommended Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Note 19 October 2014
In early October 2014, The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse examined the Australian Assemblies of God (which has the new name Australian Christian Churches), Hillsong and Pastors Frank and Brian Houston.
If you are interested in down-loading the Royal Commission transcripts, testimonies of victims and other relevant documents go to http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au.
To read a series of my blog articles on the Royal Commission on this site, they start on 20 September 2014 with “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part One. Royal Commission…”. If you google this title you’ll find it and other articles written by me on this my personal blog-site.
You can then scroll a few articles further into October 2014 and you’ll see all the articles sequentially in chronological order on “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston…” and Royal Commission materials.
If you know of any pedophile cases involving Pastor Frank Houston at any time anywhere in the world then please send me a message and I’ll email you back so we can confidentially talk about your case by email. No information will be published without your consent.
The following blog article on Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile activities was written on 13 September 2012 and it has been updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Blog article of 13 September 2012 (updated 27 October 2017)
The pedophile Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong
Pastor Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was two years before his son Brian arrived in Australia.
Here are two advertisements for early Hillsong Church meetings in Eastern Suburbs, Sydney in 1977 published in the Sydney Morning Herald. .
The Sydney Morning Herald 9 July 1977.
The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 16 July 1977
Hillsong
Hillsong is by far Australia’s largest church numbering 30,000 in Australia. Its headquarters are in Baulkham Hills in Western Sydney.
It has churches throughout the world in twenty locations. Hillsong claims 150,000 in its network world-wide in 2021. This is a very small number of adherents if viewed on a global basis.
Hillsong is like the small dog on the big street. Because of its strong cash-flow and music resources, it has made a lot of noise globally, but most people can tell Hillsong is completely dodgy and a money-cult.
Pastor Frank Houston was the head of the New Zealand Assemblies of God (AOG) from 1965 to 1977, and a prominent leader in the Australian Assemblies of God denomination from the 1980s to 1990s.
By the time Frank Houston confessed to secret pedophile crimes at age 77 he was revered across the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God movements as a great holy pastor, Christian leader and a great evangelist.
The truth is he was a rotten secret pedophile all that time, for many decades, probably since his early teens.
The Assemblies of God (AOG)
The Assemblies of God (AOG) is a Protestant denomination which started in the early 20th century in America and has spread across the planet. Its emphasis is on the Holy Spirit and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, like faith, healing and speaking in tongues.
The Protestants
A Protestant denomination is a denomination (international church organisation) whose origins are in “Protesting” against the Church of Rome.
Protesting, often at the greatest risk to their lives, against the Roman Catholic Church’s errant doctrines, its power, its Popes, its Bishops, its mercenary Jesuits of old. And its domination and blood-letting and martyrdom of true believers throughout the world. For over 1700 years until modern times.
If you think I’m exaggerating then google “The Waldenses”, who were Protestants the Church of Rome genocided in parts of France in the 16th century, or “The Covenanters”, who the Church of Rome hunted and wiped out in 17th century Scotland.
The Jesuit mercenaries and Papist rulers of England desecrated their bodies after death and threw their corpses on rubbish tips as a warning to a fearful populace.
These were brave men who gave their lives for the cause of Christ.
Compare these very brave men and women to Frank Houston, who was a secret life-long pedophile and covert homosexual masquerading in the disguise of a Christian pastor, whose coal-black dark secrets weren’t exposed until the last years of his life.
Frank Houston pedophile founder of Hillsong “preaching up a storm”, as he’d like to say in the 1980s.
Frank Houston’s confession to being a lifelong secret pedophile
A two-year investigation of pedophile allegations going back to the 1960s, ordered by his son, Pastor Brian Houston, at the time head of the Australian Assemblies of God, and conducted by a prominent Australian AOG clergy on the AOG national executive, Pastor John Lewis, found that the allegations were true.
Pastor John Lewis on Nexus Church, Brisbane website. Died from cancer in 2020.
Frank Houston was banned for life from ever ministering in the AOG in Australia and New Zealand in December 1999 aged 77.
But he didn’t stop preaching and ministering and Brian and other AOG leaders allowed him free reign to preach and pray and prophecy over the unsuspecting.
These are the crimes of Brian Houston, John Lewis and other top ACC and Hillsong leaders.
Pastor John Lewis report in 2000 on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities with little boys
Frank’s death
Frank Houston’s life ended in shame in November 2004. He spent his last days contemplating his place in Eternity. The burdens of his dark secrets were troubling his mind until the end.
How would God treat him in the Hereafter? These were among many questions which plagued his dark mind as he faced that looming day. For from the evidence Frank Houston had been a pedophile since his early teens, a period of seventy years.
I knew Frank Houston personally
This blog article is the first in a series of articles in which I will recall information, reflections and personal feelings on this gifted, strange and very tortured man, who I knew very well for two decades. Or at least I thought I did.
I worked closely with Frank Houston through the decade of the 1980s as a builder doing building fit-out and renovations for Christian Life Centre (CLC), Darlinghurst, as Hillsong was known in the early days, and as a lay leader.
I was a prominent and successful lay leader at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst, with ten home fellowship groups under my care. I pioneered these groups in the challenging Inner City of Sydney. I attended CLC again for a few years in the mid to late 1990s. I was there when Pastor Frank Houston got stood down and the whole organisation changed its name from Christian Life Centre to Hillsong in 2000.
I should add that I was a strong Christian prior to first attending Hillsong in 1981. This may have kept me safe from allowing Frank Houston to do stuff like lay hands on me in prayer. A highly dangerous event in hindsight for anyone.
Frank Houston’s legacy
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like former co-head pastor of Hillsong City Campus, Pastor Jonathan Wilson, who is now pastoring in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy
Jonathan Wilson, with second wife Dianne, in pastoring California. Dianne’s former husband Geoff is married to Jonathan’s daughter – a kind of fallen Pentecostal wife-swap.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson. Former Hillsong Senior Pastor. Likes pedophiles.
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like Pastor Jonathan Wilson who has strong links with Brian still, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy.
Jonathan Wilson told media at Frank Houston’s funeral in November 2012, “I regard Frank as a friend”. So Jonathan Wilson likes a lifelong secret child rapist parading as a Christian clergy as his friend.
The reality is that no amount of spin and re-invention can remove the dark black stains of the seven decades long trail of child sexual abuse that “Pastor Frank” engaged in.
Pastor Brian Houston. Growing fat while while he hangs out the victims of his dad’s abuse to dry. “Sorry victims of dad’s abuse, I’m a leading Christian pastor, but you’re on your own. Have a good life. Sorry again- Haha ha ha…By the way boy victim AHA, it was your own fault you were sexually abused by my father Frank – you tempted him. This is what Brian told the AHA (Brett Sengstock).
Over seventeen boy and young teen known victims
I have verified seventeen or more victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child and teen sex abuse.
Everyone closely associated with this matter senses there are a lot more victims out there.
From the evidence there are over 400 boy, pre-teen and teen victims. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Many will not remember the incidents due to psychological defence mechanisms because of the trauma of the sexual abuse event(s).
And there would be, from the evidence, 1000s of male victims of masked homosexual and pedophile abuse.
Frank Houston: “I was very active as a pedophile in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Pastor Frank Houston after his confession to pedophilia in 1999 said to his son Brian, “I was very active as a pedophile at that time”. He was referring to the period from the 1940s to 1970s back in New Zealand, when he was in his 40s to 50s, when most of his known boy victims were sexually abused by him.
Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life
I believe Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life from his early teens.
Frank got kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was a Captain. It has now been established that it was for pedophilia.
Frank Houston was a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland, New Zealand..
Note 11 July 2020
Frank Houston sexually abused boys at New Zealand Salvation Army Orphanages in the 1940s
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. It has now been established that my postulations on this matter were accurate.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald confirmed my allegations in an article in the New Zealand Herald today (11 July 2020):
“The Herald has confirmed that fresh allegations of abuse by the AOG’s former leading light, Pastor Frank Houston, have been provided to the Royal Commission.
One allegation, that he sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka, opens up the span of Houston’s alleged predatory behaviour to cover decades.”
David Fisher is referring to the recent New Zealand Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse.
What organisation except Hillsong would still love its pedophile founder?
Pastor Frank Houston was a pedophile who used his Christian pastor’s ministry as a disguise and camouflage to gain the confidence and trust of innocent believing Christian families so he could access their children undetected for the purposes of sexually abusing them.
Pastor Frank Houston was never genuine in anything he did. He mocked us all. How could a man be a genuine Christian pastor when he was secretly a life-long hardened criminal pedophile? Its not possible.
Frank Houston Boy victim AHA
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014 at a Hearing in Sydney revealed a witness AHA, who was abused in the Sydney suburb of Coogee when he was an innocent little boy aged 7 to 12 years old, in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Boy victim AHA was brave enough to testify anonymously in person.
It made me cry.
It was real bad stuff indeed.
It made me very angry, particularly since Pastor Brian Houston, the son of Pastor Frank Houston, like Pilate in the Bible who washed his hands of responsibility for Jesus prior to his death, has washed his hands of responsibility to help and care for the boy and teen victims of his dad’s abuse, who are now in their 50s and early 60s.
If you go to my blog articles starting on Tuesday 7 October 2014, you’ll find all the horrific details of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse of victim AHA including genitalia fondling, digital anal penetration, masturbation of the victim as he reached early puberty, and Frank Houston using and getting the victim to pleasure him over a period of five years.
My source is AHA’s testimony on Day One of the Royal Commission’s examination of Hillsong, where AHA spoke for most of the day.
It’s tragic, graphic, sordid, horrific and completely culpable by Hillsong, the Australian AOG and Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston has tried for 14 years to bury his father sexual abuse of children, sanitise it, and try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Dah…“What we didn’t do is report it to police.” Brian Houston, son of Hillsong founder Frank Houston, is surrounded by media following his 2014 appearance at a Royal Commission into child abuse.
Pastor Brian Houston had tried for 14 years to bury his father Frank’s sexual abuse of children, to sanitise it, and to try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Frank Houston has long departed but the corruption lives on in the errant and corrupt behaviour of his offspring, particularly in the life and deeds of Pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston, the current Head of Hillsong mega-church.
Rev William Frank…enstein Houston. Molester of little boys. The most corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost.
Over Seventeen Known Boy and Young Teen Victims
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse also mentioned six other little boy victims of Pastor Frank Houston in New Zealand in the 1960s. But there are many more.
I have been writing since September 2012 that there were six boy victims of Frank Houston in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in the 1960s.
My count of child sex abuse victims of Frank Houston:
I have evidence of 17 or more boy and male teen victims.
I have evidence of two teen victims, Peter Fowler, who went public in the 1970s with the encouragement of the now deceased prophet Pastor Philip Powell and teen victim ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a direct result of Frank Houston’s sexual abuse.
From the testimony of the boy victims and the circumstantial evidence, I believe there were over four hundred victims of Frank Houston’s abuse. He confessed to Brian Houston, his son, in circa 1999, that he was very active as a pedophile, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Here are the boy victims aged 7 to 12, and one teenager aged 15 years old:
1. Six 10 year old boys Pastor Frank Houston molested while Head Pastor of Lower Hutt Assemblies of God (AOG), Wellington, New Zealand in the 1960s, while at the same time, General Superintendent of the New Zealand AOG (from 1965 to 1977).
2. Sydney boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock), as above revealed on Day One of Hillsong’s time at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014.
This is a particularly sordid case of repeated child sexual abuse of a little 7 year old boy by Pastor Frank Houston which continued for 5 years. I have covered this case in detail in my blogs on the Royal Commission starting on the 7 October 2014.
3. One 15 year old boy, Peter Fowler, in the Lower Hutt AOG, New Zealand. The Lower Hutt AOG paid out Peter, but it wasn’t much money.
4. At least 4 boy victims at Assemblies of God Church camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. See my blogs on victim SA1 (my code name for him) dated 16 and 17 October 2014. SA1 was aged 11 years old at the tie of the abuse.
5. One young man in Auckland, New Zealand, ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a result of the abuse. He was in his late teens.
I sense there are a lot more New Zealand boy, pre-teen and teen male victims.
7. One boy aged 8 years old, in a suburb near Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. My code name for him is WNZ1. The abuse was very similar to the Royal Commission victim AHA.
WNZ1 believes there were more boy abuse victims in his suburb. See my blogs date 18 and 19 October 2014.
8. Frank sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka.
9.In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.
10. Boy victims in Waikato area of New Zealand in the 1960s. Frank was doing crusades often amongst Maoris. “Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.” Untold boy and teen victims. Impossible to know how many.
TOTAL: 17 and many more victims. 400 plus boy and teen victims based on the evidence. Maybe over 1000-2000 boy victims.
Boy victim SA1 from Adelaide South Australia
One of the victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child sexual abuse at Kleimzeg Assemblies of God camps in South Australia in the early 1970s, SA1, contacted me after reading articles about Pastor Frank Houston on this blog site. He shared there were several other victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile abuse at these camps.
The epicentre of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities at these South Australian camps was the boy’s toilet block.
The abuse involved the fondling of little boys genitalia and masturbation in the toilet block and bunk room. Pastor Frank Houston was very confident, blazen, perverse and tactile.
Yes Pastor Frank Houston. The greatest and most prominent AOG Pastor in Australia and New Zealand from 1970s to 1998, when the truth of his duality emerged.
Frank Houston was a secretive, manipulative, sordid, dishonest and heartless criminal pedophile for 70 years from the 1930s until his death in 2004.
Pastor Brian Houston’s lies about the number of victims continues to this day
The official line of Hillsong Church and Pastor Brian Houston was that his father, Pastor William Francis “Frank” Houston only abused one boy in New Zealand 40 years ago.
This is the line that they held from the late 1990s to the Royal Commission in October 2014.
This is the view that was on their web-site for over a decade. When I was researching articles I wrote about Frank Houston and his pedophile activities in 2012, Hillsong’s website and all the accounts by Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong media reflected this great lie.
This is the view they have told the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers.
This view is totally inaccurate and a blatant lie by Brian Houston.
It emerged at the Royal Commission that Pastor Brian Houston has known that this official view was untrue and a lie all this time.
Folks we’ve been all been deceived.
What is still lacking from Frank’s son, Pastor Brian Houston and the Hillsong Movement, which Brian controls, is any real degree of honesty and openness about Frank Houston.
For example, why won’t Brian and the AOG release the official AOG report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities?
Why didn’t Brian admit his father did numerous pedophile and homosexual acts, and not just one, like Brian portrayed for 14 years, until the Royal Commission exposed his lies? Why do Brian lie to us all? How can Brian lie like this and be a prominent Christian pastor?
Why is Brian Houston still lying about the number of victims telling Sydney’s channel nine reporter Leila McKinnon earlier this year when she asked how many victims Brian believes there are now, Brian hesitantly replied “six”. This is despite Brian knowing about at least 8 victims in 1999 and at least 9 victims in 2004. Why lie Brian? Who is the Father of Lies?
Was Brian Houston sexually abused by his rampant pedophile father Frank?
And the question lingers, was Pastor Brian Houston himself, and his brother Graeme, sexually abused by their father Frank?
Maybe that’s too personal for Brian to admit, if anything occurred.
Or maybe he can’t remember.
These dark memories are normally suppressed and buried by the defence mechanisms of the human psyche.
Brian’s brother Graeme has refused to attend church since his teens. Why?
Further, were Brian and Graeme aware of the accusations against his father while he was a lad?
The pre-adolescent little boys Pastor Frank Houston sexually abused in Lower Hutt were Brian and Graeme’s age at the time.
Brian even stayed with his dad at AHA’s family home in Coogee, while his father lay on top of victim AHA all night and abused him for the week of their stay on one of the many visits. One can see why pedophile Frank Houston liked to go to Sydney and stay at AHA’s parent’s house. Disgusting.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s overseas “evangelistic” trips overseas were really sex holidays away from his wife and people who he was accountable to.
Details of boy victim AHA’s sexual abuse
While Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of little 7 year old AHA, who is now 52, the skinny spider-like Pastor Frank Houston sexually molested him. He fondled his genitals, he fondled his little thighs and bottom, and he digitally penetrated him. AHA shared on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission that he froze with fear.
Boy victim AHA wondered, why was this hero of the faith, a godly man who my mum and dad loved, doing this to me?
Victim AHA lay frozen with fear as Frank Houston, the pariah, lay on top of him all night. The cats howled, the night birds cackled as the do in Australia, the dogs barked down the street and the garbos rattled their bins, and all this time through those long chill hours, Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of AHA doing awful creepy, very perverse things to AHA.
If you think I’m being too graphic, this is what AHA said at the Royal Commission. These are the facts the Royal Commission’s lawyer, Simeon Beckett, read out. These are the facts that AHA read out from his witness statement on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Sydney.
Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad
It is interesting to note that victim AHA, who spoke anonymously at the Royal Commission, stated that Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad.
Pastor Brian Houston has denied this. I believe victim AHA because he sounded very honest and very coherent. Pastor Brian Houston hasn’t been honest about all this stuff for over 14 years.
The Royal Commission has also revealed how Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston have been heartless towards child abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG Pastor and leader pedophiles.
If you read my blogs on 7 to 10 October you’ll get drift.
Pastor Brian Houston the head pastor of Hillsong mega-church, a very wealthy “church” organisation, has refused to help the boy and young teen victims in any way
Pastor Brian Houston. Living in the shadow of his father Frank who he adored. I wonder how he feels about his dad now the tsunami of his dad’s pedophilia has hit the fan?
Brian at the Royal Commission
At the Royal Commission on 9 October, when Pastor Brian Houston was the star witness, he wiggled and swirmed in the hot seat of the witness box. Then he straight out said they won’t help the victims in any way. The reasons are outlined in my blog articles on this site of 9 and 10 October 2104.
Pastor Frank Houston. Creepy. Self-confessed pedophile.
Peter Laughton’s homosexual affair with Frank Houston
Since Peter Laughton, Pastor Frank Houston’s young worship leader, went public in 2007 about Frank’s abuse of him in the early 1980s, the Houston family have taken the line that Peter Laughton was a consenting male with their father Frank. In his early 20s at the time of his abuse in the early 1980s, Peter was over the age of consent which is 18 in Australia for consenting homosexual acts.
But is it ok before God for the most prominent AOG clergy in Australia and New Zealand, aged 58, to indulge in numerous sordid homosexual acts with his young worship leader?
At the time the homosexual liaison started Pastor Frank Houston was 58 and Peter was 20.
I fail to see how the Houston’s can dismiss this series of incidents with Peter Lawton so readily.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston. Total deviate and con-artist.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston was an active secret pedophile and homosexual particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s.
By 1990 he was 68 and his homosexual and pedophile libido seemed to have dropped off. I haven’t found any pedophile dirty old man Houston victims.
A reader of this site commented recently that he knew Frank Houston in the 1950s at Ellerslie AOG in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote in a comment on this site that Pastor Frank Houston had fixation about male swimmers. There were some NZ Olympic swimmers training. A young Pastor Frank Houston used to go down to the local swimming pool to watch them training and perve on them.
If you knew Pastor Frank Houston at this time and you know of pedophile incidents could you please contact me. I suspect his pedophile activities started earlier than Lower Hutt AOG.
Frank Houston was sexually abused by his father Frank
At the Royal Commission, Pastor Brian Houston told the Commission that his dad had been abused by his father, also Frank. This is no secret because Pastor Frank use to share about this from the pulpit at Christian Life Centre in the 1980s.
Pastor Frank Houston openly shared how his dad was very mean to him and his mum. That his dad had an affair with the woman next door, based his wife, and other bad stuff. The ABC of Psychology says that people who were sexually abused as children often go on to sexually abuse children when they are older/ become adults. That’s a big subject.
Peter Laughton spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007
If you google “Frank Houston” or “Frank Houston abuse” you’ll find plenty of transcript of detailed sordid accounts of Frank Houston’s sexual activities with Peter Laughton.
Peter has given interviews to the Sydney Morning Herald.
In these interviews Peter speaks honestly and candidly about the homo-erotic activities Frank Houston led him to do. It’s interesting yet very sad reading.
Please bear in mind that Frank Houston was aged 58, and the most prominent AOG clergy at the time, and he was abusing a vulnerable and needy young man aged 20 who was his Church worship leader. Heavy stuff indeed.
The investigation and being caught
The release of the official AOG Report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities is a document which would be helpful to the victims of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities. What is more important? Protecting Frank Houston’s legacy and reputation, the Houston name and Hillsong’s reputation, or allowing some healing and closure, not only to Frank’s numerous pedophile victims, but also to the countless others who were part of Christian Life Centre and Hillsong in the early days and who were deeply hurt and shattered by revelations of Frank’s secret activities.
Frank’s pedophile activities were not destined to remain a secret to his grave. By the late 90s the chorus of complaints was to become deafening. The AOG, and in particular, the then National Chief Executive Pastor Brian Houston, his son, were forced to investigate and do something about it.
Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst the second name for Hillsong
I personally knew Peter Laughton at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst.
Peter was very talented singer, song-writer and composer. A nice guy. Sensitive. Artistic.
No one had any idea that Frank Houston aged 58 and a revered pastor and his worship leader Peter Laughton age 20 were involved in a four year homosexual affair from 1980 to 1984.
Extraordinary talent at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst
In those days Frank had gathered together some extraordinary musical talent.
Frank had recruited Pastor David Johnston from Los Angeles to found international Institute of Creative Ministries (IICM), a music, singing and dance Ministries School. David worked at Wesley College for decades since these times. David is a very talented pastor, violinist, composer and worship leader.
Trevor King was also there. Trevor now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Trevor is very talented on the piano and led the band and was the Music Pastor.
Geoff Bullock is another muso who owes his success to the Houstons. Unfortunately Geoff’s personal life became a train-wreck when his marriage fell over and his ministry has never recovered to the heights of his success under the Houstons. Particularly under Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston is truly a king-maker. So much talent. So many scandals.
Pastor Frank Houston with Hazel, his faithful, enabling and supportive wife- who knew he was molesting little boys for many decades. Hazel knew he was a pedophile since the 1940s.
Peter Laughton was looking for father love
Peter Laughton is a really nice guy.
Outgoing, talented and sensitive.
In Frank, Peter has said that he was looking for father love. The kind of love Frank gave him was secretive, self-gratifying and impure.
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses that they find impossible to control. Their victims are really just objects of their desire. There is no care or love towards their victims. For the pedophile it is “all about me”.
I wrote another 13 articles, which are on this blog-site, on this subject of Pastor Frank Houston from 13 September 2012.
My memories of the man and what I experienced during the 1980s and 1990s while attending Hillsong Church.
I have written over 200 other articles on Hillsong and the Royal Commission.
Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in world history
I have come to the conclusion that Pastor Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in the history of the planet.
To do what Frank Houston did to little boys and teens all his lifetime, while maintaining the front of a holy man of God is the very gravest of sins known to mortal man.
Since I wrote this article in September 2012, and since the Royal Commission examined the Houstons and Hillsong, Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission barrister, publicly recommended in December 2014 that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged by the NSW Police for not reporting and for sheltering a pedophile, his old life-long pedophile father, Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of the Hillsong organisation.
In October 2015 the Royal Commission recommended Brian Houston for prosecution in its Findings.
Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Frank’s son and successor. Facing pedophile protection charges which will wipe the smile from his well-fed fully, corrupt face.
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Though there are certain arguments to be made for the separation of church and state I believe the authorities must step up and take a stand on all these charlatans who bestow themselves with the title of “Pastor”. Any weasel in this country can call himself/herself “Pastor” and then set about living the life of an “untouchable”. These fakes are responsible for an increasing amount of mental health problems and domestic abuse and it is astounding to me that no one in the Government seems willing or able to do something about it. These charlatans, in my view, could not get away with what they do unless they enjoyed the protection of people in very high positions. Hillsong and Houston should never be able to use the title “Pastor” and benefit from that title in any way – Houston is nothing more than business executive who, by virtue of inheriting his father’s business, has been allowed to act, it would seem, with impunity as he fleeces the naïve and vulnerable without conscience. When will we find even one man with integrity in the Government who has the courage to call for a complete investigation of this man, this snake pit of Hillsong, the financial dealings, and the damage that is being inflicted whilst they target young people in our community who just get carried away with the mind-numbing music and intoxicating atmosphere. I have no objection to what Hillsong does or how they run their business – but I most strongly object to them doing it in the name of God! A Government committee set up to hear evidence of people who have been abused by this church (all forms of abuse) and others like it is long overdue. The Government is already involved by giving them tax benefits because of their church status, so a little more constructive “interference” wouldn’t go astray, would it?
Don, when are you doing to wake up to the fact that the Brian Houston is not a pastor?He’s an impostor, preaching a different Jesus and a different gospel for money. Who is leading more people to hell than anyone could imagine.
Hmmm. Art Katz (Arthur) even wrote in a book that he always had major problems with Worship Leaders and when he was alive wrote him the why and sent a copy to his Admin Ass’t or whatever Title they gave Simon Hensman at the time. Believe it was in his “Prophetic Call” book. Have my theories, a lot of them are Perfectionist (“Living With A Perfectionist” by David Stoop, Manic/Bi-Polar (Dr. Susan Forward, Herb Goldberg, Victoria Secunda, David Elkind, Dr. Laura might cover that well along with Leann Payne’s written works); dormant Homosexual’s (very unhealed; “Kingdom of Self and God Players by Earl Jabay); then there’s “Healing of Damaged Emotions” and his other books by David Semands. When looked up Definition of a Cult; #12, 21 (in the next page section, it defines definition of a sociopath; think a lot of Pastor’s/Leader’s/Priest have VERY unhealed issues themselves. What’s sad is they don’t deal with their issues and then put themselves in position to abuse children and people in general (and we are ALL God’s children no matter what age).
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
P.S. You referenced in an article Tanya Levin wrote a book and David Marr by Black Inc. (What’s that title? When went to research for lot’s of books by a David Marr)!
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
What I wrote about Geoff Bullock originally is what he told me he did, at a private meeting a long time ago. I only removed what I wrote because he was hurt by the truth. I’m not out to hurt Geoff Bullock, who is broken by life anyway. Brian Houston used him as a living breathing human soul and as a stepping stone to climb the spiritual mountain of Brian’s own ego and success. Geoff is just another train wreck and discard of the Houstons, Brian and Frank- like all the other victims, be they spiritual or psychological or physical or sexual abuse victims of the evil Houston express train.
Don You do not seem to have asked his forgiveness for your long-time error and the damage it must have caused him. Perhaps you have done so in private…
Brian Houston hasn’t helped any of the victims as at 8 October 2015. The Royal Commission interviewed victim AHA and AHA contacted me shortly after, via this site. We’re in touch by email occasionally. AHA would let me know if Brian had helped him. SA1 (my code-name) is a victim of Frank Houston in South Australia. Brian could contact me if he wanted to help him. Victim WNZ1 (Wellington, New Zealand) contacted Brian in the mid 2000s and Brian fobbed him off. I am in touch with WNZ1 and his wife. If Brian wanted to help them he could let me know and I’d put him in touch with them. The bottom-line is that Brian, the Houstons and Hillsong don’t want to help any of the victims. Brian Houston is the ultimate lying con-artist and he makes out he cares but he is a selfish greedy charlatan who won’t help anyone but himself and his clan. Hillsong is a cash-cow to maintain his lavish lifestyle and to get off on his fame. However Brian’s fame is turning to notoriety and soon he’ll be charged with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile. At that point he’ll be shamed and all his assumed glory will turn to dust.
To my readers: Its a year since the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse subpoened Pastor Brian Houston and other Hillsong/ ACC Leaders. It now seems likely that the NSW Police will charge Brian Houston with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile, his old very corrupt dad Frank Houston. Donald
I’ve published four testimonies of sexual abuse by boy victims on this site. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse has produced a boy victim AHA who is now in his fifties who was horrifically abused for over five years by Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s son, Pastor Brian Houston, the current CEO said after the Royal Commission in October last year in Sydney, Australia, “we may never know the number of the victims of my father”. How much proof do you need Stephane? The Royal Commission has recommended that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged for sheltering and not reporting his father Frank to the Police from 1998 until Frank died in 2004. We are waiting to see if the Australian authorities take this action. Donald.
Kerri. Frank Houston’s pedophilia activity was public knowledge from about 2007 when Peter Lawton was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. If you google ‘Sydney Morning Herald Peter Lawton Frank Houston abuse 2007’ you’ll find the information in a David Marr SMH article about Tanya Levin’s book on Hillsong. The information is in the second half of this article.
i’ll publish this article soon on this site.
Although Peter was a consenting male when abused by Frank Houston who was 60, Peter feels Frank took advantage of him and abused him.
About this time it became known that Frank Houston was also guilty of multiple historic pedophile abuse events, mainly with little boys ages 7 to 12 years old. This was the preferred demography of his victims.
Brian Houston sheltered his old pedo dad for 5 years until he died in 2004 and he didn’t report him to the Police as required by NSW Law.
Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission’s leading lawyer when they were examining the Houstons and Hillsong in October last year, publicly recommended in December that Brian Houston be charged with these offences.
There are 14 articles starting on 9 September 2012 specifically about Frank Houston’s abuse of boys and other sins like doing hatchet jobs on good men of God like Dr David Johnson, his Worship director in the early to late 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst.
From October last year I’ve written about 100 articles on this subject.
If you want to understand the full picture start reading.
This site is by far the most authoritative and comprehensive factual site on the subjects of Frank Houston, Frank Houston’s pedophilia, Brian Houston’s lack of response to the victims, Brian Houston’s corruption on multiple levels, Hillsong’s corruption on multiple levels, the New Zealand and Australian AOG/ ACC Churches corruption and the sexual sins of Australian and New Zealand prominent Pentecostal leaders over the past 50 years.
Am I to glean from this comment that Frank Houston’s abhorrent behaviour was public knowledge as far back as the early 1970s? Is is even possible therefore that Brian Houston had heard nothing about it before the time he now claims? I would like to know more about this as it pertains to a conversation I had with Brian Houston in 1988. How is it possible that so many people seemed to be aware of Frank Houston’s actions and yet Brian Houston claims that he heard nothing about his father’s paedophilia during these years before the family came to Australia?
So true.. ‘God does forgive ALL Sins’ .. providing the Sinner truly Repents. And when a Sinner truly repents of their Sin, (no matter how vile the Sin) you can rest assured that there is ‘No Returning to that Sin’. We know that God has FORGIVEN us of our Sins when we don’t Go Back to them, like the dog to the vomit and the sow to the mud.This is the proof and fruit of the quality of our Repentance. Godly or Not .. ref/2 Corinthians 7:10. When God Forgives us .. we are ‘Forgiven, Cleansed, Delivered and Empowered against that Sin’ once and for all in one hit. How great Thou Art O Lord God! The Soul Saving Question is, how could Frank Houston have Truly Repented of his perversion when there is a trail (a record) of repeated ongoing similar acts of paedophilia. One thing is for sure, the Liar will not enter the Kingdom of God, paedophile or not… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yE-xl-HJs ..
its so sad—ive seen the holy spirit move in and through paster frank housten to bless and heal many–thank god he was self confessed –god forgives all sin
Re: Counsel, Deliverance, Peace of Mind and Emotional Recovery .. Those in the Body of the Christ all have different gifts, according to the Grace given to each of us by Yahweh. If your gift is prophesying, then Prophesy/Speak in ‘Accordance with Your Faith’ Measure. Yes, Faith in the Christ can move Mountains and do the Impossible. As an X Alcoholic, X Chain smoker, X Drug user and X Filthy Immoral Wretch who Chain smoked and smokes no more, I know first hand the ‘Power of Faith-Obedience in the Christ’, hence I offer Messiahs Way above all others Jesus says I AM the Way! .. ref/Romans 12:6, Hebrews 11 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Xm9ykp0lA .. 🙂
Robyn. Personally, I found Dr Cliff Powell of the Christian Psychological Services in Mona Vale, Sydney helpful after my marriage fell over in 1996. My ex-wife took me along because she felt it might help our marriage. We saw Cliff a few times. Then, when my ex refused to give up her lover, Cliff told her that it was a waste of time proceeding with her. Cliff then asked me if I would like to continue alone. I felt I need that support and someone to talk the deep stuff through with who was a strained professional. Cliff is a Christian behavioural psychologist. He prayed with me at the start of every session and then we’d chat for 3/4 hour. His approach was gentle and supportive. I went to see him every 2 weeks for a while then it tapered off to every three months then I didn’t need him anymore. I found the whole process with him over a few years extremely helpful. In respect to any victims I’d encourage them to, if possible, find a counsellor or psychologist who is at least empathic to the Christian faith, and talk their stuff through with them. They don’t have to be full-on Christian but its better if they are at least a bible believing Christian of some Protestant denomination. Donald
Hi Donald.. Re/Psychs .. I myself suffer from ‘PTS Indefinite’ according to a Psych Report from a respected Psych in Brisbane City.. due to me being set on Fire (abused) by a Maniac-Muslim (2002) as I preached Jesus as God Almighty and Saviour in the streets of Brisbane. Plus I was food poisoned (abused) by a Muslim Kebab Shop (2008) resulting in a Heart Attack and the Senior Cardiac Surgeons at the RBH Brisbane said I needed ‘5 statins and a Stent’ in my heart or I would die. However, I chose to Look to Jesus, the God of All Flesh, by the leading of His Spirit and all is well with my Soul-Mind, Will and Emotions. And how can you be a Psych and a Sold Out Christian-Follower of Jesus at the same time?. While Psychology deals with the Mind and Jesus deals with the Spirit – Hearts of Humanity. And aren’t Christians born of a Spirit of Sanity, a Sound Mind and the Prince of Peace.. re/2 Timothy 1:7, John 3:5, Isaiah 23:6.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvjpe5HK4M .. The Glory belongs to Jesus!.. 🙂
There are many good psychologists and counsellors and many good Christian ones who allow clients to work with their Christian beliefs ,who do assist people to deal with anxiety, depression and PTSD associated with abuse. People should be given the option of seeking help, assistance and support and know of services that are available.
Gidday Donald.. Re/Victims of Religious Abusers and Pagan Abusers .. I don’t believe that it is a good idea at all to refer ‘Abused People’ to Psychologists and Psychiatrists for they can only ever offer temporary and very limited help, especially for the ‘Mind and Emotions’. Apparently Psych’s are numbered among the most ‘Mentally and Emotionally’ Unstable people in the World. Keep fighting the Good (News) Fight Donald, because only a Remnant are .. ref/Matt 11:28, Isaiah 23:6, Matt 7:13-14 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/jesus_turns_nightmares_into_happ.htm ..
Tanya. I leave any information or opinions on this site so long as people aren’t attacking others etc. So your info is here for anyone. I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as a Hillsong Watch group or anything. This is a private blog site with no affiliation or bias. I am OK with all the Protestant Churches so long as they are biblically based and embrace the moving and gifts of the Holy Spirit. In that statement I just lost a lot of friends. Donald
Hi I’m not asking you to be aligned with anything. I’m asking you to refer people to the appropriate services so that they can access the help that is in place, legally, socially, psychologically etc. The victims that you are in contact with have a right to know about the services available to them. That’s all.
here is the link for the most accessible form of compensation. i would support your class action efforts, but it’s important people know about the standard avenues as well.
Donald, please can you pass on my email to anyone who requests it. it’s tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com I’m not sure if you’re aware but the Attorney General will provide free advice and application to Victims Services. It’s important that you refer ppl to Victims services where they can get free counselling from Victims of Crime too, as an option. Just so that people have that option. please pass my email onto Evan who requested it and to anyone else trying to get in touch with me. Thanks
How pathetic that Churched people like the Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and other Orthodox Religions such as RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church, Salvos etc .. refuse to comply fully when found out for their abominable acts and Wilful Destruction of peoples lives and then a FUND is set up for the Victims. Not that the Victims don’t deserve payment but It really sounds like this kind of behaviour/abuse is about to be Accepted and Counted as part of Church Behaviour… So why did Jesus die on the Tree, didn’t Jesus say it is FINISHED?.. and that ALL was accomplished (by Him for us @ the Tree) and that we can do ALL things through Messiah who gives us strength via His Victory. Well it is the Last Days isn’t it .. ref/Romans 13:1-14 .. “When the Devil comes in like a Flood, Holy Ghost will raise the Standard”.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/torn_between.htm ..
Reblogged this on kristinesteyne and commented: there are many many comments at the bottom of this blog. I believe also that Brian Houston should definitely reported his father
Donald, It is no trivial thing what you are doing here for these people. And you have no doubt been instrumental in helping these Victims somewhat, in easing their pain. However, if they stay close to Jesus, He will bring them through to a Glorious End. Yes, I still pray for you and the Victims (even though I know them not) as Father leads, He knows them and every hair in their head. I do believe in Miracles Donald and they are real easy for Jesus to perform, piece of cake actually.. I am believing for a Miracle for you and them. Go in the Strength of Our Lord.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/heart_attack.htm ..
Paul. I’m going to explore the possibilities of legal action. The main thing to me is that the victims are empowered and can get on with their lives in a positive godly manner. All three boy victims I am in touch with by email and on this site, AHA, WNZ1 and SA1 are all feeling heaps better for speaking out and having their say. This site is the only forum for WNZ1 and SA1 to do this. AHA spoke out at the Royal Commission and he has been making a few comments on this site. It’s great these men, now in their 50s to 60s are able to do this. They can have their say anonymously and feel empowered. It’s all about the victims and their families. Donald
Katharine. The Royal Commission, the Australian Government, the AOG/ ACC, Hillsong will do nothing to help the victims. Pastor Brian Houston has said he won’t do anything for the victims. On what basis do you write: “Trying to sue Brian would not succeed and would be a waste of time and money as well as your energy”. Are you a barrister who specialises in criminal law? You also write “I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so the victims can get counselling and maybe a support group”. Well, Katharine, the Assemblies of God in Australia doesn’t exist any more. Then you write “They would have to sue the individual church i.e. Klemzig AOG top get any compensation”. If you’re saying the AOG will sue the Klemzig AOG, well the AOG don’t exist. Even if it did it wouldn’t sue an AOG Church. You then say “I understand the Royal Commission is going to make recommendation about compensation”. The Royal commission is unable to help with compensation but it can make a recommendation to the NSW or respective State where the victim was abused to charge someone with a criminal offence for not reporting pedophilia. They will also comment on the culpability of the ACC, Hillsong or Brian Houston, but it won’t do anything about it. The only way the boy victims of Frank Houston will get any compensation is if there is a class action initiated by the victims themselves. No one else is going to help them. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about legally to be honest. But it’s a free world re expressing your views. Donald
Gidday Donald, around October 9 .. I recall saying this, regarding Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and their abuse of children .. “Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this Entire Case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church”. And even have the Gall to shout aloud ‘thanks be unto God for Vindicating us’. Donald, this is not to put a wet blanket on things but we do live in a ‘World of Unrighteousness’ after all, and let us never forget that MONEY TALKS.. A place calling itself a ‘Church-Holy Place’ doesn’t get as Materially/Financially Rich as Hillsong through being HONEST.. LOL… The Real Judgment and the Real Sentencing is on it’s Way and none of us can escape this one .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3hggV7i2Y8 ..
Trying to sue brian would not succeed and would waste a lot of time and money as well as your energy. I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so that the victims could get counselling and maybe form a support group . They would have to sue the individual church ie klemzig aog to get any compensation. I understand that the royal commission is going to make recommendations about compensation . Maybe franks adult victims will then come forward . And no I don’t work and would never work for hillsong katharine
Evan. Tanya Levin is a former Hillsong member and a Hillsong watch type of person. Tanya wrote a book, “People in glasshouse…”. I haven’t read it or been to her website, if she has one. I would think that Tanya has a lot of information. If you google “Tanya Levin” or Hillsong related words and phrases which critique Hillsong, its prosperity etc you’ll find her stuff. Tanya said, in this comments part of my site, that she wanted to talk with me, swap info etc and maybe form a coalition. I told her I wanted to be unaligned. I’m happy to receive any information that will help me take a class action with Frank Houston’s victims against Hillsong, AOG/ACC and Pastor Brain Houston for compensation. I’m going to start a Trust Fund for victims of Frank Houston to fund a civil class action for victim compensation and a criminal case. I am looking to get Pastor Brian Houston criminally charged and convicted for not reporting AHA and other pedophile cases between 1999/ 1998 until the current Royal Commission in 2014. I am not convinced Brian didn’t know about his father’s pedophile activities earlier then 1999/ 1998 and would appreciate any information from anyone out there which would prove that Brian knew earlier. Donald
This whole thing with the Houston’s, Hillsong – CLC – ACC, is really all about Judgment and Righteous-Judgment is a Loving thing. It is surely helpful, profitable to all concerned and not concerned. Yes, even those watching on can learn.. ref/1 Timothy 5:19-20. I know I am. I can never forget the day that Messiah had me go to ‘Steve Erwin/the Crocodile Hunter’ some years back now, to give him the ‘Message of the Christ’. I have written 12 books in my short Ministry of 27 years and out of the 12 books, Holy Ghost led me to take him the book.. ‘Birds and Fish’. To put it bluntly, this book was about DEATH. And you know what, it wasn’t long after I took that book to Steve he died a the hand-tail of a Stingray and I still wonder today, did he ‘read and hearken’ to the Message of that book and where will Steve be at the Judgment Stand of the Christ, will it be the ‘Great White Throne’ or the ‘Saints Stand’ ?.. Judgment is a Serious thing but it is also a Beautiful thing. The Beggar Lazarus had the right idea.. “Stay in right Standing with God no matter what”.. the Rich man in his uptown robes wasn’t so smart was he. Hope all you bloggers have a nice day .. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/steve_irwin.htm ..
Rejoice!.. for this is the day that Yahweh has made, without hands. At the end of the day and even Life itself as we know it on planet earth .. it really doesn’t matter what people think about us, say about us or think they know about us .. we will all stand at the ‘Judgment Seat of the Christ’ and we shall ALL give account of ALL things done while in our body, whether that be Good or Evil .. scary hey.. that is, if our Heart is not Right with Yahweh.. Thank God for ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’. We no doubt serve the ‘God of Promises’ .. 🙂 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zEt0eTsts …
The attached is a little simplistic and consequently doesn’t dwell on Frank. Dad was a fine father to a household of 8 on low paid wages at GM where the body shop finisher receive free milk to compensate for lead poisoning from filing the lead filled blemishes. However he was a bigoted old school “keep politics out of sport” rugby supporter who couldn’t come to grips with HART’s “No Maori No Tour”. We argued too much and my wife preferred we not visit.
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Tanya. Re Brian’s sisters. They’re on the early blogs from 2 years ago. They commented about 2 weeks ago. If you can’t find them let me know and i’ll do a search. Donald
Tanya. The Commission contacted me 1.5 weeks ago asking for me to contact the South Australian victim. I put him in touch with the Royal Commission and he made statement. Another two men have contacted me from New Zealand. Both are victims new to me. The Commission has given me contact names and phone numbers for victims to phone them on.
As the Royal Commission were the ones to ask for Brian Houston’s to take the stands, there were obvious reasons. To ensure that the safety of these children are on top priority and that the institute or church are reacting in a positive manner so that these bad acts are not repeated in the future.
I appreciate your response. Not to be pedantic, but the Commission is investigating both the institution and “its officials” so while Brian Houston is obviously not on trial, his personal response is also the concern of the Commission.
Below you’ll find a link to the page that outlines the expressed purposes Royal Commission which may clarify things for others as well.
I agree that it is our right to judge the intentions of people of any church. Having said this, I do believe that when someone is saved or born again, they give their lives to Jesus and follow Him. However, that does not mean the person won’t fall into temptation . … of course he will, he will probably even sin… Satan’s aim is to break up the church and that is exactly what he will aim at… Peter denied Christ, not once but thrice. He lied that he did not know who Jesus was. Thank our Good Lord that we are not saved by what we do but by Grace that can be given by God alone. I don’t know if Frank Houston asked for forgiveness or not, even Brian Houston may never know but God does. So by judging his salvation by the words Brian Houston used at the Royal Commission is not the right way to go.
Now going back to the church and judging the church that we attend, of course we should. In fact, if you read my earlier post, I don’t think I denied that there. But you will get many in churches who will fall into temptation and sin but we have to look at the church as a whole. If someone has done wrong in the church, how has the church reacted towards the person involved. That is actually what the Royal Commission is all about, not to put Brian Houston on trial but to see if the church has reacted against the perpetrator in the correct manner and not pushed the situation under the carpet and I think they did get their answer.
Hi i just saw this. No worries, then ignore my previous comment. Can you please direct me to the sisters’ comments? Congrats on all this work by the way…
Hi Donald, Please make sure you let victims know about the official Royal Commission agency to guide them through the whole process from making a statement and through to including legal advice re compensation. It’s at knowmore.org.au thanks and please feel free to contact me at tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com We’re all trying to put our heads together at the moment and your site is a real help!
RE: ROMANS 3:23 .. Says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm ..
I’m sure you don’t mean to, but you are using Romans 3:23 as a proof texts.
I don’t think anyone here is condemning anyone, but they are following scriptural guidelines and are judging whether the Houston’s actions line up with the Word of God. You are correct though, it is not our “right”, but it is our responsibility!.
Here’s a link to all the scriptures that show you that we are meant to judge those within the church. Just cut and paste it into whatever search engine you use if it doesn’t open directly.
Also, I don’t think the reason that people start blogs is “only” when “you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man”. People start blogs for all sorts of reasons.
Please read the link I sent you as you’ll be able to see that not only are we supposed to judge people within the church.
Finally, I think the author has already indicated that his intention is to assist the victims to get to the right authorities.
Paige .. here is part of your Comment on rewind .. Quote.. “At the heart of this, is that your father attacked ‘SOMETHING’ that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable ‘COMMODITY’, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man”.. end of Quote. So children are SOMETHING and children are a COMMODITY … Hello?.. 🙂 .. do you know what a COMMODITY is?.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
I appreciate that you must be in such pain right now. No child should have to experience either being molested or being parented by a child molester. I know my natural overwhelming instinct would be to minimize the horror, to try and find a way to accommodate justice without destroying everything around me in the process. I don’t think anyone questions how absolutely devastating that this must be for you and your brother.
However, that has been where so much of the focus has is (your brother’s pain not yours). I’m aware that Brian has had tens of thousands of supporters pledging their loyalty and condemnation of everyone who dares to suggest that he should be accountable. But your brother’s messages continue to be embedded with calls for sympathy and we’ve heard so much about his pain (this is the first time I’ve heard about his siblings though) but so little about the victims. Shouldn’t that concern us?
I have not read other people’s opinions, I have only read the statements, listened to the cases and read Brian’s own words but this is the overwhelming pattern in his language.
I have been watching the Royal Commission and they have indicated that what he did was wrong in taking on your father’s judgement and in not reporting it to the authorities. Yesterday, your brother admitted that in church, but also put the blame on the AOG leadership as well. I’m not sure if you heard it, but it has been posted.
I think a lot of Christians are wondering why it has taken so long for this to come into the light? Why would someone who has testified that they were deeply traumatized and conflicted, then argue that they handled the situation objectively and ethically. When asked why, Brian said because it needed someone with “courage” and “guts” to do it. Courage and guts to do what? Slap your father on the wrist and suspend him from ministering? That doesn’t make sense, but it does raise a lot of doubts.
I don’t mean to simply criticize your brother, but I do hope that I can explain why people are asking questions. Why I am asking questions?
Of course we will all be accountable on judgement day, but this blog, I suspect, isn’t about judgement day, nor is the Royal Commission about judgement day, it’s living the truth in the past, present and future on this earth. An earth in which we are supposed to be the light and a people that are above reproof. If we have lost our saltiness, and the world needs to reprove us for having failed to act justly, then we are indeed in trouble. Your brother has been reproved by the world by failing to act justly and all of us are wearing that. Out on the street, my non-Christian friends are asking me for answers, so I think it’s fair enough that I try and get some for them.
I know it is deeply personal to you, but what happened happened while your father was in ministry and that ministry, directly or indirectly, led to the formation of Hillsong. The world has a right to ask questions of the church and when they do we should come up squeaky clean. When we don’t, and that happens unfortunately, then we should at least admit it.
You make the comment that your brother has practiced forgiveness on a scale that most never have to consider. I think that could be deemed fairly offensive to those who today are dealing with a lost childhood. At the heart of this, is that your father attacked something that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable commodity, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man.
I hope this helps you understand people’s concerns a little better.
Paige. I agree with every word you’ve just written. Before the start of the Royal Commission I was hopeful that Brian might listen and show some humility and care. However I am convinced that Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and AOG/ ACC are incapable of listening. My focus is on the victims, not just the sexual victims but all the folks who gave their lives and hearts to the cause of Christ under Pastor Frank Houston and were abused in other ways. Even Brian has been betrayed and deceived horribly by his own dad. But that does not excuse Brian under the Laws of Australia and New Zealand. Brian should have reported the crime of pedophilia of his dad to the Authorities in Australia and New Zealand and let them decide what to do with his dad. Given people like Rolf Harris are 84 and still doing goal, it’s a given that Frank would have been jailed. By failing to report his dad, Pastor Brian Houston may end up being charged, not with his dad’s sins but for not reporting them and concealing them. The compensation of victims issue is another big consideration and my thinking is a class action by the boy abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston would succeed. Donald
Hi Mark, No-one has yet claimed, including Brian, that his father repented of his sins. In fact, Brian explains that his father effectively pined away until his death in deep depression. This hardly describes a man who has been reconciled with Jesus. Also, Frank was forced to admit one crime, to which he had no choice but to admit because the evidence was indisputable, but even then did not admit to all the children that he had molested, just the one. This is not repentance or being “reconciled with Jesus” no matter how you spin it.
With this unconfessed sin in his heart, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank continued to attend a small Sydney church, be around children and pray for people. My Bible says that this is the works of the devil.
When Brian was asked on a radio with 2G (you can google it and both watch and listen to it), he was asked if he thought his father was in heaven. Had Frank repented, the answer would surely have been “Yes”, but Brian admitted that he did not know, though he hoped he was. Even when Frank was forced to admit his crime, he did not report himself to authorities, he did not resign and he did not seek out his victims to make restitution (remember he never paid the $10,000, Brian arranged this).
I am so grateful to the Lord that they are Christians who believe that we should be more accountable for our behaviour than the world is. I am grateful for those who believe it is the job of the church, as mandated in scripture, to call out hypocrisy, false teaching and double standards WHEREVER they are found.
For those arguing grace, forgiveness and compassion, I suspect you have not understood these words in relation to the whole counsel of God. These are all powerfully forces that lead into the arms of God, but Frank rejected them when he denied these things to others. It is important that you understand that judgement within the church, is also a means of grace, forgiveness and compassion.
You also fail to remember that as Frank, as Brian does also, set himself up as a leader and teacher of men, he, according to scripture, became more accountable to God and to the church. Those who are not holding them to account are in fact the ones doing them the most harm.
If you would see Brian Houston survive this, then you will reprove, rebuke and admonish him.
Tanya. I don’t want to collaborate. I’m just doing what I can for the cause. Any information I glean that I’m able to share will be on this site. Donald
Hey Noel, how’s it going?.. Rom 3:23 says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
HI…having trouble contacting you… please be aware that we are all putting our heads together…thanks for all this info….please send your email..? or find me on facebook.. we’ll get to the heart of this together x
Some interesting WFH Bio – http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/ADPCM/e-to-h/houston-william-francis-frank-1922-/ I had always assumed that the book keeping errors were not sufficient reason for the Salvation Army to expell the then youthful Frank and went with the gossip that there would be sufficient cause if it was say an extramarital affair. Whatever it was, caused his “backsliding” for three years until Tony Austin invited him to the Khyber Pass AoG in where Ray Bloomfield took him under his wing and within six weeks had made him the Assistant Minister at his popular Ellerslie AOG church. However this arrangement didn’t last long, as Bloomfield suddenly moved Canada in ’55, leaving Frank with his large 400 congregation which quickly dwindled to about 80. Frank stuck with it until December 1959 when he was offered Lower Hutt AOG. CJ
I don’t think anyone here has not been improper or vindictive. I think, they just want the truth to be reflected and as you have seen everything you have put forward has not been correct. If at all, you seem to be aiming at Hillsong and Brian Houston, Read your post again.
I also still don’t see how a blog is helping victims. You will agree that Pastor Brian Houston is not accountable for his father’s actions and actually cannot answer for him at all but still made an attempt to understand the victims point of view. I watched the Royal Commission, which in my opinion is a good thing especially to know if the right thing was done and, I think Brian Houston spoke exactly as it was from his perspective. On the other hand, if you watched the Royal Commission on the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell with his own confession said that while he had taken up the abuse cases with the Vatican, they shunned him aside and in fact told him not to come again with these cases. Now that is a problem when the church does not heed to something brought to their notice. We are all sinners but I believe that when we see something wrong happening, we should not push it aside but instead do the right thing which I think Brian Houston did do in 1999.
Kepa. I basically agree with ACC’s 10 points about gays. I have had a lot of interaction with gays in Sydney over the decades. If a man or woman decides they want to seek the Holy Spirit through the Lord Jesus Christ they will make contact with the Divine. The Holy Spirit will help them come to terms with how He feels about the situation. And then the Holy Spirit will show the gay man or women what is the next step. Its about wholeness as a human being. Donald
Noel. Thank you for sharing your views. I welcome anyone to comment so long as its done in a polite and not a vindictive manner. I am not able to share more about my conversations with victims. Save to say there are many. I’m doing what I can to help them. They all have counsellors. They like my blogs and what I have to say and feel empowered by them. My opinions and views are well-known on this site. Donald
Rom 3:23 says “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are no one to commend another man as we are all sinners. The only one who can judge is God Himself.
If as you say are helping others do you think that you are equipped enough to help them. It would be better if you directed them to the correct source for a proper investigation. The need to start a blog arises only when you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man, something which none of us have the right to.
10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. – so what does this infer??? that such people don’t accept Christ????????
Hi Donald, People may find this interesting… This is what Hillsong and ACC (Australian Christian Churches) actually believe about Homosexuality & Lesbianism:
1. Homosexuality is referred to directly and specifically in the scriptures. 2. Homosexuality violated God’s plan for provision and family. 3. Biologically God did not create the human body for homosexual activity. 4. Homosexual activity is unhygenic as can be seen in the high rates of infection with, and the transmission of AIDS amongst those who practice homosexuality. 5. Homosexuality is a dangerous practice that reduces life expectancy of the participant by 25years. 6. Homosexuality is a chosen ‘behaviour’. 7. It is a ‘choice’ – Not a natural, biological, hormonal or genetically governed behaviour. 8. We oppose the legalization of homosexuality. 9. God loves the homosexual despite their sin and is willing to forgive the homosexual and bring them to wholeness. 10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. Source: ACC Ministers Manual: Ethics Statements (Homosexuality & Lesbianism)
BE YE ‘PERFECT’ AS FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT!.. What was that?.. Do we here these words in the Churches anymore?.. LOL.. 🙂 .. If a Minister mentions the word ‘PERFECT’ in the pulpit today, the congregation splinter and he is considered .. DELUDED .. 🙂 .. this gives us all a good idea on how many churched people are Really Saved from Eternal Hell Fire.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRc0h2jjX8 .. Enjoy!
Deb. You are correct. Hillsong was just a continuation of Christian Life Centre. Simple as that. But Pastor Brian Houston is using this entity change from Christian Life Centre, Sydney to Hillsong to say to the 13 plus boy victims of his father’s abuse: “Sorry about the abuse occurring at Christian Life Centre, other parts of Australia and New Zealand when my dad Frank was in the AOG or City Hillsong. You see the AOG New Zealand is a separate entity from the AOG Australia and the AOG Australia is now Australian Christian Churches anyway and Christian Life Centre Sydney is now Hillsong City campus. So unless your abuse happened in Hillsong Baulkham Hills since 2000, I’m definitely not liable. Not even morally because I have no morals towards the victims so how could I be morally liable?” Donald
Paul.Thank you for your support and belief in what I’m doing. One victim who wrote to me on this site about being abused by Pastor Frank Houston contacted the Royal Commission this week with my help and gave them a written account of his story. He emailed me after and said that its made him feel a lot better and empowered. The abuse occurred when he was just 11 and happened several times at an AOG church camp in Australia. TV One in New Zealand contacted me and asked me for some leads on NZ victims of Pastor Frank Houston and I was able to point them where to find some. I was contacted today by a NZ victim in an area of NZ where I’ve had no evidence of abuse and I’m in communication to see if I can help them. Donald
Hello Michelle, I don’t know you personally neither do I know Donald personally but one thing I do know of Donald is this .. “Donald has a Backbone (which is more than I can say about most church leaders today) and he Truly cares about people, especially abused people and I have no doubt that God Almighty ‘will and is’ backing him in his pursuit of Righteousness and Justice for those who have been beaten down and have no Voice”. And one more thing, I don’t really do the ‘blog-thing’ but I find myself here on Donald’s Blog, as Father leads. And have you noticed that Donald’s Blog has no ‘Coward, Compromising Notice’ on it such as.. “All comments on this Blog are subject to Moderation”.. I like that, I like that people are free to speak what is ‘Really in their Hearts’ and are not Controlled and Restricted by Pharisees, Sadducees and People Pleasers. Let me recommend this article link (of my fellow minister) for your reading, RE: Judge Not. And also, let me say, Proud People wouldn’t dare put their Name, Time and Strength on the line for others, (proud people have no genuine care for anyone but themselves) please consider what I have just said Michelle, it may prove to be helpful as you go further down the road .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. 🙂
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Justice certainly needs to happen but sounds like you’re playing God, judge and jury, Donald. Let the authorities handle it. Be very very careful Donald, pride goes before the fall. I understand your righteous anger but never be so self righteous to think YOU could never fall. This sounds like a witch hunt you are conducting.
so terrible sad all of this, words fail me! Judgement must indeed start in the house of God and flow on out from there to the rest of the world. When Jesus returns He will be looking for a holy and pure bride who walks in the ways of God. It is up to all of us (individually and as the body of Christ) to be ready for His return. And you can be sure His coming is not far away, take heed of the parable of the 10 virgins (5 were wise, 5 were foolish. Look and see what happened, what was the outcome!). Those who have been wronged need justice, healing.
On the subject of lying. I would like to comment on Maureen’s statement about her dad not founding hillsong. Is she splitting hairs? I was in the meeting that day Brian and 40/45? Others were commissioned out to start a church at baulkham hills from CLC. We were also told that we and our tithes would help to fund them until they could get on their feet. Yes that church changed and involved into hillsong but that was a growth and change of name only. It still came from and was funded and founded out of her dad’s church. Surely someone like Maureen would know the truth of this? Wouldn’t you think?
There is God’s laws and the laws of the country. Crimes are dealt with in a COURT OF LAW. Not by anyone’s compassion and forgiveness. You are foolish to suggest that crimes are acts of the devil.If you were right.what is the use of having laws. Don’t come back to me with more quotes from the bible to justify what you said According to you, we can justify all the crimes committed in this world by blaming it on the devil. Judge: ” Yes dear man it wasnt your fault you molested that innocent child, it was an act from the devil” Youre a cretin mate to suggest we cant question Frank Houstons If you truly were abused yourself in this manner, do you honestly believe your forgiveness helped anyone else that that person may have abused? Or the abuser itself?
Gidday Donald .. I watched part of the RC on Houston this afternoon via streaming and from what I can see .. this Hillsong mob are as Cunning as a Dunny Rat, they’ll run around the bowl all day and never fall in. Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this entire case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church. All supposed Protestants (save RC’s) who dare not Protest any more, especially against Sin. And worse than that, Hellsong will have the gall to say .. “Thanks be unto God for Vindicating us”… 🙂 .. From the little I have seen/heard of Houston on live-streaming, he doesn’t give a hoot about anyone else but Brian, Frank/deceased and Hillsongs Furtherance. AOG are Crooks and ‘Wordplay Professionals’. I don’t believe any of them could lie straight in bed.. 🙂 .. I’ve said it for decades and people, so called Christians, pew warmers and Pastors alike HATE me for it .. “AOG is a Den of Thieves and who in their right mind would want to be associated with them”. Yes, I have had opportunity to be part ( a minister) with them, on more than one occasion (1 being with Garden City Church) but the Spirit in me said ‘Stay Away’.. thanks but no thanks .. 🙂 .. ref/Psalm 1:1 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo71.htm ..
Good Morning Donald.. I read your Oct 8 Comment on the RC-Houston and although the Saga is grim I still liked the dry-humour. As for your Oct 7 Comment, well, it was just so sad to read. So this man/FH controlled this boy AHA for 5 years, most certainly was no mistake was it. Wilful damage, damnable Sin outside of True-Repentance. I never seen Jim Williams X Pastor of Garden City Church ever go before the Courts either for his Sexual Misconduct with young girls in New Zealand, prior to coming to Australia, just another White Washed-Stone Wall job I guess. ‘Amazing Grace’ it is that Saves Souls from Eternal Hell Fire that live in Ongoing Known Sin Un-Repented… ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’ what a Beautiful Message filled with God’s Love .. ref/Luke 24:47 .. 🙂 .. Go in the strength of our God – Jesus, who is the Christ .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/tradingongrace.htm ..
Denis. Thank you for your comment and concerns. Would you mind detailing anything you feel is inaccurate? I started writing about Pastor Frank Houston two years ago. That was when I wrote the article on this site: “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. It was shortly after my father’s death, who was also a pastor. I was writing about dad and his life, mainly for my family and people who knew dad. In the course of my recollections and memories I wrote a blog about dad and Frank Houston because they were pastors in the same city in New Zealand. That was in Wellington in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Their contrasting backgrounds, congregational demography and so on was interesting to me. You see Denis, this is a private blog site which is only my opinion. I write the world as I see it. If I get the facts wrong, I’d like to know. Also I very much believe in the ethos of democracy and freedom of expression. So if you or anyone disagrees with me, that’s OK. I hope this explains a bit about where I’m coming from. Donald
Sorry Maureen something is not right in the Houston family. Your brother is wealthy, he is high profile, he is powerful and he has achieved many wonderful things as you say. However, I see a man in a deep rut of pain and shame that he is digging with his action of not shouting from his stage everything he knows. The truth will set him free. I’m afraid there are skeletons in Brian’s closet that caused him to start digging this rut. I’m not suggesting they are the same skeletons as your fathers but there are skeletons. A man without these skeletons would have just jumped on the grenade from the outset with the faith that Jesus Christ will restore.
Hello Donald. I have read your blog page and find numerous assumptions that you have come to. Please get the facts before you go into the public arena. You appear to be on a mission to avenge the sexual abuse of one man. Assumptions presented as fact are damaging to people and once stated by go it can not be withdrawn. Your assumptions have entered minds and they take it as fact. Be careful and use wisdom.
John. What age did Sheila live to and what happened to the nice house they built? Your dad was a very good man and you’re fortunate to have had a father like him. I can’t remember if I went to Stan’s funeral but I may have. Where was it held? I went to Pastor Tom Marshall’s funeral and watched the coffin being lowered into the hole. His funeral was at the Cemetery at North Ryde in Sydney. He got cancer unexpectedly and died quickly. Tom was one of the men of God who I think really had a close walk with God. Sometimes he’d radiate God’s Presence. Did you get on well with Stan? I’ll read the AOG link you mention. Did Stan and Sheila ever mention the scandal involving Frank’s abuse of 6 ten year old boys at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s and several at AOG youth camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. I’m trying to get more details. Do you know anyone who might know? Donald
Donald – yes indeed, I’m Stan’s second son. Incidentally, prior to her move to Africa as a missionary, Sheila was my mother’s midwife for me back in ’43 at the maternity home behind what is now the Hutt City AoG. If your interested in correcting the Wiki version of NZL AoG, Pastor Ian G Clark, whom I respected, has written its history – http://ifphc.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/assemblies-of-god-in-new-zealand/#more-662 If I recall it correctly of when I was 14/15 & vacationed in Ellerslie at my best friend home, Ray Bloomfield was a short overweight American type preacher that I didn’t really appreciate – but I understand there may have been some friction there with WFH. I moved to Ardmore in ’64 & lost contact with religion having some personal disbelief with the results of the Nicene “Convention”. I helped Dad & Sheila with the electrical wiring of their house and Dad died in ’78 a few months prior to my leaving NZL for Indonesia where now reside. I have no further juicy tales to tell of WFH except to say that I really had no trust in him and considered him and his ilk as a charlatan. (I once observed a Dentist from the congregation swear that the dental fillings one prayed for convert was receiving were from God – why didn’t he just get real teeth?) If evangelicals were a little more openly tolerant towards gay society then pedophilia would have a better chance to be recognised earlier. How many gay men & women are so because they were abused before reaching a mature enough age to understand the consequences.?
Paul. Don’t worry. Most people don’t comment. The views have gone through the roof. I’ve never set out to please people and write what tickles their ears. I have a huge number of viewers on a wide variety of subjects. The Frank Houston blogs are the most popular, particular “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. This was my first blog on Frank Houston a couple of years ago. Thank you for your comments and encouragement. I’m going to organise a class action if Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston don’t do something for the victims that is acceptable to me and the victims. One class action against the New Zealand AOG and one here in Australia against Hillsong and the AOG (now called the Australian Christian Churches). Donald
Well Donald .. day 2 has nearly passed us by and the ‘Stone Walling’ has already begun.. LOL!.. otherwise you’ll cry. The World, the News Reports tell us that even they are being deceived into thinking that Brian Houston and His Churched Leaders are all just Innocent Peoples saying with one accord.. “Silver and Gold have we None”. Jesus did say that ‘His people’ look for and long for the ‘New Heavens and the New Earth’ where RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS. It certainly doesn’t dwell on this earth, save in the Holy Remnant Peoples. ‘Admitting’ that we are Sinners or we have done wrong or that something is vile is not True Repentance, something needs to be done. The whole Saga of Frank Houston and his Filthy ways is not about his son Brian Admitting that his dad was a ‘Sodomite and Child Molester’… and then let’s move on now and Business as Usual. The entire case is not complete and never will be, in the eyes of the Righteous or the Righteous One-Jesus the Christ, until every single Victim is Accounted for, Compensated for and Catered for with whatever they need in order to ease the Horrific Damage dumped upon these little ones, by these Filthy Rich Wolves in Sheep’s Garments. If all I can do is continue to Encourage you to press forward with your ‘Findings and Conviction’ and also Pray for you and this ‘White -Washed’ situation, this is what I’ll do. But as you have already said “Some sins are Evident and Dealt with on earth while others follow them to the Grave”. Which was the case with Frank Houston. So was it 1 Child Molested or was it 21?. Frank and his wife’s sudden death also left a question mark in my mind .. And yes, dear Donald, only the ‘Salty’ will be Spared!!.. from Eternal Torment .. I notice that your Blog is not flooded with comments on such an Important Subject but neither is ‘The Narrow Road Flooded with Travellers’ .. ref/Matthew 7:13-14 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVY3MNm-VE .. Maranatha!
Rose. Its all voluntary re tithing and I have been going to church almost all my life. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses and has had its ups and downs but I’ve found my Christian faith has sustained me. My dad was a Pastor and from knee high he told me tales of human error, even pedophilia in the Church. And that was in the 1960s and 1970s. Everywhere you have people inside the Church or outside the Church you’ll find evil and human depravity. Donald
Paul. Thank you for mentioning me. I want to be one of those who follows in the footsteps of the brave heroes of the faith in the hall of fame in Hebrews chapter 11. Its been travelling around in my spirit lately the scripture in Revelation about if we’re lukewarm then God will spew us out of His mouth. Donald
I left CLC in its beginning days at Waterloo. Nobody explained such a thing as Diapraxis $$$, but I could see its outworking. I could see the signs and knew it was time to get out. This did not mean that I stopped being a Christian. The wickedness of men is a given and I alone must stand before God and give account. There was a time that the CLC bookshop had the likes of Francis schaeffer and Derek Prince etc. A number of years later I returned to CLC to check out its bookshop, to use the bookshop as a barometer regarding the church’s spirituality; as expected it had gone into decline. The simplistic books of Kennith Copeland were in full view; Copeland a known Freemason, as are Kennith Hagin and Billy Graham.
Many years later I chose to look at the top contemporary Christian music CD’s. As I listened to these, I was appalled; gone was the music of Keith Green and John Michael Talbot, true Christian music. Next I discovered a youtube hillsong video. This included a ‘so called’ Christian thrash metal band by the name of Pergamum; any Christian worth his salt should instantly know that (from the book of Revelations) Pergamum is the ‘seat of satan’; Pergamum being found in Turkey. The Pergamum altar being currently housed in a Berlin German museum; the same copied Pergamum altar that Obama used for his 2008 democratic(sic) convention. How a so called Christian Church could house a thrash metal band firstly, next one named Pergamum (seat of satan) was truly disgusting, while also intriguing to me. I wondered at the people that stood and watched this band; you could see at some level that they were troubled, yet they did nothing.
You who are without sin let him cast the first stone. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. A look at the old testament, in all its honesty, reveals the failings of man. The race we run is one to the finish line. Would you catch me in a hillsong church? Only to check out how far the fruit has fallen, then I’m out of there.
Beyond this, these are the sign of the times; the great falling away, the kali yuga. Yet this has all been in the making for many thousands of years. Mystery Babylon, gnostics, Alumbrados, The Church of Rome, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, witches, and satanists etc. Many who think that they have the absolute truth and yet are beguiled, (Do I think I have all the answers? No, but I make it my life’s work to find answers to the most important of questions). The Jesuits being some of the most heinous and depraved; the cause of most of the worlds wars and death of millions – mystery babylon. These same jesuits that secretly obtaining most of the worlds wealth via its illuminati run international bankers, via its owned reserve banks of this world. These very same who run the media and create religions. The very same people who set up tele-evangelists i.e. wolves in sheep’s clothing. Tele-evangelists who are also commonly Freemasons. Freemasonry which acknowledges at its 31st to 33rd levels that the god they worship is lucifer. This same lucifer which is the name which the UN had its publishing company named as ‘lucifer publishing’ now lucis trust. The same illuminati, inclusive of Murdoch who owns Harper Collins, which prints its ‘so called’ Christian bibles i.e. corrupted bibles. See videos ‘A lamp in the dark’ and ‘Tares among the wheat’ for the ongoing attack and corruption of the bible via the Vatican Jesuits. See also Libellusjesuitus.pdf as the the magical working of the Vatican Jesuits in conjuration of the demons of hell. As for those who still do not believe in a spiritual battle, you might like to look at all the books and videos of satanism and black magic readily available on Amazon.com and youtube; interesting are the works of E.A.Koetting on both of these websites. A person who will teach you of Human sacrifice but will smile when he tells you that he has not been apart of this. The Roman Church who is well aware of the spiritual realm and which secretly uses the forces of darkness to maintain power, all the while working for the Fascist New World Order, One world Government and One world Church – luciferian doctrine. The confessions of witches will tell you that they will attend church services; to merely sit in a service as a point of darkness to filter through to the church. Yes the people on top, the oligarchy, the is called illumanists, satanists know what is going on, what is at stake; power mad leeches of humanity; the ones that refer to the rest of us as useless eaters, cockroaches ready for the slaughter of the UN’s Agenda 21, Bohemium Grove and Georgia Guide Stones.
Yes I was also saddened to hear about Frank Houston, while every minister is a target, the mind boggles as to the wickedness of man. Saddened to watch what was becoming and did become of CLC, but with what I have just described above, you might have a glimpse into what is beyond what most just see on the surface. The rock of the Christian faith is the word of God. The Vatican and gnostics etc will tell you to place your trust on ‘Tradition and revelation’ all the while attacking the word of God and even corrupt the newer bibles. A look at Westcott and Hort (Jesuits) will show you from their written correspondences how they would seek to distort and destroy people’s faith in the bible (firstly via using the Jesuit Sinaiticus corrupted manuscript and then via casting doubt via the margin notes). There is a reason why there are Christians who stand firm on bibles that use the ‘majority script’ i.e. textus receptus manuscripts i.e King James Version; this verses the Vatican distorted manuscripts that most bibles these days are corrupted by. Wisely did St Paul state that “our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers..” For my liking any major church these days, especially that has Tele-evangelists are immediately suspect. The oligarchy which has most of the worlds wealth and controls most of the media, luciferians, are not going to let any church or minister that is not one of theirs, be able to positively influence the masses. The watered down churches of today are ripe for the One world Church. The Vatican created Islam to kill the true Christian and Jews and the game goes on. Why, did you not know that Mohammad’s wife of 15 years senior was a Roman Catholic that lived in a Roman Catholic convent? See information as presented by ex-jesuit Alberto Rivera – All roads lead to Rome. The tower of Babel – the U.N, Atheism verses Religion, the Hegelian dialectic, to achieve the One World’s Religion of the luciferian doctrine, the new age movement, man as god, all giving homage to lucifer. Stupid minds, Credit card mentalities – you can have it now, but one day you’ll have to pay up with interest.
So, you can listen to the lies and the distortions, you can run to Atheism etc like an ostrich with its head in the sand, but this does not negate the spiritual realm and the criteria of giving account as to ones earthly life’s actions. As for me, I’ll still stand by the one who spoke the greatest of all truth, the one who spoke words pertaining to eternal life – Yashaya (Jesus Christ).
Yes Donald.. Our great Lord-Jesus talks about ‘Thoroughly Purging His Church’ and if we don’t want to come under His Winnowing Fan’ .. how shall we be His, how shall we be Saved . .. would we not be only Born-Again Bastards?.. Not all Israel are Israel are they. And MANY will call Lord-Lord!.. whom Jesus will Deny He ever knew them. This Message was our Mid Week Teaching taught today.. 8.10.2014. And I make mention of Brian/Frank Houston, Hillsong and other Heathen Religious People-Organisations. You may find some time to listen. I also made mention of yourself-Donald. Keep up the Goodly Work, I’m sure Father – Ancient of Days is proud of you. Yahweh always backs His Truth and all who speak it in it’s Entirety – Full Counsel, never known Him any other way in 27 years Ministry .. Our motto @ JtCm-Mission is .. Honesty, Truth and Humility, with Jesus as Preeminent .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTlsPMenBc .. thank you Donald for keeping me posted .. Jesus Bless you .. 🙂 ..
Paul. I’m watching the whole Hearing and will continue to write blogs. Pastor Brian Houston issued a statement yesterday after the Royal cCommission denying he told victim AHA that he was tempting his dad. Please think about it: for 5 years the victim who was aged just 7 was abused by pastor Frank Houston and Pastor Brian Houston says the AHA was tempting his dad. This is the only victim the Royal Commission has heard from so far. From 2000 Pastor Brian Houston as head of the AOG took over the case of his dad. All the evidence from inside the Commission and from my sources says that Pastor Brian Houston did nothing at all to help the victims of his dad’s abuse in any way, apart from the shameful attempt at a buy-off at Thornleigh McDonald’s where a deal was done with AHA for $10,000 to be paid. AHA then had to chase Pastor Brian Houston for the cheque which arrived in the post with no cover letter. Pastor Frank Houston then tried to hush it all up and shut the matter down and has lied lied lied ever since. The Royal Commission is on to Pastor Brian Houston and he should be a worried man, if he’s not already. Before Sydney and the world Pastor Brian Houston’s shameful treatment of victims of his dad’s abuse is being played out. It was the top story on Sydney and National Sky News last night. there were large articles in the Sydney morning Herald and Daily Telegraph. Very very sad for the victims. Not good for the body of Christ. Purging sometimes has to come. Some people are judged on this earth. For some the judgment awaits them. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Sickening! This is so typical of Churches, never deal with anything properly or even biblically – shame on them! Shut all churches down I reckon or start TAXING them, after all, do they not TAX the members with the TITHE?? !! Of course they doApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Well Donald, day 1 is done with the Houston/Hillsong – CLC – AOG – ACC .. Saga and a little has been given recognition. People will always have THEIR views but the TRUTH is the truth and we can’t escape it, no matter what we try to do to camouflage it. As I watched the News last night, they said that F. Houston meet with one young victim @ Maccas and cut a deal with him for 10K $ and it was contracted on a MACCAS Tissue. How Low can ya Go?.. What a cheap trick, it’s just insult after insult isn’t it for all victims and even for the intelligence of the Commission, the Law and God’s Law, not to mention the Christian Community at large.This tells all, the REAL character of Franky Houston, not his Religious AOG Showcase Character but the real man within. F. Houston (within the secret meet) WILFULLY Abused and Wrecked a young mans life (along with multiple others) and then degraded him again by cutting a deal with him on a tissue paper. VERY CLASSY INDEED. Basically treating him like a piece of scrap meat, (the old nudge-nudge wink-wink say not more ). Franky basically tried to mop up such a Great Filthy Mess with a MACCAS TISSUE, now that is deluded in the first degree. Just a Band-Aid for the Leper. With no Respect whatsoever for humanity, let alone Christianity or Christ. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR?. However, I find one great insult and Sin in the midst of all this filth and that is, Brian Houston plays the ‘Liar and the Denier’ in this whole filthy mess and we all know that Jesus called ‘Satan the Father of Lies’. Hence, there is no lower character a person can be, in the eyes of God-Yahweh .. than a LIAR. Brian needs to Repent, come clean, face the music and move on in honesty and humility with expectation of Salvation on Faith-Obedience .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLVLODCJbI …ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes, its all about the victims. That’s what these articles of mine are about. Helping the victims and bringing hillsong, Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG to account. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
John. I had forgotten Frank served at Ellerslie. In what capacity did he serve? Was Ray Bloomfield involved there? Are there any Frank Houston victims of abuse from that period? Yes, i agree Frank was into male physique and bodies. That is normal for a homosexual but not for a prominent AOG pastor. Sad. So are you the son of Stan Carter? Stan was an amazing man. I met Stan at large interdenominational charismatic meeting at Karori, Wellington, where he was on the door. It was 1976-77. As you’d know he had a ministry of helps. I then got to know Stan and Sheila well at Kapiti Christian Centre. I recall Stan’s smile as he greeted people at the door at Karori. I was a young Christian aged 19 and used to help him on the door. I spent time with them as they built their new home on Kapiti beachfront. It would be worth a lot of money today. Stan was tireless in his work and then dropped dead from that heart attack. Stan and Sheila told me about Pastor Frank Houston being accused of pedophilia in the early 1970s. There was a big blow-up and a lot of people left. Do you know the facts on that incident? What age did Sheila live to? She was a very godly woman and had served as an AOG missionary in Africa for decades. Sheila shared how the tribes would run their pagan ceremonies all night with loud drumming and so ion and it would be quite scary. Stan and Sheila were quaint living in that little caravan as they build their house. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kylie. Pastor Brian Houston is in no way responsible for his father;s pedophile and homosexual sins, which are many and involve 12 or more victims, probably 20 plus, over all the decades from the 1960s until the 1980s. I haven’t found any dirty old man Frank Houston victims. If you read the last two blogs I’ve written last night and this morning you’ll understand where Brian is culpable and responsible. As head of Hillsong, as pastor Frank’s successor and as head of the AOG denomination for 12 years until 2009, he has been heartless, cold and arrogant towards the victims of his dad’s abuse. He has also been in denial. it is a difficult time for Brian and the Houston family. There are other issues too. For example, the Houstons have grown fat on royalties on hill song products and music, which is in reality stealing from God. What is God’s is Gods. What is mortal mans belongs to mortal man. You don’t profit from the things of God and the holy gospel. Its wrong. Its stealing from God. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
My spouse and I stumbled over here different web page and thought I may as well check things out. I like what I see so i am just following you. Look forward to looking into your web page yet again.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I just cant’ help feeling for those poor, young and helpless children that had been abused by Frank Houston. I have two boys myself. Just feel how heartless this man is for raping and abusing these children, the fear , helplessness and pain that their little bodies and minds have to injure from that evil of a man. I’m sorry but i wish he is burning in hell now for hurting those little ones.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Donald – Some Bios of Frank omit the period he served at Elerslie prior to being called to Lower Hutt where my father was a Deacon – I understand you have met him as you quote him and my stepmother somewhere. One of the strangest encounters with Frank that I recall vividly, was his obsession with the physique and athletic ability of school boy swimmers. In particular he confided that he frequented the then new Nae Nae Olympic swimming pool, to watch the swimming races. He had breached the subject some time in 1960 I believe, when I was in the sixth form, saying how much he enjoyed watching the performance of Robbie Walker an outstanding swimmer from our school. Maybe this was the start of his deviant obsession.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
P.s i strongly agree though that Frank Houston should be put on show for what he’s done and everything should be shared with the media, justice for those poor victims is all they have! And perhaps Hill song needs to fully accept and come to terms with the extent of his terrible doings!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I’m shattered by this disturbing news, I feel for Brian and his family because they are in a terrible situation that is not their doing nor do they have any control of, offenders always have children of their own and Brian happens to be the child of a terrible man but this is not his fault and I feel he shouldn’t be blamed for his father’s actions, I have been part of Hill song for many years on and off and although I consider my self a Christian I’ve never read the Bible nor do I take it very seriously yet I pray every night, so please don’t think I’m bias! I call a spade a spade and take people on face value, Brian/hillsong have done so much good over the years and helped so many people in need and yet this becomes quickly forgotten in bad times in the media, Brian may have been abused himself has anyone thought of that?? And does this make him not worthy to preach because his family life isn’t perfect, that church is amazing for people in need and it’s all thanks to Brians hard work if people think that it’s all been easy and he’s just scammed money out of people then their wrong he has worked hard, and had to leave his children to go overseas to constantly dedicate his life to helping others, all I can sayis I’m devastated but not hating these people due to others actions, family or not!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Lynda. You are correct that Pastor Brian Houston has knowledge of other cases. Victim AHA is an example of an Australian victim that Brian has known about since 1998. I’m sure it is very difficult for Brian. We know each other although I haven’t spoken to him for a long time. I don’t understand the psychology but Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong still persist with that official view of only one victim in New Zealand 40 years ago. Pastor Brian is having a lot of difficulty coming to terms with the activities of his dad. As are the other Houstons such as Beverly Houston who mentions the family trauma about her dad in comments on this site. The Houston denial is about to change. The Royal Commission which started today says that it has knowledge of 7 victims. I have knowledge of 11 plus. One of the purposes of my articles is to clarify with everyone that Pastor Frank Houston was a continual pedophile and homosexual from the 1960s when he was in his 30s until the 1980s when he was over 60. I also want Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston to start caring about the victims. Listening to them. Respecting them. Paying for a counsellor of their choice and one million dollars payout per victim. Thank you for your comments.DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hello , since reading this I have googled abit more about it . Just wanted to bring to your attention that there is a u tube clip of Pastor Brian Housten discussing this as the most difficult time in his life , and he clearly refers to “victims” and also mentions a meeting with at least one other victim as well . Thought I would mention it as I’m sure seeing how you are doing a blog and obviously have a lot of facts about the case , that you would also want to ensure accuracy in all areas of reporting . CheersApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
A BLESSING FOR ALL .. from Brother: Donald Wilson, this is a timely Message for the AOG-ACC for sure. Brother Donald was Principal of 2 Christian Schools in New Zealand and his dad by the leading of Holy Ghost departed from the AOG in the end, through disgust and that was going back 50 years, so what does that tell you .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/freedom.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Good Morning Donald .. Yes, it is a Goodly Morn, why?.. because it’s Commission Day.I would like to watch the Commission hearing, if time permits, otherwise I look forward to reading the paperback version. Sounds like you’re the man for this very job, and Father has a perfect way of finding the right man for every job, re/Little David-chosen above his warlord buffed-brothers. My fellow minister (Brother: Donald Wilson) in the Christ comes from NZ and his dad Pastor: William Wilson used to walk with Smith Wigglesworth when he was about. And has said to me on occasion that all these Ministers who use Wigglesworth’s name (for their own ends), re/Houston, Nalliah, Hinn, Copeland, Meyer, I’ve even heard ‘Jim Williams’ of Garden City Church when it was called such, drop his name when convenient. I met Jim Williams @ GCC many years ago and when I shook his hand the ‘Spirit of the Lord’ said to me he was going to be removed from GC within 12 months and he was removed only months later. When I told some of his fans this, they said I was jealous of him, charged at me and told me to be very careful what I say. He is another that was caught out for his taste for the young. Brother Donald doubted very much whether Wigglesworth would even give the people mentioned the time of day. I had a small happening with Freddy Evans/AOG too one time, an arrogant man if ever there was one. I haven’t read Bobby Houston’s book or any of Brian’s (the titles are enough) but I have heard both on TV and the little I could bear was suffice, 10 mins is overkill. Yes, I must agree, the AOG along with the RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church and Salvation Army are sticklers for ‘Stone Walling’ and are in deep water in Yahweh’s Eyes. I am praying that justice be done and the truth revealed .. you are in my prayers .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/devil_is_a_pervert.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Paul. Yes that’s the time for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Live stream starting at 10.30am today Tuesday at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au. I have knowledge of far more AOG pastors and leaders who are guilty of pedophile activities and have been protected by the AOG from prosecution, than Pastor Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s dad, who died in 2004, and was a secret homosexual and pedophile for over 40 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg re Hillsong and the Australian AOGs damage to Christendom. In a previous comment you reference the book Bobbie Houston’s “Kingdom women like sex”. I can’t find teachings like this in the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Can you imagine the reaction of Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth and Kathryn Kulmann to writings like this and Pastor Brian Houston’s writings about riches, money and prosperity? There is so much wrong with Hillsong and a large number of the AOG and modern pentecostal churches in Australia and all over the Western World. The problem is that we haven’t had a revival for a long time to flush all the worldiness out of our hearts and lives. When Pastor Brian Houston took over Christian Life Centre Sydney in the 1997 he shut down all the Holy Spirit soaker meetings, the prayer meetings and Christian Commandos, the outreach ministry in Kings Cross. He sanitised everything and all the Pentecostal stuff stopped. No prophecies, no healings, no deliverance. All the foundations of the ministry of Jesus, the Apostle Paul and the early church. All the things of the Holy Spirit, the early church and Pentecost stopped. This is where we must return to. The simplicity of faith in Christ. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount- Matthew 5-7. I Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. Acts 2 and Pentecost and the beginnings of Christianity. 1904-7 Azuza Street and the Welsh Revival Smith Wigglesworth, John G Lake, Katherine Kulman and so on. Those that have gone before us who are worth reading. If you read the Sermons of John G Lake and then read Bobby Houston’s “Christian Woman love sex” you might puke. I haven’t read her or Brian’s books but I intend to read them all and to do a full analysis of Hillsong and explain how it has gone off the rails and taken most of Australian Pentecost off the right track with it. I’m not without hope because the Holy Spirit is the greatest and sometimes He has to dismantle a whole denomination or organisation to bring forth new buds and establish what is right. A generation will rise up soon who are sick of the greed, corruption and money and sex emphasis in Hillsong and the Pentecostal church and who will embrace the true tenets of Christianity as found in the New Testament and the early church. All the best with the godly fight. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I have had my own experiences and run-ins with AOG – ACC Church Ministers and Members over 27 years Ministry and everyone of them disgusted me, still do. They are surely off with the Pixies. I have a few people in my fellowship that escaped the clutches of the AOG and the stories they have told me simply confirm and add to my original view of that Religious – Franchise. I always hoped that this wicked Religious Organisation/Business/Franchise would be ‘Exposed’ for what it really is. Looks like Yahweh gave me my wish, at least part of it for now. It was my wife that came across this blog today on her phone and she mentioned it to me this afternoon. The funny thing is, my wife didn’t attend our Church yesterday for she wasn’t well and she didn’t know what I Preached (not as yet). But I did mention Brian Houston and his ‘Affluent Church in New York’ in my prelude. How Brian was boasting on TV of how Hillsong are making headway into the Big Ticked Night Clubs where all the Wealthy, cashed up Sodomites, Transvestites and Depraved Women hang out. And then I come across this blog, well you could have pushed me over with a pin. Didn’t Jesus say to ‘Abstain from even the Appearances of Evil’?.. And what would AOG – Hillsong know about Worship anyway?. True Worship involves selflessness. It’s the 7.10. 2014 tomorrow isn’t it, yeah.. ‘Joy Comes in the Morning’ says the Lord of all Equity… 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo215.htm .. Yesterdays Message @ JtCm-Mission, Brisbane City .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8Nh92DmyE ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Pastor Brian Houston is about to appear before the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission is looking at the response to child abuse by the Assemblies of God, the Australian Christian Churches (a conglomerate of Pentecostal churches including the AOG, Hillsong and Pastor Frank Houston). Pastor Frank Houston, Brian’s father abused 11 plus victims, probably a lot more, mainly young boys aged 10-11 as very prominent Assemblies of God (AOG) pastor over 4 plus decades. These abuses took place in Australia and New Zealand. There are other AOG pastors who will be examined at this Hearing starting next Tuesday 7 October 2014 in Sydney. There is admissable evidence that Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG pastors did these things. The attitude of Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG in Australia and New Zealand has been to stonewall victims, try to hush them up and not compensate them properly or normally at all, if possible. You be the judge whether we should all go on with our lives and pretend child abuse of innocents by AOG pastors and leaders hasn’t happened and isn’t still happening. Pedophilia is a crime and there are serious consequences. The Australian Government certainly isn’t letting it go, in the AOG or any other church or institution. And I thank God for that. Future and present children need as much protection as possible from these evil predators. Especially from the clergy, for people don’t expect the clergy to be wolves in sheep’s apparel.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Absolutely Karen swart. I agree people need to leave Brian Houston alone god is in charge we can not condemn. Anyone only god can judge and I think it’s great Brian has done what he did he is a truly Remarkable manApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Maureen. Unfortunately you are in denial. To date the Australian AOG, Hillsong and your brother Brian have stalled and blocked any research or examination of Pastor Frank Houston’s numerous child sexual abuse victims. It would be nice if Pastor Brian Houston would face up to the music. I’m not optimistic. I would expect Brian and the AOG to stonewall the Royal Commission. It would be nice if this is not the case.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Oh my goodness! This is the most appalling writing… Quite abhorrent. How dare you state these serious matters as fact when it is profoundly flawed with misinformation and outright slander! I don’t know who you are Donald Elley, but I suggest you need to examine your own life. My father, Frank Houston was a pedophile. We, his family had no knowledge of this whatsoever! We were/are all completely traumatised by the fact. I have grandchildren now in their teens and have had to explain their genetic ‘heritage’. It had nothing to do with us, but we wear the stigma. Brian has gone on to serve God in ways you could never possibly understand with your small-mindedness…. Despite his total personal grief! Dad did NOT found Hillsong Church. I cannot quite figure your motives? Do you fancy yourself as some kind of representative of Gods justice? Bizarre! I think your stated profession is that of a builder. There are many Professionals, including a current Royal Commission, looking after the victims, hearing their stories with compassion, and I have no doubt they will get compensation if they think that will help. We are blessed to live in a society that no longer hides such hideous crimes against children. If you are a Christian you will be aware we ALL stand accountable before God on the day of judgement. The only thing I can say in my father’s defense, is that he taught us, along with many others, the gospel which is totally redeeming. I admire my amazing brother for his efforts for the kingdom of God, despite his agony. I’ve watched him grow and flourish as he has practised forgiveness on a scale most never have to consider. Your blog is contemptible and I won’t be revisiting it. Writing can be used in such a beautiful way to inspire and influence people for Jesus. May I suggest you find something edifying to write.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
This preaching is right for the Frank Houston matter, by Bill Johnson. 1Cor5, expelling and a form of shame with purpose, cleaning up the act with God, and covering sinners’ blind spots. ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Also, Calvary Chapel going through similar. Chuck Smith Sr., wouldn’t deal with his church at large either. Google: Alex Grenier and spiritualsoundingboard, or ocweekly.com; L.A.Times and Christianity Today articles in 2007 exposing corruption etc and do over fifty hours of reads of similar corruption. When you ignore child abuse and wanting wives to be battered wives, punching bags, and don’t deal with homosexuality which will breed child molestation, pedophile evil, you’re just as evil.
What famous Calvary Chapel pastor stood a woman up and called her donkey’s ass for wanting to leave her husband that was molesting kids, wow; wonder what evil sin this false leader hiding and then his son ends up beheaded car accident, wow. Was dealing with exposing molestation in Foursquare/Calvary Chapel to NO avail. Foursquare ran the parents out didn’t pay for counseling for boys but they were acceptable to take their money as long as NOT questioning. Sad to say, what your dealing with is in ALL demonations (not misspelled).
Unholy Anointing by H.A. Lewis exposes corruption along with Dr. Rebecca Brown’s book, “Setting the Captives Free” and it’s rampant in the church. Look at the AOG movement how many leaders have made the news for homosexuality, what religion will breed, read Charisma, contact Trinity Foundation, Dallas TX and do reads in L.A. And O?C. Newspapers and Christianity Today and they are still in ministry=amazing. “Religion is to the church what cancer is to the body”. AOG’s and Foursquare have same issues and DON’T deal with either but they want the people’s time and money to be kept in their lifestyle and dead business of selling their god, their Jesus and their unholy spirit. Christians cannot, will not and choose NOT to think for themselves, the Matriarchal B_tches, Patriarchal Disasters are robbing their families, God does NOT get any money nor the homeless/poor for the most part. Follow that money trail and question to the unth degree. Question where information comes from and the source.
Basically the people are supporting habitual liars, liars where the money goes who they help and NOT getting correct biblical teaching. People for most part are supporting wolves, hirelings, false shepherds. People aren’t healed up and whole; if they were all these evil regimes/movements would not exist. Research a matter.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Can you clarify, is it Peter Lawton or Laughton as seeing discrepancy in blog. Also, can you post the site instead of referring to regarding Peter’s abuse that you write about.
In reading, Frank’s son is just as evil as his father if he doesn’t make it right by the victims and one million is not enough. Contact Dr. Susan Forward and talk to her about what each victim should receive, she wrote a book: “Incest, molestation and it’s devastation”. By the way ALL her books are excellent reads, Toxic Parents also. Maybe her, Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil can help to resolve these issues(take it public maybe on latter’s show and Dr. Laura’s radio program).
Could you cover the definition of homosexual tendencies that Peter told Frank to come out and admit he was homosexual=what to look for. Austin Miles book would expose the AOG’s for being highly homosexual and child molesting, which they are. Wrote a book (which has not been published) eleven years after Austin Miles book; not knowing he existed saying the same things. My church was just different players and submitted it to David Wilkerson, Dr. James Dobson and heads of church leadership to deal with. Been addressing it hardcore with David Wilkerson since 1992 until his death and year 2000 to a group of so-called Christian leaders that dubbed The Round Table”. Look at J.Lee Grady’s book on AOG Lies and Dogma or William Lobdell’s Losing My Religion.
By the way, Laurie your wrong, frank’s sin is over everyone here’s perfect example: Over a Decade ago a friend gave me one of Hillsong’s Worship Tape and said she played it and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. So, listened to it and gave it back to her and said there’s pedophile, child molestation and homosexuality going on in the church and it’s coming out in the music and those three usually go hand in hand. she did not believe me and went to a very gifted man in Aussie or New Zealand and he told her the same thing. She asked me what to do with it, I said do you want to deal with those evil spirits keep the tape, personally I WOULD STOMP THE HELL out of it. I WILL NOT EVER PLAY OR have hillsong’s music. Someone gave me a CD and threw it away. Worse to NEVER make it right by the victims but taking money in the name of the father, son, Holy Ghost, wow. Taking money and living the good life.
How much does Brian/Hillsong own, worth, business, real estate, vacation and ranch homes, money overseas and or property, vehicles, planes or mentioned items hidden in other people’s names? How much $ is going to help the poor, fatherless, widow, homeless, alien, stranger. The true shepherd lives poor/poverty lifestyle; Jesus and Disciples were example and you will read that also in Arthur Katz’s and Leonard Ravenhill’s written works. Nothing gives it away more than the true vs. false more than this. Another used car salesman selling his dead religion, how sad. Brian isn’t even Broken or repentant or real; false church it’s a means of Business to make money for lifestyle and no one is judging fruit. Majority of so-called Christian do NOT know what a true father and shepherd look like, hillsong would NOT exist if the people did. Read Dick Suphen’s article on Christian Brainwashing. I lived my life around my church cult and so glad got out. Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by Johnson and Van Vomderan, Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola.
Go to Babel, Pentecost, my time at IHOP by Gary Wallin and other articles by Kendall Beachey Blog. Read their articles and all comments. Also: spiritualabuseawaremess.com, churchexiters.org, surviving church.org, report church abuse to rickross.com (do all those reads), Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX unfortunately abuse sites are like the energizer bunny they keep going and going. Have pages of sites and list of church abuse books. Comments, it will tell you how to research church abuse. Always Research a matter and get unbrainwashed and think for yourself and not live your life for or through someone else.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kathryn. Pastor Frank Houston died in 2004. He never was charged by the Police or did jail time. His son Pastor Brian Houston protected him. Hillsong/ Pastor Brian have lied about the number of Pastor Frank Houston’s victims saying there was only one 40 years ago. This is the official version I read on their web-site. I have counted 15 victims ranging in age from 10 to their late 20s. He was a secret homosexual and pedophile who liked boys and young men. All the time he was the most prominent AOG clergy in New Zealand first until 1977 and then Australia. He came to Sydney to escape the heat on him from allegations of pedophile activities while pastoring Lower Hutt AOG in Wellington, NZ. I’m convinced there are more than 15 victims. Two victims have contacted me after reading my articles on this site. If you google “Frank Houston and Peter Lawton” you’ll find graphic testimony by the victim Peter Lawton, Frank’s worship pastor, of Frank’s predatory homosexual abuse of him when he was a young man in his 20s and Frank was about 60 and living with his wife Hazel. Pastor Frank groomed Peter Lawton by inviting him to live with Frank and his wife Hazel in their flat in Lane Cove, Sydney. In this way Pastor Frank could groom and then abuse him. It’s very sad and vile stuff. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The bad root Hillsong grew from. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Phil. Pastor Brian Houston’s motives are probably quite complex. I believe he likes the good life. I’d like to see Brian share some of his success with the victims of his dad’s pedaphile activities, in the sense of substantial compensation and the provision of independent counselling for Pastor Frank Houston’s victims. I’m thinking in terms of one million dollars per victim plus independent counselling. It will never erase the hurt and invasion by his dad but it may help. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes this Pastor Frank Houston part 1 blog has proved very popular. I think it strikes a chord. People want to reconcile the sins of a pastor with their holy ministerial front.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
To all readers and commenters on this Site of mine: All comments are most welcome on this site. If you have been abused by Pastor Frank Houston or any other Pastor or Church leader please feel free to write to me initially by simply writing a comment on this site asking me to contact you. Then if I feel you are bona fide I’ll send you my email address so we can correspond. Some day soon I’d like to bring Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God to account for the serious damage caused to Pastor Frank Houston’s victims by a very evil, Jackyl and Hyde individual: That is, Pastor Frank Houston. RIP Frank…not. “Woe to him who touches one of my children” said Jesus. Donald ElleyApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Mark. Frank continued to minister for many many years whilst concealing these awful things. I think the problem people have is that they were crimes against children and young impressionable men, not consenting adults. I think to draw parallels to life of Paul in this completely misses the mark. Their lives were nothing alike. I grew up in Franks church and have been around the AOG for a long time. The fact that Frank continued to minister whilst concealing these crimes raises some very serious questions. I know people who have based their whole life’s calling on a ‘prophetic word’ that Frank gave them that would seem to have backed up very specific prayers, and impressions, to and from God, that would have been completely unknowable to Frank in the natural. How could this be? How can a man work in the gifts of the Holy Spirit whilst concealing such awful things? I’m a believer, but I have also sinned with the best of them, and still do every day in one way or another, but I also know how even a seemingly trivial sin can affect my ability to engage with and hear from God, until I’ve dealt with it (which sometimes requires me to repeat the process of “dealing with it” regularly). There are some deeply important theological issues surrounding this that this denomination would do well to assess. The damage from his sins still has shock-waves and implications even after his death and I think to forgive and pray as you say is certainly part of it, but don’t underestimate the power of assessing, quantifying and learning from what happened here. Those poor little ones who have since grown up with such damage inflicted upon them. I too was also abused and have since forgiven and moved on. No one is rioting as far as I can tell.
If I may please ask, If Frank Houston admitted of his past sins and has repented and reconciled with Jesus then who are we to judge? The bible says “All have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory, We lie if we are to say we have no sin in us” Are you with me? St.Paul the greatest apostle of christ , What exactly was he doing before he renounced and reconciled with Jesus? He was a murderer who would not spare man,woman,child who were christians , So if Jesus chose him out of all people to preach and write the Gospel how come you dont question his integrity? Believe me I was also very much a victim of such acts while I was a child but yes once you forgive and pray for that person it is all cleansed and you dont hate anyone anymore. Jesus said” Let the person who has never sinned be the first to condemn and stone the woman who was a sinner” Who are we to Judge? Who are we to condemn? Are we so righteous ? My dear brothers and sisters please show compassion to the sinner and pray for them rather than trying to accuse ,blame and start rioting and rebelling such acts are from the devil , May GOD bless all of you, Praise God Amen.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I am myself am the victim of a pedophile from age 3 to about 10 or 11. I forgave my uncle who victimized me. God along with some really loving Godly people helped me to do this. I am not his judge, I do not know the circumstances of his life and what led him to do such horrible things. It is not my job to pay him back or carry hate in my heart towards his though his actions to me caused me a great of suffering, pain, guilt and rage for many years, once I came to understand that God knew every hair on my uncle’s head and would reconcile what happened to me in his own way I could take my uncle off my hook and put him on Gods hook. He alone could really judge because he knew details and all the facts that I did not know. Forgiving my uncle freed me to allow God to work in my life all the healing that I needed and He made me totally free. I have no residual feeling toward my uncle what so ever. He is gone from this world now and I know that justice was done whether he found forgiveness from God or whether he is rotting in hell really has nothing to do with me because I am okay either way. I trust my God, my Father to have done the right thing and I am ok with that. I am deeply troubled with the reactions of the Church (meaning the christians) in and around the church. So often when a leader falls, commits sin, rather than “the Church” becoming a place of healing we become a mob who does nothing but attack the sinner amongst us. We forget that we are saved by Grace and only by Grace we stand. We forget that “there, but for the Grace of God goes I”. Of course he (Frank) needed to be removed from Pastoring to protect any future victims. But was there ever any effort put forth to minister to him and to see if he could have been helped out of his sin. It is no wonder that sin and error in the ministry is often covered up because we the church are like wild animals looking for the kill. It grieves my heart that we have no mercy and cannot find a way to help our brothers and sisters out of the darkness. We throw them to the wolves like yesterdays garbage. We the church fail to be like Jesus to our fallen comrade in the fight and kill him instead. I don’t believe Jesus would do it this way. The Pharisee’s would have handled it this way for sure but Jesus said those that are without sin cast the first stone. Could you really cast the first stone? I know I would not be able to. Gandhi was known to have said ” I would have become a Christian, had it not been for the Christians I met” How horrible to think what we do to make a bad situation worse . We are not part of the solution, but we are part of the problem.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The sins of a man do not cover an entire church. We have the power in Jesus Christ to claim authority over such sin and Hillsong church can and will continue to thrive. Their true leader is Jesus.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have removed the brief mention of you and your relationships from this article as they were passing comments and I am not out to hurt or offend you. Donald.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have sent you an email welcoming your version to be emailed to me. I will make any required change as the truth is important to me.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Don, you really could have contacted me. I would have confessed my whole story to you with dates. I have done this many times. Your version of events is totally wrong and yet you have openly accused me without any fact. My relationship with Victoria started nine months after Janine had left me… Yes Don, Janine left me..no immorality, no other party. Not the other way round. I had left Hillsong almost twelve months earlier. My email address is geoffreybullock@me.com. Why not try a little biblical. integrity and contact me. I would be quite happy to tell you the whole story, if you’re prepared to listen. Perhaps you may have the courage to retract your mis truths. Perhaps not.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
After Frank Houston’s paedophilia was exposed, I find it inexplicable that anybody wants to be linked with hillsong.My God doesn’t need paedophiles to do His work on Earth.A rotten apple spoils the barrel. How can people seriously suggest that God chose him for a leadership role?ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The bible says be babes in the things of evil and wise in the things of understanding! Brian initiated the investigation with regards to his fathers shameful behaviour.this in itself must have been agonising to do.brian is an upright man with the blessing of God on his ministry.leave him be and thank God for his integrity and conduct through it all. stop fussing about who started hillsong and acknowledge Gods hand in it all.he is the one to be honoured seek the giver not the gift! karenApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
There was also Jeff Bullock who was a Hillsong music prodigy until he l created a scandal by leaving his wife and 5 young children for another lady.
This also is not true – Geoff did not leave his wife and five children for another woman – his marriage fell apart adn after that he met another woman.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Geoff Bullock was very talented. So was Darlene. So are many others. Trevor King is another talent from those days. One day about 10 years ago I was at my parents church in Howick, Auckland. There were about 500 people there and i couldn’t see the pianist but he was playing beautifully in a style I knew. To my surpise it was Trevor King from the CLC Darlinghurst days. From the time Geoff’s marriage collapsed his ministry was doomed to decline. This always happens to Christian musicians and preachers who loose their marriage. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Pastor Brian Houston founded hillsong. To Brian, Geoff was always replacable. Many subsequent musicians had equal or greater success since Geoff. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
You say that you were there and a leader in the movement then you ought to know that to say that Frank Houston is the founder of Hillsong inaccurate. Houston founded Waterloo CLC from where Brian left to found Hills CLC which took on the name Hillsong following the huge success of the Hillsong conferences begun by Geoff Bullock. in actual fact Hilsong owes its success directly to the success of its music which came is relaly all down to Geoff Bullock – not Frank or Brian. Brian was smart enough to see where to hitch his wagon to – had it not been for Geoff Bullock, Brian Houston would have nothing and Hillsong would not exist.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The pedophile Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Pictured in Sydney in the 1980s
Donald Elley of Bellingen
March 9, 2023
Between 1940 and 1945, New Zealander men aged between 18 and 45 were conscripted to fight in WWII.
It was similar in Australia.
World War II – Wikipedia extract ‘Conscription in Australia’
“In 1939, at the start of World War II, all unmarried men aged 21 were to be called up for three months’ military training. The men could serve only in Australia or its territories. Conscription was effectively introduced in mid-1942, when all men aged 18–35 and single men aged 35–45 were required to join the Citizen Military Forces (CMF).”
My family and WWI and WWII
My paternal grandfather, Jim Elley, a New Zealander, was a merchant engineer during WWI (1914-1919). On ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. These were unarmed vessels travelling in convoy with war supplies and other goods with protection from German warships and submarines.
Bert Brooker, my maternal grandfather, a New Zealander, was in his forties when WWII started. He was married and a barrister and solicitor. He wasn’t required to go to WWII. Grandad served in the Home Defence Force. A ‘Dad’s Army’ type of arrangement. ‘Dads Army’ is a British WWII comedy from the 1960s.
My father Rev Don Elley was training to be an airforce pilot in 1945 when WWII ended.
During WWI and WWII, New Zealand women could serve as nurses and support personal.
During WWII Frank Houston avoided going to war by joining the New Zealand Salvation Army
In comparison with other New Zealand young men, canny Frank Houston found shelter from conscription by joining the Salvation Army. Frank became a Lieutenant there. Later a Captain.
Frank lived in Salvation Army orphanages with his wife Hazel, sexually abusing little New Zealand boys.
Hazel was aware of Frank’s pedophilia. She called it, “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Frank was kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the late forties for sexually abusing boys. He avoided prosecution using the mental health card and being consigned to a psychiatric hospital.
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12. Frank’s boy victim Brett Sengstock told the Royal Commission that Frank lost interest him when he turned 13.
Although Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12, he sexually abused male teens and men aged to about 35 if young boys weren’t available. This is normal pedophile behaviour.
We’re talking about the founder of Hillsong Church here. Not some low-life from the street. Not some evil Illuminati or Satanist. Yes, we’re talking about Frank, the founder of Hillsong. What evil this family has launched upon the planet.
Hopefully Frank’s son Brian Houston will be dealt with severely by the courts and imprisoned for many years. This is what Brian Houston deserves.
December 26, 2022
Of all the thousands of articles on this, my personal blog-site, this is my article which causes me the most pain in my heart. It’s about the boy and male teen victims of Hillsong’s founder Frank Houston.
Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used Christian ministry to gain access to little boys from 1940 to 2004 when he died.
Frank’s son, Brian Houston, allowed Frank access to little boys and children until Frank died. Even after Frank was banned from preaching in 1999 by Brian and the Australian AOG, Frank continued to preach. Even the next week on Hillsong TV in Canberra. Brian denies this. But Brian couldn’t deny an audio of Frank preaching at Maitland AOG just north of Sydney in September 2004. This was two months before Frank died.
Brian tried to argue at court Frank had dementia. I know what dementia sounds like and looks like. My mother Valerie died of dementia almost three years ago in January 2020. She was non compos mentis.
Latin: non compos mentis translates as “not of sound mind.”
Frank was compos mentis (of a sound mind) and full intelligible until the end of his life.
Frank did repeat himself a few times in the audio. But no more than Brian repeats himself in very sermon he preaches. And Frank was always far more lucid and entertaining than Brian.
Brian’s preaching is for the lunatic asylum, not a learned Christian pulpit.
Frank’s preaching is for the pedophile caverns of Hades.
What Brian can’t deny is the testimony of eye-witnesses who saw what was going on. Including me. I wish Detective Hamil had had a good chat with me to fill in the gaps. I should have approached him before the matter made it to court.
Detective Hamil, who led the second investigation into Brian’s concealment of Frank from police, is a nice guy. A family man. I think he was thinking of his kids as he tried to unravel Hillsong.
It’s a shame Brian didn’t think of his kids and grandkids. How many little Houston boys did Frank sexually abuse in his lifetime? Starting with Brian and his brother Graeme to Brian’s and his siblings children and to all the many Houston grandchildren.
Now I’m finding out Frank sexually abused girls too.
Folks, we are still only seeing the acidic black top of a very dark and evil rabbit-hole. I intend to do a deeper dive to find out all. Pray for me. It will be my privilege to reveal everything I find out.
It is in the service of humanity to expose the Houstons and all the Prosperity Gospel crooks, not just in Australian and in New Zealand, my country of origin, but globally. Particularly in America where there are so many.
Donald Elley of Bellingen on Australia’s nightly Channel Nine program “A Current Affair” on December 5, 2022. The first day of Brian’s Sydney court case. The charge is a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The maximum jail term is seven years. You can find this program on Channel Nine’s website.
December 9, 2022
I’ve added reader’s comments from my original article of September 13, 2012 to the end of this revision.
This article was first published on this, my personal blog-site on September 13, 2012
I’ve been writing on the subject of Hillsong and the Houstons for over a decade now. I first touched on this subject in 2012 while writing on my father’s life. Dad was a Christian clergy like Pastor Frank. They preached and worked in Christian ministry on opposite sides of town. My father Rev Don Elley in the elite Wellington suburb of Khandallah. Pastor Frank in down-market Lower Hutt. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital. Lower Hutt is very different today. Khandallah is much the same.
Pastor Brian goes to court December 5, 2022
Pastor Brian is currently appearing in Downing Street Local Court in Sydney’s CBD for a three week trial which started on Monday December 5, 2022.
Pastor Brian has been charged by New South Wales police with a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The pedophile Pastor Brian concealed is his father Frank Houston. For many decades, seven decades, Frank pretended to be a Christian pastor to access little boys and sexually abuse them. This started in the 1940s back in New Zealand when Frank was in his twenties. Frank chose the Salvation Army as his first port of call for secret pedophile activities.
Frank in his first disguise as a Salvation Army officer in the 1940s. He rose in ranks to a Captain. This was during WWII. While Australian and New Zealand troops were fighting the Nazis, Italy, Japan and their allies like Turkey, Frank was avoiding New Zealand war service by pretending to be a caring Salvation Army officer. This was in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages. A survivor of sexual abuse by Frank aged in his 80s recently appeared at the ongoing New Zealand Royal Commission into Care. The New Zealand government is doing the same kind of investigation into pedophile activity in institutions, churches and orphanages as was done in Australia from 2013 to 2016. This abuse survivor testified that he was sexually abused as a boy by Frank Houston in a Salvation Army orphanage in New Zealand’s South Island.
Frank abusing boys in the New Zealand AOG 1950 to 1977 when he moved to Australia
After being kicked of the Salvos in the late 1940s, for abusing boys, Frank had ‘a nervous breakdown’ and was in psychiatric institutions. It is likely he did this to avoid being handed over to police and being put in jail.
All this time his wife Hazel, Pastor Brian’s mother, was supporting Frank and in effect enabling him in his pedophilia. She later labelled her husbands fetish for boys as “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Undeterred in the late 1940s, Frank got involved with the New Zealand AOG. This was in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, at Ellerslie AOG. His mentor there was Pastor Ray Bloomfield. I don’t know if Ray Bloomfield was a pedophile. If anyone can help me out on that one, it would be appreciated.
In time Frank became an AOG pastor. Innocent AOG pastors and congregants in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond had no idea what Frank was up to. Frank became a famous New Zealand AOG pastor and evangelist by the 1960s. Untouchable. he could do what he wanted a regarded boys. The number of Frank Houston boy victims from the 1940s on is unknown. It may be thousands. Several thousand. Do the math.
Frank abusing boys in Australia and beyond 1960s to 1970s
Frank rose to be head of the New Zealand AOG. His tenure was from 1965 to 1977. During the 1960s and 1970s Frank abused boys all over New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Sri Lanka, South Pacific Islands and elsewhere.
Frank abusing Maori boys 1960s to 1960s
During the 1960s to 1970s, Frank was abusing Maori boys as a famous AOG evangelist. I find this aspect of what Frank did particularly disturbing.
On the run from New Zealand police
By the 1970s, Frank was out of control in his abuse of boys. Parents of abused boys at Lower Hutt AOG, Frank’s church where Pastor Brian was raised, became very upset. There was a confrontation and many congregants left. I heard about this in 1977 from Stan and Sheila Carter.
So the heat was on Frank and he up and moved to Australia. To escape arrest by New Zealand police.
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was a year before his son Brian arrived in Australia. Brian likes to say he founded Hillsong. This is a Brian lie. One of many.
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong.
Pastor Brian with his father Pastor Frank in the 1970s
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women.
These offences include visiting a young Hillsong female’s hotel room and being alone with her in the middle of the night after Hillsong Conference. I think they had sex but no one is talking (yet).
Sydney media are trying to get the young Hillsong lady to talk on camera.
This would really rock Brian, and Brian’s wife Bobbie’s, world.
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board. Bobbie has got a bit more crazy than her normal unhinged self recently. Some of her sermons, if you could call her convoluted and sometimes irreverent blurbs a sermon, have been off-the-dial.
Bobbie does this coughing, burping and tears thing while preaching. Quite bizarre. I think Bobbie has trouble controlling her personal demons who want to speak to the planet too.
Brian Houston was charged by New South Wales police with concealing a pedophile on August 5, 2021
Brian Houston of Hillsong was charged with pedophile concealment crimes by Australian police on Thursday August 5, 2021. The maximum penalty is seven years in jail. Brian appeared in court in Sydney on October 5, 2021 for a First Mention. There was a Second Mention on Tuesday November 23, 2021 and a Third Mention on January 27, 2022. There was a fourth mention on March 3, 2022.
The Hearing is in December 2022
Brian has plead “not guilty” at each mention.
Brian will get a lesser jail sentence if he pleads guilty. Like Pharaoh before Moses, Brian won’t negotiate. Brian will only fly the white flag of surrender in jail. Even there, Brian will still be maintaining his innocence.
Brian Houston stepped down as global head of Hillsong
The Australian Royal Commission
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in its Findings, recommended Pastor Brian Houston, the then head of Hillsong Church, be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
An official recommendation was passed on to NSW Police and the NSW Justice Department by the Royal Commission.
The crimes are that Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches top leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Pastor Brian Houston, his wife Pastor Bobbie Houston, Hillsong business manager George Aghajanian, Hillsong elder Nabi Saleh, President of the New South Wales Assemblies of God John McMartin, National Assemblies of God General Secretary Keith Ainge and all the other top Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leaders had a fiduciary and legal duty to report Brian’s father Frank to Australian police when he confessed in 1999.
They failed to do this.
The fiduciary duty of a church leader comprises a duty of care towards their congregation. To lead them, to protect them and to care for them.
Instead of reporting Frank Houston to police, the above Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leadership, gave Frank a slap on the hand and allowed him to go on preaching, prophesying and (God forbid) laying hands on AOG congregants wherever he fancied to go in his misnitry. Nothing changed.
They moved Frank to quiet, off-the-grid localities so no one would report him to police. They told AOG congregants that Frank and his wife Hazel “had retired” and were AOG Royalty. No mention was made of Frank’s “problem with boys”, as Hazel liked to call Frank’s lifelong past-time or hobby of child rape.
At this stage only Brian has been charged.
The Origins of Hillsong Church
Rev Frank Houston the Night-Stalker, preying on little boys in their childhood beds.
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade.
Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
New Zealand Herald July 11, 2020
Frank Houston at Coogee Beach, Sydney in 1969.
The First Hillsong
The first name of Hillsong was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church met in Sherbrooke Hall, Double Bay, Sydney. The first meeting was on 16 July 1977 led by Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father.
Rev Frank Houston with young congregant at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst then, in 1980. This is the pedophile Frank Houston sneaking in a little homo hug on an unsuspecting young man who is lapping up the attention. There were hundreds like him. At this time Frank was having a secret homosexual affair with his young worship pastor Peter Laughton aged 23.
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong’s boy and teen sex abuse victims.
I have revealed them all to the world on this, my personal blogs-site. This has always been with their permission and their desire if their names are mentioned.
I do not search for victims. They always contact me.
I do not seek media publicity. They approach me for information.
Three new accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston 11 July 2020
Two New Zealand Herald articles of 11 July 2020 mention three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now.
The number of known Frank Houston boy and male teen victims I have identified is now 17 or more.
Recent revelations that Frank sexually abused boys in a New Zealand Salvation Army boys home in the 1940s and on evangelistic crusades amongst New Zealand Maoris have thrown the needle off the dial of my boy victim count.
It is no longer possible for me to put an accurate figure on the number of Frank Houston’s boy victims globally.
When I add in sexual abuse of little boys at a Salvation Army Boys Home in New Zealand in the 1940s and add in AOG crusades and ministry trips from the 1950s to 1960s in New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, Chile and other the countries, the possibilities of the number of boy victims is almost endless.
I believe from the evidence there are over 400 boy and teen victims, maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Frank’s son Brian, who I know personally, said to Australian media in 2014, “We may never know the number of victims”. I knew Brian from 1981 at early Hillsong. I haven’t talked with Brian since early 2000s when I left Hillsong for good.
Pastor Brian Houston current head of Hillsong: “We may never know the number of dad’s boy sex abuse victims”‘
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020 mentions three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now
Frank Houston preaching in in 1969 during his time as Assemblies of God in New Zealand General Superintendent from 1965 to 1977.
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020:
Three Frank Houston child sex abuse accounts which are new to me.
New abuse account one:
“From 1945 to 1948, Frank Houston worked at a boys’ home in Temuka run by the Salvation Army, which has confirmed receiving a complaint in 2003 from someone who said they suffered abuse at his hands during that time. A spokeswoman for the Salvation Army said it had provided information relating to the complaint to the Royal Commission.”
New abuse account two:
“In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.”
“Then came a second knock on the door. Barry was approached by a church elder who – aware of the complaint over Williams – disclosed an allegation of sexual offending by Frank Houston.
New abuse account three:
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade. Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
My comments:
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. I’ve believed for a long time that the reason was because of complaints of child sexual abuse.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
Crikey (Australian media) August 25, 2021. Journalist David Hardaker on Frank Houston and the NZ Salvation Army
“It has since emerged that Frank Houston’s offending stretched back 50 years to the 1940s when he was a lieutenant in the Salvation Army in New Zealand, his country of birth. The New Zealand Salvation Army has confirmed to Crikey that in 2003 it received an allegation of abuse by Houston during his tenure at the Temuka Boys’ Home, near Dunedin on the South Island, between 1945 and 1948. (Houston resigned from the Salvation Army in 1952.) The Salvation Army said it met with the survivor of the abuse in 2003. The case has been sent to New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, set up three years ago”.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
I’ve heard about Frank Houston doing crusades in rural areas of New Zealand, particularly amongst indigenous New Zealanders, the Maoris.
Frank’s son Brian mentions this in a romantic and euphoric way in his last book, ‘Live, Love, Lead’.
However, I’ve always had bad feelings about these crusades of Frank and his “love” and interest in the Maori people.
It’s sad to think that Frank was sexually abusing heaps of Maori boys in rural areas of New Zealand in the 1960s to 1970s.
Note of 18 November 2018
Frank Houston boy sex abuse victim, Brett Sengstock, known as boy victim AHA, who appeared anonymously at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has appeared on the Australian Channel Nine Sixty Minutes TV program recently to tell his story in person because he is dying of cancer.
Boy victim AHA Brett Sengstock – Brett is dying of cancer. Brett wants Brian Houston brought to justice for hiding and protecting his old pedophile dad from going to the clink – from 1999 when Frank confessed to November 2004 age he died.
Note of 22 April 2018
I know Hillsong and the Houstons better than anyone, having been at Hillsong from its beginnings.
Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father, came to Sydney from New Zealand in 1977. He was on the run from New Zealand police for untold and almost innumerable sex offences against little boys during the previous four decades.
I was at Hillsong before Brian Houston became a pastor in 1982, and before Hillsong was called Hillsong.
I helped Frank Houston build up Hillsong for a decade from 1981 to 1990.
The more I write about Hillsong, the sicker I feel. And the more I know about Hillsong, the sicker I feel.
But I go on writing, to warn people off Hillsong and to give Frank Houston’s multitudes of boy victims a voice.
My mission and goal is to destroy Hillsong. To expose it. To warn people off it. To set the record straight. To outline the truth about Hillsong.
Note of 27 October 2017
Pastor Brian Houston, the current head pastor of Hillsong Church Global is to face pedophile protection charges some time in the near future from the Australian police and authorities.
I’ve edited the article below reflecting current up to date information.
“Pastor” Brian Houston pictured with his child rapist dad Frank. Brian hid and protected Frank from the Australian police from when Frank confessed in 1999, to when Frank died five years later in 2004.
This article and its updates
This article outlines the history of Pastor Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong and his secret sexual abuse of hundreds of little boys, male pre-teens and male teens over seven decades. This occurred for possibly 70 years if you include his grandchildren and ‘rent boys’ (underage male prostitutes).
This site is the most authoritative and comprehensive site on Hillsong corruption, Houston corruption and Hillsong pedophilia.
This article was first published on this site on 9 September 2012, prior to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of 2013 to 2016.
It has been updated since as more facts have come to light and more events have unfolded.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed from the New Zealand Salvation Army for sexually abusing boys.
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a lifelong secret pedophile
I’ve come to the conclusion from the evidence I’ve compiled over many years, and from my experience from 1981 to 2000 as an attender of Hillsong, in the 1980s as a senior lay pastor, and especially since hearing boy victim AHA’s testimony, that the Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used the Christian ministry to secretly and stealthily, access little boys and young teens for child and under-age sexual abuse and child rape.
In other words, Frank Houston was first a pedophile. He was not at any time a genuine Christian or a genuine Christin pastor. Frank Houston was a wolf in sheep’s clothing all his life from his early teens.
Frank used Christian ministry to access little children.
Frank Houston’s primary sexual focus and preference was little pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
Frank liked male teens or young adult men if little boys were not available.
In his prime as a male in the 1960s to 1970s Frank had an insatiable sexual desire for little boys and young male teens. But mainly little boys.
A pedophile with a primary focus on pubescent children is a hebephile, a clinical psychological term.
Hebephilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14 and showing Tanner stages 2 to 3 of physical development. It differs from pedophilia (the primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children), and from ephebophilia (the primary sexual interest in later adolescents, typically ages 15–19). While individuals with a sexual preference for adults may have some sexual interest in pubescent-aged individuals, researchers and clinical diagnoses have proposed that hebephilia is characterized by a sexual preference for pubescent rather than adult partners.”
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile in that his sexual orientation and focus was primarily on pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
In my mind, this sexual orientation makes Frank Houston’s sex crimes against children even more heinous, especially since he was masquerading and pretending to be a Christian pastor.
Frank Houston’s crimes were not a one-off or an occasional dalliance in child sex crimes, but a lifelong secret and persistent activity involving hundreds, if not thousands of boy and male teen victims.
Frank was bisexual
Frank was bisexual in that he had five children.
It is probable that Frank did not have sex with his wife after the birth of their five children.
No one will ever know since they both died in 2004. And Hazel was not the type to tell.
Hazel knew Frank was a pedophile from the 1940s when he was reported for abusing children while working at a New Zealand Salvation Army home in the 1940s. He was removed from the Salvation Army.
So Hazel was complicit, codependent, a protector of Frank and an enabler.
Hazel and Frank Houston founders of Hillsong. In New Zealand in the 1940s.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed as a Salvation Army captains for sexual abuse of little boys.
Frank was a homosexual
In 1980, Frank Houston, aged 58, embarked on a four year homosexual affair with his young 23 year old worship leader Peter Laughton.
Peter Laughton, Frank Houston’s young worship leader and homosexual lover aged 23 in 1980.
Sexual involvement with a 20-year-old male, rather than with little boys and early teen boys, was an exception, although there is evidence of countless masked homosexual encounters over Frank Houston’s whole lifetime with males over the age of homosexual consent which is 16 to 18 in most Western countries.
Pastor Brian Houston, current head pastor of Hillsong – Brian, who I knew personally for twenty years, has been recommended to the Australian police by the Australian Royal Commission to be charged with pedophile protection crimes.
Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church has been recommended for prosecution for pedophile protection crimes
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in its Findings recommended Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Note 19 October 2014
In early October 2014, The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse examined the Australian Assemblies of God (which has the new name Australian Christian Churches), Hillsong and Pastors Frank and Brian Houston.
If you are interested in down-loading the Royal Commission transcripts, testimonies of victims and other relevant documents go to http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au.
To read a series of my blog articles on the Royal Commission on this site, they start on 20 September 2014 with “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part One. Royal Commission…”. If you google this title you’ll find it and other articles written by me on this my personal blog-site.
You can then scroll a few articles further into October 2014 and you’ll see all the articles sequentially in chronological order on “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston…” and Royal Commission materials.
If you know of any pedophile cases involving Pastor Frank Houston at any time anywhere in the world then please send me a message and I’ll email you back so we can confidentially talk about your case by email. No information will be published without your consent.
The following blog article on Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile activities was written on 13 September 2012 and it has been updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Blog article of 13 September 2012 (updated 27 October 2017)
The pedophile Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong
Pastor Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was two years before his son Brian arrived in Australia.
Here are two advertisements for early Hillsong Church meetings in Eastern Suburbs, Sydney in 1977 published in the Sydney Morning Herald. .
The Sydney Morning Herald 9 July 1977.
The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 16 July 1977
Hillsong
Hillsong is by far Australia’s largest church numbering 30,000 in Australia. Its headquarters are in Baulkham Hills in Western Sydney.
It has churches throughout the world in twenty locations. Hillsong claims 150,000 in its network world-wide in 2021. This is a very small number of adherents if viewed on a global basis.
Hillsong is like the small dog on the big street. Because of its strong cash-flow and music resources, it has made a lot of noise globally, but most people can tell Hillsong is completely dodgy and a money-cult.
Pastor Frank Houston was the head of the New Zealand Assemblies of God (AOG) from 1965 to 1977, and a prominent leader in the Australian Assemblies of God denomination from the 1980s to 1990s.
By the time Frank Houston confessed to secret pedophile crimes at age 77 he was revered across the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God movements as a great holy pastor, Christian leader and a great evangelist.
The truth is he was a rotten secret pedophile all that time, for many decades, probably since his early teens.
The Assemblies of God (AOG)
The Assemblies of God (AOG) is a Protestant denomination which started in the early 20th century in America and has spread across the planet. Its emphasis is on the Holy Spirit and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, like faith, healing and speaking in tongues.
The Protestants
A Protestant denomination is a denomination (international church organisation) whose origins are in “Protesting” against the Church of Rome.
Protesting, often at the greatest risk to their lives, against the Roman Catholic Church’s errant doctrines, its power, its Popes, its Bishops, its mercenary Jesuits of old. And its domination and blood-letting and martyrdom of true believers throughout the world. For over 1700 years until modern times.
If you think I’m exaggerating then google “The Waldenses”, who were Protestants the Church of Rome genocided in parts of France in the 16th century, or “The Covenanters”, who the Church of Rome hunted and wiped out in 17th century Scotland.
The Jesuit mercenaries and Papist rulers of England desecrated their bodies after death and threw their corpses on rubbish tips as a warning to a fearful populace.
These were brave men who gave their lives for the cause of Christ.
Compare these very brave men and women to Frank Houston, who was a secret life-long pedophile and covert homosexual masquerading in the disguise of a Christian pastor, whose coal-black dark secrets weren’t exposed until the last years of his life.
Frank Houston pedophile founder of Hillsong “preaching up a storm”, as he’d like to say in the 1980s.
Frank Houston’s confession to being a lifelong secret pedophile
A two-year investigation of pedophile allegations going back to the 1960s, ordered by his son, Pastor Brian Houston, at the time head of the Australian Assemblies of God, and conducted by a prominent Australian AOG clergy on the AOG national executive, Pastor John Lewis, found that the allegations were true.
Pastor John Lewis on Nexus Church, Brisbane website. Died from cancer in 2020.
Frank Houston was banned for life from ever ministering in the AOG in Australia and New Zealand in December 1999 aged 77.
But he didn’t stop preaching and ministering and Brian and other AOG leaders allowed him free reign to preach and pray and prophecy over the unsuspecting.
These are the crimes of Brian Houston, John Lewis and other top ACC and Hillsong leaders.
Pastor John Lewis report in 2000 on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities with little boys
Frank’s death
Frank Houston’s life ended in shame in November 2004. He spent his last days contemplating his place in Eternity. The burdens of his dark secrets were troubling his mind until the end.
How would God treat him in the Hereafter? These were among many questions which plagued his dark mind as he faced that looming day. For from the evidence Frank Houston had been a pedophile since his early teens, a period of seventy years.
I knew Frank Houston personally
This blog article is the first in a series of articles in which I will recall information, reflections and personal feelings on this gifted, strange and very tortured man, who I knew very well for two decades. Or at least I thought I did.
I worked closely with Frank Houston through the decade of the 1980s as a builder doing building fit-out and renovations for Christian Life Centre (CLC), Darlinghurst, as Hillsong was known in the early days, and as a lay leader.
I was a prominent and successful lay leader at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst, with ten home fellowship groups under my care. I pioneered these groups in the challenging Inner City of Sydney. I attended CLC again for a few years in the mid to late 1990s. I was there when Pastor Frank Houston got stood down and the whole organisation changed its name from Christian Life Centre to Hillsong in 2000.
I should add that I was a strong Christian prior to first attending Hillsong in 1981. This may have kept me safe from allowing Frank Houston to do stuff like lay hands on me in prayer. A highly dangerous event in hindsight for anyone.
Frank Houston’s legacy
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like former co-head pastor of Hillsong City Campus, Pastor Jonathan Wilson, who is now pastoring in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy
Jonathan Wilson, with second wife Dianne, in pastoring California. Dianne’s former husband Geoff is married to Jonathan’s daughter – a kind of fallen Pentecostal wife-swap.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson. Former Hillsong Senior Pastor. Likes pedophiles.
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like Pastor Jonathan Wilson who has strong links with Brian still, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy.
Jonathan Wilson told media at Frank Houston’s funeral in November 2012, “I regard Frank as a friend”. So Jonathan Wilson likes a lifelong secret child rapist parading as a Christian clergy as his friend.
The reality is that no amount of spin and re-invention can remove the dark black stains of the seven decades long trail of child sexual abuse that “Pastor Frank” engaged in.
Pastor Brian Houston. Growing fat while while he hangs out the victims of his dad’s abuse to dry. “Sorry victims of dad’s abuse, I’m a leading Christian pastor, but you’re on your own. Have a good life. Sorry again- Haha ha ha…By the way boy victim AHA, it was your own fault you were sexually abused by my father Frank – you tempted him. This is what Brian told the AHA (Brett Sengstock).
Over seventeen boy and young teen known victims
I have verified seventeen or more victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child and teen sex abuse.
Everyone closely associated with this matter senses there are a lot more victims out there.
From the evidence there are over 400 boy, pre-teen and teen victims. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Many will not remember the incidents due to psychological defence mechanisms because of the trauma of the sexual abuse event(s).
And there would be, from the evidence, 1000s of male victims of masked homosexual and pedophile abuse.
Frank Houston: “I was very active as a pedophile in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Pastor Frank Houston after his confession to pedophilia in 1999 said to his son Brian, “I was very active as a pedophile at that time”. He was referring to the period from the 1940s to 1970s back in New Zealand, when he was in his 40s to 50s, when most of his known boy victims were sexually abused by him.
Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life
I believe Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life from his early teens.
Frank got kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was a Captain. It has now been established that it was for pedophilia.
Frank Houston was a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland, New Zealand..
Note 11 July 2020
Frank Houston sexually abused boys at New Zealand Salvation Army Orphanages in the 1940s
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. It has now been established that my postulations on this matter were accurate.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald confirmed my allegations in an article in the New Zealand Herald today (11 July 2020):
“The Herald has confirmed that fresh allegations of abuse by the AOG’s former leading light, Pastor Frank Houston, have been provided to the Royal Commission.
One allegation, that he sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka, opens up the span of Houston’s alleged predatory behaviour to cover decades.”
David Fisher is referring to the recent New Zealand Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse.
What organisation except Hillsong would still love its pedophile founder?
Pastor Frank Houston was a pedophile who used his Christian pastor’s ministry as a disguise and camouflage to gain the confidence and trust of innocent believing Christian families so he could access their children undetected for the purposes of sexually abusing them.
Pastor Frank Houston was never genuine in anything he did. He mocked us all. How could a man be a genuine Christian pastor when he was secretly a life-long hardened criminal pedophile? Its not possible.
Frank Houston Boy victim AHA
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014 at a Hearing in Sydney revealed a witness AHA, who was abused in the Sydney suburb of Coogee when he was an innocent little boy aged 7 to 12 years old, in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Boy victim AHA was brave enough to testify anonymously in person.
It made me cry.
It was real bad stuff indeed.
It made me very angry, particularly since Pastor Brian Houston, the son of Pastor Frank Houston, like Pilate in the Bible who washed his hands of responsibility for Jesus prior to his death, has washed his hands of responsibility to help and care for the boy and teen victims of his dad’s abuse, who are now in their 50s and early 60s.
If you go to my blog articles starting on Tuesday 7 October 2014, you’ll find all the horrific details of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse of victim AHA including genitalia fondling, digital anal penetration, masturbation of the victim as he reached early puberty, and Frank Houston using and getting the victim to pleasure him over a period of five years.
My source is AHA’s testimony on Day One of the Royal Commission’s examination of Hillsong, where AHA spoke for most of the day.
It’s tragic, graphic, sordid, horrific and completely culpable by Hillsong, the Australian AOG and Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston has tried for 14 years to bury his father sexual abuse of children, sanitise it, and try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Dah…“What we didn’t do is report it to police.” Brian Houston, son of Hillsong founder Frank Houston, is surrounded by media following his 2014 appearance at a Royal Commission into child abuse.
Pastor Brian Houston had tried for 14 years to bury his father Frank’s sexual abuse of children, to sanitise it, and to try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Frank Houston has long departed but the corruption lives on in the errant and corrupt behaviour of his offspring, particularly in the life and deeds of Pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston, the current Head of Hillsong mega-church.
Rev William Frank…enstein Houston. Molester of little boys. The most corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost.
Over Seventeen Known Boy and Young Teen Victims
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse also mentioned six other little boy victims of Pastor Frank Houston in New Zealand in the 1960s. But there are many more.
I have been writing since September 2012 that there were six boy victims of Frank Houston in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in the 1960s.
My count of child sex abuse victims of Frank Houston:
I have evidence of 17 or more boy and male teen victims.
I have evidence of two teen victims, Peter Fowler, who went public in the 1970s with the encouragement of the now deceased prophet Pastor Philip Powell and teen victim ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a direct result of Frank Houston’s sexual abuse.
From the testimony of the boy victims and the circumstantial evidence, I believe there were over four hundred victims of Frank Houston’s abuse. He confessed to Brian Houston, his son, in circa 1999, that he was very active as a pedophile, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Here are the boy victims aged 7 to 12, and one teenager aged 15 years old:
1. Six 10 year old boys Pastor Frank Houston molested while Head Pastor of Lower Hutt Assemblies of God (AOG), Wellington, New Zealand in the 1960s, while at the same time, General Superintendent of the New Zealand AOG (from 1965 to 1977).
2. Sydney boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock), as above revealed on Day One of Hillsong’s time at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014.
This is a particularly sordid case of repeated child sexual abuse of a little 7 year old boy by Pastor Frank Houston which continued for 5 years. I have covered this case in detail in my blogs on the Royal Commission starting on the 7 October 2014.
3. One 15 year old boy, Peter Fowler, in the Lower Hutt AOG, New Zealand. The Lower Hutt AOG paid out Peter, but it wasn’t much money.
4. At least 4 boy victims at Assemblies of God Church camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. See my blogs on victim SA1 (my code name for him) dated 16 and 17 October 2014. SA1 was aged 11 years old at the tie of the abuse.
5. One young man in Auckland, New Zealand, ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a result of the abuse. He was in his late teens.
I sense there are a lot more New Zealand boy, pre-teen and teen male victims.
7. One boy aged 8 years old, in a suburb near Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. My code name for him is WNZ1. The abuse was very similar to the Royal Commission victim AHA.
WNZ1 believes there were more boy abuse victims in his suburb. See my blogs date 18 and 19 October 2014.
8. Frank sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka.
9.In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.
10. Boy victims in Waikato area of New Zealand in the 1960s. Frank was doing crusades often amongst Maoris. “Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.” Untold boy and teen victims. Impossible to know how many.
TOTAL: 17 and many more victims. 400 plus boy and teen victims based on the evidence. Maybe over 1000-2000 boy victims.
Boy victim SA1 from Adelaide South Australia
One of the victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child sexual abuse at Kleimzeg Assemblies of God camps in South Australia in the early 1970s, SA1, contacted me after reading articles about Pastor Frank Houston on this blog site. He shared there were several other victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile abuse at these camps.
The epicentre of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities at these South Australian camps was the boy’s toilet block.
The abuse involved the fondling of little boys genitalia and masturbation in the toilet block and bunk room. Pastor Frank Houston was very confident, blazen, perverse and tactile.
Yes Pastor Frank Houston. The greatest and most prominent AOG Pastor in Australia and New Zealand from 1970s to 1998, when the truth of his duality emerged.
Frank Houston was a secretive, manipulative, sordid, dishonest and heartless criminal pedophile for 70 years from the 1930s until his death in 2004.
Pastor Brian Houston’s lies about the number of victims continues to this day
The official line of Hillsong Church and Pastor Brian Houston was that his father, Pastor William Francis “Frank” Houston only abused one boy in New Zealand 40 years ago.
This is the line that they held from the late 1990s to the Royal Commission in October 2014.
This is the view that was on their web-site for over a decade. When I was researching articles I wrote about Frank Houston and his pedophile activities in 2012, Hillsong’s website and all the accounts by Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong media reflected this great lie.
This is the view they have told the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers.
This view is totally inaccurate and a blatant lie by Brian Houston.
It emerged at the Royal Commission that Pastor Brian Houston has known that this official view was untrue and a lie all this time.
Folks we’ve been all been deceived.
What is still lacking from Frank’s son, Pastor Brian Houston and the Hillsong Movement, which Brian controls, is any real degree of honesty and openness about Frank Houston.
For example, why won’t Brian and the AOG release the official AOG report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities?
Why didn’t Brian admit his father did numerous pedophile and homosexual acts, and not just one, like Brian portrayed for 14 years, until the Royal Commission exposed his lies? Why do Brian lie to us all? How can Brian lie like this and be a prominent Christian pastor?
Why is Brian Houston still lying about the number of victims telling Sydney’s channel nine reporter Leila McKinnon earlier this year when she asked how many victims Brian believes there are now, Brian hesitantly replied “six”. This is despite Brian knowing about at least 8 victims in 1999 and at least 9 victims in 2004. Why lie Brian? Who is the Father of Lies?
Was Brian Houston sexually abused by his rampant pedophile father Frank?
And the question lingers, was Pastor Brian Houston himself, and his brother Graeme, sexually abused by their father Frank?
Maybe that’s too personal for Brian to admit, if anything occurred.
Or maybe he can’t remember.
These dark memories are normally suppressed and buried by the defence mechanisms of the human psyche.
Brian’s brother Graeme has refused to attend church since his teens. Why?
Further, were Brian and Graeme aware of the accusations against his father while he was a lad?
The pre-adolescent little boys Pastor Frank Houston sexually abused in Lower Hutt were Brian and Graeme’s age at the time.
Brian even stayed with his dad at AHA’s family home in Coogee, while his father lay on top of victim AHA all night and abused him for the week of their stay on one of the many visits. One can see why pedophile Frank Houston liked to go to Sydney and stay at AHA’s parent’s house. Disgusting.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s overseas “evangelistic” trips overseas were really sex holidays away from his wife and people who he was accountable to.
Details of boy victim AHA’s sexual abuse
While Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of little 7 year old AHA, who is now 52, the skinny spider-like Pastor Frank Houston sexually molested him. He fondled his genitals, he fondled his little thighs and bottom, and he digitally penetrated him. AHA shared on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission that he froze with fear.
Boy victim AHA wondered, why was this hero of the faith, a godly man who my mum and dad loved, doing this to me?
Victim AHA lay frozen with fear as Frank Houston, the pariah, lay on top of him all night. The cats howled, the night birds cackled as the do in Australia, the dogs barked down the street and the garbos rattled their bins, and all this time through those long chill hours, Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of AHA doing awful creepy, very perverse things to AHA.
If you think I’m being too graphic, this is what AHA said at the Royal Commission. These are the facts the Royal Commission’s lawyer, Simeon Beckett, read out. These are the facts that AHA read out from his witness statement on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Sydney.
Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad
It is interesting to note that victim AHA, who spoke anonymously at the Royal Commission, stated that Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad.
Pastor Brian Houston has denied this. I believe victim AHA because he sounded very honest and very coherent. Pastor Brian Houston hasn’t been honest about all this stuff for over 14 years.
The Royal Commission has also revealed how Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston have been heartless towards child abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG Pastor and leader pedophiles.
If you read my blogs on 7 to 10 October you’ll get drift.
Pastor Brian Houston the head pastor of Hillsong mega-church, a very wealthy “church” organisation, has refused to help the boy and young teen victims in any way
Pastor Brian Houston. Living in the shadow of his father Frank who he adored. I wonder how he feels about his dad now the tsunami of his dad’s pedophilia has hit the fan?
Brian at the Royal Commission
At the Royal Commission on 9 October, when Pastor Brian Houston was the star witness, he wiggled and swirmed in the hot seat of the witness box. Then he straight out said they won’t help the victims in any way. The reasons are outlined in my blog articles on this site of 9 and 10 October 2104.
Pastor Frank Houston. Creepy. Self-confessed pedophile.
Peter Laughton’s homosexual affair with Frank Houston
Since Peter Laughton, Pastor Frank Houston’s young worship leader, went public in 2007 about Frank’s abuse of him in the early 1980s, the Houston family have taken the line that Peter Laughton was a consenting male with their father Frank. In his early 20s at the time of his abuse in the early 1980s, Peter was over the age of consent which is 18 in Australia for consenting homosexual acts.
But is it ok before God for the most prominent AOG clergy in Australia and New Zealand, aged 58, to indulge in numerous sordid homosexual acts with his young worship leader?
At the time the homosexual liaison started Pastor Frank Houston was 58 and Peter was 20.
I fail to see how the Houston’s can dismiss this series of incidents with Peter Lawton so readily.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston. Total deviate and con-artist.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston was an active secret pedophile and homosexual particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s.
By 1990 he was 68 and his homosexual and pedophile libido seemed to have dropped off. I haven’t found any pedophile dirty old man Houston victims.
A reader of this site commented recently that he knew Frank Houston in the 1950s at Ellerslie AOG in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote in a comment on this site that Pastor Frank Houston had fixation about male swimmers. There were some NZ Olympic swimmers training. A young Pastor Frank Houston used to go down to the local swimming pool to watch them training and perve on them.
If you knew Pastor Frank Houston at this time and you know of pedophile incidents could you please contact me. I suspect his pedophile activities started earlier than Lower Hutt AOG.
Frank Houston was sexually abused by his father Frank
At the Royal Commission, Pastor Brian Houston told the Commission that his dad had been abused by his father, also Frank. This is no secret because Pastor Frank use to share about this from the pulpit at Christian Life Centre in the 1980s.
Pastor Frank Houston openly shared how his dad was very mean to him and his mum. That his dad had an affair with the woman next door, based his wife, and other bad stuff. The ABC of Psychology says that people who were sexually abused as children often go on to sexually abuse children when they are older/ become adults. That’s a big subject.
Peter Laughton spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007
If you google “Frank Houston” or “Frank Houston abuse” you’ll find plenty of transcript of detailed sordid accounts of Frank Houston’s sexual activities with Peter Laughton.
Peter has given interviews to the Sydney Morning Herald.
In these interviews Peter speaks honestly and candidly about the homo-erotic activities Frank Houston led him to do. It’s interesting yet very sad reading.
Please bear in mind that Frank Houston was aged 58, and the most prominent AOG clergy at the time, and he was abusing a vulnerable and needy young man aged 20 who was his Church worship leader. Heavy stuff indeed.
The investigation and being caught
The release of the official AOG Report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities is a document which would be helpful to the victims of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities. What is more important? Protecting Frank Houston’s legacy and reputation, the Houston name and Hillsong’s reputation, or allowing some healing and closure, not only to Frank’s numerous pedophile victims, but also to the countless others who were part of Christian Life Centre and Hillsong in the early days and who were deeply hurt and shattered by revelations of Frank’s secret activities.
Frank’s pedophile activities were not destined to remain a secret to his grave. By the late 90s the chorus of complaints was to become deafening. The AOG, and in particular, the then National Chief Executive Pastor Brian Houston, his son, were forced to investigate and do something about it.
Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst the second name for Hillsong
I personally knew Peter Laughton at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst.
Peter was very talented singer, song-writer and composer. A nice guy. Sensitive. Artistic.
No one had any idea that Frank Houston aged 58 and a revered pastor and his worship leader Peter Laughton age 20 were involved in a four year homosexual affair from 1980 to 1984.
Extraordinary talent at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst
In those days Frank had gathered together some extraordinary musical talent.
Frank had recruited Pastor David Johnston from Los Angeles to found international Institute of Creative Ministries (IICM), a music, singing and dance Ministries School. David worked at Wesley College for decades since these times. David is a very talented pastor, violinist, composer and worship leader.
Trevor King was also there. Trevor now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Trevor is very talented on the piano and led the band and was the Music Pastor.
Geoff Bullock is another muso who owes his success to the Houstons. Unfortunately Geoff’s personal life became a train-wreck when his marriage fell over and his ministry has never recovered to the heights of his success under the Houstons. Particularly under Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston is truly a king-maker. So much talent. So many scandals.
Pastor Frank Houston with Hazel, his faithful, enabling and supportive wife- who knew he was molesting little boys for many decades. Hazel knew he was a pedophile since the 1940s.
Peter Laughton was looking for father love
Peter Laughton is a really nice guy.
Outgoing, talented and sensitive.
In Frank, Peter has said that he was looking for father love. The kind of love Frank gave him was secretive, self-gratifying and impure.
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses that they find impossible to control. Their victims are really just objects of their desire. There is no care or love towards their victims. For the pedophile it is “all about me”.
I wrote another 13 articles, which are on this blog-site, on this subject of Pastor Frank Houston from 13 September 2012.
My memories of the man and what I experienced during the 1980s and 1990s while attending Hillsong Church.
I have written over 200 other articles on Hillsong and the Royal Commission.
Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in world history
I have come to the conclusion that Pastor Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in the history of the planet.
To do what Frank Houston did to little boys and teens all his lifetime, while maintaining the front of a holy man of God is the very gravest of sins known to mortal man.
Since I wrote this article in September 2012, and since the Royal Commission examined the Houstons and Hillsong, Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission barrister, publicly recommended in December 2014 that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged by the NSW Police for not reporting and for sheltering a pedophile, his old life-long pedophile father, Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of the Hillsong organisation.
In October 2015 the Royal Commission recommended Brian Houston for prosecution in its Findings.
Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Frank’s son and successor. Facing pedophile protection charges which will wipe the smile from his well-fed fully, corrupt face.
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Though there are certain arguments to be made for the separation of church and state I believe the authorities must step up and take a stand on all these charlatans who bestow themselves with the title of “Pastor”. Any weasel in this country can call himself/herself “Pastor” and then set about living the life of an “untouchable”. These fakes are responsible for an increasing amount of mental health problems and domestic abuse and it is astounding to me that no one in the Government seems willing or able to do something about it. These charlatans, in my view, could not get away with what they do unless they enjoyed the protection of people in very high positions. Hillsong and Houston should never be able to use the title “Pastor” and benefit from that title in any way – Houston is nothing more than business executive who, by virtue of inheriting his father’s business, has been allowed to act, it would seem, with impunity as he fleeces the naïve and vulnerable without conscience. When will we find even one man with integrity in the Government who has the courage to call for a complete investigation of this man, this snake pit of Hillsong, the financial dealings, and the damage that is being inflicted whilst they target young people in our community who just get carried away with the mind-numbing music and intoxicating atmosphere. I have no objection to what Hillsong does or how they run their business – but I most strongly object to them doing it in the name of God! A Government committee set up to hear evidence of people who have been abused by this church (all forms of abuse) and others like it is long overdue. The Government is already involved by giving them tax benefits because of their church status, so a little more constructive “interference” wouldn’t go astray, would it?
Don, when are you doing to wake up to the fact that the Brian Houston is not a pastor?He’s an impostor, preaching a different Jesus and a different gospel for money. Who is leading more people to hell than anyone could imagine.
Hmmm. Art Katz (Arthur) even wrote in a book that he always had major problems with Worship Leaders and when he was alive wrote him the why and sent a copy to his Admin Ass’t or whatever Title they gave Simon Hensman at the time. Believe it was in his “Prophetic Call” book. Have my theories, a lot of them are Perfectionist (“Living With A Perfectionist” by David Stoop, Manic/Bi-Polar (Dr. Susan Forward, Herb Goldberg, Victoria Secunda, David Elkind, Dr. Laura might cover that well along with Leann Payne’s written works); dormant Homosexual’s (very unhealed; “Kingdom of Self and God Players by Earl Jabay); then there’s “Healing of Damaged Emotions” and his other books by David Semands. When looked up Definition of a Cult; #12, 21 (in the next page section, it defines definition of a sociopath; think a lot of Pastor’s/Leader’s/Priest have VERY unhealed issues themselves. What’s sad is they don’t deal with their issues and then put themselves in position to abuse children and people in general (and we are ALL God’s children no matter what age).
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
P.S. You referenced in an article Tanya Levin wrote a book and David Marr by Black Inc. (What’s that title? When went to research for lot’s of books by a David Marr)!
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
What I wrote about Geoff Bullock originally is what he told me he did, at a private meeting a long time ago. I only removed what I wrote because he was hurt by the truth. I’m not out to hurt Geoff Bullock, who is broken by life anyway. Brian Houston used him as a living breathing human soul and as a stepping stone to climb the spiritual mountain of Brian’s own ego and success. Geoff is just another train wreck and discard of the Houstons, Brian and Frank- like all the other victims, be they spiritual or psychological or physical or sexual abuse victims of the evil Houston express train.
Don You do not seem to have asked his forgiveness for your long-time error and the damage it must have caused him. Perhaps you have done so in private…
Brian Houston hasn’t helped any of the victims as at 8 October 2015. The Royal Commission interviewed victim AHA and AHA contacted me shortly after, via this site. We’re in touch by email occasionally. AHA would let me know if Brian had helped him. SA1 (my code-name) is a victim of Frank Houston in South Australia. Brian could contact me if he wanted to help him. Victim WNZ1 (Wellington, New Zealand) contacted Brian in the mid 2000s and Brian fobbed him off. I am in touch with WNZ1 and his wife. If Brian wanted to help them he could let me know and I’d put him in touch with them. The bottom-line is that Brian, the Houstons and Hillsong don’t want to help any of the victims. Brian Houston is the ultimate lying con-artist and he makes out he cares but he is a selfish greedy charlatan who won’t help anyone but himself and his clan. Hillsong is a cash-cow to maintain his lavish lifestyle and to get off on his fame. However Brian’s fame is turning to notoriety and soon he’ll be charged with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile. At that point he’ll be shamed and all his assumed glory will turn to dust.
To my readers: Its a year since the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse subpoened Pastor Brian Houston and other Hillsong/ ACC Leaders. It now seems likely that the NSW Police will charge Brian Houston with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile, his old very corrupt dad Frank Houston. Donald
I’ve published four testimonies of sexual abuse by boy victims on this site. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse has produced a boy victim AHA who is now in his fifties who was horrifically abused for over five years by Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s son, Pastor Brian Houston, the current CEO said after the Royal Commission in October last year in Sydney, Australia, “we may never know the number of the victims of my father”. How much proof do you need Stephane? The Royal Commission has recommended that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged for sheltering and not reporting his father Frank to the Police from 1998 until Frank died in 2004. We are waiting to see if the Australian authorities take this action. Donald.
Kerri. Frank Houston’s pedophilia activity was public knowledge from about 2007 when Peter Lawton was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. If you google ‘Sydney Morning Herald Peter Lawton Frank Houston abuse 2007’ you’ll find the information in a David Marr SMH article about Tanya Levin’s book on Hillsong. The information is in the second half of this article.
i’ll publish this article soon on this site.
Although Peter was a consenting male when abused by Frank Houston who was 60, Peter feels Frank took advantage of him and abused him.
About this time it became known that Frank Houston was also guilty of multiple historic pedophile abuse events, mainly with little boys ages 7 to 12 years old. This was the preferred demography of his victims.
Brian Houston sheltered his old pedo dad for 5 years until he died in 2004 and he didn’t report him to the Police as required by NSW Law.
Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission’s leading lawyer when they were examining the Houstons and Hillsong in October last year, publicly recommended in December that Brian Houston be charged with these offences.
There are 14 articles starting on 9 September 2012 specifically about Frank Houston’s abuse of boys and other sins like doing hatchet jobs on good men of God like Dr David Johnson, his Worship director in the early to late 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst.
From October last year I’ve written about 100 articles on this subject.
If you want to understand the full picture start reading.
This site is by far the most authoritative and comprehensive factual site on the subjects of Frank Houston, Frank Houston’s pedophilia, Brian Houston’s lack of response to the victims, Brian Houston’s corruption on multiple levels, Hillsong’s corruption on multiple levels, the New Zealand and Australian AOG/ ACC Churches corruption and the sexual sins of Australian and New Zealand prominent Pentecostal leaders over the past 50 years.
Am I to glean from this comment that Frank Houston’s abhorrent behaviour was public knowledge as far back as the early 1970s? Is is even possible therefore that Brian Houston had heard nothing about it before the time he now claims? I would like to know more about this as it pertains to a conversation I had with Brian Houston in 1988. How is it possible that so many people seemed to be aware of Frank Houston’s actions and yet Brian Houston claims that he heard nothing about his father’s paedophilia during these years before the family came to Australia?
So true.. ‘God does forgive ALL Sins’ .. providing the Sinner truly Repents. And when a Sinner truly repents of their Sin, (no matter how vile the Sin) you can rest assured that there is ‘No Returning to that Sin’. We know that God has FORGIVEN us of our Sins when we don’t Go Back to them, like the dog to the vomit and the sow to the mud.This is the proof and fruit of the quality of our Repentance. Godly or Not .. ref/2 Corinthians 7:10. When God Forgives us .. we are ‘Forgiven, Cleansed, Delivered and Empowered against that Sin’ once and for all in one hit. How great Thou Art O Lord God! The Soul Saving Question is, how could Frank Houston have Truly Repented of his perversion when there is a trail (a record) of repeated ongoing similar acts of paedophilia. One thing is for sure, the Liar will not enter the Kingdom of God, paedophile or not… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yE-xl-HJs ..
its so sad—ive seen the holy spirit move in and through paster frank housten to bless and heal many–thank god he was self confessed –god forgives all sin
Re: Counsel, Deliverance, Peace of Mind and Emotional Recovery .. Those in the Body of the Christ all have different gifts, according to the Grace given to each of us by Yahweh. If your gift is prophesying, then Prophesy/Speak in ‘Accordance with Your Faith’ Measure. Yes, Faith in the Christ can move Mountains and do the Impossible. As an X Alcoholic, X Chain smoker, X Drug user and X Filthy Immoral Wretch who Chain smoked and smokes no more, I know first hand the ‘Power of Faith-Obedience in the Christ’, hence I offer Messiahs Way above all others Jesus says I AM the Way! .. ref/Romans 12:6, Hebrews 11 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Xm9ykp0lA .. 🙂
Robyn. Personally, I found Dr Cliff Powell of the Christian Psychological Services in Mona Vale, Sydney helpful after my marriage fell over in 1996. My ex-wife took me along because she felt it might help our marriage. We saw Cliff a few times. Then, when my ex refused to give up her lover, Cliff told her that it was a waste of time proceeding with her. Cliff then asked me if I would like to continue alone. I felt I need that support and someone to talk the deep stuff through with who was a strained professional. Cliff is a Christian behavioural psychologist. He prayed with me at the start of every session and then we’d chat for 3/4 hour. His approach was gentle and supportive. I went to see him every 2 weeks for a while then it tapered off to every three months then I didn’t need him anymore. I found the whole process with him over a few years extremely helpful. In respect to any victims I’d encourage them to, if possible, find a counsellor or psychologist who is at least empathic to the Christian faith, and talk their stuff through with them. They don’t have to be full-on Christian but its better if they are at least a bible believing Christian of some Protestant denomination. Donald
Hi Donald.. Re/Psychs .. I myself suffer from ‘PTS Indefinite’ according to a Psych Report from a respected Psych in Brisbane City.. due to me being set on Fire (abused) by a Maniac-Muslim (2002) as I preached Jesus as God Almighty and Saviour in the streets of Brisbane. Plus I was food poisoned (abused) by a Muslim Kebab Shop (2008) resulting in a Heart Attack and the Senior Cardiac Surgeons at the RBH Brisbane said I needed ‘5 statins and a Stent’ in my heart or I would die. However, I chose to Look to Jesus, the God of All Flesh, by the leading of His Spirit and all is well with my Soul-Mind, Will and Emotions. And how can you be a Psych and a Sold Out Christian-Follower of Jesus at the same time?. While Psychology deals with the Mind and Jesus deals with the Spirit – Hearts of Humanity. And aren’t Christians born of a Spirit of Sanity, a Sound Mind and the Prince of Peace.. re/2 Timothy 1:7, John 3:5, Isaiah 23:6.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvjpe5HK4M .. The Glory belongs to Jesus!.. 🙂
There are many good psychologists and counsellors and many good Christian ones who allow clients to work with their Christian beliefs ,who do assist people to deal with anxiety, depression and PTSD associated with abuse. People should be given the option of seeking help, assistance and support and know of services that are available.
Gidday Donald.. Re/Victims of Religious Abusers and Pagan Abusers .. I don’t believe that it is a good idea at all to refer ‘Abused People’ to Psychologists and Psychiatrists for they can only ever offer temporary and very limited help, especially for the ‘Mind and Emotions’. Apparently Psych’s are numbered among the most ‘Mentally and Emotionally’ Unstable people in the World. Keep fighting the Good (News) Fight Donald, because only a Remnant are .. ref/Matt 11:28, Isaiah 23:6, Matt 7:13-14 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/jesus_turns_nightmares_into_happ.htm ..
Tanya. I leave any information or opinions on this site so long as people aren’t attacking others etc. So your info is here for anyone. I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as a Hillsong Watch group or anything. This is a private blog site with no affiliation or bias. I am OK with all the Protestant Churches so long as they are biblically based and embrace the moving and gifts of the Holy Spirit. In that statement I just lost a lot of friends. Donald
Hi I’m not asking you to be aligned with anything. I’m asking you to refer people to the appropriate services so that they can access the help that is in place, legally, socially, psychologically etc. The victims that you are in contact with have a right to know about the services available to them. That’s all.
here is the link for the most accessible form of compensation. i would support your class action efforts, but it’s important people know about the standard avenues as well.
Donald, please can you pass on my email to anyone who requests it. it’s tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com I’m not sure if you’re aware but the Attorney General will provide free advice and application to Victims Services. It’s important that you refer ppl to Victims services where they can get free counselling from Victims of Crime too, as an option. Just so that people have that option. please pass my email onto Evan who requested it and to anyone else trying to get in touch with me. Thanks
How pathetic that Churched people like the Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and other Orthodox Religions such as RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church, Salvos etc .. refuse to comply fully when found out for their abominable acts and Wilful Destruction of peoples lives and then a FUND is set up for the Victims. Not that the Victims don’t deserve payment but It really sounds like this kind of behaviour/abuse is about to be Accepted and Counted as part of Church Behaviour… So why did Jesus die on the Tree, didn’t Jesus say it is FINISHED?.. and that ALL was accomplished (by Him for us @ the Tree) and that we can do ALL things through Messiah who gives us strength via His Victory. Well it is the Last Days isn’t it .. ref/Romans 13:1-14 .. “When the Devil comes in like a Flood, Holy Ghost will raise the Standard”.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/torn_between.htm ..
Reblogged this on kristinesteyne and commented: there are many many comments at the bottom of this blog. I believe also that Brian Houston should definitely reported his father
Donald, It is no trivial thing what you are doing here for these people. And you have no doubt been instrumental in helping these Victims somewhat, in easing their pain. However, if they stay close to Jesus, He will bring them through to a Glorious End. Yes, I still pray for you and the Victims (even though I know them not) as Father leads, He knows them and every hair in their head. I do believe in Miracles Donald and they are real easy for Jesus to perform, piece of cake actually.. I am believing for a Miracle for you and them. Go in the Strength of Our Lord.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/heart_attack.htm ..
Paul. I’m going to explore the possibilities of legal action. The main thing to me is that the victims are empowered and can get on with their lives in a positive godly manner. All three boy victims I am in touch with by email and on this site, AHA, WNZ1 and SA1 are all feeling heaps better for speaking out and having their say. This site is the only forum for WNZ1 and SA1 to do this. AHA spoke out at the Royal Commission and he has been making a few comments on this site. It’s great these men, now in their 50s to 60s are able to do this. They can have their say anonymously and feel empowered. It’s all about the victims and their families. Donald
Katharine. The Royal Commission, the Australian Government, the AOG/ ACC, Hillsong will do nothing to help the victims. Pastor Brian Houston has said he won’t do anything for the victims. On what basis do you write: “Trying to sue Brian would not succeed and would be a waste of time and money as well as your energy”. Are you a barrister who specialises in criminal law? You also write “I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so the victims can get counselling and maybe a support group”. Well, Katharine, the Assemblies of God in Australia doesn’t exist any more. Then you write “They would have to sue the individual church i.e. Klemzig AOG top get any compensation”. If you’re saying the AOG will sue the Klemzig AOG, well the AOG don’t exist. Even if it did it wouldn’t sue an AOG Church. You then say “I understand the Royal Commission is going to make recommendation about compensation”. The Royal commission is unable to help with compensation but it can make a recommendation to the NSW or respective State where the victim was abused to charge someone with a criminal offence for not reporting pedophilia. They will also comment on the culpability of the ACC, Hillsong or Brian Houston, but it won’t do anything about it. The only way the boy victims of Frank Houston will get any compensation is if there is a class action initiated by the victims themselves. No one else is going to help them. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about legally to be honest. But it’s a free world re expressing your views. Donald
Gidday Donald, around October 9 .. I recall saying this, regarding Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and their abuse of children .. “Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this Entire Case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church”. And even have the Gall to shout aloud ‘thanks be unto God for Vindicating us’. Donald, this is not to put a wet blanket on things but we do live in a ‘World of Unrighteousness’ after all, and let us never forget that MONEY TALKS.. A place calling itself a ‘Church-Holy Place’ doesn’t get as Materially/Financially Rich as Hillsong through being HONEST.. LOL… The Real Judgment and the Real Sentencing is on it’s Way and none of us can escape this one .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3hggV7i2Y8 ..
Trying to sue brian would not succeed and would waste a lot of time and money as well as your energy. I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so that the victims could get counselling and maybe form a support group . They would have to sue the individual church ie klemzig aog to get any compensation. I understand that the royal commission is going to make recommendations about compensation . Maybe franks adult victims will then come forward . And no I don’t work and would never work for hillsong katharine
Evan. Tanya Levin is a former Hillsong member and a Hillsong watch type of person. Tanya wrote a book, “People in glasshouse…”. I haven’t read it or been to her website, if she has one. I would think that Tanya has a lot of information. If you google “Tanya Levin” or Hillsong related words and phrases which critique Hillsong, its prosperity etc you’ll find her stuff. Tanya said, in this comments part of my site, that she wanted to talk with me, swap info etc and maybe form a coalition. I told her I wanted to be unaligned. I’m happy to receive any information that will help me take a class action with Frank Houston’s victims against Hillsong, AOG/ACC and Pastor Brain Houston for compensation. I’m going to start a Trust Fund for victims of Frank Houston to fund a civil class action for victim compensation and a criminal case. I am looking to get Pastor Brian Houston criminally charged and convicted for not reporting AHA and other pedophile cases between 1999/ 1998 until the current Royal Commission in 2014. I am not convinced Brian didn’t know about his father’s pedophile activities earlier then 1999/ 1998 and would appreciate any information from anyone out there which would prove that Brian knew earlier. Donald
This whole thing with the Houston’s, Hillsong – CLC – ACC, is really all about Judgment and Righteous-Judgment is a Loving thing. It is surely helpful, profitable to all concerned and not concerned. Yes, even those watching on can learn.. ref/1 Timothy 5:19-20. I know I am. I can never forget the day that Messiah had me go to ‘Steve Erwin/the Crocodile Hunter’ some years back now, to give him the ‘Message of the Christ’. I have written 12 books in my short Ministry of 27 years and out of the 12 books, Holy Ghost led me to take him the book.. ‘Birds and Fish’. To put it bluntly, this book was about DEATH. And you know what, it wasn’t long after I took that book to Steve he died a the hand-tail of a Stingray and I still wonder today, did he ‘read and hearken’ to the Message of that book and where will Steve be at the Judgment Stand of the Christ, will it be the ‘Great White Throne’ or the ‘Saints Stand’ ?.. Judgment is a Serious thing but it is also a Beautiful thing. The Beggar Lazarus had the right idea.. “Stay in right Standing with God no matter what”.. the Rich man in his uptown robes wasn’t so smart was he. Hope all you bloggers have a nice day .. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/steve_irwin.htm ..
Rejoice!.. for this is the day that Yahweh has made, without hands. At the end of the day and even Life itself as we know it on planet earth .. it really doesn’t matter what people think about us, say about us or think they know about us .. we will all stand at the ‘Judgment Seat of the Christ’ and we shall ALL give account of ALL things done while in our body, whether that be Good or Evil .. scary hey.. that is, if our Heart is not Right with Yahweh.. Thank God for ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’. We no doubt serve the ‘God of Promises’ .. 🙂 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zEt0eTsts …
The attached is a little simplistic and consequently doesn’t dwell on Frank. Dad was a fine father to a household of 8 on low paid wages at GM where the body shop finisher receive free milk to compensate for lead poisoning from filing the lead filled blemishes. However he was a bigoted old school “keep politics out of sport” rugby supporter who couldn’t come to grips with HART’s “No Maori No Tour”. We argued too much and my wife preferred we not visit.
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Tanya. Re Brian’s sisters. They’re on the early blogs from 2 years ago. They commented about 2 weeks ago. If you can’t find them let me know and i’ll do a search. Donald
Tanya. The Commission contacted me 1.5 weeks ago asking for me to contact the South Australian victim. I put him in touch with the Royal Commission and he made statement. Another two men have contacted me from New Zealand. Both are victims new to me. The Commission has given me contact names and phone numbers for victims to phone them on.
As the Royal Commission were the ones to ask for Brian Houston’s to take the stands, there were obvious reasons. To ensure that the safety of these children are on top priority and that the institute or church are reacting in a positive manner so that these bad acts are not repeated in the future.
I appreciate your response. Not to be pedantic, but the Commission is investigating both the institution and “its officials” so while Brian Houston is obviously not on trial, his personal response is also the concern of the Commission.
Below you’ll find a link to the page that outlines the expressed purposes Royal Commission which may clarify things for others as well.
I agree that it is our right to judge the intentions of people of any church. Having said this, I do believe that when someone is saved or born again, they give their lives to Jesus and follow Him. However, that does not mean the person won’t fall into temptation . … of course he will, he will probably even sin… Satan’s aim is to break up the church and that is exactly what he will aim at… Peter denied Christ, not once but thrice. He lied that he did not know who Jesus was. Thank our Good Lord that we are not saved by what we do but by Grace that can be given by God alone. I don’t know if Frank Houston asked for forgiveness or not, even Brian Houston may never know but God does. So by judging his salvation by the words Brian Houston used at the Royal Commission is not the right way to go.
Now going back to the church and judging the church that we attend, of course we should. In fact, if you read my earlier post, I don’t think I denied that there. But you will get many in churches who will fall into temptation and sin but we have to look at the church as a whole. If someone has done wrong in the church, how has the church reacted towards the person involved. That is actually what the Royal Commission is all about, not to put Brian Houston on trial but to see if the church has reacted against the perpetrator in the correct manner and not pushed the situation under the carpet and I think they did get their answer.
Hi i just saw this. No worries, then ignore my previous comment. Can you please direct me to the sisters’ comments? Congrats on all this work by the way…
Hi Donald, Please make sure you let victims know about the official Royal Commission agency to guide them through the whole process from making a statement and through to including legal advice re compensation. It’s at knowmore.org.au thanks and please feel free to contact me at tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com We’re all trying to put our heads together at the moment and your site is a real help!
RE: ROMANS 3:23 .. Says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm ..
I’m sure you don’t mean to, but you are using Romans 3:23 as a proof texts.
I don’t think anyone here is condemning anyone, but they are following scriptural guidelines and are judging whether the Houston’s actions line up with the Word of God. You are correct though, it is not our “right”, but it is our responsibility!.
Here’s a link to all the scriptures that show you that we are meant to judge those within the church. Just cut and paste it into whatever search engine you use if it doesn’t open directly.
Also, I don’t think the reason that people start blogs is “only” when “you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man”. People start blogs for all sorts of reasons.
Please read the link I sent you as you’ll be able to see that not only are we supposed to judge people within the church.
Finally, I think the author has already indicated that his intention is to assist the victims to get to the right authorities.
Paige .. here is part of your Comment on rewind .. Quote.. “At the heart of this, is that your father attacked ‘SOMETHING’ that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable ‘COMMODITY’, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man”.. end of Quote. So children are SOMETHING and children are a COMMODITY … Hello?.. 🙂 .. do you know what a COMMODITY is?.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
I appreciate that you must be in such pain right now. No child should have to experience either being molested or being parented by a child molester. I know my natural overwhelming instinct would be to minimize the horror, to try and find a way to accommodate justice without destroying everything around me in the process. I don’t think anyone questions how absolutely devastating that this must be for you and your brother.
However, that has been where so much of the focus has is (your brother’s pain not yours). I’m aware that Brian has had tens of thousands of supporters pledging their loyalty and condemnation of everyone who dares to suggest that he should be accountable. But your brother’s messages continue to be embedded with calls for sympathy and we’ve heard so much about his pain (this is the first time I’ve heard about his siblings though) but so little about the victims. Shouldn’t that concern us?
I have not read other people’s opinions, I have only read the statements, listened to the cases and read Brian’s own words but this is the overwhelming pattern in his language.
I have been watching the Royal Commission and they have indicated that what he did was wrong in taking on your father’s judgement and in not reporting it to the authorities. Yesterday, your brother admitted that in church, but also put the blame on the AOG leadership as well. I’m not sure if you heard it, but it has been posted.
I think a lot of Christians are wondering why it has taken so long for this to come into the light? Why would someone who has testified that they were deeply traumatized and conflicted, then argue that they handled the situation objectively and ethically. When asked why, Brian said because it needed someone with “courage” and “guts” to do it. Courage and guts to do what? Slap your father on the wrist and suspend him from ministering? That doesn’t make sense, but it does raise a lot of doubts.
I don’t mean to simply criticize your brother, but I do hope that I can explain why people are asking questions. Why I am asking questions?
Of course we will all be accountable on judgement day, but this blog, I suspect, isn’t about judgement day, nor is the Royal Commission about judgement day, it’s living the truth in the past, present and future on this earth. An earth in which we are supposed to be the light and a people that are above reproof. If we have lost our saltiness, and the world needs to reprove us for having failed to act justly, then we are indeed in trouble. Your brother has been reproved by the world by failing to act justly and all of us are wearing that. Out on the street, my non-Christian friends are asking me for answers, so I think it’s fair enough that I try and get some for them.
I know it is deeply personal to you, but what happened happened while your father was in ministry and that ministry, directly or indirectly, led to the formation of Hillsong. The world has a right to ask questions of the church and when they do we should come up squeaky clean. When we don’t, and that happens unfortunately, then we should at least admit it.
You make the comment that your brother has practiced forgiveness on a scale that most never have to consider. I think that could be deemed fairly offensive to those who today are dealing with a lost childhood. At the heart of this, is that your father attacked something that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable commodity, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man.
I hope this helps you understand people’s concerns a little better.
Paige. I agree with every word you’ve just written. Before the start of the Royal Commission I was hopeful that Brian might listen and show some humility and care. However I am convinced that Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and AOG/ ACC are incapable of listening. My focus is on the victims, not just the sexual victims but all the folks who gave their lives and hearts to the cause of Christ under Pastor Frank Houston and were abused in other ways. Even Brian has been betrayed and deceived horribly by his own dad. But that does not excuse Brian under the Laws of Australia and New Zealand. Brian should have reported the crime of pedophilia of his dad to the Authorities in Australia and New Zealand and let them decide what to do with his dad. Given people like Rolf Harris are 84 and still doing goal, it’s a given that Frank would have been jailed. By failing to report his dad, Pastor Brian Houston may end up being charged, not with his dad’s sins but for not reporting them and concealing them. The compensation of victims issue is another big consideration and my thinking is a class action by the boy abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston would succeed. Donald
Hi Mark, No-one has yet claimed, including Brian, that his father repented of his sins. In fact, Brian explains that his father effectively pined away until his death in deep depression. This hardly describes a man who has been reconciled with Jesus. Also, Frank was forced to admit one crime, to which he had no choice but to admit because the evidence was indisputable, but even then did not admit to all the children that he had molested, just the one. This is not repentance or being “reconciled with Jesus” no matter how you spin it.
With this unconfessed sin in his heart, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank continued to attend a small Sydney church, be around children and pray for people. My Bible says that this is the works of the devil.
When Brian was asked on a radio with 2G (you can google it and both watch and listen to it), he was asked if he thought his father was in heaven. Had Frank repented, the answer would surely have been “Yes”, but Brian admitted that he did not know, though he hoped he was. Even when Frank was forced to admit his crime, he did not report himself to authorities, he did not resign and he did not seek out his victims to make restitution (remember he never paid the $10,000, Brian arranged this).
I am so grateful to the Lord that they are Christians who believe that we should be more accountable for our behaviour than the world is. I am grateful for those who believe it is the job of the church, as mandated in scripture, to call out hypocrisy, false teaching and double standards WHEREVER they are found.
For those arguing grace, forgiveness and compassion, I suspect you have not understood these words in relation to the whole counsel of God. These are all powerfully forces that lead into the arms of God, but Frank rejected them when he denied these things to others. It is important that you understand that judgement within the church, is also a means of grace, forgiveness and compassion.
You also fail to remember that as Frank, as Brian does also, set himself up as a leader and teacher of men, he, according to scripture, became more accountable to God and to the church. Those who are not holding them to account are in fact the ones doing them the most harm.
If you would see Brian Houston survive this, then you will reprove, rebuke and admonish him.
Tanya. I don’t want to collaborate. I’m just doing what I can for the cause. Any information I glean that I’m able to share will be on this site. Donald
Hey Noel, how’s it going?.. Rom 3:23 says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
HI…having trouble contacting you… please be aware that we are all putting our heads together…thanks for all this info….please send your email..? or find me on facebook.. we’ll get to the heart of this together x
Some interesting WFH Bio – http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/ADPCM/e-to-h/houston-william-francis-frank-1922-/ I had always assumed that the book keeping errors were not sufficient reason for the Salvation Army to expell the then youthful Frank and went with the gossip that there would be sufficient cause if it was say an extramarital affair. Whatever it was, caused his “backsliding” for three years until Tony Austin invited him to the Khyber Pass AoG in where Ray Bloomfield took him under his wing and within six weeks had made him the Assistant Minister at his popular Ellerslie AOG church. However this arrangement didn’t last long, as Bloomfield suddenly moved Canada in ’55, leaving Frank with his large 400 congregation which quickly dwindled to about 80. Frank stuck with it until December 1959 when he was offered Lower Hutt AOG. CJ
I don’t think anyone here has not been improper or vindictive. I think, they just want the truth to be reflected and as you have seen everything you have put forward has not been correct. If at all, you seem to be aiming at Hillsong and Brian Houston, Read your post again.
I also still don’t see how a blog is helping victims. You will agree that Pastor Brian Houston is not accountable for his father’s actions and actually cannot answer for him at all but still made an attempt to understand the victims point of view. I watched the Royal Commission, which in my opinion is a good thing especially to know if the right thing was done and, I think Brian Houston spoke exactly as it was from his perspective. On the other hand, if you watched the Royal Commission on the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell with his own confession said that while he had taken up the abuse cases with the Vatican, they shunned him aside and in fact told him not to come again with these cases. Now that is a problem when the church does not heed to something brought to their notice. We are all sinners but I believe that when we see something wrong happening, we should not push it aside but instead do the right thing which I think Brian Houston did do in 1999.
Kepa. I basically agree with ACC’s 10 points about gays. I have had a lot of interaction with gays in Sydney over the decades. If a man or woman decides they want to seek the Holy Spirit through the Lord Jesus Christ they will make contact with the Divine. The Holy Spirit will help them come to terms with how He feels about the situation. And then the Holy Spirit will show the gay man or women what is the next step. Its about wholeness as a human being. Donald
Noel. Thank you for sharing your views. I welcome anyone to comment so long as its done in a polite and not a vindictive manner. I am not able to share more about my conversations with victims. Save to say there are many. I’m doing what I can to help them. They all have counsellors. They like my blogs and what I have to say and feel empowered by them. My opinions and views are well-known on this site. Donald
Rom 3:23 says “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are no one to commend another man as we are all sinners. The only one who can judge is God Himself.
If as you say are helping others do you think that you are equipped enough to help them. It would be better if you directed them to the correct source for a proper investigation. The need to start a blog arises only when you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man, something which none of us have the right to.
10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. – so what does this infer??? that such people don’t accept Christ????????
Hi Donald, People may find this interesting… This is what Hillsong and ACC (Australian Christian Churches) actually believe about Homosexuality & Lesbianism:
1. Homosexuality is referred to directly and specifically in the scriptures. 2. Homosexuality violated God’s plan for provision and family. 3. Biologically God did not create the human body for homosexual activity. 4. Homosexual activity is unhygenic as can be seen in the high rates of infection with, and the transmission of AIDS amongst those who practice homosexuality. 5. Homosexuality is a dangerous practice that reduces life expectancy of the participant by 25years. 6. Homosexuality is a chosen ‘behaviour’. 7. It is a ‘choice’ – Not a natural, biological, hormonal or genetically governed behaviour. 8. We oppose the legalization of homosexuality. 9. God loves the homosexual despite their sin and is willing to forgive the homosexual and bring them to wholeness. 10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. Source: ACC Ministers Manual: Ethics Statements (Homosexuality & Lesbianism)
BE YE ‘PERFECT’ AS FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT!.. What was that?.. Do we here these words in the Churches anymore?.. LOL.. 🙂 .. If a Minister mentions the word ‘PERFECT’ in the pulpit today, the congregation splinter and he is considered .. DELUDED .. 🙂 .. this gives us all a good idea on how many churched people are Really Saved from Eternal Hell Fire.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRc0h2jjX8 .. Enjoy!
Deb. You are correct. Hillsong was just a continuation of Christian Life Centre. Simple as that. But Pastor Brian Houston is using this entity change from Christian Life Centre, Sydney to Hillsong to say to the 13 plus boy victims of his father’s abuse: “Sorry about the abuse occurring at Christian Life Centre, other parts of Australia and New Zealand when my dad Frank was in the AOG or City Hillsong. You see the AOG New Zealand is a separate entity from the AOG Australia and the AOG Australia is now Australian Christian Churches anyway and Christian Life Centre Sydney is now Hillsong City campus. So unless your abuse happened in Hillsong Baulkham Hills since 2000, I’m definitely not liable. Not even morally because I have no morals towards the victims so how could I be morally liable?” Donald
Paul.Thank you for your support and belief in what I’m doing. One victim who wrote to me on this site about being abused by Pastor Frank Houston contacted the Royal Commission this week with my help and gave them a written account of his story. He emailed me after and said that its made him feel a lot better and empowered. The abuse occurred when he was just 11 and happened several times at an AOG church camp in Australia. TV One in New Zealand contacted me and asked me for some leads on NZ victims of Pastor Frank Houston and I was able to point them where to find some. I was contacted today by a NZ victim in an area of NZ where I’ve had no evidence of abuse and I’m in communication to see if I can help them. Donald
Hello Michelle, I don’t know you personally neither do I know Donald personally but one thing I do know of Donald is this .. “Donald has a Backbone (which is more than I can say about most church leaders today) and he Truly cares about people, especially abused people and I have no doubt that God Almighty ‘will and is’ backing him in his pursuit of Righteousness and Justice for those who have been beaten down and have no Voice”. And one more thing, I don’t really do the ‘blog-thing’ but I find myself here on Donald’s Blog, as Father leads. And have you noticed that Donald’s Blog has no ‘Coward, Compromising Notice’ on it such as.. “All comments on this Blog are subject to Moderation”.. I like that, I like that people are free to speak what is ‘Really in their Hearts’ and are not Controlled and Restricted by Pharisees, Sadducees and People Pleasers. Let me recommend this article link (of my fellow minister) for your reading, RE: Judge Not. And also, let me say, Proud People wouldn’t dare put their Name, Time and Strength on the line for others, (proud people have no genuine care for anyone but themselves) please consider what I have just said Michelle, it may prove to be helpful as you go further down the road .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. 🙂
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Justice certainly needs to happen but sounds like you’re playing God, judge and jury, Donald. Let the authorities handle it. Be very very careful Donald, pride goes before the fall. I understand your righteous anger but never be so self righteous to think YOU could never fall. This sounds like a witch hunt you are conducting.
so terrible sad all of this, words fail me! Judgement must indeed start in the house of God and flow on out from there to the rest of the world. When Jesus returns He will be looking for a holy and pure bride who walks in the ways of God. It is up to all of us (individually and as the body of Christ) to be ready for His return. And you can be sure His coming is not far away, take heed of the parable of the 10 virgins (5 were wise, 5 were foolish. Look and see what happened, what was the outcome!). Those who have been wronged need justice, healing.
On the subject of lying. I would like to comment on Maureen’s statement about her dad not founding hillsong. Is she splitting hairs? I was in the meeting that day Brian and 40/45? Others were commissioned out to start a church at baulkham hills from CLC. We were also told that we and our tithes would help to fund them until they could get on their feet. Yes that church changed and involved into hillsong but that was a growth and change of name only. It still came from and was funded and founded out of her dad’s church. Surely someone like Maureen would know the truth of this? Wouldn’t you think?
There is God’s laws and the laws of the country. Crimes are dealt with in a COURT OF LAW. Not by anyone’s compassion and forgiveness. You are foolish to suggest that crimes are acts of the devil.If you were right.what is the use of having laws. Don’t come back to me with more quotes from the bible to justify what you said According to you, we can justify all the crimes committed in this world by blaming it on the devil. Judge: ” Yes dear man it wasnt your fault you molested that innocent child, it was an act from the devil” Youre a cretin mate to suggest we cant question Frank Houstons If you truly were abused yourself in this manner, do you honestly believe your forgiveness helped anyone else that that person may have abused? Or the abuser itself?
Gidday Donald .. I watched part of the RC on Houston this afternoon via streaming and from what I can see .. this Hillsong mob are as Cunning as a Dunny Rat, they’ll run around the bowl all day and never fall in. Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this entire case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church. All supposed Protestants (save RC’s) who dare not Protest any more, especially against Sin. And worse than that, Hellsong will have the gall to say .. “Thanks be unto God for Vindicating us”… 🙂 .. From the little I have seen/heard of Houston on live-streaming, he doesn’t give a hoot about anyone else but Brian, Frank/deceased and Hillsongs Furtherance. AOG are Crooks and ‘Wordplay Professionals’. I don’t believe any of them could lie straight in bed.. 🙂 .. I’ve said it for decades and people, so called Christians, pew warmers and Pastors alike HATE me for it .. “AOG is a Den of Thieves and who in their right mind would want to be associated with them”. Yes, I have had opportunity to be part ( a minister) with them, on more than one occasion (1 being with Garden City Church) but the Spirit in me said ‘Stay Away’.. thanks but no thanks .. 🙂 .. ref/Psalm 1:1 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo71.htm ..
Good Morning Donald.. I read your Oct 8 Comment on the RC-Houston and although the Saga is grim I still liked the dry-humour. As for your Oct 7 Comment, well, it was just so sad to read. So this man/FH controlled this boy AHA for 5 years, most certainly was no mistake was it. Wilful damage, damnable Sin outside of True-Repentance. I never seen Jim Williams X Pastor of Garden City Church ever go before the Courts either for his Sexual Misconduct with young girls in New Zealand, prior to coming to Australia, just another White Washed-Stone Wall job I guess. ‘Amazing Grace’ it is that Saves Souls from Eternal Hell Fire that live in Ongoing Known Sin Un-Repented… ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’ what a Beautiful Message filled with God’s Love .. ref/Luke 24:47 .. 🙂 .. Go in the strength of our God – Jesus, who is the Christ .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/tradingongrace.htm ..
Denis. Thank you for your comment and concerns. Would you mind detailing anything you feel is inaccurate? I started writing about Pastor Frank Houston two years ago. That was when I wrote the article on this site: “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. It was shortly after my father’s death, who was also a pastor. I was writing about dad and his life, mainly for my family and people who knew dad. In the course of my recollections and memories I wrote a blog about dad and Frank Houston because they were pastors in the same city in New Zealand. That was in Wellington in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Their contrasting backgrounds, congregational demography and so on was interesting to me. You see Denis, this is a private blog site which is only my opinion. I write the world as I see it. If I get the facts wrong, I’d like to know. Also I very much believe in the ethos of democracy and freedom of expression. So if you or anyone disagrees with me, that’s OK. I hope this explains a bit about where I’m coming from. Donald
Sorry Maureen something is not right in the Houston family. Your brother is wealthy, he is high profile, he is powerful and he has achieved many wonderful things as you say. However, I see a man in a deep rut of pain and shame that he is digging with his action of not shouting from his stage everything he knows. The truth will set him free. I’m afraid there are skeletons in Brian’s closet that caused him to start digging this rut. I’m not suggesting they are the same skeletons as your fathers but there are skeletons. A man without these skeletons would have just jumped on the grenade from the outset with the faith that Jesus Christ will restore.
Hello Donald. I have read your blog page and find numerous assumptions that you have come to. Please get the facts before you go into the public arena. You appear to be on a mission to avenge the sexual abuse of one man. Assumptions presented as fact are damaging to people and once stated by go it can not be withdrawn. Your assumptions have entered minds and they take it as fact. Be careful and use wisdom.
John. What age did Sheila live to and what happened to the nice house they built? Your dad was a very good man and you’re fortunate to have had a father like him. I can’t remember if I went to Stan’s funeral but I may have. Where was it held? I went to Pastor Tom Marshall’s funeral and watched the coffin being lowered into the hole. His funeral was at the Cemetery at North Ryde in Sydney. He got cancer unexpectedly and died quickly. Tom was one of the men of God who I think really had a close walk with God. Sometimes he’d radiate God’s Presence. Did you get on well with Stan? I’ll read the AOG link you mention. Did Stan and Sheila ever mention the scandal involving Frank’s abuse of 6 ten year old boys at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s and several at AOG youth camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. I’m trying to get more details. Do you know anyone who might know? Donald
Donald – yes indeed, I’m Stan’s second son. Incidentally, prior to her move to Africa as a missionary, Sheila was my mother’s midwife for me back in ’43 at the maternity home behind what is now the Hutt City AoG. If your interested in correcting the Wiki version of NZL AoG, Pastor Ian G Clark, whom I respected, has written its history – http://ifphc.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/assemblies-of-god-in-new-zealand/#more-662 If I recall it correctly of when I was 14/15 & vacationed in Ellerslie at my best friend home, Ray Bloomfield was a short overweight American type preacher that I didn’t really appreciate – but I understand there may have been some friction there with WFH. I moved to Ardmore in ’64 & lost contact with religion having some personal disbelief with the results of the Nicene “Convention”. I helped Dad & Sheila with the electrical wiring of their house and Dad died in ’78 a few months prior to my leaving NZL for Indonesia where now reside. I have no further juicy tales to tell of WFH except to say that I really had no trust in him and considered him and his ilk as a charlatan. (I once observed a Dentist from the congregation swear that the dental fillings one prayed for convert was receiving were from God – why didn’t he just get real teeth?) If evangelicals were a little more openly tolerant towards gay society then pedophilia would have a better chance to be recognised earlier. How many gay men & women are so because they were abused before reaching a mature enough age to understand the consequences.?
Paul. Don’t worry. Most people don’t comment. The views have gone through the roof. I’ve never set out to please people and write what tickles their ears. I have a huge number of viewers on a wide variety of subjects. The Frank Houston blogs are the most popular, particular “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. This was my first blog on Frank Houston a couple of years ago. Thank you for your comments and encouragement. I’m going to organise a class action if Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston don’t do something for the victims that is acceptable to me and the victims. One class action against the New Zealand AOG and one here in Australia against Hillsong and the AOG (now called the Australian Christian Churches). Donald
Well Donald .. day 2 has nearly passed us by and the ‘Stone Walling’ has already begun.. LOL!.. otherwise you’ll cry. The World, the News Reports tell us that even they are being deceived into thinking that Brian Houston and His Churched Leaders are all just Innocent Peoples saying with one accord.. “Silver and Gold have we None”. Jesus did say that ‘His people’ look for and long for the ‘New Heavens and the New Earth’ where RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS. It certainly doesn’t dwell on this earth, save in the Holy Remnant Peoples. ‘Admitting’ that we are Sinners or we have done wrong or that something is vile is not True Repentance, something needs to be done. The whole Saga of Frank Houston and his Filthy ways is not about his son Brian Admitting that his dad was a ‘Sodomite and Child Molester’… and then let’s move on now and Business as Usual. The entire case is not complete and never will be, in the eyes of the Righteous or the Righteous One-Jesus the Christ, until every single Victim is Accounted for, Compensated for and Catered for with whatever they need in order to ease the Horrific Damage dumped upon these little ones, by these Filthy Rich Wolves in Sheep’s Garments. If all I can do is continue to Encourage you to press forward with your ‘Findings and Conviction’ and also Pray for you and this ‘White -Washed’ situation, this is what I’ll do. But as you have already said “Some sins are Evident and Dealt with on earth while others follow them to the Grave”. Which was the case with Frank Houston. So was it 1 Child Molested or was it 21?. Frank and his wife’s sudden death also left a question mark in my mind .. And yes, dear Donald, only the ‘Salty’ will be Spared!!.. from Eternal Torment .. I notice that your Blog is not flooded with comments on such an Important Subject but neither is ‘The Narrow Road Flooded with Travellers’ .. ref/Matthew 7:13-14 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVY3MNm-VE .. Maranatha!
Rose. Its all voluntary re tithing and I have been going to church almost all my life. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses and has had its ups and downs but I’ve found my Christian faith has sustained me. My dad was a Pastor and from knee high he told me tales of human error, even pedophilia in the Church. And that was in the 1960s and 1970s. Everywhere you have people inside the Church or outside the Church you’ll find evil and human depravity. Donald
Paul. Thank you for mentioning me. I want to be one of those who follows in the footsteps of the brave heroes of the faith in the hall of fame in Hebrews chapter 11. Its been travelling around in my spirit lately the scripture in Revelation about if we’re lukewarm then God will spew us out of His mouth. Donald
I left CLC in its beginning days at Waterloo. Nobody explained such a thing as Diapraxis $$$, but I could see its outworking. I could see the signs and knew it was time to get out. This did not mean that I stopped being a Christian. The wickedness of men is a given and I alone must stand before God and give account. There was a time that the CLC bookshop had the likes of Francis schaeffer and Derek Prince etc. A number of years later I returned to CLC to check out its bookshop, to use the bookshop as a barometer regarding the church’s spirituality; as expected it had gone into decline. The simplistic books of Kennith Copeland were in full view; Copeland a known Freemason, as are Kennith Hagin and Billy Graham.
Many years later I chose to look at the top contemporary Christian music CD’s. As I listened to these, I was appalled; gone was the music of Keith Green and John Michael Talbot, true Christian music. Next I discovered a youtube hillsong video. This included a ‘so called’ Christian thrash metal band by the name of Pergamum; any Christian worth his salt should instantly know that (from the book of Revelations) Pergamum is the ‘seat of satan’; Pergamum being found in Turkey. The Pergamum altar being currently housed in a Berlin German museum; the same copied Pergamum altar that Obama used for his 2008 democratic(sic) convention. How a so called Christian Church could house a thrash metal band firstly, next one named Pergamum (seat of satan) was truly disgusting, while also intriguing to me. I wondered at the people that stood and watched this band; you could see at some level that they were troubled, yet they did nothing.
You who are without sin let him cast the first stone. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. A look at the old testament, in all its honesty, reveals the failings of man. The race we run is one to the finish line. Would you catch me in a hillsong church? Only to check out how far the fruit has fallen, then I’m out of there.
Beyond this, these are the sign of the times; the great falling away, the kali yuga. Yet this has all been in the making for many thousands of years. Mystery Babylon, gnostics, Alumbrados, The Church of Rome, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, witches, and satanists etc. Many who think that they have the absolute truth and yet are beguiled, (Do I think I have all the answers? No, but I make it my life’s work to find answers to the most important of questions). The Jesuits being some of the most heinous and depraved; the cause of most of the worlds wars and death of millions – mystery babylon. These same jesuits that secretly obtaining most of the worlds wealth via its illuminati run international bankers, via its owned reserve banks of this world. These very same who run the media and create religions. The very same people who set up tele-evangelists i.e. wolves in sheep’s clothing. Tele-evangelists who are also commonly Freemasons. Freemasonry which acknowledges at its 31st to 33rd levels that the god they worship is lucifer. This same lucifer which is the name which the UN had its publishing company named as ‘lucifer publishing’ now lucis trust. The same illuminati, inclusive of Murdoch who owns Harper Collins, which prints its ‘so called’ Christian bibles i.e. corrupted bibles. See videos ‘A lamp in the dark’ and ‘Tares among the wheat’ for the ongoing attack and corruption of the bible via the Vatican Jesuits. See also Libellusjesuitus.pdf as the the magical working of the Vatican Jesuits in conjuration of the demons of hell. As for those who still do not believe in a spiritual battle, you might like to look at all the books and videos of satanism and black magic readily available on Amazon.com and youtube; interesting are the works of E.A.Koetting on both of these websites. A person who will teach you of Human sacrifice but will smile when he tells you that he has not been apart of this. The Roman Church who is well aware of the spiritual realm and which secretly uses the forces of darkness to maintain power, all the while working for the Fascist New World Order, One world Government and One world Church – luciferian doctrine. The confessions of witches will tell you that they will attend church services; to merely sit in a service as a point of darkness to filter through to the church. Yes the people on top, the oligarchy, the is called illumanists, satanists know what is going on, what is at stake; power mad leeches of humanity; the ones that refer to the rest of us as useless eaters, cockroaches ready for the slaughter of the UN’s Agenda 21, Bohemium Grove and Georgia Guide Stones.
Yes I was also saddened to hear about Frank Houston, while every minister is a target, the mind boggles as to the wickedness of man. Saddened to watch what was becoming and did become of CLC, but with what I have just described above, you might have a glimpse into what is beyond what most just see on the surface. The rock of the Christian faith is the word of God. The Vatican and gnostics etc will tell you to place your trust on ‘Tradition and revelation’ all the while attacking the word of God and even corrupt the newer bibles. A look at Westcott and Hort (Jesuits) will show you from their written correspondences how they would seek to distort and destroy people’s faith in the bible (firstly via using the Jesuit Sinaiticus corrupted manuscript and then via casting doubt via the margin notes). There is a reason why there are Christians who stand firm on bibles that use the ‘majority script’ i.e. textus receptus manuscripts i.e King James Version; this verses the Vatican distorted manuscripts that most bibles these days are corrupted by. Wisely did St Paul state that “our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers..” For my liking any major church these days, especially that has Tele-evangelists are immediately suspect. The oligarchy which has most of the worlds wealth and controls most of the media, luciferians, are not going to let any church or minister that is not one of theirs, be able to positively influence the masses. The watered down churches of today are ripe for the One world Church. The Vatican created Islam to kill the true Christian and Jews and the game goes on. Why, did you not know that Mohammad’s wife of 15 years senior was a Roman Catholic that lived in a Roman Catholic convent? See information as presented by ex-jesuit Alberto Rivera – All roads lead to Rome. The tower of Babel – the U.N, Atheism verses Religion, the Hegelian dialectic, to achieve the One World’s Religion of the luciferian doctrine, the new age movement, man as god, all giving homage to lucifer. Stupid minds, Credit card mentalities – you can have it now, but one day you’ll have to pay up with interest.
So, you can listen to the lies and the distortions, you can run to Atheism etc like an ostrich with its head in the sand, but this does not negate the spiritual realm and the criteria of giving account as to ones earthly life’s actions. As for me, I’ll still stand by the one who spoke the greatest of all truth, the one who spoke words pertaining to eternal life – Yashaya (Jesus Christ).
Yes Donald.. Our great Lord-Jesus talks about ‘Thoroughly Purging His Church’ and if we don’t want to come under His Winnowing Fan’ .. how shall we be His, how shall we be Saved . .. would we not be only Born-Again Bastards?.. Not all Israel are Israel are they. And MANY will call Lord-Lord!.. whom Jesus will Deny He ever knew them. This Message was our Mid Week Teaching taught today.. 8.10.2014. And I make mention of Brian/Frank Houston, Hillsong and other Heathen Religious People-Organisations. You may find some time to listen. I also made mention of yourself-Donald. Keep up the Goodly Work, I’m sure Father – Ancient of Days is proud of you. Yahweh always backs His Truth and all who speak it in it’s Entirety – Full Counsel, never known Him any other way in 27 years Ministry .. Our motto @ JtCm-Mission is .. Honesty, Truth and Humility, with Jesus as Preeminent .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTlsPMenBc .. thank you Donald for keeping me posted .. Jesus Bless you .. 🙂 ..
Paul. I’m watching the whole Hearing and will continue to write blogs. Pastor Brian Houston issued a statement yesterday after the Royal cCommission denying he told victim AHA that he was tempting his dad. Please think about it: for 5 years the victim who was aged just 7 was abused by pastor Frank Houston and Pastor Brian Houston says the AHA was tempting his dad. This is the only victim the Royal Commission has heard from so far. From 2000 Pastor Brian Houston as head of the AOG took over the case of his dad. All the evidence from inside the Commission and from my sources says that Pastor Brian Houston did nothing at all to help the victims of his dad’s abuse in any way, apart from the shameful attempt at a buy-off at Thornleigh McDonald’s where a deal was done with AHA for $10,000 to be paid. AHA then had to chase Pastor Brian Houston for the cheque which arrived in the post with no cover letter. Pastor Frank Houston then tried to hush it all up and shut the matter down and has lied lied lied ever since. The Royal Commission is on to Pastor Brian Houston and he should be a worried man, if he’s not already. Before Sydney and the world Pastor Brian Houston’s shameful treatment of victims of his dad’s abuse is being played out. It was the top story on Sydney and National Sky News last night. there were large articles in the Sydney morning Herald and Daily Telegraph. Very very sad for the victims. Not good for the body of Christ. Purging sometimes has to come. Some people are judged on this earth. For some the judgment awaits them. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Sickening! This is so typical of Churches, never deal with anything properly or even biblically – shame on them! Shut all churches down I reckon or start TAXING them, after all, do they not TAX the members with the TITHE?? !! Of course they doApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Well Donald, day 1 is done with the Houston/Hillsong – CLC – AOG – ACC .. Saga and a little has been given recognition. People will always have THEIR views but the TRUTH is the truth and we can’t escape it, no matter what we try to do to camouflage it. As I watched the News last night, they said that F. Houston meet with one young victim @ Maccas and cut a deal with him for 10K $ and it was contracted on a MACCAS Tissue. How Low can ya Go?.. What a cheap trick, it’s just insult after insult isn’t it for all victims and even for the intelligence of the Commission, the Law and God’s Law, not to mention the Christian Community at large.This tells all, the REAL character of Franky Houston, not his Religious AOG Showcase Character but the real man within. F. Houston (within the secret meet) WILFULLY Abused and Wrecked a young mans life (along with multiple others) and then degraded him again by cutting a deal with him on a tissue paper. VERY CLASSY INDEED. Basically treating him like a piece of scrap meat, (the old nudge-nudge wink-wink say not more ). Franky basically tried to mop up such a Great Filthy Mess with a MACCAS TISSUE, now that is deluded in the first degree. Just a Band-Aid for the Leper. With no Respect whatsoever for humanity, let alone Christianity or Christ. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR?. However, I find one great insult and Sin in the midst of all this filth and that is, Brian Houston plays the ‘Liar and the Denier’ in this whole filthy mess and we all know that Jesus called ‘Satan the Father of Lies’. Hence, there is no lower character a person can be, in the eyes of God-Yahweh .. than a LIAR. Brian needs to Repent, come clean, face the music and move on in honesty and humility with expectation of Salvation on Faith-Obedience .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLVLODCJbI …ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes, its all about the victims. That’s what these articles of mine are about. Helping the victims and bringing hillsong, Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG to account. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
John. I had forgotten Frank served at Ellerslie. In what capacity did he serve? Was Ray Bloomfield involved there? Are there any Frank Houston victims of abuse from that period? Yes, i agree Frank was into male physique and bodies. That is normal for a homosexual but not for a prominent AOG pastor. Sad. So are you the son of Stan Carter? Stan was an amazing man. I met Stan at large interdenominational charismatic meeting at Karori, Wellington, where he was on the door. It was 1976-77. As you’d know he had a ministry of helps. I then got to know Stan and Sheila well at Kapiti Christian Centre. I recall Stan’s smile as he greeted people at the door at Karori. I was a young Christian aged 19 and used to help him on the door. I spent time with them as they built their new home on Kapiti beachfront. It would be worth a lot of money today. Stan was tireless in his work and then dropped dead from that heart attack. Stan and Sheila told me about Pastor Frank Houston being accused of pedophilia in the early 1970s. There was a big blow-up and a lot of people left. Do you know the facts on that incident? What age did Sheila live to? She was a very godly woman and had served as an AOG missionary in Africa for decades. Sheila shared how the tribes would run their pagan ceremonies all night with loud drumming and so ion and it would be quite scary. Stan and Sheila were quaint living in that little caravan as they build their house. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kylie. Pastor Brian Houston is in no way responsible for his father;s pedophile and homosexual sins, which are many and involve 12 or more victims, probably 20 plus, over all the decades from the 1960s until the 1980s. I haven’t found any dirty old man Frank Houston victims. If you read the last two blogs I’ve written last night and this morning you’ll understand where Brian is culpable and responsible. As head of Hillsong, as pastor Frank’s successor and as head of the AOG denomination for 12 years until 2009, he has been heartless, cold and arrogant towards the victims of his dad’s abuse. He has also been in denial. it is a difficult time for Brian and the Houston family. There are other issues too. For example, the Houstons have grown fat on royalties on hill song products and music, which is in reality stealing from God. What is God’s is Gods. What is mortal mans belongs to mortal man. You don’t profit from the things of God and the holy gospel. Its wrong. Its stealing from God. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
My spouse and I stumbled over here different web page and thought I may as well check things out. I like what I see so i am just following you. Look forward to looking into your web page yet again.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I just cant’ help feeling for those poor, young and helpless children that had been abused by Frank Houston. I have two boys myself. Just feel how heartless this man is for raping and abusing these children, the fear , helplessness and pain that their little bodies and minds have to injure from that evil of a man. I’m sorry but i wish he is burning in hell now for hurting those little ones.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Donald – Some Bios of Frank omit the period he served at Elerslie prior to being called to Lower Hutt where my father was a Deacon – I understand you have met him as you quote him and my stepmother somewhere. One of the strangest encounters with Frank that I recall vividly, was his obsession with the physique and athletic ability of school boy swimmers. In particular he confided that he frequented the then new Nae Nae Olympic swimming pool, to watch the swimming races. He had breached the subject some time in 1960 I believe, when I was in the sixth form, saying how much he enjoyed watching the performance of Robbie Walker an outstanding swimmer from our school. Maybe this was the start of his deviant obsession.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
P.s i strongly agree though that Frank Houston should be put on show for what he’s done and everything should be shared with the media, justice for those poor victims is all they have! And perhaps Hill song needs to fully accept and come to terms with the extent of his terrible doings!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I’m shattered by this disturbing news, I feel for Brian and his family because they are in a terrible situation that is not their doing nor do they have any control of, offenders always have children of their own and Brian happens to be the child of a terrible man but this is not his fault and I feel he shouldn’t be blamed for his father’s actions, I have been part of Hill song for many years on and off and although I consider my self a Christian I’ve never read the Bible nor do I take it very seriously yet I pray every night, so please don’t think I’m bias! I call a spade a spade and take people on face value, Brian/hillsong have done so much good over the years and helped so many people in need and yet this becomes quickly forgotten in bad times in the media, Brian may have been abused himself has anyone thought of that?? And does this make him not worthy to preach because his family life isn’t perfect, that church is amazing for people in need and it’s all thanks to Brians hard work if people think that it’s all been easy and he’s just scammed money out of people then their wrong he has worked hard, and had to leave his children to go overseas to constantly dedicate his life to helping others, all I can sayis I’m devastated but not hating these people due to others actions, family or not!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Lynda. You are correct that Pastor Brian Houston has knowledge of other cases. Victim AHA is an example of an Australian victim that Brian has known about since 1998. I’m sure it is very difficult for Brian. We know each other although I haven’t spoken to him for a long time. I don’t understand the psychology but Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong still persist with that official view of only one victim in New Zealand 40 years ago. Pastor Brian is having a lot of difficulty coming to terms with the activities of his dad. As are the other Houstons such as Beverly Houston who mentions the family trauma about her dad in comments on this site. The Houston denial is about to change. The Royal Commission which started today says that it has knowledge of 7 victims. I have knowledge of 11 plus. One of the purposes of my articles is to clarify with everyone that Pastor Frank Houston was a continual pedophile and homosexual from the 1960s when he was in his 30s until the 1980s when he was over 60. I also want Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston to start caring about the victims. Listening to them. Respecting them. Paying for a counsellor of their choice and one million dollars payout per victim. Thank you for your comments.DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hello , since reading this I have googled abit more about it . Just wanted to bring to your attention that there is a u tube clip of Pastor Brian Housten discussing this as the most difficult time in his life , and he clearly refers to “victims” and also mentions a meeting with at least one other victim as well . Thought I would mention it as I’m sure seeing how you are doing a blog and obviously have a lot of facts about the case , that you would also want to ensure accuracy in all areas of reporting . CheersApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
A BLESSING FOR ALL .. from Brother: Donald Wilson, this is a timely Message for the AOG-ACC for sure. Brother Donald was Principal of 2 Christian Schools in New Zealand and his dad by the leading of Holy Ghost departed from the AOG in the end, through disgust and that was going back 50 years, so what does that tell you .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/freedom.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Good Morning Donald .. Yes, it is a Goodly Morn, why?.. because it’s Commission Day.I would like to watch the Commission hearing, if time permits, otherwise I look forward to reading the paperback version. Sounds like you’re the man for this very job, and Father has a perfect way of finding the right man for every job, re/Little David-chosen above his warlord buffed-brothers. My fellow minister (Brother: Donald Wilson) in the Christ comes from NZ and his dad Pastor: William Wilson used to walk with Smith Wigglesworth when he was about. And has said to me on occasion that all these Ministers who use Wigglesworth’s name (for their own ends), re/Houston, Nalliah, Hinn, Copeland, Meyer, I’ve even heard ‘Jim Williams’ of Garden City Church when it was called such, drop his name when convenient. I met Jim Williams @ GCC many years ago and when I shook his hand the ‘Spirit of the Lord’ said to me he was going to be removed from GC within 12 months and he was removed only months later. When I told some of his fans this, they said I was jealous of him, charged at me and told me to be very careful what I say. He is another that was caught out for his taste for the young. Brother Donald doubted very much whether Wigglesworth would even give the people mentioned the time of day. I had a small happening with Freddy Evans/AOG too one time, an arrogant man if ever there was one. I haven’t read Bobby Houston’s book or any of Brian’s (the titles are enough) but I have heard both on TV and the little I could bear was suffice, 10 mins is overkill. Yes, I must agree, the AOG along with the RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church and Salvation Army are sticklers for ‘Stone Walling’ and are in deep water in Yahweh’s Eyes. I am praying that justice be done and the truth revealed .. you are in my prayers .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/devil_is_a_pervert.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Paul. Yes that’s the time for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Live stream starting at 10.30am today Tuesday at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au. I have knowledge of far more AOG pastors and leaders who are guilty of pedophile activities and have been protected by the AOG from prosecution, than Pastor Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s dad, who died in 2004, and was a secret homosexual and pedophile for over 40 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg re Hillsong and the Australian AOGs damage to Christendom. In a previous comment you reference the book Bobbie Houston’s “Kingdom women like sex”. I can’t find teachings like this in the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Can you imagine the reaction of Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth and Kathryn Kulmann to writings like this and Pastor Brian Houston’s writings about riches, money and prosperity? There is so much wrong with Hillsong and a large number of the AOG and modern pentecostal churches in Australia and all over the Western World. The problem is that we haven’t had a revival for a long time to flush all the worldiness out of our hearts and lives. When Pastor Brian Houston took over Christian Life Centre Sydney in the 1997 he shut down all the Holy Spirit soaker meetings, the prayer meetings and Christian Commandos, the outreach ministry in Kings Cross. He sanitised everything and all the Pentecostal stuff stopped. No prophecies, no healings, no deliverance. All the foundations of the ministry of Jesus, the Apostle Paul and the early church. All the things of the Holy Spirit, the early church and Pentecost stopped. This is where we must return to. The simplicity of faith in Christ. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount- Matthew 5-7. I Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. Acts 2 and Pentecost and the beginnings of Christianity. 1904-7 Azuza Street and the Welsh Revival Smith Wigglesworth, John G Lake, Katherine Kulman and so on. Those that have gone before us who are worth reading. If you read the Sermons of John G Lake and then read Bobby Houston’s “Christian Woman love sex” you might puke. I haven’t read her or Brian’s books but I intend to read them all and to do a full analysis of Hillsong and explain how it has gone off the rails and taken most of Australian Pentecost off the right track with it. I’m not without hope because the Holy Spirit is the greatest and sometimes He has to dismantle a whole denomination or organisation to bring forth new buds and establish what is right. A generation will rise up soon who are sick of the greed, corruption and money and sex emphasis in Hillsong and the Pentecostal church and who will embrace the true tenets of Christianity as found in the New Testament and the early church. All the best with the godly fight. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I have had my own experiences and run-ins with AOG – ACC Church Ministers and Members over 27 years Ministry and everyone of them disgusted me, still do. They are surely off with the Pixies. I have a few people in my fellowship that escaped the clutches of the AOG and the stories they have told me simply confirm and add to my original view of that Religious – Franchise. I always hoped that this wicked Religious Organisation/Business/Franchise would be ‘Exposed’ for what it really is. Looks like Yahweh gave me my wish, at least part of it for now. It was my wife that came across this blog today on her phone and she mentioned it to me this afternoon. The funny thing is, my wife didn’t attend our Church yesterday for she wasn’t well and she didn’t know what I Preached (not as yet). But I did mention Brian Houston and his ‘Affluent Church in New York’ in my prelude. How Brian was boasting on TV of how Hillsong are making headway into the Big Ticked Night Clubs where all the Wealthy, cashed up Sodomites, Transvestites and Depraved Women hang out. And then I come across this blog, well you could have pushed me over with a pin. Didn’t Jesus say to ‘Abstain from even the Appearances of Evil’?.. And what would AOG – Hillsong know about Worship anyway?. True Worship involves selflessness. It’s the 7.10. 2014 tomorrow isn’t it, yeah.. ‘Joy Comes in the Morning’ says the Lord of all Equity… 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo215.htm .. Yesterdays Message @ JtCm-Mission, Brisbane City .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8Nh92DmyE ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Pastor Brian Houston is about to appear before the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission is looking at the response to child abuse by the Assemblies of God, the Australian Christian Churches (a conglomerate of Pentecostal churches including the AOG, Hillsong and Pastor Frank Houston). Pastor Frank Houston, Brian’s father abused 11 plus victims, probably a lot more, mainly young boys aged 10-11 as very prominent Assemblies of God (AOG) pastor over 4 plus decades. These abuses took place in Australia and New Zealand. There are other AOG pastors who will be examined at this Hearing starting next Tuesday 7 October 2014 in Sydney. There is admissable evidence that Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG pastors did these things. The attitude of Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG in Australia and New Zealand has been to stonewall victims, try to hush them up and not compensate them properly or normally at all, if possible. You be the judge whether we should all go on with our lives and pretend child abuse of innocents by AOG pastors and leaders hasn’t happened and isn’t still happening. Pedophilia is a crime and there are serious consequences. The Australian Government certainly isn’t letting it go, in the AOG or any other church or institution. And I thank God for that. Future and present children need as much protection as possible from these evil predators. Especially from the clergy, for people don’t expect the clergy to be wolves in sheep’s apparel.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Absolutely Karen swart. I agree people need to leave Brian Houston alone god is in charge we can not condemn. Anyone only god can judge and I think it’s great Brian has done what he did he is a truly Remarkable manApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Maureen. Unfortunately you are in denial. To date the Australian AOG, Hillsong and your brother Brian have stalled and blocked any research or examination of Pastor Frank Houston’s numerous child sexual abuse victims. It would be nice if Pastor Brian Houston would face up to the music. I’m not optimistic. I would expect Brian and the AOG to stonewall the Royal Commission. It would be nice if this is not the case.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Oh my goodness! This is the most appalling writing… Quite abhorrent. How dare you state these serious matters as fact when it is profoundly flawed with misinformation and outright slander! I don’t know who you are Donald Elley, but I suggest you need to examine your own life. My father, Frank Houston was a pedophile. We, his family had no knowledge of this whatsoever! We were/are all completely traumatised by the fact. I have grandchildren now in their teens and have had to explain their genetic ‘heritage’. It had nothing to do with us, but we wear the stigma. Brian has gone on to serve God in ways you could never possibly understand with your small-mindedness…. Despite his total personal grief! Dad did NOT found Hillsong Church. I cannot quite figure your motives? Do you fancy yourself as some kind of representative of Gods justice? Bizarre! I think your stated profession is that of a builder. There are many Professionals, including a current Royal Commission, looking after the victims, hearing their stories with compassion, and I have no doubt they will get compensation if they think that will help. We are blessed to live in a society that no longer hides such hideous crimes against children. If you are a Christian you will be aware we ALL stand accountable before God on the day of judgement. The only thing I can say in my father’s defense, is that he taught us, along with many others, the gospel which is totally redeeming. I admire my amazing brother for his efforts for the kingdom of God, despite his agony. I’ve watched him grow and flourish as he has practised forgiveness on a scale most never have to consider. Your blog is contemptible and I won’t be revisiting it. Writing can be used in such a beautiful way to inspire and influence people for Jesus. May I suggest you find something edifying to write.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
This preaching is right for the Frank Houston matter, by Bill Johnson. 1Cor5, expelling and a form of shame with purpose, cleaning up the act with God, and covering sinners’ blind spots. ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Also, Calvary Chapel going through similar. Chuck Smith Sr., wouldn’t deal with his church at large either. Google: Alex Grenier and spiritualsoundingboard, or ocweekly.com; L.A.Times and Christianity Today articles in 2007 exposing corruption etc and do over fifty hours of reads of similar corruption. When you ignore child abuse and wanting wives to be battered wives, punching bags, and don’t deal with homosexuality which will breed child molestation, pedophile evil, you’re just as evil.
What famous Calvary Chapel pastor stood a woman up and called her donkey’s ass for wanting to leave her husband that was molesting kids, wow; wonder what evil sin this false leader hiding and then his son ends up beheaded car accident, wow. Was dealing with exposing molestation in Foursquare/Calvary Chapel to NO avail. Foursquare ran the parents out didn’t pay for counseling for boys but they were acceptable to take their money as long as NOT questioning. Sad to say, what your dealing with is in ALL demonations (not misspelled).
Unholy Anointing by H.A. Lewis exposes corruption along with Dr. Rebecca Brown’s book, “Setting the Captives Free” and it’s rampant in the church. Look at the AOG movement how many leaders have made the news for homosexuality, what religion will breed, read Charisma, contact Trinity Foundation, Dallas TX and do reads in L.A. And O?C. Newspapers and Christianity Today and they are still in ministry=amazing. “Religion is to the church what cancer is to the body”. AOG’s and Foursquare have same issues and DON’T deal with either but they want the people’s time and money to be kept in their lifestyle and dead business of selling their god, their Jesus and their unholy spirit. Christians cannot, will not and choose NOT to think for themselves, the Matriarchal B_tches, Patriarchal Disasters are robbing their families, God does NOT get any money nor the homeless/poor for the most part. Follow that money trail and question to the unth degree. Question where information comes from and the source.
Basically the people are supporting habitual liars, liars where the money goes who they help and NOT getting correct biblical teaching. People for most part are supporting wolves, hirelings, false shepherds. People aren’t healed up and whole; if they were all these evil regimes/movements would not exist. Research a matter.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Can you clarify, is it Peter Lawton or Laughton as seeing discrepancy in blog. Also, can you post the site instead of referring to regarding Peter’s abuse that you write about.
In reading, Frank’s son is just as evil as his father if he doesn’t make it right by the victims and one million is not enough. Contact Dr. Susan Forward and talk to her about what each victim should receive, she wrote a book: “Incest, molestation and it’s devastation”. By the way ALL her books are excellent reads, Toxic Parents also. Maybe her, Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil can help to resolve these issues(take it public maybe on latter’s show and Dr. Laura’s radio program).
Could you cover the definition of homosexual tendencies that Peter told Frank to come out and admit he was homosexual=what to look for. Austin Miles book would expose the AOG’s for being highly homosexual and child molesting, which they are. Wrote a book (which has not been published) eleven years after Austin Miles book; not knowing he existed saying the same things. My church was just different players and submitted it to David Wilkerson, Dr. James Dobson and heads of church leadership to deal with. Been addressing it hardcore with David Wilkerson since 1992 until his death and year 2000 to a group of so-called Christian leaders that dubbed The Round Table”. Look at J.Lee Grady’s book on AOG Lies and Dogma or William Lobdell’s Losing My Religion.
By the way, Laurie your wrong, frank’s sin is over everyone here’s perfect example: Over a Decade ago a friend gave me one of Hillsong’s Worship Tape and said she played it and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. So, listened to it and gave it back to her and said there’s pedophile, child molestation and homosexuality going on in the church and it’s coming out in the music and those three usually go hand in hand. she did not believe me and went to a very gifted man in Aussie or New Zealand and he told her the same thing. She asked me what to do with it, I said do you want to deal with those evil spirits keep the tape, personally I WOULD STOMP THE HELL out of it. I WILL NOT EVER PLAY OR have hillsong’s music. Someone gave me a CD and threw it away. Worse to NEVER make it right by the victims but taking money in the name of the father, son, Holy Ghost, wow. Taking money and living the good life.
How much does Brian/Hillsong own, worth, business, real estate, vacation and ranch homes, money overseas and or property, vehicles, planes or mentioned items hidden in other people’s names? How much $ is going to help the poor, fatherless, widow, homeless, alien, stranger. The true shepherd lives poor/poverty lifestyle; Jesus and Disciples were example and you will read that also in Arthur Katz’s and Leonard Ravenhill’s written works. Nothing gives it away more than the true vs. false more than this. Another used car salesman selling his dead religion, how sad. Brian isn’t even Broken or repentant or real; false church it’s a means of Business to make money for lifestyle and no one is judging fruit. Majority of so-called Christian do NOT know what a true father and shepherd look like, hillsong would NOT exist if the people did. Read Dick Suphen’s article on Christian Brainwashing. I lived my life around my church cult and so glad got out. Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by Johnson and Van Vomderan, Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola.
Go to Babel, Pentecost, my time at IHOP by Gary Wallin and other articles by Kendall Beachey Blog. Read their articles and all comments. Also: spiritualabuseawaremess.com, churchexiters.org, surviving church.org, report church abuse to rickross.com (do all those reads), Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX unfortunately abuse sites are like the energizer bunny they keep going and going. Have pages of sites and list of church abuse books. Comments, it will tell you how to research church abuse. Always Research a matter and get unbrainwashed and think for yourself and not live your life for or through someone else.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kathryn. Pastor Frank Houston died in 2004. He never was charged by the Police or did jail time. His son Pastor Brian Houston protected him. Hillsong/ Pastor Brian have lied about the number of Pastor Frank Houston’s victims saying there was only one 40 years ago. This is the official version I read on their web-site. I have counted 15 victims ranging in age from 10 to their late 20s. He was a secret homosexual and pedophile who liked boys and young men. All the time he was the most prominent AOG clergy in New Zealand first until 1977 and then Australia. He came to Sydney to escape the heat on him from allegations of pedophile activities while pastoring Lower Hutt AOG in Wellington, NZ. I’m convinced there are more than 15 victims. Two victims have contacted me after reading my articles on this site. If you google “Frank Houston and Peter Lawton” you’ll find graphic testimony by the victim Peter Lawton, Frank’s worship pastor, of Frank’s predatory homosexual abuse of him when he was a young man in his 20s and Frank was about 60 and living with his wife Hazel. Pastor Frank groomed Peter Lawton by inviting him to live with Frank and his wife Hazel in their flat in Lane Cove, Sydney. In this way Pastor Frank could groom and then abuse him. It’s very sad and vile stuff. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The bad root Hillsong grew from. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Phil. Pastor Brian Houston’s motives are probably quite complex. I believe he likes the good life. I’d like to see Brian share some of his success with the victims of his dad’s pedaphile activities, in the sense of substantial compensation and the provision of independent counselling for Pastor Frank Houston’s victims. I’m thinking in terms of one million dollars per victim plus independent counselling. It will never erase the hurt and invasion by his dad but it may help. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes this Pastor Frank Houston part 1 blog has proved very popular. I think it strikes a chord. People want to reconcile the sins of a pastor with their holy ministerial front.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
To all readers and commenters on this Site of mine: All comments are most welcome on this site. If you have been abused by Pastor Frank Houston or any other Pastor or Church leader please feel free to write to me initially by simply writing a comment on this site asking me to contact you. Then if I feel you are bona fide I’ll send you my email address so we can correspond. Some day soon I’d like to bring Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God to account for the serious damage caused to Pastor Frank Houston’s victims by a very evil, Jackyl and Hyde individual: That is, Pastor Frank Houston. RIP Frank…not. “Woe to him who touches one of my children” said Jesus. Donald ElleyApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Mark. Frank continued to minister for many many years whilst concealing these awful things. I think the problem people have is that they were crimes against children and young impressionable men, not consenting adults. I think to draw parallels to life of Paul in this completely misses the mark. Their lives were nothing alike. I grew up in Franks church and have been around the AOG for a long time. The fact that Frank continued to minister whilst concealing these crimes raises some very serious questions. I know people who have based their whole life’s calling on a ‘prophetic word’ that Frank gave them that would seem to have backed up very specific prayers, and impressions, to and from God, that would have been completely unknowable to Frank in the natural. How could this be? How can a man work in the gifts of the Holy Spirit whilst concealing such awful things? I’m a believer, but I have also sinned with the best of them, and still do every day in one way or another, but I also know how even a seemingly trivial sin can affect my ability to engage with and hear from God, until I’ve dealt with it (which sometimes requires me to repeat the process of “dealing with it” regularly). There are some deeply important theological issues surrounding this that this denomination would do well to assess. The damage from his sins still has shock-waves and implications even after his death and I think to forgive and pray as you say is certainly part of it, but don’t underestimate the power of assessing, quantifying and learning from what happened here. Those poor little ones who have since grown up with such damage inflicted upon them. I too was also abused and have since forgiven and moved on. No one is rioting as far as I can tell.
If I may please ask, If Frank Houston admitted of his past sins and has repented and reconciled with Jesus then who are we to judge? The bible says “All have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory, We lie if we are to say we have no sin in us” Are you with me? St.Paul the greatest apostle of christ , What exactly was he doing before he renounced and reconciled with Jesus? He was a murderer who would not spare man,woman,child who were christians , So if Jesus chose him out of all people to preach and write the Gospel how come you dont question his integrity? Believe me I was also very much a victim of such acts while I was a child but yes once you forgive and pray for that person it is all cleansed and you dont hate anyone anymore. Jesus said” Let the person who has never sinned be the first to condemn and stone the woman who was a sinner” Who are we to Judge? Who are we to condemn? Are we so righteous ? My dear brothers and sisters please show compassion to the sinner and pray for them rather than trying to accuse ,blame and start rioting and rebelling such acts are from the devil , May GOD bless all of you, Praise God Amen.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I am myself am the victim of a pedophile from age 3 to about 10 or 11. I forgave my uncle who victimized me. God along with some really loving Godly people helped me to do this. I am not his judge, I do not know the circumstances of his life and what led him to do such horrible things. It is not my job to pay him back or carry hate in my heart towards his though his actions to me caused me a great of suffering, pain, guilt and rage for many years, once I came to understand that God knew every hair on my uncle’s head and would reconcile what happened to me in his own way I could take my uncle off my hook and put him on Gods hook. He alone could really judge because he knew details and all the facts that I did not know. Forgiving my uncle freed me to allow God to work in my life all the healing that I needed and He made me totally free. I have no residual feeling toward my uncle what so ever. He is gone from this world now and I know that justice was done whether he found forgiveness from God or whether he is rotting in hell really has nothing to do with me because I am okay either way. I trust my God, my Father to have done the right thing and I am ok with that. I am deeply troubled with the reactions of the Church (meaning the christians) in and around the church. So often when a leader falls, commits sin, rather than “the Church” becoming a place of healing we become a mob who does nothing but attack the sinner amongst us. We forget that we are saved by Grace and only by Grace we stand. We forget that “there, but for the Grace of God goes I”. Of course he (Frank) needed to be removed from Pastoring to protect any future victims. But was there ever any effort put forth to minister to him and to see if he could have been helped out of his sin. It is no wonder that sin and error in the ministry is often covered up because we the church are like wild animals looking for the kill. It grieves my heart that we have no mercy and cannot find a way to help our brothers and sisters out of the darkness. We throw them to the wolves like yesterdays garbage. We the church fail to be like Jesus to our fallen comrade in the fight and kill him instead. I don’t believe Jesus would do it this way. The Pharisee’s would have handled it this way for sure but Jesus said those that are without sin cast the first stone. Could you really cast the first stone? I know I would not be able to. Gandhi was known to have said ” I would have become a Christian, had it not been for the Christians I met” How horrible to think what we do to make a bad situation worse . We are not part of the solution, but we are part of the problem.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The sins of a man do not cover an entire church. We have the power in Jesus Christ to claim authority over such sin and Hillsong church can and will continue to thrive. Their true leader is Jesus.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have removed the brief mention of you and your relationships from this article as they were passing comments and I am not out to hurt or offend you. Donald.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have sent you an email welcoming your version to be emailed to me. I will make any required change as the truth is important to me.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Don, you really could have contacted me. I would have confessed my whole story to you with dates. I have done this many times. Your version of events is totally wrong and yet you have openly accused me without any fact. My relationship with Victoria started nine months after Janine had left me… Yes Don, Janine left me..no immorality, no other party. Not the other way round. I had left Hillsong almost twelve months earlier. My email address is geoffreybullock@me.com. Why not try a little biblical. integrity and contact me. I would be quite happy to tell you the whole story, if you’re prepared to listen. Perhaps you may have the courage to retract your mis truths. Perhaps not.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
After Frank Houston’s paedophilia was exposed, I find it inexplicable that anybody wants to be linked with hillsong.My God doesn’t need paedophiles to do His work on Earth.A rotten apple spoils the barrel. How can people seriously suggest that God chose him for a leadership role?ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The bible says be babes in the things of evil and wise in the things of understanding! Brian initiated the investigation with regards to his fathers shameful behaviour.this in itself must have been agonising to do.brian is an upright man with the blessing of God on his ministry.leave him be and thank God for his integrity and conduct through it all. stop fussing about who started hillsong and acknowledge Gods hand in it all.he is the one to be honoured seek the giver not the gift! karenApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
There was also Jeff Bullock who was a Hillsong music prodigy until he l created a scandal by leaving his wife and 5 young children for another lady.
This also is not true – Geoff did not leave his wife and five children for another woman – his marriage fell apart adn after that he met another woman.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Geoff Bullock was very talented. So was Darlene. So are many others. Trevor King is another talent from those days. One day about 10 years ago I was at my parents church in Howick, Auckland. There were about 500 people there and i couldn’t see the pianist but he was playing beautifully in a style I knew. To my surpise it was Trevor King from the CLC Darlinghurst days. From the time Geoff’s marriage collapsed his ministry was doomed to decline. This always happens to Christian musicians and preachers who loose their marriage. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Pastor Brian Houston founded hillsong. To Brian, Geoff was always replacable. Many subsequent musicians had equal or greater success since Geoff. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
You say that you were there and a leader in the movement then you ought to know that to say that Frank Houston is the founder of Hillsong inaccurate. Houston founded Waterloo CLC from where Brian left to found Hills CLC which took on the name Hillsong following the huge success of the Hillsong conferences begun by Geoff Bullock. in actual fact Hilsong owes its success directly to the success of its music which came is relaly all down to Geoff Bullock – not Frank or Brian. Brian was smart enough to see where to hitch his wagon to – had it not been for Geoff Bullock, Brian Houston would have nothing and Hillsong would not exist.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The pedophile Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Pictured in Sydney in the 1980s
Donald Elley of Bellingen
March 9, 2023
Between 1940 and 1945, New Zealander men aged between 18 and 45 were conscripted to fight in WWII.
It was similar in Australia.
World War II – Wikipedia extract ‘Conscription in Australia’
“In 1939, at the start of World War II, all unmarried men aged 21 were to be called up for three months’ military training. The men could serve only in Australia or its territories. Conscription was effectively introduced in mid-1942, when all men aged 18–35 and single men aged 35–45 were required to join the Citizen Military Forces (CMF).”
My family and WWI and WWII
My paternal grandfather, Jim Elley, a New Zealander, was a merchant engineer during WWI (1914-1919). On ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. These were unarmed vessels travelling in convoy with war supplies and other goods with protection from German warships and submarines.
Bert Brooker, my maternal grandfather, a New Zealander, was in his forties when WWII started. He was married and a barrister and solicitor. He wasn’t required to go to WWII. Grandad served in the Home Defence Force. A ‘Dad’s Army’ type of arrangement. ‘Dads Army’ is a British WWII comedy from the 1960s.
My father Rev Don Elley was training to be an airforce pilot in 1945 when WWII ended.
During WWI and WWII, New Zealand women could serve as nurses and support personal.
During WWII Frank Houston avoided going to war by joining the New Zealand Salvation Army
In comparison with other New Zealand young men, canny Frank Houston found shelter from conscription by joining the Salvation Army. Frank became a Lieutenant there. Later a Captain.
Frank lived in Salvation Army orphanages with his wife Hazel, sexually abusing little New Zealand boys.
Hazel was aware of Frank’s pedophilia. She called it, “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Frank was kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the late forties for sexually abusing boys. He avoided prosecution using the mental health card and being consigned to a psychiatric hospital.
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12. Frank’s boy victim Brett Sengstock told the Royal Commission that Frank lost interest him when he turned 13.
Although Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12, he sexually abused male teens and men aged to about 35 if young boys weren’t available. This is normal pedophile behaviour.
We’re talking about the founder of Hillsong Church here. Not some low-life from the street. Not some evil Illuminati or Satanist. Yes, we’re talking about Frank, the founder of Hillsong. What evil this family has launched upon the planet.
Hopefully Frank’s son Brian Houston will be dealt with severely by the courts and imprisoned for many years. This is what Brian Houston deserves.
December 26, 2022
Of all the thousands of articles on this, my personal blog-site, this is my article which causes me the most pain in my heart. It’s about the boy and male teen victims of Hillsong’s founder Frank Houston.
Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used Christian ministry to gain access to little boys from 1940 to 2004 when he died.
Frank’s son, Brian Houston, allowed Frank access to little boys and children until Frank died. Even after Frank was banned from preaching in 1999 by Brian and the Australian AOG, Frank continued to preach. Even the next week on Hillsong TV in Canberra. Brian denies this. But Brian couldn’t deny an audio of Frank preaching at Maitland AOG just north of Sydney in September 2004. This was two months before Frank died.
Brian tried to argue at court Frank had dementia. I know what dementia sounds like and looks like. My mother Valerie died of dementia almost three years ago in January 2020. She was non compos mentis.
Latin: non compos mentis translates as “not of sound mind.”
Frank was compos mentis (of a sound mind) and full intelligible until the end of his life.
Frank did repeat himself a few times in the audio. But no more than Brian repeats himself in very sermon he preaches. And Frank was always far more lucid and entertaining than Brian.
Brian’s preaching is for the lunatic asylum, not a learned Christian pulpit.
Frank’s preaching is for the pedophile caverns of Hades.
What Brian can’t deny is the testimony of eye-witnesses who saw what was going on. Including me. I wish Detective Hamil had had a good chat with me to fill in the gaps. I should have approached him before the matter made it to court.
Detective Hamil, who led the second investigation into Brian’s concealment of Frank from police, is a nice guy. A family man. I think he was thinking of his kids as he tried to unravel Hillsong.
It’s a shame Brian didn’t think of his kids and grandkids. How many little Houston boys did Frank sexually abuse in his lifetime? Starting with Brian and his brother Graeme to Brian’s and his siblings children and to all the many Houston grandchildren.
Now I’m finding out Frank sexually abused girls too.
Folks, we are still only seeing the acidic black top of a very dark and evil rabbit-hole. I intend to do a deeper dive to find out all. Pray for me. It will be my privilege to reveal everything I find out.
It is in the service of humanity to expose the Houstons and all the Prosperity Gospel crooks, not just in Australian and in New Zealand, my country of origin, but globally. Particularly in America where there are so many.
Donald Elley of Bellingen on Australia’s nightly Channel Nine program “A Current Affair” on December 5, 2022. The first day of Brian’s Sydney court case. The charge is a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The maximum jail term is seven years. You can find this program on Channel Nine’s website.
December 9, 2022
I’ve added reader’s comments from my original article of September 13, 2012 to the end of this revision.
This article was first published on this, my personal blog-site on September 13, 2012
I’ve been writing on the subject of Hillsong and the Houstons for over a decade now. I first touched on this subject in 2012 while writing on my father’s life. Dad was a Christian clergy like Pastor Frank. They preached and worked in Christian ministry on opposite sides of town. My father Rev Don Elley in the elite Wellington suburb of Khandallah. Pastor Frank in down-market Lower Hutt. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital. Lower Hutt is very different today. Khandallah is much the same.
Pastor Brian goes to court December 5, 2022
Pastor Brian is currently appearing in Downing Street Local Court in Sydney’s CBD for a three week trial which started on Monday December 5, 2022.
Pastor Brian has been charged by New South Wales police with a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The pedophile Pastor Brian concealed is his father Frank Houston. For many decades, seven decades, Frank pretended to be a Christian pastor to access little boys and sexually abuse them. This started in the 1940s back in New Zealand when Frank was in his twenties. Frank chose the Salvation Army as his first port of call for secret pedophile activities.
Frank in his first disguise as a Salvation Army officer in the 1940s. He rose in ranks to a Captain. This was during WWII. While Australian and New Zealand troops were fighting the Nazis, Italy, Japan and their allies like Turkey, Frank was avoiding New Zealand war service by pretending to be a caring Salvation Army officer. This was in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages. A survivor of sexual abuse by Frank aged in his 80s recently appeared at the ongoing New Zealand Royal Commission into Care. The New Zealand government is doing the same kind of investigation into pedophile activity in institutions, churches and orphanages as was done in Australia from 2013 to 2016. This abuse survivor testified that he was sexually abused as a boy by Frank Houston in a Salvation Army orphanage in New Zealand’s South Island.
Frank abusing boys in the New Zealand AOG 1950 to 1977 when he moved to Australia
After being kicked of the Salvos in the late 1940s, for abusing boys, Frank had ‘a nervous breakdown’ and was in psychiatric institutions. It is likely he did this to avoid being handed over to police and being put in jail.
All this time his wife Hazel, Pastor Brian’s mother, was supporting Frank and in effect enabling him in his pedophilia. She later labelled her husbands fetish for boys as “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Undeterred in the late 1940s, Frank got involved with the New Zealand AOG. This was in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, at Ellerslie AOG. His mentor there was Pastor Ray Bloomfield. I don’t know if Ray Bloomfield was a pedophile. If anyone can help me out on that one, it would be appreciated.
In time Frank became an AOG pastor. Innocent AOG pastors and congregants in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond had no idea what Frank was up to. Frank became a famous New Zealand AOG pastor and evangelist by the 1960s. Untouchable. he could do what he wanted a regarded boys. The number of Frank Houston boy victims from the 1940s on is unknown. It may be thousands. Several thousand. Do the math.
Frank abusing boys in Australia and beyond 1960s to 1970s
Frank rose to be head of the New Zealand AOG. His tenure was from 1965 to 1977. During the 1960s and 1970s Frank abused boys all over New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Sri Lanka, South Pacific Islands and elsewhere.
Frank abusing Maori boys 1960s to 1960s
During the 1960s to 1970s, Frank was abusing Maori boys as a famous AOG evangelist. I find this aspect of what Frank did particularly disturbing.
On the run from New Zealand police
By the 1970s, Frank was out of control in his abuse of boys. Parents of abused boys at Lower Hutt AOG, Frank’s church where Pastor Brian was raised, became very upset. There was a confrontation and many congregants left. I heard about this in 1977 from Stan and Sheila Carter.
So the heat was on Frank and he up and moved to Australia. To escape arrest by New Zealand police.
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was a year before his son Brian arrived in Australia. Brian likes to say he founded Hillsong. This is a Brian lie. One of many.
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong.
Pastor Brian with his father Pastor Frank in the 1970s
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women.
These offences include visiting a young Hillsong female’s hotel room and being alone with her in the middle of the night after Hillsong Conference. I think they had sex but no one is talking (yet).
Sydney media are trying to get the young Hillsong lady to talk on camera.
This would really rock Brian, and Brian’s wife Bobbie’s, world.
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board. Bobbie has got a bit more crazy than her normal unhinged self recently. Some of her sermons, if you could call her convoluted and sometimes irreverent blurbs a sermon, have been off-the-dial.
Bobbie does this coughing, burping and tears thing while preaching. Quite bizarre. I think Bobbie has trouble controlling her personal demons who want to speak to the planet too.
Brian Houston was charged by New South Wales police with concealing a pedophile on August 5, 2021
Brian Houston of Hillsong was charged with pedophile concealment crimes by Australian police on Thursday August 5, 2021. The maximum penalty is seven years in jail. Brian appeared in court in Sydney on October 5, 2021 for a First Mention. There was a Second Mention on Tuesday November 23, 2021 and a Third Mention on January 27, 2022. There was a fourth mention on March 3, 2022.
The Hearing is in December 2022
Brian has plead “not guilty” at each mention.
Brian will get a lesser jail sentence if he pleads guilty. Like Pharaoh before Moses, Brian won’t negotiate. Brian will only fly the white flag of surrender in jail. Even there, Brian will still be maintaining his innocence.
Brian Houston stepped down as global head of Hillsong
The Australian Royal Commission
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in its Findings, recommended Pastor Brian Houston, the then head of Hillsong Church, be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
An official recommendation was passed on to NSW Police and the NSW Justice Department by the Royal Commission.
The crimes are that Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches top leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Pastor Brian Houston, his wife Pastor Bobbie Houston, Hillsong business manager George Aghajanian, Hillsong elder Nabi Saleh, President of the New South Wales Assemblies of God John McMartin, National Assemblies of God General Secretary Keith Ainge and all the other top Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leaders had a fiduciary and legal duty to report Brian’s father Frank to Australian police when he confessed in 1999.
They failed to do this.
The fiduciary duty of a church leader comprises a duty of care towards their congregation. To lead them, to protect them and to care for them.
Instead of reporting Frank Houston to police, the above Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leadership, gave Frank a slap on the hand and allowed him to go on preaching, prophesying and (God forbid) laying hands on AOG congregants wherever he fancied to go in his misnitry. Nothing changed.
They moved Frank to quiet, off-the-grid localities so no one would report him to police. They told AOG congregants that Frank and his wife Hazel “had retired” and were AOG Royalty. No mention was made of Frank’s “problem with boys”, as Hazel liked to call Frank’s lifelong past-time or hobby of child rape.
At this stage only Brian has been charged.
The Origins of Hillsong Church
Rev Frank Houston the Night-Stalker, preying on little boys in their childhood beds.
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade.
Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
New Zealand Herald July 11, 2020
Frank Houston at Coogee Beach, Sydney in 1969.
The First Hillsong
The first name of Hillsong was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church met in Sherbrooke Hall, Double Bay, Sydney. The first meeting was on 16 July 1977 led by Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father.
Rev Frank Houston with young congregant at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst then, in 1980. This is the pedophile Frank Houston sneaking in a little homo hug on an unsuspecting young man who is lapping up the attention. There were hundreds like him. At this time Frank was having a secret homosexual affair with his young worship pastor Peter Laughton aged 23.
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong’s boy and teen sex abuse victims.
I have revealed them all to the world on this, my personal blogs-site. This has always been with their permission and their desire if their names are mentioned.
I do not search for victims. They always contact me.
I do not seek media publicity. They approach me for information.
Three new accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston 11 July 2020
Two New Zealand Herald articles of 11 July 2020 mention three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now.
The number of known Frank Houston boy and male teen victims I have identified is now 17 or more.
Recent revelations that Frank sexually abused boys in a New Zealand Salvation Army boys home in the 1940s and on evangelistic crusades amongst New Zealand Maoris have thrown the needle off the dial of my boy victim count.
It is no longer possible for me to put an accurate figure on the number of Frank Houston’s boy victims globally.
When I add in sexual abuse of little boys at a Salvation Army Boys Home in New Zealand in the 1940s and add in AOG crusades and ministry trips from the 1950s to 1960s in New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, Chile and other the countries, the possibilities of the number of boy victims is almost endless.
I believe from the evidence there are over 400 boy and teen victims, maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Frank’s son Brian, who I know personally, said to Australian media in 2014, “We may never know the number of victims”. I knew Brian from 1981 at early Hillsong. I haven’t talked with Brian since early 2000s when I left Hillsong for good.
Pastor Brian Houston current head of Hillsong: “We may never know the number of dad’s boy sex abuse victims”‘
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020 mentions three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now
Frank Houston preaching in in 1969 during his time as Assemblies of God in New Zealand General Superintendent from 1965 to 1977.
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020:
Three Frank Houston child sex abuse accounts which are new to me.
New abuse account one:
“From 1945 to 1948, Frank Houston worked at a boys’ home in Temuka run by the Salvation Army, which has confirmed receiving a complaint in 2003 from someone who said they suffered abuse at his hands during that time. A spokeswoman for the Salvation Army said it had provided information relating to the complaint to the Royal Commission.”
New abuse account two:
“In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.”
“Then came a second knock on the door. Barry was approached by a church elder who – aware of the complaint over Williams – disclosed an allegation of sexual offending by Frank Houston.
New abuse account three:
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade. Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
My comments:
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. I’ve believed for a long time that the reason was because of complaints of child sexual abuse.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
Crikey (Australian media) August 25, 2021. Journalist David Hardaker on Frank Houston and the NZ Salvation Army
“It has since emerged that Frank Houston’s offending stretched back 50 years to the 1940s when he was a lieutenant in the Salvation Army in New Zealand, his country of birth. The New Zealand Salvation Army has confirmed to Crikey that in 2003 it received an allegation of abuse by Houston during his tenure at the Temuka Boys’ Home, near Dunedin on the South Island, between 1945 and 1948. (Houston resigned from the Salvation Army in 1952.) The Salvation Army said it met with the survivor of the abuse in 2003. The case has been sent to New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, set up three years ago”.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
I’ve heard about Frank Houston doing crusades in rural areas of New Zealand, particularly amongst indigenous New Zealanders, the Maoris.
Frank’s son Brian mentions this in a romantic and euphoric way in his last book, ‘Live, Love, Lead’.
However, I’ve always had bad feelings about these crusades of Frank and his “love” and interest in the Maori people.
It’s sad to think that Frank was sexually abusing heaps of Maori boys in rural areas of New Zealand in the 1960s to 1970s.
Note of 18 November 2018
Frank Houston boy sex abuse victim, Brett Sengstock, known as boy victim AHA, who appeared anonymously at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has appeared on the Australian Channel Nine Sixty Minutes TV program recently to tell his story in person because he is dying of cancer.
Boy victim AHA Brett Sengstock – Brett is dying of cancer. Brett wants Brian Houston brought to justice for hiding and protecting his old pedophile dad from going to the clink – from 1999 when Frank confessed to November 2004 age he died.
Note of 22 April 2018
I know Hillsong and the Houstons better than anyone, having been at Hillsong from its beginnings.
Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father, came to Sydney from New Zealand in 1977. He was on the run from New Zealand police for untold and almost innumerable sex offences against little boys during the previous four decades.
I was at Hillsong before Brian Houston became a pastor in 1982, and before Hillsong was called Hillsong.
I helped Frank Houston build up Hillsong for a decade from 1981 to 1990.
The more I write about Hillsong, the sicker I feel. And the more I know about Hillsong, the sicker I feel.
But I go on writing, to warn people off Hillsong and to give Frank Houston’s multitudes of boy victims a voice.
My mission and goal is to destroy Hillsong. To expose it. To warn people off it. To set the record straight. To outline the truth about Hillsong.
Note of 27 October 2017
Pastor Brian Houston, the current head pastor of Hillsong Church Global is to face pedophile protection charges some time in the near future from the Australian police and authorities.
I’ve edited the article below reflecting current up to date information.
“Pastor” Brian Houston pictured with his child rapist dad Frank. Brian hid and protected Frank from the Australian police from when Frank confessed in 1999, to when Frank died five years later in 2004.
This article and its updates
This article outlines the history of Pastor Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong and his secret sexual abuse of hundreds of little boys, male pre-teens and male teens over seven decades. This occurred for possibly 70 years if you include his grandchildren and ‘rent boys’ (underage male prostitutes).
This site is the most authoritative and comprehensive site on Hillsong corruption, Houston corruption and Hillsong pedophilia.
This article was first published on this site on 9 September 2012, prior to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of 2013 to 2016.
It has been updated since as more facts have come to light and more events have unfolded.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed from the New Zealand Salvation Army for sexually abusing boys.
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a lifelong secret pedophile
I’ve come to the conclusion from the evidence I’ve compiled over many years, and from my experience from 1981 to 2000 as an attender of Hillsong, in the 1980s as a senior lay pastor, and especially since hearing boy victim AHA’s testimony, that the Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used the Christian ministry to secretly and stealthily, access little boys and young teens for child and under-age sexual abuse and child rape.
In other words, Frank Houston was first a pedophile. He was not at any time a genuine Christian or a genuine Christin pastor. Frank Houston was a wolf in sheep’s clothing all his life from his early teens.
Frank used Christian ministry to access little children.
Frank Houston’s primary sexual focus and preference was little pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
Frank liked male teens or young adult men if little boys were not available.
In his prime as a male in the 1960s to 1970s Frank had an insatiable sexual desire for little boys and young male teens. But mainly little boys.
A pedophile with a primary focus on pubescent children is a hebephile, a clinical psychological term.
Hebephilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14 and showing Tanner stages 2 to 3 of physical development. It differs from pedophilia (the primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children), and from ephebophilia (the primary sexual interest in later adolescents, typically ages 15–19). While individuals with a sexual preference for adults may have some sexual interest in pubescent-aged individuals, researchers and clinical diagnoses have proposed that hebephilia is characterized by a sexual preference for pubescent rather than adult partners.”
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile in that his sexual orientation and focus was primarily on pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
In my mind, this sexual orientation makes Frank Houston’s sex crimes against children even more heinous, especially since he was masquerading and pretending to be a Christian pastor.
Frank Houston’s crimes were not a one-off or an occasional dalliance in child sex crimes, but a lifelong secret and persistent activity involving hundreds, if not thousands of boy and male teen victims.
Frank was bisexual
Frank was bisexual in that he had five children.
It is probable that Frank did not have sex with his wife after the birth of their five children.
No one will ever know since they both died in 2004. And Hazel was not the type to tell.
Hazel knew Frank was a pedophile from the 1940s when he was reported for abusing children while working at a New Zealand Salvation Army home in the 1940s. He was removed from the Salvation Army.
So Hazel was complicit, codependent, a protector of Frank and an enabler.
Hazel and Frank Houston founders of Hillsong. In New Zealand in the 1940s.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed as a Salvation Army captains for sexual abuse of little boys.
Frank was a homosexual
In 1980, Frank Houston, aged 58, embarked on a four year homosexual affair with his young 23 year old worship leader Peter Laughton.
Peter Laughton, Frank Houston’s young worship leader and homosexual lover aged 23 in 1980.
Sexual involvement with a 20-year-old male, rather than with little boys and early teen boys, was an exception, although there is evidence of countless masked homosexual encounters over Frank Houston’s whole lifetime with males over the age of homosexual consent which is 16 to 18 in most Western countries.
Pastor Brian Houston, current head pastor of Hillsong – Brian, who I knew personally for twenty years, has been recommended to the Australian police by the Australian Royal Commission to be charged with pedophile protection crimes.
Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church has been recommended for prosecution for pedophile protection crimes
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in its Findings recommended Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Note 19 October 2014
In early October 2014, The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse examined the Australian Assemblies of God (which has the new name Australian Christian Churches), Hillsong and Pastors Frank and Brian Houston.
If you are interested in down-loading the Royal Commission transcripts, testimonies of victims and other relevant documents go to http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au.
To read a series of my blog articles on the Royal Commission on this site, they start on 20 September 2014 with “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part One. Royal Commission…”. If you google this title you’ll find it and other articles written by me on this my personal blog-site.
You can then scroll a few articles further into October 2014 and you’ll see all the articles sequentially in chronological order on “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston…” and Royal Commission materials.
If you know of any pedophile cases involving Pastor Frank Houston at any time anywhere in the world then please send me a message and I’ll email you back so we can confidentially talk about your case by email. No information will be published without your consent.
The following blog article on Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile activities was written on 13 September 2012 and it has been updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Blog article of 13 September 2012 (updated 27 October 2017)
The pedophile Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong
Pastor Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was two years before his son Brian arrived in Australia.
Here are two advertisements for early Hillsong Church meetings in Eastern Suburbs, Sydney in 1977 published in the Sydney Morning Herald. .
The Sydney Morning Herald 9 July 1977.
The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 16 July 1977
Hillsong
Hillsong is by far Australia’s largest church numbering 30,000 in Australia. Its headquarters are in Baulkham Hills in Western Sydney.
It has churches throughout the world in twenty locations. Hillsong claims 150,000 in its network world-wide in 2021. This is a very small number of adherents if viewed on a global basis.
Hillsong is like the small dog on the big street. Because of its strong cash-flow and music resources, it has made a lot of noise globally, but most people can tell Hillsong is completely dodgy and a money-cult.
Pastor Frank Houston was the head of the New Zealand Assemblies of God (AOG) from 1965 to 1977, and a prominent leader in the Australian Assemblies of God denomination from the 1980s to 1990s.
By the time Frank Houston confessed to secret pedophile crimes at age 77 he was revered across the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God movements as a great holy pastor, Christian leader and a great evangelist.
The truth is he was a rotten secret pedophile all that time, for many decades, probably since his early teens.
The Assemblies of God (AOG)
The Assemblies of God (AOG) is a Protestant denomination which started in the early 20th century in America and has spread across the planet. Its emphasis is on the Holy Spirit and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, like faith, healing and speaking in tongues.
The Protestants
A Protestant denomination is a denomination (international church organisation) whose origins are in “Protesting” against the Church of Rome.
Protesting, often at the greatest risk to their lives, against the Roman Catholic Church’s errant doctrines, its power, its Popes, its Bishops, its mercenary Jesuits of old. And its domination and blood-letting and martyrdom of true believers throughout the world. For over 1700 years until modern times.
If you think I’m exaggerating then google “The Waldenses”, who were Protestants the Church of Rome genocided in parts of France in the 16th century, or “The Covenanters”, who the Church of Rome hunted and wiped out in 17th century Scotland.
The Jesuit mercenaries and Papist rulers of England desecrated their bodies after death and threw their corpses on rubbish tips as a warning to a fearful populace.
These were brave men who gave their lives for the cause of Christ.
Compare these very brave men and women to Frank Houston, who was a secret life-long pedophile and covert homosexual masquerading in the disguise of a Christian pastor, whose coal-black dark secrets weren’t exposed until the last years of his life.
Frank Houston pedophile founder of Hillsong “preaching up a storm”, as he’d like to say in the 1980s.
Frank Houston’s confession to being a lifelong secret pedophile
A two-year investigation of pedophile allegations going back to the 1960s, ordered by his son, Pastor Brian Houston, at the time head of the Australian Assemblies of God, and conducted by a prominent Australian AOG clergy on the AOG national executive, Pastor John Lewis, found that the allegations were true.
Pastor John Lewis on Nexus Church, Brisbane website. Died from cancer in 2020.
Frank Houston was banned for life from ever ministering in the AOG in Australia and New Zealand in December 1999 aged 77.
But he didn’t stop preaching and ministering and Brian and other AOG leaders allowed him free reign to preach and pray and prophecy over the unsuspecting.
These are the crimes of Brian Houston, John Lewis and other top ACC and Hillsong leaders.
Pastor John Lewis report in 2000 on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities with little boys
Frank’s death
Frank Houston’s life ended in shame in November 2004. He spent his last days contemplating his place in Eternity. The burdens of his dark secrets were troubling his mind until the end.
How would God treat him in the Hereafter? These were among many questions which plagued his dark mind as he faced that looming day. For from the evidence Frank Houston had been a pedophile since his early teens, a period of seventy years.
I knew Frank Houston personally
This blog article is the first in a series of articles in which I will recall information, reflections and personal feelings on this gifted, strange and very tortured man, who I knew very well for two decades. Or at least I thought I did.
I worked closely with Frank Houston through the decade of the 1980s as a builder doing building fit-out and renovations for Christian Life Centre (CLC), Darlinghurst, as Hillsong was known in the early days, and as a lay leader.
I was a prominent and successful lay leader at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst, with ten home fellowship groups under my care. I pioneered these groups in the challenging Inner City of Sydney. I attended CLC again for a few years in the mid to late 1990s. I was there when Pastor Frank Houston got stood down and the whole organisation changed its name from Christian Life Centre to Hillsong in 2000.
I should add that I was a strong Christian prior to first attending Hillsong in 1981. This may have kept me safe from allowing Frank Houston to do stuff like lay hands on me in prayer. A highly dangerous event in hindsight for anyone.
Frank Houston’s legacy
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like former co-head pastor of Hillsong City Campus, Pastor Jonathan Wilson, who is now pastoring in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy
Jonathan Wilson, with second wife Dianne, in pastoring California. Dianne’s former husband Geoff is married to Jonathan’s daughter – a kind of fallen Pentecostal wife-swap.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson. Former Hillsong Senior Pastor. Likes pedophiles.
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like Pastor Jonathan Wilson who has strong links with Brian still, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy.
Jonathan Wilson told media at Frank Houston’s funeral in November 2012, “I regard Frank as a friend”. So Jonathan Wilson likes a lifelong secret child rapist parading as a Christian clergy as his friend.
The reality is that no amount of spin and re-invention can remove the dark black stains of the seven decades long trail of child sexual abuse that “Pastor Frank” engaged in.
Pastor Brian Houston. Growing fat while while he hangs out the victims of his dad’s abuse to dry. “Sorry victims of dad’s abuse, I’m a leading Christian pastor, but you’re on your own. Have a good life. Sorry again- Haha ha ha…By the way boy victim AHA, it was your own fault you were sexually abused by my father Frank – you tempted him. This is what Brian told the AHA (Brett Sengstock).
Over seventeen boy and young teen known victims
I have verified seventeen or more victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child and teen sex abuse.
Everyone closely associated with this matter senses there are a lot more victims out there.
From the evidence there are over 400 boy, pre-teen and teen victims. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Many will not remember the incidents due to psychological defence mechanisms because of the trauma of the sexual abuse event(s).
And there would be, from the evidence, 1000s of male victims of masked homosexual and pedophile abuse.
Frank Houston: “I was very active as a pedophile in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Pastor Frank Houston after his confession to pedophilia in 1999 said to his son Brian, “I was very active as a pedophile at that time”. He was referring to the period from the 1940s to 1970s back in New Zealand, when he was in his 40s to 50s, when most of his known boy victims were sexually abused by him.
Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life
I believe Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life from his early teens.
Frank got kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was a Captain. It has now been established that it was for pedophilia.
Frank Houston was a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland, New Zealand..
Note 11 July 2020
Frank Houston sexually abused boys at New Zealand Salvation Army Orphanages in the 1940s
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. It has now been established that my postulations on this matter were accurate.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald confirmed my allegations in an article in the New Zealand Herald today (11 July 2020):
“The Herald has confirmed that fresh allegations of abuse by the AOG’s former leading light, Pastor Frank Houston, have been provided to the Royal Commission.
One allegation, that he sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka, opens up the span of Houston’s alleged predatory behaviour to cover decades.”
David Fisher is referring to the recent New Zealand Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse.
What organisation except Hillsong would still love its pedophile founder?
Pastor Frank Houston was a pedophile who used his Christian pastor’s ministry as a disguise and camouflage to gain the confidence and trust of innocent believing Christian families so he could access their children undetected for the purposes of sexually abusing them.
Pastor Frank Houston was never genuine in anything he did. He mocked us all. How could a man be a genuine Christian pastor when he was secretly a life-long hardened criminal pedophile? Its not possible.
Frank Houston Boy victim AHA
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014 at a Hearing in Sydney revealed a witness AHA, who was abused in the Sydney suburb of Coogee when he was an innocent little boy aged 7 to 12 years old, in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Boy victim AHA was brave enough to testify anonymously in person.
It made me cry.
It was real bad stuff indeed.
It made me very angry, particularly since Pastor Brian Houston, the son of Pastor Frank Houston, like Pilate in the Bible who washed his hands of responsibility for Jesus prior to his death, has washed his hands of responsibility to help and care for the boy and teen victims of his dad’s abuse, who are now in their 50s and early 60s.
If you go to my blog articles starting on Tuesday 7 October 2014, you’ll find all the horrific details of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse of victim AHA including genitalia fondling, digital anal penetration, masturbation of the victim as he reached early puberty, and Frank Houston using and getting the victim to pleasure him over a period of five years.
My source is AHA’s testimony on Day One of the Royal Commission’s examination of Hillsong, where AHA spoke for most of the day.
It’s tragic, graphic, sordid, horrific and completely culpable by Hillsong, the Australian AOG and Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston has tried for 14 years to bury his father sexual abuse of children, sanitise it, and try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Dah…“What we didn’t do is report it to police.” Brian Houston, son of Hillsong founder Frank Houston, is surrounded by media following his 2014 appearance at a Royal Commission into child abuse.
Pastor Brian Houston had tried for 14 years to bury his father Frank’s sexual abuse of children, to sanitise it, and to try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Frank Houston has long departed but the corruption lives on in the errant and corrupt behaviour of his offspring, particularly in the life and deeds of Pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston, the current Head of Hillsong mega-church.
Rev William Frank…enstein Houston. Molester of little boys. The most corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost.
Over Seventeen Known Boy and Young Teen Victims
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse also mentioned six other little boy victims of Pastor Frank Houston in New Zealand in the 1960s. But there are many more.
I have been writing since September 2012 that there were six boy victims of Frank Houston in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in the 1960s.
My count of child sex abuse victims of Frank Houston:
I have evidence of 17 or more boy and male teen victims.
I have evidence of two teen victims, Peter Fowler, who went public in the 1970s with the encouragement of the now deceased prophet Pastor Philip Powell and teen victim ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a direct result of Frank Houston’s sexual abuse.
From the testimony of the boy victims and the circumstantial evidence, I believe there were over four hundred victims of Frank Houston’s abuse. He confessed to Brian Houston, his son, in circa 1999, that he was very active as a pedophile, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Here are the boy victims aged 7 to 12, and one teenager aged 15 years old:
1. Six 10 year old boys Pastor Frank Houston molested while Head Pastor of Lower Hutt Assemblies of God (AOG), Wellington, New Zealand in the 1960s, while at the same time, General Superintendent of the New Zealand AOG (from 1965 to 1977).
2. Sydney boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock), as above revealed on Day One of Hillsong’s time at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014.
This is a particularly sordid case of repeated child sexual abuse of a little 7 year old boy by Pastor Frank Houston which continued for 5 years. I have covered this case in detail in my blogs on the Royal Commission starting on the 7 October 2014.
3. One 15 year old boy, Peter Fowler, in the Lower Hutt AOG, New Zealand. The Lower Hutt AOG paid out Peter, but it wasn’t much money.
4. At least 4 boy victims at Assemblies of God Church camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. See my blogs on victim SA1 (my code name for him) dated 16 and 17 October 2014. SA1 was aged 11 years old at the tie of the abuse.
5. One young man in Auckland, New Zealand, ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a result of the abuse. He was in his late teens.
I sense there are a lot more New Zealand boy, pre-teen and teen male victims.
7. One boy aged 8 years old, in a suburb near Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. My code name for him is WNZ1. The abuse was very similar to the Royal Commission victim AHA.
WNZ1 believes there were more boy abuse victims in his suburb. See my blogs date 18 and 19 October 2014.
8. Frank sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka.
9.In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.
10. Boy victims in Waikato area of New Zealand in the 1960s. Frank was doing crusades often amongst Maoris. “Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.” Untold boy and teen victims. Impossible to know how many.
TOTAL: 17 and many more victims. 400 plus boy and teen victims based on the evidence. Maybe over 1000-2000 boy victims.
Boy victim SA1 from Adelaide South Australia
One of the victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child sexual abuse at Kleimzeg Assemblies of God camps in South Australia in the early 1970s, SA1, contacted me after reading articles about Pastor Frank Houston on this blog site. He shared there were several other victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile abuse at these camps.
The epicentre of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities at these South Australian camps was the boy’s toilet block.
The abuse involved the fondling of little boys genitalia and masturbation in the toilet block and bunk room. Pastor Frank Houston was very confident, blazen, perverse and tactile.
Yes Pastor Frank Houston. The greatest and most prominent AOG Pastor in Australia and New Zealand from 1970s to 1998, when the truth of his duality emerged.
Frank Houston was a secretive, manipulative, sordid, dishonest and heartless criminal pedophile for 70 years from the 1930s until his death in 2004.
Pastor Brian Houston’s lies about the number of victims continues to this day
The official line of Hillsong Church and Pastor Brian Houston was that his father, Pastor William Francis “Frank” Houston only abused one boy in New Zealand 40 years ago.
This is the line that they held from the late 1990s to the Royal Commission in October 2014.
This is the view that was on their web-site for over a decade. When I was researching articles I wrote about Frank Houston and his pedophile activities in 2012, Hillsong’s website and all the accounts by Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong media reflected this great lie.
This is the view they have told the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers.
This view is totally inaccurate and a blatant lie by Brian Houston.
It emerged at the Royal Commission that Pastor Brian Houston has known that this official view was untrue and a lie all this time.
Folks we’ve been all been deceived.
What is still lacking from Frank’s son, Pastor Brian Houston and the Hillsong Movement, which Brian controls, is any real degree of honesty and openness about Frank Houston.
For example, why won’t Brian and the AOG release the official AOG report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities?
Why didn’t Brian admit his father did numerous pedophile and homosexual acts, and not just one, like Brian portrayed for 14 years, until the Royal Commission exposed his lies? Why do Brian lie to us all? How can Brian lie like this and be a prominent Christian pastor?
Why is Brian Houston still lying about the number of victims telling Sydney’s channel nine reporter Leila McKinnon earlier this year when she asked how many victims Brian believes there are now, Brian hesitantly replied “six”. This is despite Brian knowing about at least 8 victims in 1999 and at least 9 victims in 2004. Why lie Brian? Who is the Father of Lies?
Was Brian Houston sexually abused by his rampant pedophile father Frank?
And the question lingers, was Pastor Brian Houston himself, and his brother Graeme, sexually abused by their father Frank?
Maybe that’s too personal for Brian to admit, if anything occurred.
Or maybe he can’t remember.
These dark memories are normally suppressed and buried by the defence mechanisms of the human psyche.
Brian’s brother Graeme has refused to attend church since his teens. Why?
Further, were Brian and Graeme aware of the accusations against his father while he was a lad?
The pre-adolescent little boys Pastor Frank Houston sexually abused in Lower Hutt were Brian and Graeme’s age at the time.
Brian even stayed with his dad at AHA’s family home in Coogee, while his father lay on top of victim AHA all night and abused him for the week of their stay on one of the many visits. One can see why pedophile Frank Houston liked to go to Sydney and stay at AHA’s parent’s house. Disgusting.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s overseas “evangelistic” trips overseas were really sex holidays away from his wife and people who he was accountable to.
Details of boy victim AHA’s sexual abuse
While Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of little 7 year old AHA, who is now 52, the skinny spider-like Pastor Frank Houston sexually molested him. He fondled his genitals, he fondled his little thighs and bottom, and he digitally penetrated him. AHA shared on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission that he froze with fear.
Boy victim AHA wondered, why was this hero of the faith, a godly man who my mum and dad loved, doing this to me?
Victim AHA lay frozen with fear as Frank Houston, the pariah, lay on top of him all night. The cats howled, the night birds cackled as the do in Australia, the dogs barked down the street and the garbos rattled their bins, and all this time through those long chill hours, Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of AHA doing awful creepy, very perverse things to AHA.
If you think I’m being too graphic, this is what AHA said at the Royal Commission. These are the facts the Royal Commission’s lawyer, Simeon Beckett, read out. These are the facts that AHA read out from his witness statement on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Sydney.
Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad
It is interesting to note that victim AHA, who spoke anonymously at the Royal Commission, stated that Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad.
Pastor Brian Houston has denied this. I believe victim AHA because he sounded very honest and very coherent. Pastor Brian Houston hasn’t been honest about all this stuff for over 14 years.
The Royal Commission has also revealed how Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston have been heartless towards child abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG Pastor and leader pedophiles.
If you read my blogs on 7 to 10 October you’ll get drift.
Pastor Brian Houston the head pastor of Hillsong mega-church, a very wealthy “church” organisation, has refused to help the boy and young teen victims in any way
Pastor Brian Houston. Living in the shadow of his father Frank who he adored. I wonder how he feels about his dad now the tsunami of his dad’s pedophilia has hit the fan?
Brian at the Royal Commission
At the Royal Commission on 9 October, when Pastor Brian Houston was the star witness, he wiggled and swirmed in the hot seat of the witness box. Then he straight out said they won’t help the victims in any way. The reasons are outlined in my blog articles on this site of 9 and 10 October 2104.
Pastor Frank Houston. Creepy. Self-confessed pedophile.
Peter Laughton’s homosexual affair with Frank Houston
Since Peter Laughton, Pastor Frank Houston’s young worship leader, went public in 2007 about Frank’s abuse of him in the early 1980s, the Houston family have taken the line that Peter Laughton was a consenting male with their father Frank. In his early 20s at the time of his abuse in the early 1980s, Peter was over the age of consent which is 18 in Australia for consenting homosexual acts.
But is it ok before God for the most prominent AOG clergy in Australia and New Zealand, aged 58, to indulge in numerous sordid homosexual acts with his young worship leader?
At the time the homosexual liaison started Pastor Frank Houston was 58 and Peter was 20.
I fail to see how the Houston’s can dismiss this series of incidents with Peter Lawton so readily.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston. Total deviate and con-artist.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston was an active secret pedophile and homosexual particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s.
By 1990 he was 68 and his homosexual and pedophile libido seemed to have dropped off. I haven’t found any pedophile dirty old man Houston victims.
A reader of this site commented recently that he knew Frank Houston in the 1950s at Ellerslie AOG in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote in a comment on this site that Pastor Frank Houston had fixation about male swimmers. There were some NZ Olympic swimmers training. A young Pastor Frank Houston used to go down to the local swimming pool to watch them training and perve on them.
If you knew Pastor Frank Houston at this time and you know of pedophile incidents could you please contact me. I suspect his pedophile activities started earlier than Lower Hutt AOG.
Frank Houston was sexually abused by his father Frank
At the Royal Commission, Pastor Brian Houston told the Commission that his dad had been abused by his father, also Frank. This is no secret because Pastor Frank use to share about this from the pulpit at Christian Life Centre in the 1980s.
Pastor Frank Houston openly shared how his dad was very mean to him and his mum. That his dad had an affair with the woman next door, based his wife, and other bad stuff. The ABC of Psychology says that people who were sexually abused as children often go on to sexually abuse children when they are older/ become adults. That’s a big subject.
Peter Laughton spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007
If you google “Frank Houston” or “Frank Houston abuse” you’ll find plenty of transcript of detailed sordid accounts of Frank Houston’s sexual activities with Peter Laughton.
Peter has given interviews to the Sydney Morning Herald.
In these interviews Peter speaks honestly and candidly about the homo-erotic activities Frank Houston led him to do. It’s interesting yet very sad reading.
Please bear in mind that Frank Houston was aged 58, and the most prominent AOG clergy at the time, and he was abusing a vulnerable and needy young man aged 20 who was his Church worship leader. Heavy stuff indeed.
The investigation and being caught
The release of the official AOG Report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities is a document which would be helpful to the victims of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities. What is more important? Protecting Frank Houston’s legacy and reputation, the Houston name and Hillsong’s reputation, or allowing some healing and closure, not only to Frank’s numerous pedophile victims, but also to the countless others who were part of Christian Life Centre and Hillsong in the early days and who were deeply hurt and shattered by revelations of Frank’s secret activities.
Frank’s pedophile activities were not destined to remain a secret to his grave. By the late 90s the chorus of complaints was to become deafening. The AOG, and in particular, the then National Chief Executive Pastor Brian Houston, his son, were forced to investigate and do something about it.
Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst the second name for Hillsong
I personally knew Peter Laughton at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst.
Peter was very talented singer, song-writer and composer. A nice guy. Sensitive. Artistic.
No one had any idea that Frank Houston aged 58 and a revered pastor and his worship leader Peter Laughton age 20 were involved in a four year homosexual affair from 1980 to 1984.
Extraordinary talent at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst
In those days Frank had gathered together some extraordinary musical talent.
Frank had recruited Pastor David Johnston from Los Angeles to found international Institute of Creative Ministries (IICM), a music, singing and dance Ministries School. David worked at Wesley College for decades since these times. David is a very talented pastor, violinist, composer and worship leader.
Trevor King was also there. Trevor now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Trevor is very talented on the piano and led the band and was the Music Pastor.
Geoff Bullock is another muso who owes his success to the Houstons. Unfortunately Geoff’s personal life became a train-wreck when his marriage fell over and his ministry has never recovered to the heights of his success under the Houstons. Particularly under Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston is truly a king-maker. So much talent. So many scandals.
Pastor Frank Houston with Hazel, his faithful, enabling and supportive wife- who knew he was molesting little boys for many decades. Hazel knew he was a pedophile since the 1940s.
Peter Laughton was looking for father love
Peter Laughton is a really nice guy.
Outgoing, talented and sensitive.
In Frank, Peter has said that he was looking for father love. The kind of love Frank gave him was secretive, self-gratifying and impure.
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses that they find impossible to control. Their victims are really just objects of their desire. There is no care or love towards their victims. For the pedophile it is “all about me”.
I wrote another 13 articles, which are on this blog-site, on this subject of Pastor Frank Houston from 13 September 2012.
My memories of the man and what I experienced during the 1980s and 1990s while attending Hillsong Church.
I have written over 200 other articles on Hillsong and the Royal Commission.
Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in world history
I have come to the conclusion that Pastor Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in the history of the planet.
To do what Frank Houston did to little boys and teens all his lifetime, while maintaining the front of a holy man of God is the very gravest of sins known to mortal man.
Since I wrote this article in September 2012, and since the Royal Commission examined the Houstons and Hillsong, Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission barrister, publicly recommended in December 2014 that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged by the NSW Police for not reporting and for sheltering a pedophile, his old life-long pedophile father, Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of the Hillsong organisation.
In October 2015 the Royal Commission recommended Brian Houston for prosecution in its Findings.
Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Frank’s son and successor. Facing pedophile protection charges which will wipe the smile from his well-fed fully, corrupt face.
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Though there are certain arguments to be made for the separation of church and state I believe the authorities must step up and take a stand on all these charlatans who bestow themselves with the title of “Pastor”. Any weasel in this country can call himself/herself “Pastor” and then set about living the life of an “untouchable”. These fakes are responsible for an increasing amount of mental health problems and domestic abuse and it is astounding to me that no one in the Government seems willing or able to do something about it. These charlatans, in my view, could not get away with what they do unless they enjoyed the protection of people in very high positions. Hillsong and Houston should never be able to use the title “Pastor” and benefit from that title in any way – Houston is nothing more than business executive who, by virtue of inheriting his father’s business, has been allowed to act, it would seem, with impunity as he fleeces the naïve and vulnerable without conscience. When will we find even one man with integrity in the Government who has the courage to call for a complete investigation of this man, this snake pit of Hillsong, the financial dealings, and the damage that is being inflicted whilst they target young people in our community who just get carried away with the mind-numbing music and intoxicating atmosphere. I have no objection to what Hillsong does or how they run their business – but I most strongly object to them doing it in the name of God! A Government committee set up to hear evidence of people who have been abused by this church (all forms of abuse) and others like it is long overdue. The Government is already involved by giving them tax benefits because of their church status, so a little more constructive “interference” wouldn’t go astray, would it?
Don, when are you doing to wake up to the fact that the Brian Houston is not a pastor?He’s an impostor, preaching a different Jesus and a different gospel for money. Who is leading more people to hell than anyone could imagine.
Hmmm. Art Katz (Arthur) even wrote in a book that he always had major problems with Worship Leaders and when he was alive wrote him the why and sent a copy to his Admin Ass’t or whatever Title they gave Simon Hensman at the time. Believe it was in his “Prophetic Call” book. Have my theories, a lot of them are Perfectionist (“Living With A Perfectionist” by David Stoop, Manic/Bi-Polar (Dr. Susan Forward, Herb Goldberg, Victoria Secunda, David Elkind, Dr. Laura might cover that well along with Leann Payne’s written works); dormant Homosexual’s (very unhealed; “Kingdom of Self and God Players by Earl Jabay); then there’s “Healing of Damaged Emotions” and his other books by David Semands. When looked up Definition of a Cult; #12, 21 (in the next page section, it defines definition of a sociopath; think a lot of Pastor’s/Leader’s/Priest have VERY unhealed issues themselves. What’s sad is they don’t deal with their issues and then put themselves in position to abuse children and people in general (and we are ALL God’s children no matter what age).
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
P.S. You referenced in an article Tanya Levin wrote a book and David Marr by Black Inc. (What’s that title? When went to research for lot’s of books by a David Marr)!
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
What I wrote about Geoff Bullock originally is what he told me he did, at a private meeting a long time ago. I only removed what I wrote because he was hurt by the truth. I’m not out to hurt Geoff Bullock, who is broken by life anyway. Brian Houston used him as a living breathing human soul and as a stepping stone to climb the spiritual mountain of Brian’s own ego and success. Geoff is just another train wreck and discard of the Houstons, Brian and Frank- like all the other victims, be they spiritual or psychological or physical or sexual abuse victims of the evil Houston express train.
Don You do not seem to have asked his forgiveness for your long-time error and the damage it must have caused him. Perhaps you have done so in private…
Brian Houston hasn’t helped any of the victims as at 8 October 2015. The Royal Commission interviewed victim AHA and AHA contacted me shortly after, via this site. We’re in touch by email occasionally. AHA would let me know if Brian had helped him. SA1 (my code-name) is a victim of Frank Houston in South Australia. Brian could contact me if he wanted to help him. Victim WNZ1 (Wellington, New Zealand) contacted Brian in the mid 2000s and Brian fobbed him off. I am in touch with WNZ1 and his wife. If Brian wanted to help them he could let me know and I’d put him in touch with them. The bottom-line is that Brian, the Houstons and Hillsong don’t want to help any of the victims. Brian Houston is the ultimate lying con-artist and he makes out he cares but he is a selfish greedy charlatan who won’t help anyone but himself and his clan. Hillsong is a cash-cow to maintain his lavish lifestyle and to get off on his fame. However Brian’s fame is turning to notoriety and soon he’ll be charged with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile. At that point he’ll be shamed and all his assumed glory will turn to dust.
To my readers: Its a year since the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse subpoened Pastor Brian Houston and other Hillsong/ ACC Leaders. It now seems likely that the NSW Police will charge Brian Houston with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile, his old very corrupt dad Frank Houston. Donald
I’ve published four testimonies of sexual abuse by boy victims on this site. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse has produced a boy victim AHA who is now in his fifties who was horrifically abused for over five years by Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s son, Pastor Brian Houston, the current CEO said after the Royal Commission in October last year in Sydney, Australia, “we may never know the number of the victims of my father”. How much proof do you need Stephane? The Royal Commission has recommended that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged for sheltering and not reporting his father Frank to the Police from 1998 until Frank died in 2004. We are waiting to see if the Australian authorities take this action. Donald.
Kerri. Frank Houston’s pedophilia activity was public knowledge from about 2007 when Peter Lawton was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. If you google ‘Sydney Morning Herald Peter Lawton Frank Houston abuse 2007’ you’ll find the information in a David Marr SMH article about Tanya Levin’s book on Hillsong. The information is in the second half of this article.
i’ll publish this article soon on this site.
Although Peter was a consenting male when abused by Frank Houston who was 60, Peter feels Frank took advantage of him and abused him.
About this time it became known that Frank Houston was also guilty of multiple historic pedophile abuse events, mainly with little boys ages 7 to 12 years old. This was the preferred demography of his victims.
Brian Houston sheltered his old pedo dad for 5 years until he died in 2004 and he didn’t report him to the Police as required by NSW Law.
Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission’s leading lawyer when they were examining the Houstons and Hillsong in October last year, publicly recommended in December that Brian Houston be charged with these offences.
There are 14 articles starting on 9 September 2012 specifically about Frank Houston’s abuse of boys and other sins like doing hatchet jobs on good men of God like Dr David Johnson, his Worship director in the early to late 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst.
From October last year I’ve written about 100 articles on this subject.
If you want to understand the full picture start reading.
This site is by far the most authoritative and comprehensive factual site on the subjects of Frank Houston, Frank Houston’s pedophilia, Brian Houston’s lack of response to the victims, Brian Houston’s corruption on multiple levels, Hillsong’s corruption on multiple levels, the New Zealand and Australian AOG/ ACC Churches corruption and the sexual sins of Australian and New Zealand prominent Pentecostal leaders over the past 50 years.
Am I to glean from this comment that Frank Houston’s abhorrent behaviour was public knowledge as far back as the early 1970s? Is is even possible therefore that Brian Houston had heard nothing about it before the time he now claims? I would like to know more about this as it pertains to a conversation I had with Brian Houston in 1988. How is it possible that so many people seemed to be aware of Frank Houston’s actions and yet Brian Houston claims that he heard nothing about his father’s paedophilia during these years before the family came to Australia?
So true.. ‘God does forgive ALL Sins’ .. providing the Sinner truly Repents. And when a Sinner truly repents of their Sin, (no matter how vile the Sin) you can rest assured that there is ‘No Returning to that Sin’. We know that God has FORGIVEN us of our Sins when we don’t Go Back to them, like the dog to the vomit and the sow to the mud.This is the proof and fruit of the quality of our Repentance. Godly or Not .. ref/2 Corinthians 7:10. When God Forgives us .. we are ‘Forgiven, Cleansed, Delivered and Empowered against that Sin’ once and for all in one hit. How great Thou Art O Lord God! The Soul Saving Question is, how could Frank Houston have Truly Repented of his perversion when there is a trail (a record) of repeated ongoing similar acts of paedophilia. One thing is for sure, the Liar will not enter the Kingdom of God, paedophile or not… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yE-xl-HJs ..
its so sad—ive seen the holy spirit move in and through paster frank housten to bless and heal many–thank god he was self confessed –god forgives all sin
Re: Counsel, Deliverance, Peace of Mind and Emotional Recovery .. Those in the Body of the Christ all have different gifts, according to the Grace given to each of us by Yahweh. If your gift is prophesying, then Prophesy/Speak in ‘Accordance with Your Faith’ Measure. Yes, Faith in the Christ can move Mountains and do the Impossible. As an X Alcoholic, X Chain smoker, X Drug user and X Filthy Immoral Wretch who Chain smoked and smokes no more, I know first hand the ‘Power of Faith-Obedience in the Christ’, hence I offer Messiahs Way above all others Jesus says I AM the Way! .. ref/Romans 12:6, Hebrews 11 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Xm9ykp0lA .. 🙂
Robyn. Personally, I found Dr Cliff Powell of the Christian Psychological Services in Mona Vale, Sydney helpful after my marriage fell over in 1996. My ex-wife took me along because she felt it might help our marriage. We saw Cliff a few times. Then, when my ex refused to give up her lover, Cliff told her that it was a waste of time proceeding with her. Cliff then asked me if I would like to continue alone. I felt I need that support and someone to talk the deep stuff through with who was a strained professional. Cliff is a Christian behavioural psychologist. He prayed with me at the start of every session and then we’d chat for 3/4 hour. His approach was gentle and supportive. I went to see him every 2 weeks for a while then it tapered off to every three months then I didn’t need him anymore. I found the whole process with him over a few years extremely helpful. In respect to any victims I’d encourage them to, if possible, find a counsellor or psychologist who is at least empathic to the Christian faith, and talk their stuff through with them. They don’t have to be full-on Christian but its better if they are at least a bible believing Christian of some Protestant denomination. Donald
Hi Donald.. Re/Psychs .. I myself suffer from ‘PTS Indefinite’ according to a Psych Report from a respected Psych in Brisbane City.. due to me being set on Fire (abused) by a Maniac-Muslim (2002) as I preached Jesus as God Almighty and Saviour in the streets of Brisbane. Plus I was food poisoned (abused) by a Muslim Kebab Shop (2008) resulting in a Heart Attack and the Senior Cardiac Surgeons at the RBH Brisbane said I needed ‘5 statins and a Stent’ in my heart or I would die. However, I chose to Look to Jesus, the God of All Flesh, by the leading of His Spirit and all is well with my Soul-Mind, Will and Emotions. And how can you be a Psych and a Sold Out Christian-Follower of Jesus at the same time?. While Psychology deals with the Mind and Jesus deals with the Spirit – Hearts of Humanity. And aren’t Christians born of a Spirit of Sanity, a Sound Mind and the Prince of Peace.. re/2 Timothy 1:7, John 3:5, Isaiah 23:6.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvjpe5HK4M .. The Glory belongs to Jesus!.. 🙂
There are many good psychologists and counsellors and many good Christian ones who allow clients to work with their Christian beliefs ,who do assist people to deal with anxiety, depression and PTSD associated with abuse. People should be given the option of seeking help, assistance and support and know of services that are available.
Gidday Donald.. Re/Victims of Religious Abusers and Pagan Abusers .. I don’t believe that it is a good idea at all to refer ‘Abused People’ to Psychologists and Psychiatrists for they can only ever offer temporary and very limited help, especially for the ‘Mind and Emotions’. Apparently Psych’s are numbered among the most ‘Mentally and Emotionally’ Unstable people in the World. Keep fighting the Good (News) Fight Donald, because only a Remnant are .. ref/Matt 11:28, Isaiah 23:6, Matt 7:13-14 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/jesus_turns_nightmares_into_happ.htm ..
Tanya. I leave any information or opinions on this site so long as people aren’t attacking others etc. So your info is here for anyone. I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as a Hillsong Watch group or anything. This is a private blog site with no affiliation or bias. I am OK with all the Protestant Churches so long as they are biblically based and embrace the moving and gifts of the Holy Spirit. In that statement I just lost a lot of friends. Donald
Hi I’m not asking you to be aligned with anything. I’m asking you to refer people to the appropriate services so that they can access the help that is in place, legally, socially, psychologically etc. The victims that you are in contact with have a right to know about the services available to them. That’s all.
here is the link for the most accessible form of compensation. i would support your class action efforts, but it’s important people know about the standard avenues as well.
Donald, please can you pass on my email to anyone who requests it. it’s tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com I’m not sure if you’re aware but the Attorney General will provide free advice and application to Victims Services. It’s important that you refer ppl to Victims services where they can get free counselling from Victims of Crime too, as an option. Just so that people have that option. please pass my email onto Evan who requested it and to anyone else trying to get in touch with me. Thanks
How pathetic that Churched people like the Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and other Orthodox Religions such as RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church, Salvos etc .. refuse to comply fully when found out for their abominable acts and Wilful Destruction of peoples lives and then a FUND is set up for the Victims. Not that the Victims don’t deserve payment but It really sounds like this kind of behaviour/abuse is about to be Accepted and Counted as part of Church Behaviour… So why did Jesus die on the Tree, didn’t Jesus say it is FINISHED?.. and that ALL was accomplished (by Him for us @ the Tree) and that we can do ALL things through Messiah who gives us strength via His Victory. Well it is the Last Days isn’t it .. ref/Romans 13:1-14 .. “When the Devil comes in like a Flood, Holy Ghost will raise the Standard”.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/torn_between.htm ..
Reblogged this on kristinesteyne and commented: there are many many comments at the bottom of this blog. I believe also that Brian Houston should definitely reported his father
Donald, It is no trivial thing what you are doing here for these people. And you have no doubt been instrumental in helping these Victims somewhat, in easing their pain. However, if they stay close to Jesus, He will bring them through to a Glorious End. Yes, I still pray for you and the Victims (even though I know them not) as Father leads, He knows them and every hair in their head. I do believe in Miracles Donald and they are real easy for Jesus to perform, piece of cake actually.. I am believing for a Miracle for you and them. Go in the Strength of Our Lord.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/heart_attack.htm ..
Paul. I’m going to explore the possibilities of legal action. The main thing to me is that the victims are empowered and can get on with their lives in a positive godly manner. All three boy victims I am in touch with by email and on this site, AHA, WNZ1 and SA1 are all feeling heaps better for speaking out and having their say. This site is the only forum for WNZ1 and SA1 to do this. AHA spoke out at the Royal Commission and he has been making a few comments on this site. It’s great these men, now in their 50s to 60s are able to do this. They can have their say anonymously and feel empowered. It’s all about the victims and their families. Donald
Katharine. The Royal Commission, the Australian Government, the AOG/ ACC, Hillsong will do nothing to help the victims. Pastor Brian Houston has said he won’t do anything for the victims. On what basis do you write: “Trying to sue Brian would not succeed and would be a waste of time and money as well as your energy”. Are you a barrister who specialises in criminal law? You also write “I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so the victims can get counselling and maybe a support group”. Well, Katharine, the Assemblies of God in Australia doesn’t exist any more. Then you write “They would have to sue the individual church i.e. Klemzig AOG top get any compensation”. If you’re saying the AOG will sue the Klemzig AOG, well the AOG don’t exist. Even if it did it wouldn’t sue an AOG Church. You then say “I understand the Royal Commission is going to make recommendation about compensation”. The Royal commission is unable to help with compensation but it can make a recommendation to the NSW or respective State where the victim was abused to charge someone with a criminal offence for not reporting pedophilia. They will also comment on the culpability of the ACC, Hillsong or Brian Houston, but it won’t do anything about it. The only way the boy victims of Frank Houston will get any compensation is if there is a class action initiated by the victims themselves. No one else is going to help them. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about legally to be honest. But it’s a free world re expressing your views. Donald
Gidday Donald, around October 9 .. I recall saying this, regarding Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and their abuse of children .. “Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this Entire Case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church”. And even have the Gall to shout aloud ‘thanks be unto God for Vindicating us’. Donald, this is not to put a wet blanket on things but we do live in a ‘World of Unrighteousness’ after all, and let us never forget that MONEY TALKS.. A place calling itself a ‘Church-Holy Place’ doesn’t get as Materially/Financially Rich as Hillsong through being HONEST.. LOL… The Real Judgment and the Real Sentencing is on it’s Way and none of us can escape this one .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3hggV7i2Y8 ..
Trying to sue brian would not succeed and would waste a lot of time and money as well as your energy. I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so that the victims could get counselling and maybe form a support group . They would have to sue the individual church ie klemzig aog to get any compensation. I understand that the royal commission is going to make recommendations about compensation . Maybe franks adult victims will then come forward . And no I don’t work and would never work for hillsong katharine
Evan. Tanya Levin is a former Hillsong member and a Hillsong watch type of person. Tanya wrote a book, “People in glasshouse…”. I haven’t read it or been to her website, if she has one. I would think that Tanya has a lot of information. If you google “Tanya Levin” or Hillsong related words and phrases which critique Hillsong, its prosperity etc you’ll find her stuff. Tanya said, in this comments part of my site, that she wanted to talk with me, swap info etc and maybe form a coalition. I told her I wanted to be unaligned. I’m happy to receive any information that will help me take a class action with Frank Houston’s victims against Hillsong, AOG/ACC and Pastor Brain Houston for compensation. I’m going to start a Trust Fund for victims of Frank Houston to fund a civil class action for victim compensation and a criminal case. I am looking to get Pastor Brian Houston criminally charged and convicted for not reporting AHA and other pedophile cases between 1999/ 1998 until the current Royal Commission in 2014. I am not convinced Brian didn’t know about his father’s pedophile activities earlier then 1999/ 1998 and would appreciate any information from anyone out there which would prove that Brian knew earlier. Donald
This whole thing with the Houston’s, Hillsong – CLC – ACC, is really all about Judgment and Righteous-Judgment is a Loving thing. It is surely helpful, profitable to all concerned and not concerned. Yes, even those watching on can learn.. ref/1 Timothy 5:19-20. I know I am. I can never forget the day that Messiah had me go to ‘Steve Erwin/the Crocodile Hunter’ some years back now, to give him the ‘Message of the Christ’. I have written 12 books in my short Ministry of 27 years and out of the 12 books, Holy Ghost led me to take him the book.. ‘Birds and Fish’. To put it bluntly, this book was about DEATH. And you know what, it wasn’t long after I took that book to Steve he died a the hand-tail of a Stingray and I still wonder today, did he ‘read and hearken’ to the Message of that book and where will Steve be at the Judgment Stand of the Christ, will it be the ‘Great White Throne’ or the ‘Saints Stand’ ?.. Judgment is a Serious thing but it is also a Beautiful thing. The Beggar Lazarus had the right idea.. “Stay in right Standing with God no matter what”.. the Rich man in his uptown robes wasn’t so smart was he. Hope all you bloggers have a nice day .. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/steve_irwin.htm ..
Rejoice!.. for this is the day that Yahweh has made, without hands. At the end of the day and even Life itself as we know it on planet earth .. it really doesn’t matter what people think about us, say about us or think they know about us .. we will all stand at the ‘Judgment Seat of the Christ’ and we shall ALL give account of ALL things done while in our body, whether that be Good or Evil .. scary hey.. that is, if our Heart is not Right with Yahweh.. Thank God for ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’. We no doubt serve the ‘God of Promises’ .. 🙂 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zEt0eTsts …
The attached is a little simplistic and consequently doesn’t dwell on Frank. Dad was a fine father to a household of 8 on low paid wages at GM where the body shop finisher receive free milk to compensate for lead poisoning from filing the lead filled blemishes. However he was a bigoted old school “keep politics out of sport” rugby supporter who couldn’t come to grips with HART’s “No Maori No Tour”. We argued too much and my wife preferred we not visit.
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Tanya. Re Brian’s sisters. They’re on the early blogs from 2 years ago. They commented about 2 weeks ago. If you can’t find them let me know and i’ll do a search. Donald
Tanya. The Commission contacted me 1.5 weeks ago asking for me to contact the South Australian victim. I put him in touch with the Royal Commission and he made statement. Another two men have contacted me from New Zealand. Both are victims new to me. The Commission has given me contact names and phone numbers for victims to phone them on.
As the Royal Commission were the ones to ask for Brian Houston’s to take the stands, there were obvious reasons. To ensure that the safety of these children are on top priority and that the institute or church are reacting in a positive manner so that these bad acts are not repeated in the future.
I appreciate your response. Not to be pedantic, but the Commission is investigating both the institution and “its officials” so while Brian Houston is obviously not on trial, his personal response is also the concern of the Commission.
Below you’ll find a link to the page that outlines the expressed purposes Royal Commission which may clarify things for others as well.
I agree that it is our right to judge the intentions of people of any church. Having said this, I do believe that when someone is saved or born again, they give their lives to Jesus and follow Him. However, that does not mean the person won’t fall into temptation . … of course he will, he will probably even sin… Satan’s aim is to break up the church and that is exactly what he will aim at… Peter denied Christ, not once but thrice. He lied that he did not know who Jesus was. Thank our Good Lord that we are not saved by what we do but by Grace that can be given by God alone. I don’t know if Frank Houston asked for forgiveness or not, even Brian Houston may never know but God does. So by judging his salvation by the words Brian Houston used at the Royal Commission is not the right way to go.
Now going back to the church and judging the church that we attend, of course we should. In fact, if you read my earlier post, I don’t think I denied that there. But you will get many in churches who will fall into temptation and sin but we have to look at the church as a whole. If someone has done wrong in the church, how has the church reacted towards the person involved. That is actually what the Royal Commission is all about, not to put Brian Houston on trial but to see if the church has reacted against the perpetrator in the correct manner and not pushed the situation under the carpet and I think they did get their answer.
Hi i just saw this. No worries, then ignore my previous comment. Can you please direct me to the sisters’ comments? Congrats on all this work by the way…
Hi Donald, Please make sure you let victims know about the official Royal Commission agency to guide them through the whole process from making a statement and through to including legal advice re compensation. It’s at knowmore.org.au thanks and please feel free to contact me at tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com We’re all trying to put our heads together at the moment and your site is a real help!
RE: ROMANS 3:23 .. Says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm ..
I’m sure you don’t mean to, but you are using Romans 3:23 as a proof texts.
I don’t think anyone here is condemning anyone, but they are following scriptural guidelines and are judging whether the Houston’s actions line up with the Word of God. You are correct though, it is not our “right”, but it is our responsibility!.
Here’s a link to all the scriptures that show you that we are meant to judge those within the church. Just cut and paste it into whatever search engine you use if it doesn’t open directly.
Also, I don’t think the reason that people start blogs is “only” when “you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man”. People start blogs for all sorts of reasons.
Please read the link I sent you as you’ll be able to see that not only are we supposed to judge people within the church.
Finally, I think the author has already indicated that his intention is to assist the victims to get to the right authorities.
Paige .. here is part of your Comment on rewind .. Quote.. “At the heart of this, is that your father attacked ‘SOMETHING’ that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable ‘COMMODITY’, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man”.. end of Quote. So children are SOMETHING and children are a COMMODITY … Hello?.. 🙂 .. do you know what a COMMODITY is?.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
I appreciate that you must be in such pain right now. No child should have to experience either being molested or being parented by a child molester. I know my natural overwhelming instinct would be to minimize the horror, to try and find a way to accommodate justice without destroying everything around me in the process. I don’t think anyone questions how absolutely devastating that this must be for you and your brother.
However, that has been where so much of the focus has is (your brother’s pain not yours). I’m aware that Brian has had tens of thousands of supporters pledging their loyalty and condemnation of everyone who dares to suggest that he should be accountable. But your brother’s messages continue to be embedded with calls for sympathy and we’ve heard so much about his pain (this is the first time I’ve heard about his siblings though) but so little about the victims. Shouldn’t that concern us?
I have not read other people’s opinions, I have only read the statements, listened to the cases and read Brian’s own words but this is the overwhelming pattern in his language.
I have been watching the Royal Commission and they have indicated that what he did was wrong in taking on your father’s judgement and in not reporting it to the authorities. Yesterday, your brother admitted that in church, but also put the blame on the AOG leadership as well. I’m not sure if you heard it, but it has been posted.
I think a lot of Christians are wondering why it has taken so long for this to come into the light? Why would someone who has testified that they were deeply traumatized and conflicted, then argue that they handled the situation objectively and ethically. When asked why, Brian said because it needed someone with “courage” and “guts” to do it. Courage and guts to do what? Slap your father on the wrist and suspend him from ministering? That doesn’t make sense, but it does raise a lot of doubts.
I don’t mean to simply criticize your brother, but I do hope that I can explain why people are asking questions. Why I am asking questions?
Of course we will all be accountable on judgement day, but this blog, I suspect, isn’t about judgement day, nor is the Royal Commission about judgement day, it’s living the truth in the past, present and future on this earth. An earth in which we are supposed to be the light and a people that are above reproof. If we have lost our saltiness, and the world needs to reprove us for having failed to act justly, then we are indeed in trouble. Your brother has been reproved by the world by failing to act justly and all of us are wearing that. Out on the street, my non-Christian friends are asking me for answers, so I think it’s fair enough that I try and get some for them.
I know it is deeply personal to you, but what happened happened while your father was in ministry and that ministry, directly or indirectly, led to the formation of Hillsong. The world has a right to ask questions of the church and when they do we should come up squeaky clean. When we don’t, and that happens unfortunately, then we should at least admit it.
You make the comment that your brother has practiced forgiveness on a scale that most never have to consider. I think that could be deemed fairly offensive to those who today are dealing with a lost childhood. At the heart of this, is that your father attacked something that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable commodity, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man.
I hope this helps you understand people’s concerns a little better.
Paige. I agree with every word you’ve just written. Before the start of the Royal Commission I was hopeful that Brian might listen and show some humility and care. However I am convinced that Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and AOG/ ACC are incapable of listening. My focus is on the victims, not just the sexual victims but all the folks who gave their lives and hearts to the cause of Christ under Pastor Frank Houston and were abused in other ways. Even Brian has been betrayed and deceived horribly by his own dad. But that does not excuse Brian under the Laws of Australia and New Zealand. Brian should have reported the crime of pedophilia of his dad to the Authorities in Australia and New Zealand and let them decide what to do with his dad. Given people like Rolf Harris are 84 and still doing goal, it’s a given that Frank would have been jailed. By failing to report his dad, Pastor Brian Houston may end up being charged, not with his dad’s sins but for not reporting them and concealing them. The compensation of victims issue is another big consideration and my thinking is a class action by the boy abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston would succeed. Donald
Hi Mark, No-one has yet claimed, including Brian, that his father repented of his sins. In fact, Brian explains that his father effectively pined away until his death in deep depression. This hardly describes a man who has been reconciled with Jesus. Also, Frank was forced to admit one crime, to which he had no choice but to admit because the evidence was indisputable, but even then did not admit to all the children that he had molested, just the one. This is not repentance or being “reconciled with Jesus” no matter how you spin it.
With this unconfessed sin in his heart, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank continued to attend a small Sydney church, be around children and pray for people. My Bible says that this is the works of the devil.
When Brian was asked on a radio with 2G (you can google it and both watch and listen to it), he was asked if he thought his father was in heaven. Had Frank repented, the answer would surely have been “Yes”, but Brian admitted that he did not know, though he hoped he was. Even when Frank was forced to admit his crime, he did not report himself to authorities, he did not resign and he did not seek out his victims to make restitution (remember he never paid the $10,000, Brian arranged this).
I am so grateful to the Lord that they are Christians who believe that we should be more accountable for our behaviour than the world is. I am grateful for those who believe it is the job of the church, as mandated in scripture, to call out hypocrisy, false teaching and double standards WHEREVER they are found.
For those arguing grace, forgiveness and compassion, I suspect you have not understood these words in relation to the whole counsel of God. These are all powerfully forces that lead into the arms of God, but Frank rejected them when he denied these things to others. It is important that you understand that judgement within the church, is also a means of grace, forgiveness and compassion.
You also fail to remember that as Frank, as Brian does also, set himself up as a leader and teacher of men, he, according to scripture, became more accountable to God and to the church. Those who are not holding them to account are in fact the ones doing them the most harm.
If you would see Brian Houston survive this, then you will reprove, rebuke and admonish him.
Tanya. I don’t want to collaborate. I’m just doing what I can for the cause. Any information I glean that I’m able to share will be on this site. Donald
Hey Noel, how’s it going?.. Rom 3:23 says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
HI…having trouble contacting you… please be aware that we are all putting our heads together…thanks for all this info….please send your email..? or find me on facebook.. we’ll get to the heart of this together x
Some interesting WFH Bio – http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/ADPCM/e-to-h/houston-william-francis-frank-1922-/ I had always assumed that the book keeping errors were not sufficient reason for the Salvation Army to expell the then youthful Frank and went with the gossip that there would be sufficient cause if it was say an extramarital affair. Whatever it was, caused his “backsliding” for three years until Tony Austin invited him to the Khyber Pass AoG in where Ray Bloomfield took him under his wing and within six weeks had made him the Assistant Minister at his popular Ellerslie AOG church. However this arrangement didn’t last long, as Bloomfield suddenly moved Canada in ’55, leaving Frank with his large 400 congregation which quickly dwindled to about 80. Frank stuck with it until December 1959 when he was offered Lower Hutt AOG. CJ
I don’t think anyone here has not been improper or vindictive. I think, they just want the truth to be reflected and as you have seen everything you have put forward has not been correct. If at all, you seem to be aiming at Hillsong and Brian Houston, Read your post again.
I also still don’t see how a blog is helping victims. You will agree that Pastor Brian Houston is not accountable for his father’s actions and actually cannot answer for him at all but still made an attempt to understand the victims point of view. I watched the Royal Commission, which in my opinion is a good thing especially to know if the right thing was done and, I think Brian Houston spoke exactly as it was from his perspective. On the other hand, if you watched the Royal Commission on the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell with his own confession said that while he had taken up the abuse cases with the Vatican, they shunned him aside and in fact told him not to come again with these cases. Now that is a problem when the church does not heed to something brought to their notice. We are all sinners but I believe that when we see something wrong happening, we should not push it aside but instead do the right thing which I think Brian Houston did do in 1999.
Kepa. I basically agree with ACC’s 10 points about gays. I have had a lot of interaction with gays in Sydney over the decades. If a man or woman decides they want to seek the Holy Spirit through the Lord Jesus Christ they will make contact with the Divine. The Holy Spirit will help them come to terms with how He feels about the situation. And then the Holy Spirit will show the gay man or women what is the next step. Its about wholeness as a human being. Donald
Noel. Thank you for sharing your views. I welcome anyone to comment so long as its done in a polite and not a vindictive manner. I am not able to share more about my conversations with victims. Save to say there are many. I’m doing what I can to help them. They all have counsellors. They like my blogs and what I have to say and feel empowered by them. My opinions and views are well-known on this site. Donald
Rom 3:23 says “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are no one to commend another man as we are all sinners. The only one who can judge is God Himself.
If as you say are helping others do you think that you are equipped enough to help them. It would be better if you directed them to the correct source for a proper investigation. The need to start a blog arises only when you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man, something which none of us have the right to.
10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. – so what does this infer??? that such people don’t accept Christ????????
Hi Donald, People may find this interesting… This is what Hillsong and ACC (Australian Christian Churches) actually believe about Homosexuality & Lesbianism:
1. Homosexuality is referred to directly and specifically in the scriptures. 2. Homosexuality violated God’s plan for provision and family. 3. Biologically God did not create the human body for homosexual activity. 4. Homosexual activity is unhygenic as can be seen in the high rates of infection with, and the transmission of AIDS amongst those who practice homosexuality. 5. Homosexuality is a dangerous practice that reduces life expectancy of the participant by 25years. 6. Homosexuality is a chosen ‘behaviour’. 7. It is a ‘choice’ – Not a natural, biological, hormonal or genetically governed behaviour. 8. We oppose the legalization of homosexuality. 9. God loves the homosexual despite their sin and is willing to forgive the homosexual and bring them to wholeness. 10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. Source: ACC Ministers Manual: Ethics Statements (Homosexuality & Lesbianism)
BE YE ‘PERFECT’ AS FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT!.. What was that?.. Do we here these words in the Churches anymore?.. LOL.. 🙂 .. If a Minister mentions the word ‘PERFECT’ in the pulpit today, the congregation splinter and he is considered .. DELUDED .. 🙂 .. this gives us all a good idea on how many churched people are Really Saved from Eternal Hell Fire.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRc0h2jjX8 .. Enjoy!
Deb. You are correct. Hillsong was just a continuation of Christian Life Centre. Simple as that. But Pastor Brian Houston is using this entity change from Christian Life Centre, Sydney to Hillsong to say to the 13 plus boy victims of his father’s abuse: “Sorry about the abuse occurring at Christian Life Centre, other parts of Australia and New Zealand when my dad Frank was in the AOG or City Hillsong. You see the AOG New Zealand is a separate entity from the AOG Australia and the AOG Australia is now Australian Christian Churches anyway and Christian Life Centre Sydney is now Hillsong City campus. So unless your abuse happened in Hillsong Baulkham Hills since 2000, I’m definitely not liable. Not even morally because I have no morals towards the victims so how could I be morally liable?” Donald
Paul.Thank you for your support and belief in what I’m doing. One victim who wrote to me on this site about being abused by Pastor Frank Houston contacted the Royal Commission this week with my help and gave them a written account of his story. He emailed me after and said that its made him feel a lot better and empowered. The abuse occurred when he was just 11 and happened several times at an AOG church camp in Australia. TV One in New Zealand contacted me and asked me for some leads on NZ victims of Pastor Frank Houston and I was able to point them where to find some. I was contacted today by a NZ victim in an area of NZ where I’ve had no evidence of abuse and I’m in communication to see if I can help them. Donald
Hello Michelle, I don’t know you personally neither do I know Donald personally but one thing I do know of Donald is this .. “Donald has a Backbone (which is more than I can say about most church leaders today) and he Truly cares about people, especially abused people and I have no doubt that God Almighty ‘will and is’ backing him in his pursuit of Righteousness and Justice for those who have been beaten down and have no Voice”. And one more thing, I don’t really do the ‘blog-thing’ but I find myself here on Donald’s Blog, as Father leads. And have you noticed that Donald’s Blog has no ‘Coward, Compromising Notice’ on it such as.. “All comments on this Blog are subject to Moderation”.. I like that, I like that people are free to speak what is ‘Really in their Hearts’ and are not Controlled and Restricted by Pharisees, Sadducees and People Pleasers. Let me recommend this article link (of my fellow minister) for your reading, RE: Judge Not. And also, let me say, Proud People wouldn’t dare put their Name, Time and Strength on the line for others, (proud people have no genuine care for anyone but themselves) please consider what I have just said Michelle, it may prove to be helpful as you go further down the road .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. 🙂
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Justice certainly needs to happen but sounds like you’re playing God, judge and jury, Donald. Let the authorities handle it. Be very very careful Donald, pride goes before the fall. I understand your righteous anger but never be so self righteous to think YOU could never fall. This sounds like a witch hunt you are conducting.
so terrible sad all of this, words fail me! Judgement must indeed start in the house of God and flow on out from there to the rest of the world. When Jesus returns He will be looking for a holy and pure bride who walks in the ways of God. It is up to all of us (individually and as the body of Christ) to be ready for His return. And you can be sure His coming is not far away, take heed of the parable of the 10 virgins (5 were wise, 5 were foolish. Look and see what happened, what was the outcome!). Those who have been wronged need justice, healing.
On the subject of lying. I would like to comment on Maureen’s statement about her dad not founding hillsong. Is she splitting hairs? I was in the meeting that day Brian and 40/45? Others were commissioned out to start a church at baulkham hills from CLC. We were also told that we and our tithes would help to fund them until they could get on their feet. Yes that church changed and involved into hillsong but that was a growth and change of name only. It still came from and was funded and founded out of her dad’s church. Surely someone like Maureen would know the truth of this? Wouldn’t you think?
There is God’s laws and the laws of the country. Crimes are dealt with in a COURT OF LAW. Not by anyone’s compassion and forgiveness. You are foolish to suggest that crimes are acts of the devil.If you were right.what is the use of having laws. Don’t come back to me with more quotes from the bible to justify what you said According to you, we can justify all the crimes committed in this world by blaming it on the devil. Judge: ” Yes dear man it wasnt your fault you molested that innocent child, it was an act from the devil” Youre a cretin mate to suggest we cant question Frank Houstons If you truly were abused yourself in this manner, do you honestly believe your forgiveness helped anyone else that that person may have abused? Or the abuser itself?
Gidday Donald .. I watched part of the RC on Houston this afternoon via streaming and from what I can see .. this Hillsong mob are as Cunning as a Dunny Rat, they’ll run around the bowl all day and never fall in. Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this entire case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church. All supposed Protestants (save RC’s) who dare not Protest any more, especially against Sin. And worse than that, Hellsong will have the gall to say .. “Thanks be unto God for Vindicating us”… 🙂 .. From the little I have seen/heard of Houston on live-streaming, he doesn’t give a hoot about anyone else but Brian, Frank/deceased and Hillsongs Furtherance. AOG are Crooks and ‘Wordplay Professionals’. I don’t believe any of them could lie straight in bed.. 🙂 .. I’ve said it for decades and people, so called Christians, pew warmers and Pastors alike HATE me for it .. “AOG is a Den of Thieves and who in their right mind would want to be associated with them”. Yes, I have had opportunity to be part ( a minister) with them, on more than one occasion (1 being with Garden City Church) but the Spirit in me said ‘Stay Away’.. thanks but no thanks .. 🙂 .. ref/Psalm 1:1 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo71.htm ..
Good Morning Donald.. I read your Oct 8 Comment on the RC-Houston and although the Saga is grim I still liked the dry-humour. As for your Oct 7 Comment, well, it was just so sad to read. So this man/FH controlled this boy AHA for 5 years, most certainly was no mistake was it. Wilful damage, damnable Sin outside of True-Repentance. I never seen Jim Williams X Pastor of Garden City Church ever go before the Courts either for his Sexual Misconduct with young girls in New Zealand, prior to coming to Australia, just another White Washed-Stone Wall job I guess. ‘Amazing Grace’ it is that Saves Souls from Eternal Hell Fire that live in Ongoing Known Sin Un-Repented… ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’ what a Beautiful Message filled with God’s Love .. ref/Luke 24:47 .. 🙂 .. Go in the strength of our God – Jesus, who is the Christ .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/tradingongrace.htm ..
Denis. Thank you for your comment and concerns. Would you mind detailing anything you feel is inaccurate? I started writing about Pastor Frank Houston two years ago. That was when I wrote the article on this site: “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. It was shortly after my father’s death, who was also a pastor. I was writing about dad and his life, mainly for my family and people who knew dad. In the course of my recollections and memories I wrote a blog about dad and Frank Houston because they were pastors in the same city in New Zealand. That was in Wellington in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Their contrasting backgrounds, congregational demography and so on was interesting to me. You see Denis, this is a private blog site which is only my opinion. I write the world as I see it. If I get the facts wrong, I’d like to know. Also I very much believe in the ethos of democracy and freedom of expression. So if you or anyone disagrees with me, that’s OK. I hope this explains a bit about where I’m coming from. Donald
Sorry Maureen something is not right in the Houston family. Your brother is wealthy, he is high profile, he is powerful and he has achieved many wonderful things as you say. However, I see a man in a deep rut of pain and shame that he is digging with his action of not shouting from his stage everything he knows. The truth will set him free. I’m afraid there are skeletons in Brian’s closet that caused him to start digging this rut. I’m not suggesting they are the same skeletons as your fathers but there are skeletons. A man without these skeletons would have just jumped on the grenade from the outset with the faith that Jesus Christ will restore.
Hello Donald. I have read your blog page and find numerous assumptions that you have come to. Please get the facts before you go into the public arena. You appear to be on a mission to avenge the sexual abuse of one man. Assumptions presented as fact are damaging to people and once stated by go it can not be withdrawn. Your assumptions have entered minds and they take it as fact. Be careful and use wisdom.
John. What age did Sheila live to and what happened to the nice house they built? Your dad was a very good man and you’re fortunate to have had a father like him. I can’t remember if I went to Stan’s funeral but I may have. Where was it held? I went to Pastor Tom Marshall’s funeral and watched the coffin being lowered into the hole. His funeral was at the Cemetery at North Ryde in Sydney. He got cancer unexpectedly and died quickly. Tom was one of the men of God who I think really had a close walk with God. Sometimes he’d radiate God’s Presence. Did you get on well with Stan? I’ll read the AOG link you mention. Did Stan and Sheila ever mention the scandal involving Frank’s abuse of 6 ten year old boys at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s and several at AOG youth camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. I’m trying to get more details. Do you know anyone who might know? Donald
Donald – yes indeed, I’m Stan’s second son. Incidentally, prior to her move to Africa as a missionary, Sheila was my mother’s midwife for me back in ’43 at the maternity home behind what is now the Hutt City AoG. If your interested in correcting the Wiki version of NZL AoG, Pastor Ian G Clark, whom I respected, has written its history – http://ifphc.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/assemblies-of-god-in-new-zealand/#more-662 If I recall it correctly of when I was 14/15 & vacationed in Ellerslie at my best friend home, Ray Bloomfield was a short overweight American type preacher that I didn’t really appreciate – but I understand there may have been some friction there with WFH. I moved to Ardmore in ’64 & lost contact with religion having some personal disbelief with the results of the Nicene “Convention”. I helped Dad & Sheila with the electrical wiring of their house and Dad died in ’78 a few months prior to my leaving NZL for Indonesia where now reside. I have no further juicy tales to tell of WFH except to say that I really had no trust in him and considered him and his ilk as a charlatan. (I once observed a Dentist from the congregation swear that the dental fillings one prayed for convert was receiving were from God – why didn’t he just get real teeth?) If evangelicals were a little more openly tolerant towards gay society then pedophilia would have a better chance to be recognised earlier. How many gay men & women are so because they were abused before reaching a mature enough age to understand the consequences.?
Paul. Don’t worry. Most people don’t comment. The views have gone through the roof. I’ve never set out to please people and write what tickles their ears. I have a huge number of viewers on a wide variety of subjects. The Frank Houston blogs are the most popular, particular “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. This was my first blog on Frank Houston a couple of years ago. Thank you for your comments and encouragement. I’m going to organise a class action if Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston don’t do something for the victims that is acceptable to me and the victims. One class action against the New Zealand AOG and one here in Australia against Hillsong and the AOG (now called the Australian Christian Churches). Donald
Well Donald .. day 2 has nearly passed us by and the ‘Stone Walling’ has already begun.. LOL!.. otherwise you’ll cry. The World, the News Reports tell us that even they are being deceived into thinking that Brian Houston and His Churched Leaders are all just Innocent Peoples saying with one accord.. “Silver and Gold have we None”. Jesus did say that ‘His people’ look for and long for the ‘New Heavens and the New Earth’ where RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS. It certainly doesn’t dwell on this earth, save in the Holy Remnant Peoples. ‘Admitting’ that we are Sinners or we have done wrong or that something is vile is not True Repentance, something needs to be done. The whole Saga of Frank Houston and his Filthy ways is not about his son Brian Admitting that his dad was a ‘Sodomite and Child Molester’… and then let’s move on now and Business as Usual. The entire case is not complete and never will be, in the eyes of the Righteous or the Righteous One-Jesus the Christ, until every single Victim is Accounted for, Compensated for and Catered for with whatever they need in order to ease the Horrific Damage dumped upon these little ones, by these Filthy Rich Wolves in Sheep’s Garments. If all I can do is continue to Encourage you to press forward with your ‘Findings and Conviction’ and also Pray for you and this ‘White -Washed’ situation, this is what I’ll do. But as you have already said “Some sins are Evident and Dealt with on earth while others follow them to the Grave”. Which was the case with Frank Houston. So was it 1 Child Molested or was it 21?. Frank and his wife’s sudden death also left a question mark in my mind .. And yes, dear Donald, only the ‘Salty’ will be Spared!!.. from Eternal Torment .. I notice that your Blog is not flooded with comments on such an Important Subject but neither is ‘The Narrow Road Flooded with Travellers’ .. ref/Matthew 7:13-14 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVY3MNm-VE .. Maranatha!
Rose. Its all voluntary re tithing and I have been going to church almost all my life. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses and has had its ups and downs but I’ve found my Christian faith has sustained me. My dad was a Pastor and from knee high he told me tales of human error, even pedophilia in the Church. And that was in the 1960s and 1970s. Everywhere you have people inside the Church or outside the Church you’ll find evil and human depravity. Donald
Paul. Thank you for mentioning me. I want to be one of those who follows in the footsteps of the brave heroes of the faith in the hall of fame in Hebrews chapter 11. Its been travelling around in my spirit lately the scripture in Revelation about if we’re lukewarm then God will spew us out of His mouth. Donald
I left CLC in its beginning days at Waterloo. Nobody explained such a thing as Diapraxis $$$, but I could see its outworking. I could see the signs and knew it was time to get out. This did not mean that I stopped being a Christian. The wickedness of men is a given and I alone must stand before God and give account. There was a time that the CLC bookshop had the likes of Francis schaeffer and Derek Prince etc. A number of years later I returned to CLC to check out its bookshop, to use the bookshop as a barometer regarding the church’s spirituality; as expected it had gone into decline. The simplistic books of Kennith Copeland were in full view; Copeland a known Freemason, as are Kennith Hagin and Billy Graham.
Many years later I chose to look at the top contemporary Christian music CD’s. As I listened to these, I was appalled; gone was the music of Keith Green and John Michael Talbot, true Christian music. Next I discovered a youtube hillsong video. This included a ‘so called’ Christian thrash metal band by the name of Pergamum; any Christian worth his salt should instantly know that (from the book of Revelations) Pergamum is the ‘seat of satan’; Pergamum being found in Turkey. The Pergamum altar being currently housed in a Berlin German museum; the same copied Pergamum altar that Obama used for his 2008 democratic(sic) convention. How a so called Christian Church could house a thrash metal band firstly, next one named Pergamum (seat of satan) was truly disgusting, while also intriguing to me. I wondered at the people that stood and watched this band; you could see at some level that they were troubled, yet they did nothing.
You who are without sin let him cast the first stone. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. A look at the old testament, in all its honesty, reveals the failings of man. The race we run is one to the finish line. Would you catch me in a hillsong church? Only to check out how far the fruit has fallen, then I’m out of there.
Beyond this, these are the sign of the times; the great falling away, the kali yuga. Yet this has all been in the making for many thousands of years. Mystery Babylon, gnostics, Alumbrados, The Church of Rome, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, witches, and satanists etc. Many who think that they have the absolute truth and yet are beguiled, (Do I think I have all the answers? No, but I make it my life’s work to find answers to the most important of questions). The Jesuits being some of the most heinous and depraved; the cause of most of the worlds wars and death of millions – mystery babylon. These same jesuits that secretly obtaining most of the worlds wealth via its illuminati run international bankers, via its owned reserve banks of this world. These very same who run the media and create religions. The very same people who set up tele-evangelists i.e. wolves in sheep’s clothing. Tele-evangelists who are also commonly Freemasons. Freemasonry which acknowledges at its 31st to 33rd levels that the god they worship is lucifer. This same lucifer which is the name which the UN had its publishing company named as ‘lucifer publishing’ now lucis trust. The same illuminati, inclusive of Murdoch who owns Harper Collins, which prints its ‘so called’ Christian bibles i.e. corrupted bibles. See videos ‘A lamp in the dark’ and ‘Tares among the wheat’ for the ongoing attack and corruption of the bible via the Vatican Jesuits. See also Libellusjesuitus.pdf as the the magical working of the Vatican Jesuits in conjuration of the demons of hell. As for those who still do not believe in a spiritual battle, you might like to look at all the books and videos of satanism and black magic readily available on Amazon.com and youtube; interesting are the works of E.A.Koetting on both of these websites. A person who will teach you of Human sacrifice but will smile when he tells you that he has not been apart of this. The Roman Church who is well aware of the spiritual realm and which secretly uses the forces of darkness to maintain power, all the while working for the Fascist New World Order, One world Government and One world Church – luciferian doctrine. The confessions of witches will tell you that they will attend church services; to merely sit in a service as a point of darkness to filter through to the church. Yes the people on top, the oligarchy, the is called illumanists, satanists know what is going on, what is at stake; power mad leeches of humanity; the ones that refer to the rest of us as useless eaters, cockroaches ready for the slaughter of the UN’s Agenda 21, Bohemium Grove and Georgia Guide Stones.
Yes I was also saddened to hear about Frank Houston, while every minister is a target, the mind boggles as to the wickedness of man. Saddened to watch what was becoming and did become of CLC, but with what I have just described above, you might have a glimpse into what is beyond what most just see on the surface. The rock of the Christian faith is the word of God. The Vatican and gnostics etc will tell you to place your trust on ‘Tradition and revelation’ all the while attacking the word of God and even corrupt the newer bibles. A look at Westcott and Hort (Jesuits) will show you from their written correspondences how they would seek to distort and destroy people’s faith in the bible (firstly via using the Jesuit Sinaiticus corrupted manuscript and then via casting doubt via the margin notes). There is a reason why there are Christians who stand firm on bibles that use the ‘majority script’ i.e. textus receptus manuscripts i.e King James Version; this verses the Vatican distorted manuscripts that most bibles these days are corrupted by. Wisely did St Paul state that “our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers..” For my liking any major church these days, especially that has Tele-evangelists are immediately suspect. The oligarchy which has most of the worlds wealth and controls most of the media, luciferians, are not going to let any church or minister that is not one of theirs, be able to positively influence the masses. The watered down churches of today are ripe for the One world Church. The Vatican created Islam to kill the true Christian and Jews and the game goes on. Why, did you not know that Mohammad’s wife of 15 years senior was a Roman Catholic that lived in a Roman Catholic convent? See information as presented by ex-jesuit Alberto Rivera – All roads lead to Rome. The tower of Babel – the U.N, Atheism verses Religion, the Hegelian dialectic, to achieve the One World’s Religion of the luciferian doctrine, the new age movement, man as god, all giving homage to lucifer. Stupid minds, Credit card mentalities – you can have it now, but one day you’ll have to pay up with interest.
So, you can listen to the lies and the distortions, you can run to Atheism etc like an ostrich with its head in the sand, but this does not negate the spiritual realm and the criteria of giving account as to ones earthly life’s actions. As for me, I’ll still stand by the one who spoke the greatest of all truth, the one who spoke words pertaining to eternal life – Yashaya (Jesus Christ).
Yes Donald.. Our great Lord-Jesus talks about ‘Thoroughly Purging His Church’ and if we don’t want to come under His Winnowing Fan’ .. how shall we be His, how shall we be Saved . .. would we not be only Born-Again Bastards?.. Not all Israel are Israel are they. And MANY will call Lord-Lord!.. whom Jesus will Deny He ever knew them. This Message was our Mid Week Teaching taught today.. 8.10.2014. And I make mention of Brian/Frank Houston, Hillsong and other Heathen Religious People-Organisations. You may find some time to listen. I also made mention of yourself-Donald. Keep up the Goodly Work, I’m sure Father – Ancient of Days is proud of you. Yahweh always backs His Truth and all who speak it in it’s Entirety – Full Counsel, never known Him any other way in 27 years Ministry .. Our motto @ JtCm-Mission is .. Honesty, Truth and Humility, with Jesus as Preeminent .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTlsPMenBc .. thank you Donald for keeping me posted .. Jesus Bless you .. 🙂 ..
Paul. I’m watching the whole Hearing and will continue to write blogs. Pastor Brian Houston issued a statement yesterday after the Royal cCommission denying he told victim AHA that he was tempting his dad. Please think about it: for 5 years the victim who was aged just 7 was abused by pastor Frank Houston and Pastor Brian Houston says the AHA was tempting his dad. This is the only victim the Royal Commission has heard from so far. From 2000 Pastor Brian Houston as head of the AOG took over the case of his dad. All the evidence from inside the Commission and from my sources says that Pastor Brian Houston did nothing at all to help the victims of his dad’s abuse in any way, apart from the shameful attempt at a buy-off at Thornleigh McDonald’s where a deal was done with AHA for $10,000 to be paid. AHA then had to chase Pastor Brian Houston for the cheque which arrived in the post with no cover letter. Pastor Frank Houston then tried to hush it all up and shut the matter down and has lied lied lied ever since. The Royal Commission is on to Pastor Brian Houston and he should be a worried man, if he’s not already. Before Sydney and the world Pastor Brian Houston’s shameful treatment of victims of his dad’s abuse is being played out. It was the top story on Sydney and National Sky News last night. there were large articles in the Sydney morning Herald and Daily Telegraph. Very very sad for the victims. Not good for the body of Christ. Purging sometimes has to come. Some people are judged on this earth. For some the judgment awaits them. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Sickening! This is so typical of Churches, never deal with anything properly or even biblically – shame on them! Shut all churches down I reckon or start TAXING them, after all, do they not TAX the members with the TITHE?? !! Of course they doApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Well Donald, day 1 is done with the Houston/Hillsong – CLC – AOG – ACC .. Saga and a little has been given recognition. People will always have THEIR views but the TRUTH is the truth and we can’t escape it, no matter what we try to do to camouflage it. As I watched the News last night, they said that F. Houston meet with one young victim @ Maccas and cut a deal with him for 10K $ and it was contracted on a MACCAS Tissue. How Low can ya Go?.. What a cheap trick, it’s just insult after insult isn’t it for all victims and even for the intelligence of the Commission, the Law and God’s Law, not to mention the Christian Community at large.This tells all, the REAL character of Franky Houston, not his Religious AOG Showcase Character but the real man within. F. Houston (within the secret meet) WILFULLY Abused and Wrecked a young mans life (along with multiple others) and then degraded him again by cutting a deal with him on a tissue paper. VERY CLASSY INDEED. Basically treating him like a piece of scrap meat, (the old nudge-nudge wink-wink say not more ). Franky basically tried to mop up such a Great Filthy Mess with a MACCAS TISSUE, now that is deluded in the first degree. Just a Band-Aid for the Leper. With no Respect whatsoever for humanity, let alone Christianity or Christ. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR?. However, I find one great insult and Sin in the midst of all this filth and that is, Brian Houston plays the ‘Liar and the Denier’ in this whole filthy mess and we all know that Jesus called ‘Satan the Father of Lies’. Hence, there is no lower character a person can be, in the eyes of God-Yahweh .. than a LIAR. Brian needs to Repent, come clean, face the music and move on in honesty and humility with expectation of Salvation on Faith-Obedience .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLVLODCJbI …ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes, its all about the victims. That’s what these articles of mine are about. Helping the victims and bringing hillsong, Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG to account. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
John. I had forgotten Frank served at Ellerslie. In what capacity did he serve? Was Ray Bloomfield involved there? Are there any Frank Houston victims of abuse from that period? Yes, i agree Frank was into male physique and bodies. That is normal for a homosexual but not for a prominent AOG pastor. Sad. So are you the son of Stan Carter? Stan was an amazing man. I met Stan at large interdenominational charismatic meeting at Karori, Wellington, where he was on the door. It was 1976-77. As you’d know he had a ministry of helps. I then got to know Stan and Sheila well at Kapiti Christian Centre. I recall Stan’s smile as he greeted people at the door at Karori. I was a young Christian aged 19 and used to help him on the door. I spent time with them as they built their new home on Kapiti beachfront. It would be worth a lot of money today. Stan was tireless in his work and then dropped dead from that heart attack. Stan and Sheila told me about Pastor Frank Houston being accused of pedophilia in the early 1970s. There was a big blow-up and a lot of people left. Do you know the facts on that incident? What age did Sheila live to? She was a very godly woman and had served as an AOG missionary in Africa for decades. Sheila shared how the tribes would run their pagan ceremonies all night with loud drumming and so ion and it would be quite scary. Stan and Sheila were quaint living in that little caravan as they build their house. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kylie. Pastor Brian Houston is in no way responsible for his father;s pedophile and homosexual sins, which are many and involve 12 or more victims, probably 20 plus, over all the decades from the 1960s until the 1980s. I haven’t found any dirty old man Frank Houston victims. If you read the last two blogs I’ve written last night and this morning you’ll understand where Brian is culpable and responsible. As head of Hillsong, as pastor Frank’s successor and as head of the AOG denomination for 12 years until 2009, he has been heartless, cold and arrogant towards the victims of his dad’s abuse. He has also been in denial. it is a difficult time for Brian and the Houston family. There are other issues too. For example, the Houstons have grown fat on royalties on hill song products and music, which is in reality stealing from God. What is God’s is Gods. What is mortal mans belongs to mortal man. You don’t profit from the things of God and the holy gospel. Its wrong. Its stealing from God. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
My spouse and I stumbled over here different web page and thought I may as well check things out. I like what I see so i am just following you. Look forward to looking into your web page yet again.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I just cant’ help feeling for those poor, young and helpless children that had been abused by Frank Houston. I have two boys myself. Just feel how heartless this man is for raping and abusing these children, the fear , helplessness and pain that their little bodies and minds have to injure from that evil of a man. I’m sorry but i wish he is burning in hell now for hurting those little ones.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Donald – Some Bios of Frank omit the period he served at Elerslie prior to being called to Lower Hutt where my father was a Deacon – I understand you have met him as you quote him and my stepmother somewhere. One of the strangest encounters with Frank that I recall vividly, was his obsession with the physique and athletic ability of school boy swimmers. In particular he confided that he frequented the then new Nae Nae Olympic swimming pool, to watch the swimming races. He had breached the subject some time in 1960 I believe, when I was in the sixth form, saying how much he enjoyed watching the performance of Robbie Walker an outstanding swimmer from our school. Maybe this was the start of his deviant obsession.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
P.s i strongly agree though that Frank Houston should be put on show for what he’s done and everything should be shared with the media, justice for those poor victims is all they have! And perhaps Hill song needs to fully accept and come to terms with the extent of his terrible doings!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I’m shattered by this disturbing news, I feel for Brian and his family because they are in a terrible situation that is not their doing nor do they have any control of, offenders always have children of their own and Brian happens to be the child of a terrible man but this is not his fault and I feel he shouldn’t be blamed for his father’s actions, I have been part of Hill song for many years on and off and although I consider my self a Christian I’ve never read the Bible nor do I take it very seriously yet I pray every night, so please don’t think I’m bias! I call a spade a spade and take people on face value, Brian/hillsong have done so much good over the years and helped so many people in need and yet this becomes quickly forgotten in bad times in the media, Brian may have been abused himself has anyone thought of that?? And does this make him not worthy to preach because his family life isn’t perfect, that church is amazing for people in need and it’s all thanks to Brians hard work if people think that it’s all been easy and he’s just scammed money out of people then their wrong he has worked hard, and had to leave his children to go overseas to constantly dedicate his life to helping others, all I can sayis I’m devastated but not hating these people due to others actions, family or not!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Lynda. You are correct that Pastor Brian Houston has knowledge of other cases. Victim AHA is an example of an Australian victim that Brian has known about since 1998. I’m sure it is very difficult for Brian. We know each other although I haven’t spoken to him for a long time. I don’t understand the psychology but Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong still persist with that official view of only one victim in New Zealand 40 years ago. Pastor Brian is having a lot of difficulty coming to terms with the activities of his dad. As are the other Houstons such as Beverly Houston who mentions the family trauma about her dad in comments on this site. The Houston denial is about to change. The Royal Commission which started today says that it has knowledge of 7 victims. I have knowledge of 11 plus. One of the purposes of my articles is to clarify with everyone that Pastor Frank Houston was a continual pedophile and homosexual from the 1960s when he was in his 30s until the 1980s when he was over 60. I also want Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston to start caring about the victims. Listening to them. Respecting them. Paying for a counsellor of their choice and one million dollars payout per victim. Thank you for your comments.DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hello , since reading this I have googled abit more about it . Just wanted to bring to your attention that there is a u tube clip of Pastor Brian Housten discussing this as the most difficult time in his life , and he clearly refers to “victims” and also mentions a meeting with at least one other victim as well . Thought I would mention it as I’m sure seeing how you are doing a blog and obviously have a lot of facts about the case , that you would also want to ensure accuracy in all areas of reporting . CheersApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
A BLESSING FOR ALL .. from Brother: Donald Wilson, this is a timely Message for the AOG-ACC for sure. Brother Donald was Principal of 2 Christian Schools in New Zealand and his dad by the leading of Holy Ghost departed from the AOG in the end, through disgust and that was going back 50 years, so what does that tell you .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/freedom.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Good Morning Donald .. Yes, it is a Goodly Morn, why?.. because it’s Commission Day.I would like to watch the Commission hearing, if time permits, otherwise I look forward to reading the paperback version. Sounds like you’re the man for this very job, and Father has a perfect way of finding the right man for every job, re/Little David-chosen above his warlord buffed-brothers. My fellow minister (Brother: Donald Wilson) in the Christ comes from NZ and his dad Pastor: William Wilson used to walk with Smith Wigglesworth when he was about. And has said to me on occasion that all these Ministers who use Wigglesworth’s name (for their own ends), re/Houston, Nalliah, Hinn, Copeland, Meyer, I’ve even heard ‘Jim Williams’ of Garden City Church when it was called such, drop his name when convenient. I met Jim Williams @ GCC many years ago and when I shook his hand the ‘Spirit of the Lord’ said to me he was going to be removed from GC within 12 months and he was removed only months later. When I told some of his fans this, they said I was jealous of him, charged at me and told me to be very careful what I say. He is another that was caught out for his taste for the young. Brother Donald doubted very much whether Wigglesworth would even give the people mentioned the time of day. I had a small happening with Freddy Evans/AOG too one time, an arrogant man if ever there was one. I haven’t read Bobby Houston’s book or any of Brian’s (the titles are enough) but I have heard both on TV and the little I could bear was suffice, 10 mins is overkill. Yes, I must agree, the AOG along with the RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church and Salvation Army are sticklers for ‘Stone Walling’ and are in deep water in Yahweh’s Eyes. I am praying that justice be done and the truth revealed .. you are in my prayers .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/devil_is_a_pervert.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Paul. Yes that’s the time for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Live stream starting at 10.30am today Tuesday at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au. I have knowledge of far more AOG pastors and leaders who are guilty of pedophile activities and have been protected by the AOG from prosecution, than Pastor Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s dad, who died in 2004, and was a secret homosexual and pedophile for over 40 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg re Hillsong and the Australian AOGs damage to Christendom. In a previous comment you reference the book Bobbie Houston’s “Kingdom women like sex”. I can’t find teachings like this in the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Can you imagine the reaction of Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth and Kathryn Kulmann to writings like this and Pastor Brian Houston’s writings about riches, money and prosperity? There is so much wrong with Hillsong and a large number of the AOG and modern pentecostal churches in Australia and all over the Western World. The problem is that we haven’t had a revival for a long time to flush all the worldiness out of our hearts and lives. When Pastor Brian Houston took over Christian Life Centre Sydney in the 1997 he shut down all the Holy Spirit soaker meetings, the prayer meetings and Christian Commandos, the outreach ministry in Kings Cross. He sanitised everything and all the Pentecostal stuff stopped. No prophecies, no healings, no deliverance. All the foundations of the ministry of Jesus, the Apostle Paul and the early church. All the things of the Holy Spirit, the early church and Pentecost stopped. This is where we must return to. The simplicity of faith in Christ. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount- Matthew 5-7. I Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. Acts 2 and Pentecost and the beginnings of Christianity. 1904-7 Azuza Street and the Welsh Revival Smith Wigglesworth, John G Lake, Katherine Kulman and so on. Those that have gone before us who are worth reading. If you read the Sermons of John G Lake and then read Bobby Houston’s “Christian Woman love sex” you might puke. I haven’t read her or Brian’s books but I intend to read them all and to do a full analysis of Hillsong and explain how it has gone off the rails and taken most of Australian Pentecost off the right track with it. I’m not without hope because the Holy Spirit is the greatest and sometimes He has to dismantle a whole denomination or organisation to bring forth new buds and establish what is right. A generation will rise up soon who are sick of the greed, corruption and money and sex emphasis in Hillsong and the Pentecostal church and who will embrace the true tenets of Christianity as found in the New Testament and the early church. All the best with the godly fight. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I have had my own experiences and run-ins with AOG – ACC Church Ministers and Members over 27 years Ministry and everyone of them disgusted me, still do. They are surely off with the Pixies. I have a few people in my fellowship that escaped the clutches of the AOG and the stories they have told me simply confirm and add to my original view of that Religious – Franchise. I always hoped that this wicked Religious Organisation/Business/Franchise would be ‘Exposed’ for what it really is. Looks like Yahweh gave me my wish, at least part of it for now. It was my wife that came across this blog today on her phone and she mentioned it to me this afternoon. The funny thing is, my wife didn’t attend our Church yesterday for she wasn’t well and she didn’t know what I Preached (not as yet). But I did mention Brian Houston and his ‘Affluent Church in New York’ in my prelude. How Brian was boasting on TV of how Hillsong are making headway into the Big Ticked Night Clubs where all the Wealthy, cashed up Sodomites, Transvestites and Depraved Women hang out. And then I come across this blog, well you could have pushed me over with a pin. Didn’t Jesus say to ‘Abstain from even the Appearances of Evil’?.. And what would AOG – Hillsong know about Worship anyway?. True Worship involves selflessness. It’s the 7.10. 2014 tomorrow isn’t it, yeah.. ‘Joy Comes in the Morning’ says the Lord of all Equity… 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo215.htm .. Yesterdays Message @ JtCm-Mission, Brisbane City .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8Nh92DmyE ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Pastor Brian Houston is about to appear before the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission is looking at the response to child abuse by the Assemblies of God, the Australian Christian Churches (a conglomerate of Pentecostal churches including the AOG, Hillsong and Pastor Frank Houston). Pastor Frank Houston, Brian’s father abused 11 plus victims, probably a lot more, mainly young boys aged 10-11 as very prominent Assemblies of God (AOG) pastor over 4 plus decades. These abuses took place in Australia and New Zealand. There are other AOG pastors who will be examined at this Hearing starting next Tuesday 7 October 2014 in Sydney. There is admissable evidence that Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG pastors did these things. The attitude of Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG in Australia and New Zealand has been to stonewall victims, try to hush them up and not compensate them properly or normally at all, if possible. You be the judge whether we should all go on with our lives and pretend child abuse of innocents by AOG pastors and leaders hasn’t happened and isn’t still happening. Pedophilia is a crime and there are serious consequences. The Australian Government certainly isn’t letting it go, in the AOG or any other church or institution. And I thank God for that. Future and present children need as much protection as possible from these evil predators. Especially from the clergy, for people don’t expect the clergy to be wolves in sheep’s apparel.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Absolutely Karen swart. I agree people need to leave Brian Houston alone god is in charge we can not condemn. Anyone only god can judge and I think it’s great Brian has done what he did he is a truly Remarkable manApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Maureen. Unfortunately you are in denial. To date the Australian AOG, Hillsong and your brother Brian have stalled and blocked any research or examination of Pastor Frank Houston’s numerous child sexual abuse victims. It would be nice if Pastor Brian Houston would face up to the music. I’m not optimistic. I would expect Brian and the AOG to stonewall the Royal Commission. It would be nice if this is not the case.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Oh my goodness! This is the most appalling writing… Quite abhorrent. How dare you state these serious matters as fact when it is profoundly flawed with misinformation and outright slander! I don’t know who you are Donald Elley, but I suggest you need to examine your own life. My father, Frank Houston was a pedophile. We, his family had no knowledge of this whatsoever! We were/are all completely traumatised by the fact. I have grandchildren now in their teens and have had to explain their genetic ‘heritage’. It had nothing to do with us, but we wear the stigma. Brian has gone on to serve God in ways you could never possibly understand with your small-mindedness…. Despite his total personal grief! Dad did NOT found Hillsong Church. I cannot quite figure your motives? Do you fancy yourself as some kind of representative of Gods justice? Bizarre! I think your stated profession is that of a builder. There are many Professionals, including a current Royal Commission, looking after the victims, hearing their stories with compassion, and I have no doubt they will get compensation if they think that will help. We are blessed to live in a society that no longer hides such hideous crimes against children. If you are a Christian you will be aware we ALL stand accountable before God on the day of judgement. The only thing I can say in my father’s defense, is that he taught us, along with many others, the gospel which is totally redeeming. I admire my amazing brother for his efforts for the kingdom of God, despite his agony. I’ve watched him grow and flourish as he has practised forgiveness on a scale most never have to consider. Your blog is contemptible and I won’t be revisiting it. Writing can be used in such a beautiful way to inspire and influence people for Jesus. May I suggest you find something edifying to write.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
This preaching is right for the Frank Houston matter, by Bill Johnson. 1Cor5, expelling and a form of shame with purpose, cleaning up the act with God, and covering sinners’ blind spots. ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Also, Calvary Chapel going through similar. Chuck Smith Sr., wouldn’t deal with his church at large either. Google: Alex Grenier and spiritualsoundingboard, or ocweekly.com; L.A.Times and Christianity Today articles in 2007 exposing corruption etc and do over fifty hours of reads of similar corruption. When you ignore child abuse and wanting wives to be battered wives, punching bags, and don’t deal with homosexuality which will breed child molestation, pedophile evil, you’re just as evil.
What famous Calvary Chapel pastor stood a woman up and called her donkey’s ass for wanting to leave her husband that was molesting kids, wow; wonder what evil sin this false leader hiding and then his son ends up beheaded car accident, wow. Was dealing with exposing molestation in Foursquare/Calvary Chapel to NO avail. Foursquare ran the parents out didn’t pay for counseling for boys but they were acceptable to take their money as long as NOT questioning. Sad to say, what your dealing with is in ALL demonations (not misspelled).
Unholy Anointing by H.A. Lewis exposes corruption along with Dr. Rebecca Brown’s book, “Setting the Captives Free” and it’s rampant in the church. Look at the AOG movement how many leaders have made the news for homosexuality, what religion will breed, read Charisma, contact Trinity Foundation, Dallas TX and do reads in L.A. And O?C. Newspapers and Christianity Today and they are still in ministry=amazing. “Religion is to the church what cancer is to the body”. AOG’s and Foursquare have same issues and DON’T deal with either but they want the people’s time and money to be kept in their lifestyle and dead business of selling their god, their Jesus and their unholy spirit. Christians cannot, will not and choose NOT to think for themselves, the Matriarchal B_tches, Patriarchal Disasters are robbing their families, God does NOT get any money nor the homeless/poor for the most part. Follow that money trail and question to the unth degree. Question where information comes from and the source.
Basically the people are supporting habitual liars, liars where the money goes who they help and NOT getting correct biblical teaching. People for most part are supporting wolves, hirelings, false shepherds. People aren’t healed up and whole; if they were all these evil regimes/movements would not exist. Research a matter.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Can you clarify, is it Peter Lawton or Laughton as seeing discrepancy in blog. Also, can you post the site instead of referring to regarding Peter’s abuse that you write about.
In reading, Frank’s son is just as evil as his father if he doesn’t make it right by the victims and one million is not enough. Contact Dr. Susan Forward and talk to her about what each victim should receive, she wrote a book: “Incest, molestation and it’s devastation”. By the way ALL her books are excellent reads, Toxic Parents also. Maybe her, Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil can help to resolve these issues(take it public maybe on latter’s show and Dr. Laura’s radio program).
Could you cover the definition of homosexual tendencies that Peter told Frank to come out and admit he was homosexual=what to look for. Austin Miles book would expose the AOG’s for being highly homosexual and child molesting, which they are. Wrote a book (which has not been published) eleven years after Austin Miles book; not knowing he existed saying the same things. My church was just different players and submitted it to David Wilkerson, Dr. James Dobson and heads of church leadership to deal with. Been addressing it hardcore with David Wilkerson since 1992 until his death and year 2000 to a group of so-called Christian leaders that dubbed The Round Table”. Look at J.Lee Grady’s book on AOG Lies and Dogma or William Lobdell’s Losing My Religion.
By the way, Laurie your wrong, frank’s sin is over everyone here’s perfect example: Over a Decade ago a friend gave me one of Hillsong’s Worship Tape and said she played it and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. So, listened to it and gave it back to her and said there’s pedophile, child molestation and homosexuality going on in the church and it’s coming out in the music and those three usually go hand in hand. she did not believe me and went to a very gifted man in Aussie or New Zealand and he told her the same thing. She asked me what to do with it, I said do you want to deal with those evil spirits keep the tape, personally I WOULD STOMP THE HELL out of it. I WILL NOT EVER PLAY OR have hillsong’s music. Someone gave me a CD and threw it away. Worse to NEVER make it right by the victims but taking money in the name of the father, son, Holy Ghost, wow. Taking money and living the good life.
How much does Brian/Hillsong own, worth, business, real estate, vacation and ranch homes, money overseas and or property, vehicles, planes or mentioned items hidden in other people’s names? How much $ is going to help the poor, fatherless, widow, homeless, alien, stranger. The true shepherd lives poor/poverty lifestyle; Jesus and Disciples were example and you will read that also in Arthur Katz’s and Leonard Ravenhill’s written works. Nothing gives it away more than the true vs. false more than this. Another used car salesman selling his dead religion, how sad. Brian isn’t even Broken or repentant or real; false church it’s a means of Business to make money for lifestyle and no one is judging fruit. Majority of so-called Christian do NOT know what a true father and shepherd look like, hillsong would NOT exist if the people did. Read Dick Suphen’s article on Christian Brainwashing. I lived my life around my church cult and so glad got out. Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by Johnson and Van Vomderan, Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola.
Go to Babel, Pentecost, my time at IHOP by Gary Wallin and other articles by Kendall Beachey Blog. Read their articles and all comments. Also: spiritualabuseawaremess.com, churchexiters.org, surviving church.org, report church abuse to rickross.com (do all those reads), Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX unfortunately abuse sites are like the energizer bunny they keep going and going. Have pages of sites and list of church abuse books. Comments, it will tell you how to research church abuse. Always Research a matter and get unbrainwashed and think for yourself and not live your life for or through someone else.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kathryn. Pastor Frank Houston died in 2004. He never was charged by the Police or did jail time. His son Pastor Brian Houston protected him. Hillsong/ Pastor Brian have lied about the number of Pastor Frank Houston’s victims saying there was only one 40 years ago. This is the official version I read on their web-site. I have counted 15 victims ranging in age from 10 to their late 20s. He was a secret homosexual and pedophile who liked boys and young men. All the time he was the most prominent AOG clergy in New Zealand first until 1977 and then Australia. He came to Sydney to escape the heat on him from allegations of pedophile activities while pastoring Lower Hutt AOG in Wellington, NZ. I’m convinced there are more than 15 victims. Two victims have contacted me after reading my articles on this site. If you google “Frank Houston and Peter Lawton” you’ll find graphic testimony by the victim Peter Lawton, Frank’s worship pastor, of Frank’s predatory homosexual abuse of him when he was a young man in his 20s and Frank was about 60 and living with his wife Hazel. Pastor Frank groomed Peter Lawton by inviting him to live with Frank and his wife Hazel in their flat in Lane Cove, Sydney. In this way Pastor Frank could groom and then abuse him. It’s very sad and vile stuff. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The bad root Hillsong grew from. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Phil. Pastor Brian Houston’s motives are probably quite complex. I believe he likes the good life. I’d like to see Brian share some of his success with the victims of his dad’s pedaphile activities, in the sense of substantial compensation and the provision of independent counselling for Pastor Frank Houston’s victims. I’m thinking in terms of one million dollars per victim plus independent counselling. It will never erase the hurt and invasion by his dad but it may help. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes this Pastor Frank Houston part 1 blog has proved very popular. I think it strikes a chord. People want to reconcile the sins of a pastor with their holy ministerial front.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
To all readers and commenters on this Site of mine: All comments are most welcome on this site. If you have been abused by Pastor Frank Houston or any other Pastor or Church leader please feel free to write to me initially by simply writing a comment on this site asking me to contact you. Then if I feel you are bona fide I’ll send you my email address so we can correspond. Some day soon I’d like to bring Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God to account for the serious damage caused to Pastor Frank Houston’s victims by a very evil, Jackyl and Hyde individual: That is, Pastor Frank Houston. RIP Frank…not. “Woe to him who touches one of my children” said Jesus. Donald ElleyApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Mark. Frank continued to minister for many many years whilst concealing these awful things. I think the problem people have is that they were crimes against children and young impressionable men, not consenting adults. I think to draw parallels to life of Paul in this completely misses the mark. Their lives were nothing alike. I grew up in Franks church and have been around the AOG for a long time. The fact that Frank continued to minister whilst concealing these crimes raises some very serious questions. I know people who have based their whole life’s calling on a ‘prophetic word’ that Frank gave them that would seem to have backed up very specific prayers, and impressions, to and from God, that would have been completely unknowable to Frank in the natural. How could this be? How can a man work in the gifts of the Holy Spirit whilst concealing such awful things? I’m a believer, but I have also sinned with the best of them, and still do every day in one way or another, but I also know how even a seemingly trivial sin can affect my ability to engage with and hear from God, until I’ve dealt with it (which sometimes requires me to repeat the process of “dealing with it” regularly). There are some deeply important theological issues surrounding this that this denomination would do well to assess. The damage from his sins still has shock-waves and implications even after his death and I think to forgive and pray as you say is certainly part of it, but don’t underestimate the power of assessing, quantifying and learning from what happened here. Those poor little ones who have since grown up with such damage inflicted upon them. I too was also abused and have since forgiven and moved on. No one is rioting as far as I can tell.
If I may please ask, If Frank Houston admitted of his past sins and has repented and reconciled with Jesus then who are we to judge? The bible says “All have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory, We lie if we are to say we have no sin in us” Are you with me? St.Paul the greatest apostle of christ , What exactly was he doing before he renounced and reconciled with Jesus? He was a murderer who would not spare man,woman,child who were christians , So if Jesus chose him out of all people to preach and write the Gospel how come you dont question his integrity? Believe me I was also very much a victim of such acts while I was a child but yes once you forgive and pray for that person it is all cleansed and you dont hate anyone anymore. Jesus said” Let the person who has never sinned be the first to condemn and stone the woman who was a sinner” Who are we to Judge? Who are we to condemn? Are we so righteous ? My dear brothers and sisters please show compassion to the sinner and pray for them rather than trying to accuse ,blame and start rioting and rebelling such acts are from the devil , May GOD bless all of you, Praise God Amen.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I am myself am the victim of a pedophile from age 3 to about 10 or 11. I forgave my uncle who victimized me. God along with some really loving Godly people helped me to do this. I am not his judge, I do not know the circumstances of his life and what led him to do such horrible things. It is not my job to pay him back or carry hate in my heart towards his though his actions to me caused me a great of suffering, pain, guilt and rage for many years, once I came to understand that God knew every hair on my uncle’s head and would reconcile what happened to me in his own way I could take my uncle off my hook and put him on Gods hook. He alone could really judge because he knew details and all the facts that I did not know. Forgiving my uncle freed me to allow God to work in my life all the healing that I needed and He made me totally free. I have no residual feeling toward my uncle what so ever. He is gone from this world now and I know that justice was done whether he found forgiveness from God or whether he is rotting in hell really has nothing to do with me because I am okay either way. I trust my God, my Father to have done the right thing and I am ok with that. I am deeply troubled with the reactions of the Church (meaning the christians) in and around the church. So often when a leader falls, commits sin, rather than “the Church” becoming a place of healing we become a mob who does nothing but attack the sinner amongst us. We forget that we are saved by Grace and only by Grace we stand. We forget that “there, but for the Grace of God goes I”. Of course he (Frank) needed to be removed from Pastoring to protect any future victims. But was there ever any effort put forth to minister to him and to see if he could have been helped out of his sin. It is no wonder that sin and error in the ministry is often covered up because we the church are like wild animals looking for the kill. It grieves my heart that we have no mercy and cannot find a way to help our brothers and sisters out of the darkness. We throw them to the wolves like yesterdays garbage. We the church fail to be like Jesus to our fallen comrade in the fight and kill him instead. I don’t believe Jesus would do it this way. The Pharisee’s would have handled it this way for sure but Jesus said those that are without sin cast the first stone. Could you really cast the first stone? I know I would not be able to. Gandhi was known to have said ” I would have become a Christian, had it not been for the Christians I met” How horrible to think what we do to make a bad situation worse . We are not part of the solution, but we are part of the problem.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The sins of a man do not cover an entire church. We have the power in Jesus Christ to claim authority over such sin and Hillsong church can and will continue to thrive. Their true leader is Jesus.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have removed the brief mention of you and your relationships from this article as they were passing comments and I am not out to hurt or offend you. Donald.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have sent you an email welcoming your version to be emailed to me. I will make any required change as the truth is important to me.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Don, you really could have contacted me. I would have confessed my whole story to you with dates. I have done this many times. Your version of events is totally wrong and yet you have openly accused me without any fact. My relationship with Victoria started nine months after Janine had left me… Yes Don, Janine left me..no immorality, no other party. Not the other way round. I had left Hillsong almost twelve months earlier. My email address is geoffreybullock@me.com. Why not try a little biblical. integrity and contact me. I would be quite happy to tell you the whole story, if you’re prepared to listen. Perhaps you may have the courage to retract your mis truths. Perhaps not.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
After Frank Houston’s paedophilia was exposed, I find it inexplicable that anybody wants to be linked with hillsong.My God doesn’t need paedophiles to do His work on Earth.A rotten apple spoils the barrel. How can people seriously suggest that God chose him for a leadership role?ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The bible says be babes in the things of evil and wise in the things of understanding! Brian initiated the investigation with regards to his fathers shameful behaviour.this in itself must have been agonising to do.brian is an upright man with the blessing of God on his ministry.leave him be and thank God for his integrity and conduct through it all. stop fussing about who started hillsong and acknowledge Gods hand in it all.he is the one to be honoured seek the giver not the gift! karenApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
There was also Jeff Bullock who was a Hillsong music prodigy until he l created a scandal by leaving his wife and 5 young children for another lady.
This also is not true – Geoff did not leave his wife and five children for another woman – his marriage fell apart adn after that he met another woman.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Geoff Bullock was very talented. So was Darlene. So are many others. Trevor King is another talent from those days. One day about 10 years ago I was at my parents church in Howick, Auckland. There were about 500 people there and i couldn’t see the pianist but he was playing beautifully in a style I knew. To my surpise it was Trevor King from the CLC Darlinghurst days. From the time Geoff’s marriage collapsed his ministry was doomed to decline. This always happens to Christian musicians and preachers who loose their marriage. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Pastor Brian Houston founded hillsong. To Brian, Geoff was always replacable. Many subsequent musicians had equal or greater success since Geoff. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
You say that you were there and a leader in the movement then you ought to know that to say that Frank Houston is the founder of Hillsong inaccurate. Houston founded Waterloo CLC from where Brian left to found Hills CLC which took on the name Hillsong following the huge success of the Hillsong conferences begun by Geoff Bullock. in actual fact Hilsong owes its success directly to the success of its music which came is relaly all down to Geoff Bullock – not Frank or Brian. Brian was smart enough to see where to hitch his wagon to – had it not been for Geoff Bullock, Brian Houston would have nothing and Hillsong would not exist.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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.
The pedophile Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Pictured in Sydney in the 1980s
Donald Elley of Bellingen
March 9, 2023
Between 1940 and 1945, New Zealander men aged between 18 and 45 were conscripted to fight in WWII.
It was similar in Australia.
World War II – Wikipedia extract ‘Conscription in Australia’
“In 1939, at the start of World War II, all unmarried men aged 21 were to be called up for three months’ military training. The men could serve only in Australia or its territories. Conscription was effectively introduced in mid-1942, when all men aged 18–35 and single men aged 35–45 were required to join the Citizen Military Forces (CMF).”
My family and WWI and WWII
My paternal grandfather, Jim Elley, a New Zealander, was a merchant engineer during WWI (1914-1919). On ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. These were unarmed vessels travelling in convoy with war supplies and other goods with protection from German warships and submarines.
Bert Brooker, my maternal grandfather, a New Zealander, was in his forties when WWII started. He was married and a barrister and solicitor. He wasn’t required to go to WWII. Grandad served in the Home Defence Force. A ‘Dad’s Army’ type of arrangement. ‘Dads Army’ is a British WWII comedy from the 1960s.
My father Rev Don Elley was training to be an airforce pilot in 1945 when WWII ended.
During WWI and WWII, New Zealand women could serve as nurses and support personal.
During WWII Frank Houston avoided going to war by joining the New Zealand Salvation Army
In comparison with other New Zealand young men, canny Frank Houston found shelter from conscription by joining the Salvation Army. Frank became a Lieutenant there. Later a Captain.
Frank lived in Salvation Army orphanages with his wife Hazel, sexually abusing little New Zealand boys.
Hazel was aware of Frank’s pedophilia. She called it, “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Frank was kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the late forties for sexually abusing boys. He avoided prosecution using the mental health card and being consigned to a psychiatric hospital.
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12
Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12. Frank’s boy victim Brett Sengstock told the Royal Commission that Frank lost interest him when he turned 13.
Although Frank’s preferred demography for sexual abuse victims was boys aged between 7 and 12, he sexually abused male teens and men aged to about 35 if young boys weren’t available. This is normal pedophile behaviour.
We’re talking about the founder of Hillsong Church here. Not some low-life from the street. Not some evil Illuminati or Satanist. Yes, we’re talking about Frank, the founder of Hillsong. What evil this family has launched upon the planet.
Hopefully Frank’s son Brian Houston will be dealt with severely by the courts and imprisoned for many years. This is what Brian Houston deserves.
December 26, 2022
Of all the thousands of articles on this, my personal blog-site, this is my article which causes me the most pain in my heart. It’s about the boy and male teen victims of Hillsong’s founder Frank Houston.
Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used Christian ministry to gain access to little boys from 1940 to 2004 when he died.
Frank’s son, Brian Houston, allowed Frank access to little boys and children until Frank died. Even after Frank was banned from preaching in 1999 by Brian and the Australian AOG, Frank continued to preach. Even the next week on Hillsong TV in Canberra. Brian denies this. But Brian couldn’t deny an audio of Frank preaching at Maitland AOG just north of Sydney in September 2004. This was two months before Frank died.
Brian tried to argue at court Frank had dementia. I know what dementia sounds like and looks like. My mother Valerie died of dementia almost three years ago in January 2020. She was non compos mentis.
Latin: non compos mentis translates as “not of sound mind.”
Frank was compos mentis (of a sound mind) and full intelligible until the end of his life.
Frank did repeat himself a few times in the audio. But no more than Brian repeats himself in very sermon he preaches. And Frank was always far more lucid and entertaining than Brian.
Brian’s preaching is for the lunatic asylum, not a learned Christian pulpit.
Frank’s preaching is for the pedophile caverns of Hades.
What Brian can’t deny is the testimony of eye-witnesses who saw what was going on. Including me. I wish Detective Hamil had had a good chat with me to fill in the gaps. I should have approached him before the matter made it to court.
Detective Hamil, who led the second investigation into Brian’s concealment of Frank from police, is a nice guy. A family man. I think he was thinking of his kids as he tried to unravel Hillsong.
It’s a shame Brian didn’t think of his kids and grandkids. How many little Houston boys did Frank sexually abuse in his lifetime? Starting with Brian and his brother Graeme to Brian’s and his siblings children and to all the many Houston grandchildren.
Now I’m finding out Frank sexually abused girls too.
Folks, we are still only seeing the acidic black top of a very dark and evil rabbit-hole. I intend to do a deeper dive to find out all. Pray for me. It will be my privilege to reveal everything I find out.
It is in the service of humanity to expose the Houstons and all the Prosperity Gospel crooks, not just in Australian and in New Zealand, my country of origin, but globally. Particularly in America where there are so many.
Donald Elley of Bellingen on Australia’s nightly Channel Nine program “A Current Affair” on December 5, 2022. The first day of Brian’s Sydney court case. The charge is a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The maximum jail term is seven years. You can find this program on Channel Nine’s website.
December 9, 2022
I’ve added reader’s comments from my original article of September 13, 2012 to the end of this revision.
This article was first published on this, my personal blog-site on September 13, 2012
I’ve been writing on the subject of Hillsong and the Houstons for over a decade now. I first touched on this subject in 2012 while writing on my father’s life. Dad was a Christian clergy like Pastor Frank. They preached and worked in Christian ministry on opposite sides of town. My father Rev Don Elley in the elite Wellington suburb of Khandallah. Pastor Frank in down-market Lower Hutt. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital. Lower Hutt is very different today. Khandallah is much the same.
Pastor Brian goes to court December 5, 2022
Pastor Brian is currently appearing in Downing Street Local Court in Sydney’s CBD for a three week trial which started on Monday December 5, 2022.
Pastor Brian has been charged by New South Wales police with a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The pedophile Pastor Brian concealed is his father Frank Houston. For many decades, seven decades, Frank pretended to be a Christian pastor to access little boys and sexually abuse them. This started in the 1940s back in New Zealand when Frank was in his twenties. Frank chose the Salvation Army as his first port of call for secret pedophile activities.
Frank in his first disguise as a Salvation Army officer in the 1940s. He rose in ranks to a Captain. This was during WWII. While Australian and New Zealand troops were fighting the Nazis, Italy, Japan and their allies like Turkey, Frank was avoiding New Zealand war service by pretending to be a caring Salvation Army officer. This was in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages. A survivor of sexual abuse by Frank aged in his 80s recently appeared at the ongoing New Zealand Royal Commission into Care. The New Zealand government is doing the same kind of investigation into pedophile activity in institutions, churches and orphanages as was done in Australia from 2013 to 2016. This abuse survivor testified that he was sexually abused as a boy by Frank Houston in a Salvation Army orphanage in New Zealand’s South Island.
Frank abusing boys in the New Zealand AOG 1950 to 1977 when he moved to Australia
After being kicked of the Salvos in the late 1940s, for abusing boys, Frank had ‘a nervous breakdown’ and was in psychiatric institutions. It is likely he did this to avoid being handed over to police and being put in jail.
All this time his wife Hazel, Pastor Brian’s mother, was supporting Frank and in effect enabling him in his pedophilia. She later labelled her husbands fetish for boys as “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Undeterred in the late 1940s, Frank got involved with the New Zealand AOG. This was in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, at Ellerslie AOG. His mentor there was Pastor Ray Bloomfield. I don’t know if Ray Bloomfield was a pedophile. If anyone can help me out on that one, it would be appreciated.
In time Frank became an AOG pastor. Innocent AOG pastors and congregants in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond had no idea what Frank was up to. Frank became a famous New Zealand AOG pastor and evangelist by the 1960s. Untouchable. he could do what he wanted a regarded boys. The number of Frank Houston boy victims from the 1940s on is unknown. It may be thousands. Several thousand. Do the math.
Frank abusing boys in Australia and beyond 1960s to 1970s
Frank rose to be head of the New Zealand AOG. His tenure was from 1965 to 1977. During the 1960s and 1970s Frank abused boys all over New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Sri Lanka, South Pacific Islands and elsewhere.
Frank abusing Maori boys 1960s to 1960s
During the 1960s to 1970s, Frank was abusing Maori boys as a famous AOG evangelist. I find this aspect of what Frank did particularly disturbing.
On the run from New Zealand police
By the 1970s, Frank was out of control in his abuse of boys. Parents of abused boys at Lower Hutt AOG, Frank’s church where Pastor Brian was raised, became very upset. There was a confrontation and many congregants left. I heard about this in 1977 from Stan and Sheila Carter.
So the heat was on Frank and he up and moved to Australia. To escape arrest by New Zealand police.
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was a year before his son Brian arrived in Australia. Brian likes to say he founded Hillsong. This is a Brian lie. One of many.
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong.
Pastor Brian with his father Pastor Frank in the 1970s
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women.
These offences include visiting a young Hillsong female’s hotel room and being alone with her in the middle of the night after Hillsong Conference. I think they had sex but no one is talking (yet).
Sydney media are trying to get the young Hillsong lady to talk on camera.
This would really rock Brian, and Brian’s wife Bobbie’s, world.
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board. Bobbie has got a bit more crazy than her normal unhinged self recently. Some of her sermons, if you could call her convoluted and sometimes irreverent blurbs a sermon, have been off-the-dial.
Bobbie does this coughing, burping and tears thing while preaching. Quite bizarre. I think Bobbie has trouble controlling her personal demons who want to speak to the planet too.
Brian Houston was charged by New South Wales police with concealing a pedophile on August 5, 2021
Brian Houston of Hillsong was charged with pedophile concealment crimes by Australian police on Thursday August 5, 2021. The maximum penalty is seven years in jail. Brian appeared in court in Sydney on October 5, 2021 for a First Mention. There was a Second Mention on Tuesday November 23, 2021 and a Third Mention on January 27, 2022. There was a fourth mention on March 3, 2022.
The Hearing is in December 2022
Brian has plead “not guilty” at each mention.
Brian will get a lesser jail sentence if he pleads guilty. Like Pharaoh before Moses, Brian won’t negotiate. Brian will only fly the white flag of surrender in jail. Even there, Brian will still be maintaining his innocence.
Brian Houston stepped down as global head of Hillsong
The Australian Royal Commission
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in its Findings, recommended Pastor Brian Houston, the then head of Hillsong Church, be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
An official recommendation was passed on to NSW Police and the NSW Justice Department by the Royal Commission.
The crimes are that Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches top leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Pastor Brian Houston, his wife Pastor Bobbie Houston, Hillsong business manager George Aghajanian, Hillsong elder Nabi Saleh, President of the New South Wales Assemblies of God John McMartin, National Assemblies of God General Secretary Keith Ainge and all the other top Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leaders had a fiduciary and legal duty to report Brian’s father Frank to Australian police when he confessed in 1999.
They failed to do this.
The fiduciary duty of a church leader comprises a duty of care towards their congregation. To lead them, to protect them and to care for them.
Instead of reporting Frank Houston to police, the above Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leadership, gave Frank a slap on the hand and allowed him to go on preaching, prophesying and (God forbid) laying hands on AOG congregants wherever he fancied to go in his misnitry. Nothing changed.
They moved Frank to quiet, off-the-grid localities so no one would report him to police. They told AOG congregants that Frank and his wife Hazel “had retired” and were AOG Royalty. No mention was made of Frank’s “problem with boys”, as Hazel liked to call Frank’s lifelong past-time or hobby of child rape.
At this stage only Brian has been charged.
The Origins of Hillsong Church
Rev Frank Houston the Night-Stalker, preying on little boys in their childhood beds.
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade.
Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
New Zealand Herald July 11, 2020
Frank Houston at Coogee Beach, Sydney in 1969.
The First Hillsong
The first name of Hillsong was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church met in Sherbrooke Hall, Double Bay, Sydney. The first meeting was on 16 July 1977 led by Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father.
Rev Frank Houston with young congregant at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst then, in 1980. This is the pedophile Frank Houston sneaking in a little homo hug on an unsuspecting young man who is lapping up the attention. There were hundreds like him. At this time Frank was having a secret homosexual affair with his young worship pastor Peter Laughton aged 23.
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong’s boy and teen sex abuse victims.
I have revealed them all to the world on this, my personal blogs-site. This has always been with their permission and their desire if their names are mentioned.
I do not search for victims. They always contact me.
I do not seek media publicity. They approach me for information.
Three new accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston 11 July 2020
Two New Zealand Herald articles of 11 July 2020 mention three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now.
The number of known Frank Houston boy and male teen victims I have identified is now 17 or more.
Recent revelations that Frank sexually abused boys in a New Zealand Salvation Army boys home in the 1940s and on evangelistic crusades amongst New Zealand Maoris have thrown the needle off the dial of my boy victim count.
It is no longer possible for me to put an accurate figure on the number of Frank Houston’s boy victims globally.
When I add in sexual abuse of little boys at a Salvation Army Boys Home in New Zealand in the 1940s and add in AOG crusades and ministry trips from the 1950s to 1960s in New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, Chile and other the countries, the possibilities of the number of boy victims is almost endless.
I believe from the evidence there are over 400 boy and teen victims, maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Frank’s son Brian, who I know personally, said to Australian media in 2014, “We may never know the number of victims”. I knew Brian from 1981 at early Hillsong. I haven’t talked with Brian since early 2000s when I left Hillsong for good.
Pastor Brian Houston current head of Hillsong: “We may never know the number of dad’s boy sex abuse victims”‘
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020 mentions three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now
Frank Houston preaching in in 1969 during his time as Assemblies of God in New Zealand General Superintendent from 1965 to 1977.
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020:
Three Frank Houston child sex abuse accounts which are new to me.
New abuse account one:
“From 1945 to 1948, Frank Houston worked at a boys’ home in Temuka run by the Salvation Army, which has confirmed receiving a complaint in 2003 from someone who said they suffered abuse at his hands during that time. A spokeswoman for the Salvation Army said it had provided information relating to the complaint to the Royal Commission.”
New abuse account two:
“In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.”
“Then came a second knock on the door. Barry was approached by a church elder who – aware of the complaint over Williams – disclosed an allegation of sexual offending by Frank Houston.
New abuse account three:
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade. Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
My comments:
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. I’ve believed for a long time that the reason was because of complaints of child sexual abuse.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
Crikey (Australian media) August 25, 2021. Journalist David Hardaker on Frank Houston and the NZ Salvation Army
“It has since emerged that Frank Houston’s offending stretched back 50 years to the 1940s when he was a lieutenant in the Salvation Army in New Zealand, his country of birth. The New Zealand Salvation Army has confirmed to Crikey that in 2003 it received an allegation of abuse by Houston during his tenure at the Temuka Boys’ Home, near Dunedin on the South Island, between 1945 and 1948. (Houston resigned from the Salvation Army in 1952.) The Salvation Army said it met with the survivor of the abuse in 2003. The case has been sent to New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, set up three years ago”.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
I’ve heard about Frank Houston doing crusades in rural areas of New Zealand, particularly amongst indigenous New Zealanders, the Maoris.
Frank’s son Brian mentions this in a romantic and euphoric way in his last book, ‘Live, Love, Lead’.
However, I’ve always had bad feelings about these crusades of Frank and his “love” and interest in the Maori people.
It’s sad to think that Frank was sexually abusing heaps of Maori boys in rural areas of New Zealand in the 1960s to 1970s.
Note of 18 November 2018
Frank Houston boy sex abuse victim, Brett Sengstock, known as boy victim AHA, who appeared anonymously at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has appeared on the Australian Channel Nine Sixty Minutes TV program recently to tell his story in person because he is dying of cancer.
Boy victim AHA Brett Sengstock – Brett is dying of cancer. Brett wants Brian Houston brought to justice for hiding and protecting his old pedophile dad from going to the clink – from 1999 when Frank confessed to November 2004 age he died.
Note of 22 April 2018
I know Hillsong and the Houstons better than anyone, having been at Hillsong from its beginnings.
Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father, came to Sydney from New Zealand in 1977. He was on the run from New Zealand police for untold and almost innumerable sex offences against little boys during the previous four decades.
I was at Hillsong before Brian Houston became a pastor in 1982, and before Hillsong was called Hillsong.
I helped Frank Houston build up Hillsong for a decade from 1981 to 1990.
The more I write about Hillsong, the sicker I feel. And the more I know about Hillsong, the sicker I feel.
But I go on writing, to warn people off Hillsong and to give Frank Houston’s multitudes of boy victims a voice.
My mission and goal is to destroy Hillsong. To expose it. To warn people off it. To set the record straight. To outline the truth about Hillsong.
Note of 27 October 2017
Pastor Brian Houston, the current head pastor of Hillsong Church Global is to face pedophile protection charges some time in the near future from the Australian police and authorities.
I’ve edited the article below reflecting current up to date information.
“Pastor” Brian Houston pictured with his child rapist dad Frank. Brian hid and protected Frank from the Australian police from when Frank confessed in 1999, to when Frank died five years later in 2004.
This article and its updates
This article outlines the history of Pastor Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong and his secret sexual abuse of hundreds of little boys, male pre-teens and male teens over seven decades. This occurred for possibly 70 years if you include his grandchildren and ‘rent boys’ (underage male prostitutes).
This site is the most authoritative and comprehensive site on Hillsong corruption, Houston corruption and Hillsong pedophilia.
This article was first published on this site on 9 September 2012, prior to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of 2013 to 2016.
It has been updated since as more facts have come to light and more events have unfolded.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed from the New Zealand Salvation Army for sexually abusing boys.
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a lifelong secret pedophile
I’ve come to the conclusion from the evidence I’ve compiled over many years, and from my experience from 1981 to 2000 as an attender of Hillsong, in the 1980s as a senior lay pastor, and especially since hearing boy victim AHA’s testimony, that the Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used the Christian ministry to secretly and stealthily, access little boys and young teens for child and under-age sexual abuse and child rape.
In other words, Frank Houston was first a pedophile. He was not at any time a genuine Christian or a genuine Christin pastor. Frank Houston was a wolf in sheep’s clothing all his life from his early teens.
Frank used Christian ministry to access little children.
Frank Houston’s primary sexual focus and preference was little pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
Frank liked male teens or young adult men if little boys were not available.
In his prime as a male in the 1960s to 1970s Frank had an insatiable sexual desire for little boys and young male teens. But mainly little boys.
A pedophile with a primary focus on pubescent children is a hebephile, a clinical psychological term.
Hebephilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14 and showing Tanner stages 2 to 3 of physical development. It differs from pedophilia (the primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children), and from ephebophilia (the primary sexual interest in later adolescents, typically ages 15–19). While individuals with a sexual preference for adults may have some sexual interest in pubescent-aged individuals, researchers and clinical diagnoses have proposed that hebephilia is characterized by a sexual preference for pubescent rather than adult partners.”
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile in that his sexual orientation and focus was primarily on pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
In my mind, this sexual orientation makes Frank Houston’s sex crimes against children even more heinous, especially since he was masquerading and pretending to be a Christian pastor.
Frank Houston’s crimes were not a one-off or an occasional dalliance in child sex crimes, but a lifelong secret and persistent activity involving hundreds, if not thousands of boy and male teen victims.
Frank was bisexual
Frank was bisexual in that he had five children.
It is probable that Frank did not have sex with his wife after the birth of their five children.
No one will ever know since they both died in 2004. And Hazel was not the type to tell.
Hazel knew Frank was a pedophile from the 1940s when he was reported for abusing children while working at a New Zealand Salvation Army home in the 1940s. He was removed from the Salvation Army.
So Hazel was complicit, codependent, a protector of Frank and an enabler.
Hazel and Frank Houston founders of Hillsong. In New Zealand in the 1940s.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed as a Salvation Army captains for sexual abuse of little boys.
Frank was a homosexual
In 1980, Frank Houston, aged 58, embarked on a four year homosexual affair with his young 23 year old worship leader Peter Laughton.
Peter Laughton, Frank Houston’s young worship leader and homosexual lover aged 23 in 1980.
Sexual involvement with a 20-year-old male, rather than with little boys and early teen boys, was an exception, although there is evidence of countless masked homosexual encounters over Frank Houston’s whole lifetime with males over the age of homosexual consent which is 16 to 18 in most Western countries.
Pastor Brian Houston, current head pastor of Hillsong – Brian, who I knew personally for twenty years, has been recommended to the Australian police by the Australian Royal Commission to be charged with pedophile protection crimes.
Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church has been recommended for prosecution for pedophile protection crimes
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in its Findings recommended Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Note 19 October 2014
In early October 2014, The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse examined the Australian Assemblies of God (which has the new name Australian Christian Churches), Hillsong and Pastors Frank and Brian Houston.
If you are interested in down-loading the Royal Commission transcripts, testimonies of victims and other relevant documents go to http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au.
To read a series of my blog articles on the Royal Commission on this site, they start on 20 September 2014 with “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part One. Royal Commission…”. If you google this title you’ll find it and other articles written by me on this my personal blog-site.
You can then scroll a few articles further into October 2014 and you’ll see all the articles sequentially in chronological order on “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston…” and Royal Commission materials.
If you know of any pedophile cases involving Pastor Frank Houston at any time anywhere in the world then please send me a message and I’ll email you back so we can confidentially talk about your case by email. No information will be published without your consent.
The following blog article on Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile activities was written on 13 September 2012 and it has been updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Blog article of 13 September 2012 (updated 27 October 2017)
The pedophile Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong
Pastor Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was two years before his son Brian arrived in Australia.
Here are two advertisements for early Hillsong Church meetings in Eastern Suburbs, Sydney in 1977 published in the Sydney Morning Herald. .
The Sydney Morning Herald 9 July 1977.
The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 16 July 1977
Hillsong
Hillsong is by far Australia’s largest church numbering 30,000 in Australia. Its headquarters are in Baulkham Hills in Western Sydney.
It has churches throughout the world in twenty locations. Hillsong claims 150,000 in its network world-wide in 2021. This is a very small number of adherents if viewed on a global basis.
Hillsong is like the small dog on the big street. Because of its strong cash-flow and music resources, it has made a lot of noise globally, but most people can tell Hillsong is completely dodgy and a money-cult.
Pastor Frank Houston was the head of the New Zealand Assemblies of God (AOG) from 1965 to 1977, and a prominent leader in the Australian Assemblies of God denomination from the 1980s to 1990s.
By the time Frank Houston confessed to secret pedophile crimes at age 77 he was revered across the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God movements as a great holy pastor, Christian leader and a great evangelist.
The truth is he was a rotten secret pedophile all that time, for many decades, probably since his early teens.
The Assemblies of God (AOG)
The Assemblies of God (AOG) is a Protestant denomination which started in the early 20th century in America and has spread across the planet. Its emphasis is on the Holy Spirit and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, like faith, healing and speaking in tongues.
The Protestants
A Protestant denomination is a denomination (international church organisation) whose origins are in “Protesting” against the Church of Rome.
Protesting, often at the greatest risk to their lives, against the Roman Catholic Church’s errant doctrines, its power, its Popes, its Bishops, its mercenary Jesuits of old. And its domination and blood-letting and martyrdom of true believers throughout the world. For over 1700 years until modern times.
If you think I’m exaggerating then google “The Waldenses”, who were Protestants the Church of Rome genocided in parts of France in the 16th century, or “The Covenanters”, who the Church of Rome hunted and wiped out in 17th century Scotland.
The Jesuit mercenaries and Papist rulers of England desecrated their bodies after death and threw their corpses on rubbish tips as a warning to a fearful populace.
These were brave men who gave their lives for the cause of Christ.
Compare these very brave men and women to Frank Houston, who was a secret life-long pedophile and covert homosexual masquerading in the disguise of a Christian pastor, whose coal-black dark secrets weren’t exposed until the last years of his life.
Frank Houston pedophile founder of Hillsong “preaching up a storm”, as he’d like to say in the 1980s.
Frank Houston’s confession to being a lifelong secret pedophile
A two-year investigation of pedophile allegations going back to the 1960s, ordered by his son, Pastor Brian Houston, at the time head of the Australian Assemblies of God, and conducted by a prominent Australian AOG clergy on the AOG national executive, Pastor John Lewis, found that the allegations were true.
Pastor John Lewis on Nexus Church, Brisbane website. Died from cancer in 2020.
Frank Houston was banned for life from ever ministering in the AOG in Australia and New Zealand in December 1999 aged 77.
But he didn’t stop preaching and ministering and Brian and other AOG leaders allowed him free reign to preach and pray and prophecy over the unsuspecting.
These are the crimes of Brian Houston, John Lewis and other top ACC and Hillsong leaders.
Pastor John Lewis report in 2000 on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities with little boys
Frank’s death
Frank Houston’s life ended in shame in November 2004. He spent his last days contemplating his place in Eternity. The burdens of his dark secrets were troubling his mind until the end.
How would God treat him in the Hereafter? These were among many questions which plagued his dark mind as he faced that looming day. For from the evidence Frank Houston had been a pedophile since his early teens, a period of seventy years.
I knew Frank Houston personally
This blog article is the first in a series of articles in which I will recall information, reflections and personal feelings on this gifted, strange and very tortured man, who I knew very well for two decades. Or at least I thought I did.
I worked closely with Frank Houston through the decade of the 1980s as a builder doing building fit-out and renovations for Christian Life Centre (CLC), Darlinghurst, as Hillsong was known in the early days, and as a lay leader.
I was a prominent and successful lay leader at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst, with ten home fellowship groups under my care. I pioneered these groups in the challenging Inner City of Sydney. I attended CLC again for a few years in the mid to late 1990s. I was there when Pastor Frank Houston got stood down and the whole organisation changed its name from Christian Life Centre to Hillsong in 2000.
I should add that I was a strong Christian prior to first attending Hillsong in 1981. This may have kept me safe from allowing Frank Houston to do stuff like lay hands on me in prayer. A highly dangerous event in hindsight for anyone.
Frank Houston’s legacy
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like former co-head pastor of Hillsong City Campus, Pastor Jonathan Wilson, who is now pastoring in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy
Jonathan Wilson, with second wife Dianne, in pastoring California. Dianne’s former husband Geoff is married to Jonathan’s daughter – a kind of fallen Pentecostal wife-swap.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson. Former Hillsong Senior Pastor. Likes pedophiles.
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like Pastor Jonathan Wilson who has strong links with Brian still, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy.
Jonathan Wilson told media at Frank Houston’s funeral in November 2012, “I regard Frank as a friend”. So Jonathan Wilson likes a lifelong secret child rapist parading as a Christian clergy as his friend.
The reality is that no amount of spin and re-invention can remove the dark black stains of the seven decades long trail of child sexual abuse that “Pastor Frank” engaged in.
Pastor Brian Houston. Growing fat while while he hangs out the victims of his dad’s abuse to dry. “Sorry victims of dad’s abuse, I’m a leading Christian pastor, but you’re on your own. Have a good life. Sorry again- Haha ha ha…By the way boy victim AHA, it was your own fault you were sexually abused by my father Frank – you tempted him. This is what Brian told the AHA (Brett Sengstock).
Over seventeen boy and young teen known victims
I have verified seventeen or more victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child and teen sex abuse.
Everyone closely associated with this matter senses there are a lot more victims out there.
From the evidence there are over 400 boy, pre-teen and teen victims. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Many will not remember the incidents due to psychological defence mechanisms because of the trauma of the sexual abuse event(s).
And there would be, from the evidence, 1000s of male victims of masked homosexual and pedophile abuse.
Frank Houston: “I was very active as a pedophile in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Pastor Frank Houston after his confession to pedophilia in 1999 said to his son Brian, “I was very active as a pedophile at that time”. He was referring to the period from the 1940s to 1970s back in New Zealand, when he was in his 40s to 50s, when most of his known boy victims were sexually abused by him.
Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life
I believe Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life from his early teens.
Frank got kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was a Captain. It has now been established that it was for pedophilia.
Frank Houston was a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland, New Zealand..
Note 11 July 2020
Frank Houston sexually abused boys at New Zealand Salvation Army Orphanages in the 1940s
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. It has now been established that my postulations on this matter were accurate.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald confirmed my allegations in an article in the New Zealand Herald today (11 July 2020):
“The Herald has confirmed that fresh allegations of abuse by the AOG’s former leading light, Pastor Frank Houston, have been provided to the Royal Commission.
One allegation, that he sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka, opens up the span of Houston’s alleged predatory behaviour to cover decades.”
David Fisher is referring to the recent New Zealand Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse.
What organisation except Hillsong would still love its pedophile founder?
Pastor Frank Houston was a pedophile who used his Christian pastor’s ministry as a disguise and camouflage to gain the confidence and trust of innocent believing Christian families so he could access their children undetected for the purposes of sexually abusing them.
Pastor Frank Houston was never genuine in anything he did. He mocked us all. How could a man be a genuine Christian pastor when he was secretly a life-long hardened criminal pedophile? Its not possible.
Frank Houston Boy victim AHA
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014 at a Hearing in Sydney revealed a witness AHA, who was abused in the Sydney suburb of Coogee when he was an innocent little boy aged 7 to 12 years old, in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Boy victim AHA was brave enough to testify anonymously in person.
It made me cry.
It was real bad stuff indeed.
It made me very angry, particularly since Pastor Brian Houston, the son of Pastor Frank Houston, like Pilate in the Bible who washed his hands of responsibility for Jesus prior to his death, has washed his hands of responsibility to help and care for the boy and teen victims of his dad’s abuse, who are now in their 50s and early 60s.
If you go to my blog articles starting on Tuesday 7 October 2014, you’ll find all the horrific details of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse of victim AHA including genitalia fondling, digital anal penetration, masturbation of the victim as he reached early puberty, and Frank Houston using and getting the victim to pleasure him over a period of five years.
My source is AHA’s testimony on Day One of the Royal Commission’s examination of Hillsong, where AHA spoke for most of the day.
It’s tragic, graphic, sordid, horrific and completely culpable by Hillsong, the Australian AOG and Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston has tried for 14 years to bury his father sexual abuse of children, sanitise it, and try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Dah…“What we didn’t do is report it to police.” Brian Houston, son of Hillsong founder Frank Houston, is surrounded by media following his 2014 appearance at a Royal Commission into child abuse.
Pastor Brian Houston had tried for 14 years to bury his father Frank’s sexual abuse of children, to sanitise it, and to try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Frank Houston has long departed but the corruption lives on in the errant and corrupt behaviour of his offspring, particularly in the life and deeds of Pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston, the current Head of Hillsong mega-church.
Rev William Frank…enstein Houston. Molester of little boys. The most corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost.
Over Seventeen Known Boy and Young Teen Victims
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse also mentioned six other little boy victims of Pastor Frank Houston in New Zealand in the 1960s. But there are many more.
I have been writing since September 2012 that there were six boy victims of Frank Houston in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in the 1960s.
My count of child sex abuse victims of Frank Houston:
I have evidence of 17 or more boy and male teen victims.
I have evidence of two teen victims, Peter Fowler, who went public in the 1970s with the encouragement of the now deceased prophet Pastor Philip Powell and teen victim ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a direct result of Frank Houston’s sexual abuse.
From the testimony of the boy victims and the circumstantial evidence, I believe there were over four hundred victims of Frank Houston’s abuse. He confessed to Brian Houston, his son, in circa 1999, that he was very active as a pedophile, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Here are the boy victims aged 7 to 12, and one teenager aged 15 years old:
1. Six 10 year old boys Pastor Frank Houston molested while Head Pastor of Lower Hutt Assemblies of God (AOG), Wellington, New Zealand in the 1960s, while at the same time, General Superintendent of the New Zealand AOG (from 1965 to 1977).
2. Sydney boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock), as above revealed on Day One of Hillsong’s time at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014.
This is a particularly sordid case of repeated child sexual abuse of a little 7 year old boy by Pastor Frank Houston which continued for 5 years. I have covered this case in detail in my blogs on the Royal Commission starting on the 7 October 2014.
3. One 15 year old boy, Peter Fowler, in the Lower Hutt AOG, New Zealand. The Lower Hutt AOG paid out Peter, but it wasn’t much money.
4. At least 4 boy victims at Assemblies of God Church camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. See my blogs on victim SA1 (my code name for him) dated 16 and 17 October 2014. SA1 was aged 11 years old at the tie of the abuse.
5. One young man in Auckland, New Zealand, ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a result of the abuse. He was in his late teens.
I sense there are a lot more New Zealand boy, pre-teen and teen male victims.
7. One boy aged 8 years old, in a suburb near Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. My code name for him is WNZ1. The abuse was very similar to the Royal Commission victim AHA.
WNZ1 believes there were more boy abuse victims in his suburb. See my blogs date 18 and 19 October 2014.
8. Frank sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka.
9.In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.
10. Boy victims in Waikato area of New Zealand in the 1960s. Frank was doing crusades often amongst Maoris. “Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.” Untold boy and teen victims. Impossible to know how many.
TOTAL: 17 and many more victims. 400 plus boy and teen victims based on the evidence. Maybe over 1000-2000 boy victims.
Boy victim SA1 from Adelaide South Australia
One of the victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child sexual abuse at Kleimzeg Assemblies of God camps in South Australia in the early 1970s, SA1, contacted me after reading articles about Pastor Frank Houston on this blog site. He shared there were several other victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile abuse at these camps.
The epicentre of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities at these South Australian camps was the boy’s toilet block.
The abuse involved the fondling of little boys genitalia and masturbation in the toilet block and bunk room. Pastor Frank Houston was very confident, blazen, perverse and tactile.
Yes Pastor Frank Houston. The greatest and most prominent AOG Pastor in Australia and New Zealand from 1970s to 1998, when the truth of his duality emerged.
Frank Houston was a secretive, manipulative, sordid, dishonest and heartless criminal pedophile for 70 years from the 1930s until his death in 2004.
Pastor Brian Houston’s lies about the number of victims continues to this day
The official line of Hillsong Church and Pastor Brian Houston was that his father, Pastor William Francis “Frank” Houston only abused one boy in New Zealand 40 years ago.
This is the line that they held from the late 1990s to the Royal Commission in October 2014.
This is the view that was on their web-site for over a decade. When I was researching articles I wrote about Frank Houston and his pedophile activities in 2012, Hillsong’s website and all the accounts by Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong media reflected this great lie.
This is the view they have told the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers.
This view is totally inaccurate and a blatant lie by Brian Houston.
It emerged at the Royal Commission that Pastor Brian Houston has known that this official view was untrue and a lie all this time.
Folks we’ve been all been deceived.
What is still lacking from Frank’s son, Pastor Brian Houston and the Hillsong Movement, which Brian controls, is any real degree of honesty and openness about Frank Houston.
For example, why won’t Brian and the AOG release the official AOG report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities?
Why didn’t Brian admit his father did numerous pedophile and homosexual acts, and not just one, like Brian portrayed for 14 years, until the Royal Commission exposed his lies? Why do Brian lie to us all? How can Brian lie like this and be a prominent Christian pastor?
Why is Brian Houston still lying about the number of victims telling Sydney’s channel nine reporter Leila McKinnon earlier this year when she asked how many victims Brian believes there are now, Brian hesitantly replied “six”. This is despite Brian knowing about at least 8 victims in 1999 and at least 9 victims in 2004. Why lie Brian? Who is the Father of Lies?
Was Brian Houston sexually abused by his rampant pedophile father Frank?
And the question lingers, was Pastor Brian Houston himself, and his brother Graeme, sexually abused by their father Frank?
Maybe that’s too personal for Brian to admit, if anything occurred.
Or maybe he can’t remember.
These dark memories are normally suppressed and buried by the defence mechanisms of the human psyche.
Brian’s brother Graeme has refused to attend church since his teens. Why?
Further, were Brian and Graeme aware of the accusations against his father while he was a lad?
The pre-adolescent little boys Pastor Frank Houston sexually abused in Lower Hutt were Brian and Graeme’s age at the time.
Brian even stayed with his dad at AHA’s family home in Coogee, while his father lay on top of victim AHA all night and abused him for the week of their stay on one of the many visits. One can see why pedophile Frank Houston liked to go to Sydney and stay at AHA’s parent’s house. Disgusting.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s overseas “evangelistic” trips overseas were really sex holidays away from his wife and people who he was accountable to.
Details of boy victim AHA’s sexual abuse
While Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of little 7 year old AHA, who is now 52, the skinny spider-like Pastor Frank Houston sexually molested him. He fondled his genitals, he fondled his little thighs and bottom, and he digitally penetrated him. AHA shared on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission that he froze with fear.
Boy victim AHA wondered, why was this hero of the faith, a godly man who my mum and dad loved, doing this to me?
Victim AHA lay frozen with fear as Frank Houston, the pariah, lay on top of him all night. The cats howled, the night birds cackled as the do in Australia, the dogs barked down the street and the garbos rattled their bins, and all this time through those long chill hours, Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of AHA doing awful creepy, very perverse things to AHA.
If you think I’m being too graphic, this is what AHA said at the Royal Commission. These are the facts the Royal Commission’s lawyer, Simeon Beckett, read out. These are the facts that AHA read out from his witness statement on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Sydney.
Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad
It is interesting to note that victim AHA, who spoke anonymously at the Royal Commission, stated that Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad.
Pastor Brian Houston has denied this. I believe victim AHA because he sounded very honest and very coherent. Pastor Brian Houston hasn’t been honest about all this stuff for over 14 years.
The Royal Commission has also revealed how Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston have been heartless towards child abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG Pastor and leader pedophiles.
If you read my blogs on 7 to 10 October you’ll get drift.
Pastor Brian Houston the head pastor of Hillsong mega-church, a very wealthy “church” organisation, has refused to help the boy and young teen victims in any way
Pastor Brian Houston. Living in the shadow of his father Frank who he adored. I wonder how he feels about his dad now the tsunami of his dad’s pedophilia has hit the fan?
Brian at the Royal Commission
At the Royal Commission on 9 October, when Pastor Brian Houston was the star witness, he wiggled and swirmed in the hot seat of the witness box. Then he straight out said they won’t help the victims in any way. The reasons are outlined in my blog articles on this site of 9 and 10 October 2104.
Pastor Frank Houston. Creepy. Self-confessed pedophile.
Peter Laughton’s homosexual affair with Frank Houston
Since Peter Laughton, Pastor Frank Houston’s young worship leader, went public in 2007 about Frank’s abuse of him in the early 1980s, the Houston family have taken the line that Peter Laughton was a consenting male with their father Frank. In his early 20s at the time of his abuse in the early 1980s, Peter was over the age of consent which is 18 in Australia for consenting homosexual acts.
But is it ok before God for the most prominent AOG clergy in Australia and New Zealand, aged 58, to indulge in numerous sordid homosexual acts with his young worship leader?
At the time the homosexual liaison started Pastor Frank Houston was 58 and Peter was 20.
I fail to see how the Houston’s can dismiss this series of incidents with Peter Lawton so readily.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston. Total deviate and con-artist.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston was an active secret pedophile and homosexual particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s.
By 1990 he was 68 and his homosexual and pedophile libido seemed to have dropped off. I haven’t found any pedophile dirty old man Houston victims.
A reader of this site commented recently that he knew Frank Houston in the 1950s at Ellerslie AOG in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote in a comment on this site that Pastor Frank Houston had fixation about male swimmers. There were some NZ Olympic swimmers training. A young Pastor Frank Houston used to go down to the local swimming pool to watch them training and perve on them.
If you knew Pastor Frank Houston at this time and you know of pedophile incidents could you please contact me. I suspect his pedophile activities started earlier than Lower Hutt AOG.
Frank Houston was sexually abused by his father Frank
At the Royal Commission, Pastor Brian Houston told the Commission that his dad had been abused by his father, also Frank. This is no secret because Pastor Frank use to share about this from the pulpit at Christian Life Centre in the 1980s.
Pastor Frank Houston openly shared how his dad was very mean to him and his mum. That his dad had an affair with the woman next door, based his wife, and other bad stuff. The ABC of Psychology says that people who were sexually abused as children often go on to sexually abuse children when they are older/ become adults. That’s a big subject.
Peter Laughton spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007
If you google “Frank Houston” or “Frank Houston abuse” you’ll find plenty of transcript of detailed sordid accounts of Frank Houston’s sexual activities with Peter Laughton.
Peter has given interviews to the Sydney Morning Herald.
In these interviews Peter speaks honestly and candidly about the homo-erotic activities Frank Houston led him to do. It’s interesting yet very sad reading.
Please bear in mind that Frank Houston was aged 58, and the most prominent AOG clergy at the time, and he was abusing a vulnerable and needy young man aged 20 who was his Church worship leader. Heavy stuff indeed.
The investigation and being caught
The release of the official AOG Report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities is a document which would be helpful to the victims of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities. What is more important? Protecting Frank Houston’s legacy and reputation, the Houston name and Hillsong’s reputation, or allowing some healing and closure, not only to Frank’s numerous pedophile victims, but also to the countless others who were part of Christian Life Centre and Hillsong in the early days and who were deeply hurt and shattered by revelations of Frank’s secret activities.
Frank’s pedophile activities were not destined to remain a secret to his grave. By the late 90s the chorus of complaints was to become deafening. The AOG, and in particular, the then National Chief Executive Pastor Brian Houston, his son, were forced to investigate and do something about it.
Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst the second name for Hillsong
I personally knew Peter Laughton at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst.
Peter was very talented singer, song-writer and composer. A nice guy. Sensitive. Artistic.
No one had any idea that Frank Houston aged 58 and a revered pastor and his worship leader Peter Laughton age 20 were involved in a four year homosexual affair from 1980 to 1984.
Extraordinary talent at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst
In those days Frank had gathered together some extraordinary musical talent.
Frank had recruited Pastor David Johnston from Los Angeles to found international Institute of Creative Ministries (IICM), a music, singing and dance Ministries School. David worked at Wesley College for decades since these times. David is a very talented pastor, violinist, composer and worship leader.
Trevor King was also there. Trevor now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Trevor is very talented on the piano and led the band and was the Music Pastor.
Geoff Bullock is another muso who owes his success to the Houstons. Unfortunately Geoff’s personal life became a train-wreck when his marriage fell over and his ministry has never recovered to the heights of his success under the Houstons. Particularly under Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston is truly a king-maker. So much talent. So many scandals.
Pastor Frank Houston with Hazel, his faithful, enabling and supportive wife- who knew he was molesting little boys for many decades. Hazel knew he was a pedophile since the 1940s.
Peter Laughton was looking for father love
Peter Laughton is a really nice guy.
Outgoing, talented and sensitive.
In Frank, Peter has said that he was looking for father love. The kind of love Frank gave him was secretive, self-gratifying and impure.
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses that they find impossible to control. Their victims are really just objects of their desire. There is no care or love towards their victims. For the pedophile it is “all about me”.
I wrote another 13 articles, which are on this blog-site, on this subject of Pastor Frank Houston from 13 September 2012.
My memories of the man and what I experienced during the 1980s and 1990s while attending Hillsong Church.
I have written over 200 other articles on Hillsong and the Royal Commission.
Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in world history
I have come to the conclusion that Pastor Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in the history of the planet.
To do what Frank Houston did to little boys and teens all his lifetime, while maintaining the front of a holy man of God is the very gravest of sins known to mortal man.
Since I wrote this article in September 2012, and since the Royal Commission examined the Houstons and Hillsong, Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission barrister, publicly recommended in December 2014 that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged by the NSW Police for not reporting and for sheltering a pedophile, his old life-long pedophile father, Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of the Hillsong organisation.
In October 2015 the Royal Commission recommended Brian Houston for prosecution in its Findings.
Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Frank’s son and successor. Facing pedophile protection charges which will wipe the smile from his well-fed fully, corrupt face.
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Though there are certain arguments to be made for the separation of church and state I believe the authorities must step up and take a stand on all these charlatans who bestow themselves with the title of “Pastor”. Any weasel in this country can call himself/herself “Pastor” and then set about living the life of an “untouchable”. These fakes are responsible for an increasing amount of mental health problems and domestic abuse and it is astounding to me that no one in the Government seems willing or able to do something about it. These charlatans, in my view, could not get away with what they do unless they enjoyed the protection of people in very high positions. Hillsong and Houston should never be able to use the title “Pastor” and benefit from that title in any way – Houston is nothing more than business executive who, by virtue of inheriting his father’s business, has been allowed to act, it would seem, with impunity as he fleeces the naïve and vulnerable without conscience. When will we find even one man with integrity in the Government who has the courage to call for a complete investigation of this man, this snake pit of Hillsong, the financial dealings, and the damage that is being inflicted whilst they target young people in our community who just get carried away with the mind-numbing music and intoxicating atmosphere. I have no objection to what Hillsong does or how they run their business – but I most strongly object to them doing it in the name of God! A Government committee set up to hear evidence of people who have been abused by this church (all forms of abuse) and others like it is long overdue. The Government is already involved by giving them tax benefits because of their church status, so a little more constructive “interference” wouldn’t go astray, would it?
Don, when are you doing to wake up to the fact that the Brian Houston is not a pastor?He’s an impostor, preaching a different Jesus and a different gospel for money. Who is leading more people to hell than anyone could imagine.
Hmmm. Art Katz (Arthur) even wrote in a book that he always had major problems with Worship Leaders and when he was alive wrote him the why and sent a copy to his Admin Ass’t or whatever Title they gave Simon Hensman at the time. Believe it was in his “Prophetic Call” book. Have my theories, a lot of them are Perfectionist (“Living With A Perfectionist” by David Stoop, Manic/Bi-Polar (Dr. Susan Forward, Herb Goldberg, Victoria Secunda, David Elkind, Dr. Laura might cover that well along with Leann Payne’s written works); dormant Homosexual’s (very unhealed; “Kingdom of Self and God Players by Earl Jabay); then there’s “Healing of Damaged Emotions” and his other books by David Semands. When looked up Definition of a Cult; #12, 21 (in the next page section, it defines definition of a sociopath; think a lot of Pastor’s/Leader’s/Priest have VERY unhealed issues themselves. What’s sad is they don’t deal with their issues and then put themselves in position to abuse children and people in general (and we are ALL God’s children no matter what age).
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
P.S. You referenced in an article Tanya Levin wrote a book and David Marr by Black Inc. (What’s that title? When went to research for lot’s of books by a David Marr)!
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
What I wrote about Geoff Bullock originally is what he told me he did, at a private meeting a long time ago. I only removed what I wrote because he was hurt by the truth. I’m not out to hurt Geoff Bullock, who is broken by life anyway. Brian Houston used him as a living breathing human soul and as a stepping stone to climb the spiritual mountain of Brian’s own ego and success. Geoff is just another train wreck and discard of the Houstons, Brian and Frank- like all the other victims, be they spiritual or psychological or physical or sexual abuse victims of the evil Houston express train.
Don You do not seem to have asked his forgiveness for your long-time error and the damage it must have caused him. Perhaps you have done so in private…
Brian Houston hasn’t helped any of the victims as at 8 October 2015. The Royal Commission interviewed victim AHA and AHA contacted me shortly after, via this site. We’re in touch by email occasionally. AHA would let me know if Brian had helped him. SA1 (my code-name) is a victim of Frank Houston in South Australia. Brian could contact me if he wanted to help him. Victim WNZ1 (Wellington, New Zealand) contacted Brian in the mid 2000s and Brian fobbed him off. I am in touch with WNZ1 and his wife. If Brian wanted to help them he could let me know and I’d put him in touch with them. The bottom-line is that Brian, the Houstons and Hillsong don’t want to help any of the victims. Brian Houston is the ultimate lying con-artist and he makes out he cares but he is a selfish greedy charlatan who won’t help anyone but himself and his clan. Hillsong is a cash-cow to maintain his lavish lifestyle and to get off on his fame. However Brian’s fame is turning to notoriety and soon he’ll be charged with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile. At that point he’ll be shamed and all his assumed glory will turn to dust.
To my readers: Its a year since the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse subpoened Pastor Brian Houston and other Hillsong/ ACC Leaders. It now seems likely that the NSW Police will charge Brian Houston with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile, his old very corrupt dad Frank Houston. Donald
I’ve published four testimonies of sexual abuse by boy victims on this site. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse has produced a boy victim AHA who is now in his fifties who was horrifically abused for over five years by Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s son, Pastor Brian Houston, the current CEO said after the Royal Commission in October last year in Sydney, Australia, “we may never know the number of the victims of my father”. How much proof do you need Stephane? The Royal Commission has recommended that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged for sheltering and not reporting his father Frank to the Police from 1998 until Frank died in 2004. We are waiting to see if the Australian authorities take this action. Donald.
Kerri. Frank Houston’s pedophilia activity was public knowledge from about 2007 when Peter Lawton was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. If you google ‘Sydney Morning Herald Peter Lawton Frank Houston abuse 2007’ you’ll find the information in a David Marr SMH article about Tanya Levin’s book on Hillsong. The information is in the second half of this article.
i’ll publish this article soon on this site.
Although Peter was a consenting male when abused by Frank Houston who was 60, Peter feels Frank took advantage of him and abused him.
About this time it became known that Frank Houston was also guilty of multiple historic pedophile abuse events, mainly with little boys ages 7 to 12 years old. This was the preferred demography of his victims.
Brian Houston sheltered his old pedo dad for 5 years until he died in 2004 and he didn’t report him to the Police as required by NSW Law.
Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission’s leading lawyer when they were examining the Houstons and Hillsong in October last year, publicly recommended in December that Brian Houston be charged with these offences.
There are 14 articles starting on 9 September 2012 specifically about Frank Houston’s abuse of boys and other sins like doing hatchet jobs on good men of God like Dr David Johnson, his Worship director in the early to late 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst.
From October last year I’ve written about 100 articles on this subject.
If you want to understand the full picture start reading.
This site is by far the most authoritative and comprehensive factual site on the subjects of Frank Houston, Frank Houston’s pedophilia, Brian Houston’s lack of response to the victims, Brian Houston’s corruption on multiple levels, Hillsong’s corruption on multiple levels, the New Zealand and Australian AOG/ ACC Churches corruption and the sexual sins of Australian and New Zealand prominent Pentecostal leaders over the past 50 years.
Am I to glean from this comment that Frank Houston’s abhorrent behaviour was public knowledge as far back as the early 1970s? Is is even possible therefore that Brian Houston had heard nothing about it before the time he now claims? I would like to know more about this as it pertains to a conversation I had with Brian Houston in 1988. How is it possible that so many people seemed to be aware of Frank Houston’s actions and yet Brian Houston claims that he heard nothing about his father’s paedophilia during these years before the family came to Australia?
So true.. ‘God does forgive ALL Sins’ .. providing the Sinner truly Repents. And when a Sinner truly repents of their Sin, (no matter how vile the Sin) you can rest assured that there is ‘No Returning to that Sin’. We know that God has FORGIVEN us of our Sins when we don’t Go Back to them, like the dog to the vomit and the sow to the mud.This is the proof and fruit of the quality of our Repentance. Godly or Not .. ref/2 Corinthians 7:10. When God Forgives us .. we are ‘Forgiven, Cleansed, Delivered and Empowered against that Sin’ once and for all in one hit. How great Thou Art O Lord God! The Soul Saving Question is, how could Frank Houston have Truly Repented of his perversion when there is a trail (a record) of repeated ongoing similar acts of paedophilia. One thing is for sure, the Liar will not enter the Kingdom of God, paedophile or not… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yE-xl-HJs ..
its so sad—ive seen the holy spirit move in and through paster frank housten to bless and heal many–thank god he was self confessed –god forgives all sin
Re: Counsel, Deliverance, Peace of Mind and Emotional Recovery .. Those in the Body of the Christ all have different gifts, according to the Grace given to each of us by Yahweh. If your gift is prophesying, then Prophesy/Speak in ‘Accordance with Your Faith’ Measure. Yes, Faith in the Christ can move Mountains and do the Impossible. As an X Alcoholic, X Chain smoker, X Drug user and X Filthy Immoral Wretch who Chain smoked and smokes no more, I know first hand the ‘Power of Faith-Obedience in the Christ’, hence I offer Messiahs Way above all others Jesus says I AM the Way! .. ref/Romans 12:6, Hebrews 11 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Xm9ykp0lA .. 🙂
Robyn. Personally, I found Dr Cliff Powell of the Christian Psychological Services in Mona Vale, Sydney helpful after my marriage fell over in 1996. My ex-wife took me along because she felt it might help our marriage. We saw Cliff a few times. Then, when my ex refused to give up her lover, Cliff told her that it was a waste of time proceeding with her. Cliff then asked me if I would like to continue alone. I felt I need that support and someone to talk the deep stuff through with who was a strained professional. Cliff is a Christian behavioural psychologist. He prayed with me at the start of every session and then we’d chat for 3/4 hour. His approach was gentle and supportive. I went to see him every 2 weeks for a while then it tapered off to every three months then I didn’t need him anymore. I found the whole process with him over a few years extremely helpful. In respect to any victims I’d encourage them to, if possible, find a counsellor or psychologist who is at least empathic to the Christian faith, and talk their stuff through with them. They don’t have to be full-on Christian but its better if they are at least a bible believing Christian of some Protestant denomination. Donald
Hi Donald.. Re/Psychs .. I myself suffer from ‘PTS Indefinite’ according to a Psych Report from a respected Psych in Brisbane City.. due to me being set on Fire (abused) by a Maniac-Muslim (2002) as I preached Jesus as God Almighty and Saviour in the streets of Brisbane. Plus I was food poisoned (abused) by a Muslim Kebab Shop (2008) resulting in a Heart Attack and the Senior Cardiac Surgeons at the RBH Brisbane said I needed ‘5 statins and a Stent’ in my heart or I would die. However, I chose to Look to Jesus, the God of All Flesh, by the leading of His Spirit and all is well with my Soul-Mind, Will and Emotions. And how can you be a Psych and a Sold Out Christian-Follower of Jesus at the same time?. While Psychology deals with the Mind and Jesus deals with the Spirit – Hearts of Humanity. And aren’t Christians born of a Spirit of Sanity, a Sound Mind and the Prince of Peace.. re/2 Timothy 1:7, John 3:5, Isaiah 23:6.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvjpe5HK4M .. The Glory belongs to Jesus!.. 🙂
There are many good psychologists and counsellors and many good Christian ones who allow clients to work with their Christian beliefs ,who do assist people to deal with anxiety, depression and PTSD associated with abuse. People should be given the option of seeking help, assistance and support and know of services that are available.
Gidday Donald.. Re/Victims of Religious Abusers and Pagan Abusers .. I don’t believe that it is a good idea at all to refer ‘Abused People’ to Psychologists and Psychiatrists for they can only ever offer temporary and very limited help, especially for the ‘Mind and Emotions’. Apparently Psych’s are numbered among the most ‘Mentally and Emotionally’ Unstable people in the World. Keep fighting the Good (News) Fight Donald, because only a Remnant are .. ref/Matt 11:28, Isaiah 23:6, Matt 7:13-14 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/jesus_turns_nightmares_into_happ.htm ..
Tanya. I leave any information or opinions on this site so long as people aren’t attacking others etc. So your info is here for anyone. I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as a Hillsong Watch group or anything. This is a private blog site with no affiliation or bias. I am OK with all the Protestant Churches so long as they are biblically based and embrace the moving and gifts of the Holy Spirit. In that statement I just lost a lot of friends. Donald
Hi I’m not asking you to be aligned with anything. I’m asking you to refer people to the appropriate services so that they can access the help that is in place, legally, socially, psychologically etc. The victims that you are in contact with have a right to know about the services available to them. That’s all.
here is the link for the most accessible form of compensation. i would support your class action efforts, but it’s important people know about the standard avenues as well.
Donald, please can you pass on my email to anyone who requests it. it’s tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com I’m not sure if you’re aware but the Attorney General will provide free advice and application to Victims Services. It’s important that you refer ppl to Victims services where they can get free counselling from Victims of Crime too, as an option. Just so that people have that option. please pass my email onto Evan who requested it and to anyone else trying to get in touch with me. Thanks
How pathetic that Churched people like the Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and other Orthodox Religions such as RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church, Salvos etc .. refuse to comply fully when found out for their abominable acts and Wilful Destruction of peoples lives and then a FUND is set up for the Victims. Not that the Victims don’t deserve payment but It really sounds like this kind of behaviour/abuse is about to be Accepted and Counted as part of Church Behaviour… So why did Jesus die on the Tree, didn’t Jesus say it is FINISHED?.. and that ALL was accomplished (by Him for us @ the Tree) and that we can do ALL things through Messiah who gives us strength via His Victory. Well it is the Last Days isn’t it .. ref/Romans 13:1-14 .. “When the Devil comes in like a Flood, Holy Ghost will raise the Standard”.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/torn_between.htm ..
Reblogged this on kristinesteyne and commented: there are many many comments at the bottom of this blog. I believe also that Brian Houston should definitely reported his father
Donald, It is no trivial thing what you are doing here for these people. And you have no doubt been instrumental in helping these Victims somewhat, in easing their pain. However, if they stay close to Jesus, He will bring them through to a Glorious End. Yes, I still pray for you and the Victims (even though I know them not) as Father leads, He knows them and every hair in their head. I do believe in Miracles Donald and they are real easy for Jesus to perform, piece of cake actually.. I am believing for a Miracle for you and them. Go in the Strength of Our Lord.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/heart_attack.htm ..
Paul. I’m going to explore the possibilities of legal action. The main thing to me is that the victims are empowered and can get on with their lives in a positive godly manner. All three boy victims I am in touch with by email and on this site, AHA, WNZ1 and SA1 are all feeling heaps better for speaking out and having their say. This site is the only forum for WNZ1 and SA1 to do this. AHA spoke out at the Royal Commission and he has been making a few comments on this site. It’s great these men, now in their 50s to 60s are able to do this. They can have their say anonymously and feel empowered. It’s all about the victims and their families. Donald
Katharine. The Royal Commission, the Australian Government, the AOG/ ACC, Hillsong will do nothing to help the victims. Pastor Brian Houston has said he won’t do anything for the victims. On what basis do you write: “Trying to sue Brian would not succeed and would be a waste of time and money as well as your energy”. Are you a barrister who specialises in criminal law? You also write “I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so the victims can get counselling and maybe a support group”. Well, Katharine, the Assemblies of God in Australia doesn’t exist any more. Then you write “They would have to sue the individual church i.e. Klemzig AOG top get any compensation”. If you’re saying the AOG will sue the Klemzig AOG, well the AOG don’t exist. Even if it did it wouldn’t sue an AOG Church. You then say “I understand the Royal Commission is going to make recommendation about compensation”. The Royal commission is unable to help with compensation but it can make a recommendation to the NSW or respective State where the victim was abused to charge someone with a criminal offence for not reporting pedophilia. They will also comment on the culpability of the ACC, Hillsong or Brian Houston, but it won’t do anything about it. The only way the boy victims of Frank Houston will get any compensation is if there is a class action initiated by the victims themselves. No one else is going to help them. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about legally to be honest. But it’s a free world re expressing your views. Donald
Gidday Donald, around October 9 .. I recall saying this, regarding Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and their abuse of children .. “Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this Entire Case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church”. And even have the Gall to shout aloud ‘thanks be unto God for Vindicating us’. Donald, this is not to put a wet blanket on things but we do live in a ‘World of Unrighteousness’ after all, and let us never forget that MONEY TALKS.. A place calling itself a ‘Church-Holy Place’ doesn’t get as Materially/Financially Rich as Hillsong through being HONEST.. LOL… The Real Judgment and the Real Sentencing is on it’s Way and none of us can escape this one .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3hggV7i2Y8 ..
Trying to sue brian would not succeed and would waste a lot of time and money as well as your energy. I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so that the victims could get counselling and maybe form a support group . They would have to sue the individual church ie klemzig aog to get any compensation. I understand that the royal commission is going to make recommendations about compensation . Maybe franks adult victims will then come forward . And no I don’t work and would never work for hillsong katharine
Evan. Tanya Levin is a former Hillsong member and a Hillsong watch type of person. Tanya wrote a book, “People in glasshouse…”. I haven’t read it or been to her website, if she has one. I would think that Tanya has a lot of information. If you google “Tanya Levin” or Hillsong related words and phrases which critique Hillsong, its prosperity etc you’ll find her stuff. Tanya said, in this comments part of my site, that she wanted to talk with me, swap info etc and maybe form a coalition. I told her I wanted to be unaligned. I’m happy to receive any information that will help me take a class action with Frank Houston’s victims against Hillsong, AOG/ACC and Pastor Brain Houston for compensation. I’m going to start a Trust Fund for victims of Frank Houston to fund a civil class action for victim compensation and a criminal case. I am looking to get Pastor Brian Houston criminally charged and convicted for not reporting AHA and other pedophile cases between 1999/ 1998 until the current Royal Commission in 2014. I am not convinced Brian didn’t know about his father’s pedophile activities earlier then 1999/ 1998 and would appreciate any information from anyone out there which would prove that Brian knew earlier. Donald
This whole thing with the Houston’s, Hillsong – CLC – ACC, is really all about Judgment and Righteous-Judgment is a Loving thing. It is surely helpful, profitable to all concerned and not concerned. Yes, even those watching on can learn.. ref/1 Timothy 5:19-20. I know I am. I can never forget the day that Messiah had me go to ‘Steve Erwin/the Crocodile Hunter’ some years back now, to give him the ‘Message of the Christ’. I have written 12 books in my short Ministry of 27 years and out of the 12 books, Holy Ghost led me to take him the book.. ‘Birds and Fish’. To put it bluntly, this book was about DEATH. And you know what, it wasn’t long after I took that book to Steve he died a the hand-tail of a Stingray and I still wonder today, did he ‘read and hearken’ to the Message of that book and where will Steve be at the Judgment Stand of the Christ, will it be the ‘Great White Throne’ or the ‘Saints Stand’ ?.. Judgment is a Serious thing but it is also a Beautiful thing. The Beggar Lazarus had the right idea.. “Stay in right Standing with God no matter what”.. the Rich man in his uptown robes wasn’t so smart was he. Hope all you bloggers have a nice day .. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/steve_irwin.htm ..
Rejoice!.. for this is the day that Yahweh has made, without hands. At the end of the day and even Life itself as we know it on planet earth .. it really doesn’t matter what people think about us, say about us or think they know about us .. we will all stand at the ‘Judgment Seat of the Christ’ and we shall ALL give account of ALL things done while in our body, whether that be Good or Evil .. scary hey.. that is, if our Heart is not Right with Yahweh.. Thank God for ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’. We no doubt serve the ‘God of Promises’ .. 🙂 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zEt0eTsts …
The attached is a little simplistic and consequently doesn’t dwell on Frank. Dad was a fine father to a household of 8 on low paid wages at GM where the body shop finisher receive free milk to compensate for lead poisoning from filing the lead filled blemishes. However he was a bigoted old school “keep politics out of sport” rugby supporter who couldn’t come to grips with HART’s “No Maori No Tour”. We argued too much and my wife preferred we not visit.
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Tanya. Re Brian’s sisters. They’re on the early blogs from 2 years ago. They commented about 2 weeks ago. If you can’t find them let me know and i’ll do a search. Donald
Tanya. The Commission contacted me 1.5 weeks ago asking for me to contact the South Australian victim. I put him in touch with the Royal Commission and he made statement. Another two men have contacted me from New Zealand. Both are victims new to me. The Commission has given me contact names and phone numbers for victims to phone them on.
As the Royal Commission were the ones to ask for Brian Houston’s to take the stands, there were obvious reasons. To ensure that the safety of these children are on top priority and that the institute or church are reacting in a positive manner so that these bad acts are not repeated in the future.
I appreciate your response. Not to be pedantic, but the Commission is investigating both the institution and “its officials” so while Brian Houston is obviously not on trial, his personal response is also the concern of the Commission.
Below you’ll find a link to the page that outlines the expressed purposes Royal Commission which may clarify things for others as well.
I agree that it is our right to judge the intentions of people of any church. Having said this, I do believe that when someone is saved or born again, they give their lives to Jesus and follow Him. However, that does not mean the person won’t fall into temptation . … of course he will, he will probably even sin… Satan’s aim is to break up the church and that is exactly what he will aim at… Peter denied Christ, not once but thrice. He lied that he did not know who Jesus was. Thank our Good Lord that we are not saved by what we do but by Grace that can be given by God alone. I don’t know if Frank Houston asked for forgiveness or not, even Brian Houston may never know but God does. So by judging his salvation by the words Brian Houston used at the Royal Commission is not the right way to go.
Now going back to the church and judging the church that we attend, of course we should. In fact, if you read my earlier post, I don’t think I denied that there. But you will get many in churches who will fall into temptation and sin but we have to look at the church as a whole. If someone has done wrong in the church, how has the church reacted towards the person involved. That is actually what the Royal Commission is all about, not to put Brian Houston on trial but to see if the church has reacted against the perpetrator in the correct manner and not pushed the situation under the carpet and I think they did get their answer.
Hi i just saw this. No worries, then ignore my previous comment. Can you please direct me to the sisters’ comments? Congrats on all this work by the way…
Hi Donald, Please make sure you let victims know about the official Royal Commission agency to guide them through the whole process from making a statement and through to including legal advice re compensation. It’s at knowmore.org.au thanks and please feel free to contact me at tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com We’re all trying to put our heads together at the moment and your site is a real help!
RE: ROMANS 3:23 .. Says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm ..
I’m sure you don’t mean to, but you are using Romans 3:23 as a proof texts.
I don’t think anyone here is condemning anyone, but they are following scriptural guidelines and are judging whether the Houston’s actions line up with the Word of God. You are correct though, it is not our “right”, but it is our responsibility!.
Here’s a link to all the scriptures that show you that we are meant to judge those within the church. Just cut and paste it into whatever search engine you use if it doesn’t open directly.
Also, I don’t think the reason that people start blogs is “only” when “you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man”. People start blogs for all sorts of reasons.
Please read the link I sent you as you’ll be able to see that not only are we supposed to judge people within the church.
Finally, I think the author has already indicated that his intention is to assist the victims to get to the right authorities.
Paige .. here is part of your Comment on rewind .. Quote.. “At the heart of this, is that your father attacked ‘SOMETHING’ that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable ‘COMMODITY’, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man”.. end of Quote. So children are SOMETHING and children are a COMMODITY … Hello?.. 🙂 .. do you know what a COMMODITY is?.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
I appreciate that you must be in such pain right now. No child should have to experience either being molested or being parented by a child molester. I know my natural overwhelming instinct would be to minimize the horror, to try and find a way to accommodate justice without destroying everything around me in the process. I don’t think anyone questions how absolutely devastating that this must be for you and your brother.
However, that has been where so much of the focus has is (your brother’s pain not yours). I’m aware that Brian has had tens of thousands of supporters pledging their loyalty and condemnation of everyone who dares to suggest that he should be accountable. But your brother’s messages continue to be embedded with calls for sympathy and we’ve heard so much about his pain (this is the first time I’ve heard about his siblings though) but so little about the victims. Shouldn’t that concern us?
I have not read other people’s opinions, I have only read the statements, listened to the cases and read Brian’s own words but this is the overwhelming pattern in his language.
I have been watching the Royal Commission and they have indicated that what he did was wrong in taking on your father’s judgement and in not reporting it to the authorities. Yesterday, your brother admitted that in church, but also put the blame on the AOG leadership as well. I’m not sure if you heard it, but it has been posted.
I think a lot of Christians are wondering why it has taken so long for this to come into the light? Why would someone who has testified that they were deeply traumatized and conflicted, then argue that they handled the situation objectively and ethically. When asked why, Brian said because it needed someone with “courage” and “guts” to do it. Courage and guts to do what? Slap your father on the wrist and suspend him from ministering? That doesn’t make sense, but it does raise a lot of doubts.
I don’t mean to simply criticize your brother, but I do hope that I can explain why people are asking questions. Why I am asking questions?
Of course we will all be accountable on judgement day, but this blog, I suspect, isn’t about judgement day, nor is the Royal Commission about judgement day, it’s living the truth in the past, present and future on this earth. An earth in which we are supposed to be the light and a people that are above reproof. If we have lost our saltiness, and the world needs to reprove us for having failed to act justly, then we are indeed in trouble. Your brother has been reproved by the world by failing to act justly and all of us are wearing that. Out on the street, my non-Christian friends are asking me for answers, so I think it’s fair enough that I try and get some for them.
I know it is deeply personal to you, but what happened happened while your father was in ministry and that ministry, directly or indirectly, led to the formation of Hillsong. The world has a right to ask questions of the church and when they do we should come up squeaky clean. When we don’t, and that happens unfortunately, then we should at least admit it.
You make the comment that your brother has practiced forgiveness on a scale that most never have to consider. I think that could be deemed fairly offensive to those who today are dealing with a lost childhood. At the heart of this, is that your father attacked something that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable commodity, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man.
I hope this helps you understand people’s concerns a little better.
Paige. I agree with every word you’ve just written. Before the start of the Royal Commission I was hopeful that Brian might listen and show some humility and care. However I am convinced that Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and AOG/ ACC are incapable of listening. My focus is on the victims, not just the sexual victims but all the folks who gave their lives and hearts to the cause of Christ under Pastor Frank Houston and were abused in other ways. Even Brian has been betrayed and deceived horribly by his own dad. But that does not excuse Brian under the Laws of Australia and New Zealand. Brian should have reported the crime of pedophilia of his dad to the Authorities in Australia and New Zealand and let them decide what to do with his dad. Given people like Rolf Harris are 84 and still doing goal, it’s a given that Frank would have been jailed. By failing to report his dad, Pastor Brian Houston may end up being charged, not with his dad’s sins but for not reporting them and concealing them. The compensation of victims issue is another big consideration and my thinking is a class action by the boy abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston would succeed. Donald
Hi Mark, No-one has yet claimed, including Brian, that his father repented of his sins. In fact, Brian explains that his father effectively pined away until his death in deep depression. This hardly describes a man who has been reconciled with Jesus. Also, Frank was forced to admit one crime, to which he had no choice but to admit because the evidence was indisputable, but even then did not admit to all the children that he had molested, just the one. This is not repentance or being “reconciled with Jesus” no matter how you spin it.
With this unconfessed sin in his heart, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank continued to attend a small Sydney church, be around children and pray for people. My Bible says that this is the works of the devil.
When Brian was asked on a radio with 2G (you can google it and both watch and listen to it), he was asked if he thought his father was in heaven. Had Frank repented, the answer would surely have been “Yes”, but Brian admitted that he did not know, though he hoped he was. Even when Frank was forced to admit his crime, he did not report himself to authorities, he did not resign and he did not seek out his victims to make restitution (remember he never paid the $10,000, Brian arranged this).
I am so grateful to the Lord that they are Christians who believe that we should be more accountable for our behaviour than the world is. I am grateful for those who believe it is the job of the church, as mandated in scripture, to call out hypocrisy, false teaching and double standards WHEREVER they are found.
For those arguing grace, forgiveness and compassion, I suspect you have not understood these words in relation to the whole counsel of God. These are all powerfully forces that lead into the arms of God, but Frank rejected them when he denied these things to others. It is important that you understand that judgement within the church, is also a means of grace, forgiveness and compassion.
You also fail to remember that as Frank, as Brian does also, set himself up as a leader and teacher of men, he, according to scripture, became more accountable to God and to the church. Those who are not holding them to account are in fact the ones doing them the most harm.
If you would see Brian Houston survive this, then you will reprove, rebuke and admonish him.
Tanya. I don’t want to collaborate. I’m just doing what I can for the cause. Any information I glean that I’m able to share will be on this site. Donald
Hey Noel, how’s it going?.. Rom 3:23 says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
HI…having trouble contacting you… please be aware that we are all putting our heads together…thanks for all this info….please send your email..? or find me on facebook.. we’ll get to the heart of this together x
Some interesting WFH Bio – http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/ADPCM/e-to-h/houston-william-francis-frank-1922-/ I had always assumed that the book keeping errors were not sufficient reason for the Salvation Army to expell the then youthful Frank and went with the gossip that there would be sufficient cause if it was say an extramarital affair. Whatever it was, caused his “backsliding” for three years until Tony Austin invited him to the Khyber Pass AoG in where Ray Bloomfield took him under his wing and within six weeks had made him the Assistant Minister at his popular Ellerslie AOG church. However this arrangement didn’t last long, as Bloomfield suddenly moved Canada in ’55, leaving Frank with his large 400 congregation which quickly dwindled to about 80. Frank stuck with it until December 1959 when he was offered Lower Hutt AOG. CJ
I don’t think anyone here has not been improper or vindictive. I think, they just want the truth to be reflected and as you have seen everything you have put forward has not been correct. If at all, you seem to be aiming at Hillsong and Brian Houston, Read your post again.
I also still don’t see how a blog is helping victims. You will agree that Pastor Brian Houston is not accountable for his father’s actions and actually cannot answer for him at all but still made an attempt to understand the victims point of view. I watched the Royal Commission, which in my opinion is a good thing especially to know if the right thing was done and, I think Brian Houston spoke exactly as it was from his perspective. On the other hand, if you watched the Royal Commission on the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell with his own confession said that while he had taken up the abuse cases with the Vatican, they shunned him aside and in fact told him not to come again with these cases. Now that is a problem when the church does not heed to something brought to their notice. We are all sinners but I believe that when we see something wrong happening, we should not push it aside but instead do the right thing which I think Brian Houston did do in 1999.
Kepa. I basically agree with ACC’s 10 points about gays. I have had a lot of interaction with gays in Sydney over the decades. If a man or woman decides they want to seek the Holy Spirit through the Lord Jesus Christ they will make contact with the Divine. The Holy Spirit will help them come to terms with how He feels about the situation. And then the Holy Spirit will show the gay man or women what is the next step. Its about wholeness as a human being. Donald
Noel. Thank you for sharing your views. I welcome anyone to comment so long as its done in a polite and not a vindictive manner. I am not able to share more about my conversations with victims. Save to say there are many. I’m doing what I can to help them. They all have counsellors. They like my blogs and what I have to say and feel empowered by them. My opinions and views are well-known on this site. Donald
Rom 3:23 says “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are no one to commend another man as we are all sinners. The only one who can judge is God Himself.
If as you say are helping others do you think that you are equipped enough to help them. It would be better if you directed them to the correct source for a proper investigation. The need to start a blog arises only when you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man, something which none of us have the right to.
10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. – so what does this infer??? that such people don’t accept Christ????????
Hi Donald, People may find this interesting… This is what Hillsong and ACC (Australian Christian Churches) actually believe about Homosexuality & Lesbianism:
1. Homosexuality is referred to directly and specifically in the scriptures. 2. Homosexuality violated God’s plan for provision and family. 3. Biologically God did not create the human body for homosexual activity. 4. Homosexual activity is unhygenic as can be seen in the high rates of infection with, and the transmission of AIDS amongst those who practice homosexuality. 5. Homosexuality is a dangerous practice that reduces life expectancy of the participant by 25years. 6. Homosexuality is a chosen ‘behaviour’. 7. It is a ‘choice’ – Not a natural, biological, hormonal or genetically governed behaviour. 8. We oppose the legalization of homosexuality. 9. God loves the homosexual despite their sin and is willing to forgive the homosexual and bring them to wholeness. 10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. Source: ACC Ministers Manual: Ethics Statements (Homosexuality & Lesbianism)
BE YE ‘PERFECT’ AS FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT!.. What was that?.. Do we here these words in the Churches anymore?.. LOL.. 🙂 .. If a Minister mentions the word ‘PERFECT’ in the pulpit today, the congregation splinter and he is considered .. DELUDED .. 🙂 .. this gives us all a good idea on how many churched people are Really Saved from Eternal Hell Fire.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRc0h2jjX8 .. Enjoy!
Deb. You are correct. Hillsong was just a continuation of Christian Life Centre. Simple as that. But Pastor Brian Houston is using this entity change from Christian Life Centre, Sydney to Hillsong to say to the 13 plus boy victims of his father’s abuse: “Sorry about the abuse occurring at Christian Life Centre, other parts of Australia and New Zealand when my dad Frank was in the AOG or City Hillsong. You see the AOG New Zealand is a separate entity from the AOG Australia and the AOG Australia is now Australian Christian Churches anyway and Christian Life Centre Sydney is now Hillsong City campus. So unless your abuse happened in Hillsong Baulkham Hills since 2000, I’m definitely not liable. Not even morally because I have no morals towards the victims so how could I be morally liable?” Donald
Paul.Thank you for your support and belief in what I’m doing. One victim who wrote to me on this site about being abused by Pastor Frank Houston contacted the Royal Commission this week with my help and gave them a written account of his story. He emailed me after and said that its made him feel a lot better and empowered. The abuse occurred when he was just 11 and happened several times at an AOG church camp in Australia. TV One in New Zealand contacted me and asked me for some leads on NZ victims of Pastor Frank Houston and I was able to point them where to find some. I was contacted today by a NZ victim in an area of NZ where I’ve had no evidence of abuse and I’m in communication to see if I can help them. Donald
Hello Michelle, I don’t know you personally neither do I know Donald personally but one thing I do know of Donald is this .. “Donald has a Backbone (which is more than I can say about most church leaders today) and he Truly cares about people, especially abused people and I have no doubt that God Almighty ‘will and is’ backing him in his pursuit of Righteousness and Justice for those who have been beaten down and have no Voice”. And one more thing, I don’t really do the ‘blog-thing’ but I find myself here on Donald’s Blog, as Father leads. And have you noticed that Donald’s Blog has no ‘Coward, Compromising Notice’ on it such as.. “All comments on this Blog are subject to Moderation”.. I like that, I like that people are free to speak what is ‘Really in their Hearts’ and are not Controlled and Restricted by Pharisees, Sadducees and People Pleasers. Let me recommend this article link (of my fellow minister) for your reading, RE: Judge Not. And also, let me say, Proud People wouldn’t dare put their Name, Time and Strength on the line for others, (proud people have no genuine care for anyone but themselves) please consider what I have just said Michelle, it may prove to be helpful as you go further down the road .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. 🙂
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Justice certainly needs to happen but sounds like you’re playing God, judge and jury, Donald. Let the authorities handle it. Be very very careful Donald, pride goes before the fall. I understand your righteous anger but never be so self righteous to think YOU could never fall. This sounds like a witch hunt you are conducting.
so terrible sad all of this, words fail me! Judgement must indeed start in the house of God and flow on out from there to the rest of the world. When Jesus returns He will be looking for a holy and pure bride who walks in the ways of God. It is up to all of us (individually and as the body of Christ) to be ready for His return. And you can be sure His coming is not far away, take heed of the parable of the 10 virgins (5 were wise, 5 were foolish. Look and see what happened, what was the outcome!). Those who have been wronged need justice, healing.
On the subject of lying. I would like to comment on Maureen’s statement about her dad not founding hillsong. Is she splitting hairs? I was in the meeting that day Brian and 40/45? Others were commissioned out to start a church at baulkham hills from CLC. We were also told that we and our tithes would help to fund them until they could get on their feet. Yes that church changed and involved into hillsong but that was a growth and change of name only. It still came from and was funded and founded out of her dad’s church. Surely someone like Maureen would know the truth of this? Wouldn’t you think?
There is God’s laws and the laws of the country. Crimes are dealt with in a COURT OF LAW. Not by anyone’s compassion and forgiveness. You are foolish to suggest that crimes are acts of the devil.If you were right.what is the use of having laws. Don’t come back to me with more quotes from the bible to justify what you said According to you, we can justify all the crimes committed in this world by blaming it on the devil. Judge: ” Yes dear man it wasnt your fault you molested that innocent child, it was an act from the devil” Youre a cretin mate to suggest we cant question Frank Houstons If you truly were abused yourself in this manner, do you honestly believe your forgiveness helped anyone else that that person may have abused? Or the abuser itself?
Gidday Donald .. I watched part of the RC on Houston this afternoon via streaming and from what I can see .. this Hillsong mob are as Cunning as a Dunny Rat, they’ll run around the bowl all day and never fall in. Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this entire case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church. All supposed Protestants (save RC’s) who dare not Protest any more, especially against Sin. And worse than that, Hellsong will have the gall to say .. “Thanks be unto God for Vindicating us”… 🙂 .. From the little I have seen/heard of Houston on live-streaming, he doesn’t give a hoot about anyone else but Brian, Frank/deceased and Hillsongs Furtherance. AOG are Crooks and ‘Wordplay Professionals’. I don’t believe any of them could lie straight in bed.. 🙂 .. I’ve said it for decades and people, so called Christians, pew warmers and Pastors alike HATE me for it .. “AOG is a Den of Thieves and who in their right mind would want to be associated with them”. Yes, I have had opportunity to be part ( a minister) with them, on more than one occasion (1 being with Garden City Church) but the Spirit in me said ‘Stay Away’.. thanks but no thanks .. 🙂 .. ref/Psalm 1:1 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo71.htm ..
Good Morning Donald.. I read your Oct 8 Comment on the RC-Houston and although the Saga is grim I still liked the dry-humour. As for your Oct 7 Comment, well, it was just so sad to read. So this man/FH controlled this boy AHA for 5 years, most certainly was no mistake was it. Wilful damage, damnable Sin outside of True-Repentance. I never seen Jim Williams X Pastor of Garden City Church ever go before the Courts either for his Sexual Misconduct with young girls in New Zealand, prior to coming to Australia, just another White Washed-Stone Wall job I guess. ‘Amazing Grace’ it is that Saves Souls from Eternal Hell Fire that live in Ongoing Known Sin Un-Repented… ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’ what a Beautiful Message filled with God’s Love .. ref/Luke 24:47 .. 🙂 .. Go in the strength of our God – Jesus, who is the Christ .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/tradingongrace.htm ..
Denis. Thank you for your comment and concerns. Would you mind detailing anything you feel is inaccurate? I started writing about Pastor Frank Houston two years ago. That was when I wrote the article on this site: “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. It was shortly after my father’s death, who was also a pastor. I was writing about dad and his life, mainly for my family and people who knew dad. In the course of my recollections and memories I wrote a blog about dad and Frank Houston because they were pastors in the same city in New Zealand. That was in Wellington in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Their contrasting backgrounds, congregational demography and so on was interesting to me. You see Denis, this is a private blog site which is only my opinion. I write the world as I see it. If I get the facts wrong, I’d like to know. Also I very much believe in the ethos of democracy and freedom of expression. So if you or anyone disagrees with me, that’s OK. I hope this explains a bit about where I’m coming from. Donald
Sorry Maureen something is not right in the Houston family. Your brother is wealthy, he is high profile, he is powerful and he has achieved many wonderful things as you say. However, I see a man in a deep rut of pain and shame that he is digging with his action of not shouting from his stage everything he knows. The truth will set him free. I’m afraid there are skeletons in Brian’s closet that caused him to start digging this rut. I’m not suggesting they are the same skeletons as your fathers but there are skeletons. A man without these skeletons would have just jumped on the grenade from the outset with the faith that Jesus Christ will restore.
Hello Donald. I have read your blog page and find numerous assumptions that you have come to. Please get the facts before you go into the public arena. You appear to be on a mission to avenge the sexual abuse of one man. Assumptions presented as fact are damaging to people and once stated by go it can not be withdrawn. Your assumptions have entered minds and they take it as fact. Be careful and use wisdom.
John. What age did Sheila live to and what happened to the nice house they built? Your dad was a very good man and you’re fortunate to have had a father like him. I can’t remember if I went to Stan’s funeral but I may have. Where was it held? I went to Pastor Tom Marshall’s funeral and watched the coffin being lowered into the hole. His funeral was at the Cemetery at North Ryde in Sydney. He got cancer unexpectedly and died quickly. Tom was one of the men of God who I think really had a close walk with God. Sometimes he’d radiate God’s Presence. Did you get on well with Stan? I’ll read the AOG link you mention. Did Stan and Sheila ever mention the scandal involving Frank’s abuse of 6 ten year old boys at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s and several at AOG youth camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. I’m trying to get more details. Do you know anyone who might know? Donald
Donald – yes indeed, I’m Stan’s second son. Incidentally, prior to her move to Africa as a missionary, Sheila was my mother’s midwife for me back in ’43 at the maternity home behind what is now the Hutt City AoG. If your interested in correcting the Wiki version of NZL AoG, Pastor Ian G Clark, whom I respected, has written its history – http://ifphc.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/assemblies-of-god-in-new-zealand/#more-662 If I recall it correctly of when I was 14/15 & vacationed in Ellerslie at my best friend home, Ray Bloomfield was a short overweight American type preacher that I didn’t really appreciate – but I understand there may have been some friction there with WFH. I moved to Ardmore in ’64 & lost contact with religion having some personal disbelief with the results of the Nicene “Convention”. I helped Dad & Sheila with the electrical wiring of their house and Dad died in ’78 a few months prior to my leaving NZL for Indonesia where now reside. I have no further juicy tales to tell of WFH except to say that I really had no trust in him and considered him and his ilk as a charlatan. (I once observed a Dentist from the congregation swear that the dental fillings one prayed for convert was receiving were from God – why didn’t he just get real teeth?) If evangelicals were a little more openly tolerant towards gay society then pedophilia would have a better chance to be recognised earlier. How many gay men & women are so because they were abused before reaching a mature enough age to understand the consequences.?
Paul. Don’t worry. Most people don’t comment. The views have gone through the roof. I’ve never set out to please people and write what tickles their ears. I have a huge number of viewers on a wide variety of subjects. The Frank Houston blogs are the most popular, particular “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. This was my first blog on Frank Houston a couple of years ago. Thank you for your comments and encouragement. I’m going to organise a class action if Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston don’t do something for the victims that is acceptable to me and the victims. One class action against the New Zealand AOG and one here in Australia against Hillsong and the AOG (now called the Australian Christian Churches). Donald
Well Donald .. day 2 has nearly passed us by and the ‘Stone Walling’ has already begun.. LOL!.. otherwise you’ll cry. The World, the News Reports tell us that even they are being deceived into thinking that Brian Houston and His Churched Leaders are all just Innocent Peoples saying with one accord.. “Silver and Gold have we None”. Jesus did say that ‘His people’ look for and long for the ‘New Heavens and the New Earth’ where RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS. It certainly doesn’t dwell on this earth, save in the Holy Remnant Peoples. ‘Admitting’ that we are Sinners or we have done wrong or that something is vile is not True Repentance, something needs to be done. The whole Saga of Frank Houston and his Filthy ways is not about his son Brian Admitting that his dad was a ‘Sodomite and Child Molester’… and then let’s move on now and Business as Usual. The entire case is not complete and never will be, in the eyes of the Righteous or the Righteous One-Jesus the Christ, until every single Victim is Accounted for, Compensated for and Catered for with whatever they need in order to ease the Horrific Damage dumped upon these little ones, by these Filthy Rich Wolves in Sheep’s Garments. If all I can do is continue to Encourage you to press forward with your ‘Findings and Conviction’ and also Pray for you and this ‘White -Washed’ situation, this is what I’ll do. But as you have already said “Some sins are Evident and Dealt with on earth while others follow them to the Grave”. Which was the case with Frank Houston. So was it 1 Child Molested or was it 21?. Frank and his wife’s sudden death also left a question mark in my mind .. And yes, dear Donald, only the ‘Salty’ will be Spared!!.. from Eternal Torment .. I notice that your Blog is not flooded with comments on such an Important Subject but neither is ‘The Narrow Road Flooded with Travellers’ .. ref/Matthew 7:13-14 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVY3MNm-VE .. Maranatha!
Rose. Its all voluntary re tithing and I have been going to church almost all my life. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses and has had its ups and downs but I’ve found my Christian faith has sustained me. My dad was a Pastor and from knee high he told me tales of human error, even pedophilia in the Church. And that was in the 1960s and 1970s. Everywhere you have people inside the Church or outside the Church you’ll find evil and human depravity. Donald
Paul. Thank you for mentioning me. I want to be one of those who follows in the footsteps of the brave heroes of the faith in the hall of fame in Hebrews chapter 11. Its been travelling around in my spirit lately the scripture in Revelation about if we’re lukewarm then God will spew us out of His mouth. Donald
I left CLC in its beginning days at Waterloo. Nobody explained such a thing as Diapraxis $$$, but I could see its outworking. I could see the signs and knew it was time to get out. This did not mean that I stopped being a Christian. The wickedness of men is a given and I alone must stand before God and give account. There was a time that the CLC bookshop had the likes of Francis schaeffer and Derek Prince etc. A number of years later I returned to CLC to check out its bookshop, to use the bookshop as a barometer regarding the church’s spirituality; as expected it had gone into decline. The simplistic books of Kennith Copeland were in full view; Copeland a known Freemason, as are Kennith Hagin and Billy Graham.
Many years later I chose to look at the top contemporary Christian music CD’s. As I listened to these, I was appalled; gone was the music of Keith Green and John Michael Talbot, true Christian music. Next I discovered a youtube hillsong video. This included a ‘so called’ Christian thrash metal band by the name of Pergamum; any Christian worth his salt should instantly know that (from the book of Revelations) Pergamum is the ‘seat of satan’; Pergamum being found in Turkey. The Pergamum altar being currently housed in a Berlin German museum; the same copied Pergamum altar that Obama used for his 2008 democratic(sic) convention. How a so called Christian Church could house a thrash metal band firstly, next one named Pergamum (seat of satan) was truly disgusting, while also intriguing to me. I wondered at the people that stood and watched this band; you could see at some level that they were troubled, yet they did nothing.
You who are without sin let him cast the first stone. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. A look at the old testament, in all its honesty, reveals the failings of man. The race we run is one to the finish line. Would you catch me in a hillsong church? Only to check out how far the fruit has fallen, then I’m out of there.
Beyond this, these are the sign of the times; the great falling away, the kali yuga. Yet this has all been in the making for many thousands of years. Mystery Babylon, gnostics, Alumbrados, The Church of Rome, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, witches, and satanists etc. Many who think that they have the absolute truth and yet are beguiled, (Do I think I have all the answers? No, but I make it my life’s work to find answers to the most important of questions). The Jesuits being some of the most heinous and depraved; the cause of most of the worlds wars and death of millions – mystery babylon. These same jesuits that secretly obtaining most of the worlds wealth via its illuminati run international bankers, via its owned reserve banks of this world. These very same who run the media and create religions. The very same people who set up tele-evangelists i.e. wolves in sheep’s clothing. Tele-evangelists who are also commonly Freemasons. Freemasonry which acknowledges at its 31st to 33rd levels that the god they worship is lucifer. This same lucifer which is the name which the UN had its publishing company named as ‘lucifer publishing’ now lucis trust. The same illuminati, inclusive of Murdoch who owns Harper Collins, which prints its ‘so called’ Christian bibles i.e. corrupted bibles. See videos ‘A lamp in the dark’ and ‘Tares among the wheat’ for the ongoing attack and corruption of the bible via the Vatican Jesuits. See also Libellusjesuitus.pdf as the the magical working of the Vatican Jesuits in conjuration of the demons of hell. As for those who still do not believe in a spiritual battle, you might like to look at all the books and videos of satanism and black magic readily available on Amazon.com and youtube; interesting are the works of E.A.Koetting on both of these websites. A person who will teach you of Human sacrifice but will smile when he tells you that he has not been apart of this. The Roman Church who is well aware of the spiritual realm and which secretly uses the forces of darkness to maintain power, all the while working for the Fascist New World Order, One world Government and One world Church – luciferian doctrine. The confessions of witches will tell you that they will attend church services; to merely sit in a service as a point of darkness to filter through to the church. Yes the people on top, the oligarchy, the is called illumanists, satanists know what is going on, what is at stake; power mad leeches of humanity; the ones that refer to the rest of us as useless eaters, cockroaches ready for the slaughter of the UN’s Agenda 21, Bohemium Grove and Georgia Guide Stones.
Yes I was also saddened to hear about Frank Houston, while every minister is a target, the mind boggles as to the wickedness of man. Saddened to watch what was becoming and did become of CLC, but with what I have just described above, you might have a glimpse into what is beyond what most just see on the surface. The rock of the Christian faith is the word of God. The Vatican and gnostics etc will tell you to place your trust on ‘Tradition and revelation’ all the while attacking the word of God and even corrupt the newer bibles. A look at Westcott and Hort (Jesuits) will show you from their written correspondences how they would seek to distort and destroy people’s faith in the bible (firstly via using the Jesuit Sinaiticus corrupted manuscript and then via casting doubt via the margin notes). There is a reason why there are Christians who stand firm on bibles that use the ‘majority script’ i.e. textus receptus manuscripts i.e King James Version; this verses the Vatican distorted manuscripts that most bibles these days are corrupted by. Wisely did St Paul state that “our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers..” For my liking any major church these days, especially that has Tele-evangelists are immediately suspect. The oligarchy which has most of the worlds wealth and controls most of the media, luciferians, are not going to let any church or minister that is not one of theirs, be able to positively influence the masses. The watered down churches of today are ripe for the One world Church. The Vatican created Islam to kill the true Christian and Jews and the game goes on. Why, did you not know that Mohammad’s wife of 15 years senior was a Roman Catholic that lived in a Roman Catholic convent? See information as presented by ex-jesuit Alberto Rivera – All roads lead to Rome. The tower of Babel – the U.N, Atheism verses Religion, the Hegelian dialectic, to achieve the One World’s Religion of the luciferian doctrine, the new age movement, man as god, all giving homage to lucifer. Stupid minds, Credit card mentalities – you can have it now, but one day you’ll have to pay up with interest.
So, you can listen to the lies and the distortions, you can run to Atheism etc like an ostrich with its head in the sand, but this does not negate the spiritual realm and the criteria of giving account as to ones earthly life’s actions. As for me, I’ll still stand by the one who spoke the greatest of all truth, the one who spoke words pertaining to eternal life – Yashaya (Jesus Christ).
Yes Donald.. Our great Lord-Jesus talks about ‘Thoroughly Purging His Church’ and if we don’t want to come under His Winnowing Fan’ .. how shall we be His, how shall we be Saved . .. would we not be only Born-Again Bastards?.. Not all Israel are Israel are they. And MANY will call Lord-Lord!.. whom Jesus will Deny He ever knew them. This Message was our Mid Week Teaching taught today.. 8.10.2014. And I make mention of Brian/Frank Houston, Hillsong and other Heathen Religious People-Organisations. You may find some time to listen. I also made mention of yourself-Donald. Keep up the Goodly Work, I’m sure Father – Ancient of Days is proud of you. Yahweh always backs His Truth and all who speak it in it’s Entirety – Full Counsel, never known Him any other way in 27 years Ministry .. Our motto @ JtCm-Mission is .. Honesty, Truth and Humility, with Jesus as Preeminent .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTlsPMenBc .. thank you Donald for keeping me posted .. Jesus Bless you .. 🙂 ..
Paul. I’m watching the whole Hearing and will continue to write blogs. Pastor Brian Houston issued a statement yesterday after the Royal cCommission denying he told victim AHA that he was tempting his dad. Please think about it: for 5 years the victim who was aged just 7 was abused by pastor Frank Houston and Pastor Brian Houston says the AHA was tempting his dad. This is the only victim the Royal Commission has heard from so far. From 2000 Pastor Brian Houston as head of the AOG took over the case of his dad. All the evidence from inside the Commission and from my sources says that Pastor Brian Houston did nothing at all to help the victims of his dad’s abuse in any way, apart from the shameful attempt at a buy-off at Thornleigh McDonald’s where a deal was done with AHA for $10,000 to be paid. AHA then had to chase Pastor Brian Houston for the cheque which arrived in the post with no cover letter. Pastor Frank Houston then tried to hush it all up and shut the matter down and has lied lied lied ever since. The Royal Commission is on to Pastor Brian Houston and he should be a worried man, if he’s not already. Before Sydney and the world Pastor Brian Houston’s shameful treatment of victims of his dad’s abuse is being played out. It was the top story on Sydney and National Sky News last night. there were large articles in the Sydney morning Herald and Daily Telegraph. Very very sad for the victims. Not good for the body of Christ. Purging sometimes has to come. Some people are judged on this earth. For some the judgment awaits them. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Sickening! This is so typical of Churches, never deal with anything properly or even biblically – shame on them! Shut all churches down I reckon or start TAXING them, after all, do they not TAX the members with the TITHE?? !! Of course they doApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Well Donald, day 1 is done with the Houston/Hillsong – CLC – AOG – ACC .. Saga and a little has been given recognition. People will always have THEIR views but the TRUTH is the truth and we can’t escape it, no matter what we try to do to camouflage it. As I watched the News last night, they said that F. Houston meet with one young victim @ Maccas and cut a deal with him for 10K $ and it was contracted on a MACCAS Tissue. How Low can ya Go?.. What a cheap trick, it’s just insult after insult isn’t it for all victims and even for the intelligence of the Commission, the Law and God’s Law, not to mention the Christian Community at large.This tells all, the REAL character of Franky Houston, not his Religious AOG Showcase Character but the real man within. F. Houston (within the secret meet) WILFULLY Abused and Wrecked a young mans life (along with multiple others) and then degraded him again by cutting a deal with him on a tissue paper. VERY CLASSY INDEED. Basically treating him like a piece of scrap meat, (the old nudge-nudge wink-wink say not more ). Franky basically tried to mop up such a Great Filthy Mess with a MACCAS TISSUE, now that is deluded in the first degree. Just a Band-Aid for the Leper. With no Respect whatsoever for humanity, let alone Christianity or Christ. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR?. However, I find one great insult and Sin in the midst of all this filth and that is, Brian Houston plays the ‘Liar and the Denier’ in this whole filthy mess and we all know that Jesus called ‘Satan the Father of Lies’. Hence, there is no lower character a person can be, in the eyes of God-Yahweh .. than a LIAR. Brian needs to Repent, come clean, face the music and move on in honesty and humility with expectation of Salvation on Faith-Obedience .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLVLODCJbI …ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes, its all about the victims. That’s what these articles of mine are about. Helping the victims and bringing hillsong, Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG to account. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
John. I had forgotten Frank served at Ellerslie. In what capacity did he serve? Was Ray Bloomfield involved there? Are there any Frank Houston victims of abuse from that period? Yes, i agree Frank was into male physique and bodies. That is normal for a homosexual but not for a prominent AOG pastor. Sad. So are you the son of Stan Carter? Stan was an amazing man. I met Stan at large interdenominational charismatic meeting at Karori, Wellington, where he was on the door. It was 1976-77. As you’d know he had a ministry of helps. I then got to know Stan and Sheila well at Kapiti Christian Centre. I recall Stan’s smile as he greeted people at the door at Karori. I was a young Christian aged 19 and used to help him on the door. I spent time with them as they built their new home on Kapiti beachfront. It would be worth a lot of money today. Stan was tireless in his work and then dropped dead from that heart attack. Stan and Sheila told me about Pastor Frank Houston being accused of pedophilia in the early 1970s. There was a big blow-up and a lot of people left. Do you know the facts on that incident? What age did Sheila live to? She was a very godly woman and had served as an AOG missionary in Africa for decades. Sheila shared how the tribes would run their pagan ceremonies all night with loud drumming and so ion and it would be quite scary. Stan and Sheila were quaint living in that little caravan as they build their house. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kylie. Pastor Brian Houston is in no way responsible for his father;s pedophile and homosexual sins, which are many and involve 12 or more victims, probably 20 plus, over all the decades from the 1960s until the 1980s. I haven’t found any dirty old man Frank Houston victims. If you read the last two blogs I’ve written last night and this morning you’ll understand where Brian is culpable and responsible. As head of Hillsong, as pastor Frank’s successor and as head of the AOG denomination for 12 years until 2009, he has been heartless, cold and arrogant towards the victims of his dad’s abuse. He has also been in denial. it is a difficult time for Brian and the Houston family. There are other issues too. For example, the Houstons have grown fat on royalties on hill song products and music, which is in reality stealing from God. What is God’s is Gods. What is mortal mans belongs to mortal man. You don’t profit from the things of God and the holy gospel. Its wrong. Its stealing from God. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
My spouse and I stumbled over here different web page and thought I may as well check things out. I like what I see so i am just following you. Look forward to looking into your web page yet again.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I just cant’ help feeling for those poor, young and helpless children that had been abused by Frank Houston. I have two boys myself. Just feel how heartless this man is for raping and abusing these children, the fear , helplessness and pain that their little bodies and minds have to injure from that evil of a man. I’m sorry but i wish he is burning in hell now for hurting those little ones.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Donald – Some Bios of Frank omit the period he served at Elerslie prior to being called to Lower Hutt where my father was a Deacon – I understand you have met him as you quote him and my stepmother somewhere. One of the strangest encounters with Frank that I recall vividly, was his obsession with the physique and athletic ability of school boy swimmers. In particular he confided that he frequented the then new Nae Nae Olympic swimming pool, to watch the swimming races. He had breached the subject some time in 1960 I believe, when I was in the sixth form, saying how much he enjoyed watching the performance of Robbie Walker an outstanding swimmer from our school. Maybe this was the start of his deviant obsession.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
P.s i strongly agree though that Frank Houston should be put on show for what he’s done and everything should be shared with the media, justice for those poor victims is all they have! And perhaps Hill song needs to fully accept and come to terms with the extent of his terrible doings!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I’m shattered by this disturbing news, I feel for Brian and his family because they are in a terrible situation that is not their doing nor do they have any control of, offenders always have children of their own and Brian happens to be the child of a terrible man but this is not his fault and I feel he shouldn’t be blamed for his father’s actions, I have been part of Hill song for many years on and off and although I consider my self a Christian I’ve never read the Bible nor do I take it very seriously yet I pray every night, so please don’t think I’m bias! I call a spade a spade and take people on face value, Brian/hillsong have done so much good over the years and helped so many people in need and yet this becomes quickly forgotten in bad times in the media, Brian may have been abused himself has anyone thought of that?? And does this make him not worthy to preach because his family life isn’t perfect, that church is amazing for people in need and it’s all thanks to Brians hard work if people think that it’s all been easy and he’s just scammed money out of people then their wrong he has worked hard, and had to leave his children to go overseas to constantly dedicate his life to helping others, all I can sayis I’m devastated but not hating these people due to others actions, family or not!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Lynda. You are correct that Pastor Brian Houston has knowledge of other cases. Victim AHA is an example of an Australian victim that Brian has known about since 1998. I’m sure it is very difficult for Brian. We know each other although I haven’t spoken to him for a long time. I don’t understand the psychology but Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong still persist with that official view of only one victim in New Zealand 40 years ago. Pastor Brian is having a lot of difficulty coming to terms with the activities of his dad. As are the other Houstons such as Beverly Houston who mentions the family trauma about her dad in comments on this site. The Houston denial is about to change. The Royal Commission which started today says that it has knowledge of 7 victims. I have knowledge of 11 plus. One of the purposes of my articles is to clarify with everyone that Pastor Frank Houston was a continual pedophile and homosexual from the 1960s when he was in his 30s until the 1980s when he was over 60. I also want Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston to start caring about the victims. Listening to them. Respecting them. Paying for a counsellor of their choice and one million dollars payout per victim. Thank you for your comments.DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hello , since reading this I have googled abit more about it . Just wanted to bring to your attention that there is a u tube clip of Pastor Brian Housten discussing this as the most difficult time in his life , and he clearly refers to “victims” and also mentions a meeting with at least one other victim as well . Thought I would mention it as I’m sure seeing how you are doing a blog and obviously have a lot of facts about the case , that you would also want to ensure accuracy in all areas of reporting . CheersApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
A BLESSING FOR ALL .. from Brother: Donald Wilson, this is a timely Message for the AOG-ACC for sure. Brother Donald was Principal of 2 Christian Schools in New Zealand and his dad by the leading of Holy Ghost departed from the AOG in the end, through disgust and that was going back 50 years, so what does that tell you .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/freedom.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Good Morning Donald .. Yes, it is a Goodly Morn, why?.. because it’s Commission Day.I would like to watch the Commission hearing, if time permits, otherwise I look forward to reading the paperback version. Sounds like you’re the man for this very job, and Father has a perfect way of finding the right man for every job, re/Little David-chosen above his warlord buffed-brothers. My fellow minister (Brother: Donald Wilson) in the Christ comes from NZ and his dad Pastor: William Wilson used to walk with Smith Wigglesworth when he was about. And has said to me on occasion that all these Ministers who use Wigglesworth’s name (for their own ends), re/Houston, Nalliah, Hinn, Copeland, Meyer, I’ve even heard ‘Jim Williams’ of Garden City Church when it was called such, drop his name when convenient. I met Jim Williams @ GCC many years ago and when I shook his hand the ‘Spirit of the Lord’ said to me he was going to be removed from GC within 12 months and he was removed only months later. When I told some of his fans this, they said I was jealous of him, charged at me and told me to be very careful what I say. He is another that was caught out for his taste for the young. Brother Donald doubted very much whether Wigglesworth would even give the people mentioned the time of day. I had a small happening with Freddy Evans/AOG too one time, an arrogant man if ever there was one. I haven’t read Bobby Houston’s book or any of Brian’s (the titles are enough) but I have heard both on TV and the little I could bear was suffice, 10 mins is overkill. Yes, I must agree, the AOG along with the RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church and Salvation Army are sticklers for ‘Stone Walling’ and are in deep water in Yahweh’s Eyes. I am praying that justice be done and the truth revealed .. you are in my prayers .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/devil_is_a_pervert.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Paul. Yes that’s the time for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Live stream starting at 10.30am today Tuesday at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au. I have knowledge of far more AOG pastors and leaders who are guilty of pedophile activities and have been protected by the AOG from prosecution, than Pastor Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s dad, who died in 2004, and was a secret homosexual and pedophile for over 40 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg re Hillsong and the Australian AOGs damage to Christendom. In a previous comment you reference the book Bobbie Houston’s “Kingdom women like sex”. I can’t find teachings like this in the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Can you imagine the reaction of Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth and Kathryn Kulmann to writings like this and Pastor Brian Houston’s writings about riches, money and prosperity? There is so much wrong with Hillsong and a large number of the AOG and modern pentecostal churches in Australia and all over the Western World. The problem is that we haven’t had a revival for a long time to flush all the worldiness out of our hearts and lives. When Pastor Brian Houston took over Christian Life Centre Sydney in the 1997 he shut down all the Holy Spirit soaker meetings, the prayer meetings and Christian Commandos, the outreach ministry in Kings Cross. He sanitised everything and all the Pentecostal stuff stopped. No prophecies, no healings, no deliverance. All the foundations of the ministry of Jesus, the Apostle Paul and the early church. All the things of the Holy Spirit, the early church and Pentecost stopped. This is where we must return to. The simplicity of faith in Christ. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount- Matthew 5-7. I Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. Acts 2 and Pentecost and the beginnings of Christianity. 1904-7 Azuza Street and the Welsh Revival Smith Wigglesworth, John G Lake, Katherine Kulman and so on. Those that have gone before us who are worth reading. If you read the Sermons of John G Lake and then read Bobby Houston’s “Christian Woman love sex” you might puke. I haven’t read her or Brian’s books but I intend to read them all and to do a full analysis of Hillsong and explain how it has gone off the rails and taken most of Australian Pentecost off the right track with it. I’m not without hope because the Holy Spirit is the greatest and sometimes He has to dismantle a whole denomination or organisation to bring forth new buds and establish what is right. A generation will rise up soon who are sick of the greed, corruption and money and sex emphasis in Hillsong and the Pentecostal church and who will embrace the true tenets of Christianity as found in the New Testament and the early church. All the best with the godly fight. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I have had my own experiences and run-ins with AOG – ACC Church Ministers and Members over 27 years Ministry and everyone of them disgusted me, still do. They are surely off with the Pixies. I have a few people in my fellowship that escaped the clutches of the AOG and the stories they have told me simply confirm and add to my original view of that Religious – Franchise. I always hoped that this wicked Religious Organisation/Business/Franchise would be ‘Exposed’ for what it really is. Looks like Yahweh gave me my wish, at least part of it for now. It was my wife that came across this blog today on her phone and she mentioned it to me this afternoon. The funny thing is, my wife didn’t attend our Church yesterday for she wasn’t well and she didn’t know what I Preached (not as yet). But I did mention Brian Houston and his ‘Affluent Church in New York’ in my prelude. How Brian was boasting on TV of how Hillsong are making headway into the Big Ticked Night Clubs where all the Wealthy, cashed up Sodomites, Transvestites and Depraved Women hang out. And then I come across this blog, well you could have pushed me over with a pin. Didn’t Jesus say to ‘Abstain from even the Appearances of Evil’?.. And what would AOG – Hillsong know about Worship anyway?. True Worship involves selflessness. It’s the 7.10. 2014 tomorrow isn’t it, yeah.. ‘Joy Comes in the Morning’ says the Lord of all Equity… 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo215.htm .. Yesterdays Message @ JtCm-Mission, Brisbane City .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8Nh92DmyE ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Pastor Brian Houston is about to appear before the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission is looking at the response to child abuse by the Assemblies of God, the Australian Christian Churches (a conglomerate of Pentecostal churches including the AOG, Hillsong and Pastor Frank Houston). Pastor Frank Houston, Brian’s father abused 11 plus victims, probably a lot more, mainly young boys aged 10-11 as very prominent Assemblies of God (AOG) pastor over 4 plus decades. These abuses took place in Australia and New Zealand. There are other AOG pastors who will be examined at this Hearing starting next Tuesday 7 October 2014 in Sydney. There is admissable evidence that Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG pastors did these things. The attitude of Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG in Australia and New Zealand has been to stonewall victims, try to hush them up and not compensate them properly or normally at all, if possible. You be the judge whether we should all go on with our lives and pretend child abuse of innocents by AOG pastors and leaders hasn’t happened and isn’t still happening. Pedophilia is a crime and there are serious consequences. The Australian Government certainly isn’t letting it go, in the AOG or any other church or institution. And I thank God for that. Future and present children need as much protection as possible from these evil predators. Especially from the clergy, for people don’t expect the clergy to be wolves in sheep’s apparel.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Absolutely Karen swart. I agree people need to leave Brian Houston alone god is in charge we can not condemn. Anyone only god can judge and I think it’s great Brian has done what he did he is a truly Remarkable manApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Maureen. Unfortunately you are in denial. To date the Australian AOG, Hillsong and your brother Brian have stalled and blocked any research or examination of Pastor Frank Houston’s numerous child sexual abuse victims. It would be nice if Pastor Brian Houston would face up to the music. I’m not optimistic. I would expect Brian and the AOG to stonewall the Royal Commission. It would be nice if this is not the case.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Oh my goodness! This is the most appalling writing… Quite abhorrent. How dare you state these serious matters as fact when it is profoundly flawed with misinformation and outright slander! I don’t know who you are Donald Elley, but I suggest you need to examine your own life. My father, Frank Houston was a pedophile. We, his family had no knowledge of this whatsoever! We were/are all completely traumatised by the fact. I have grandchildren now in their teens and have had to explain their genetic ‘heritage’. It had nothing to do with us, but we wear the stigma. Brian has gone on to serve God in ways you could never possibly understand with your small-mindedness…. Despite his total personal grief! Dad did NOT found Hillsong Church. I cannot quite figure your motives? Do you fancy yourself as some kind of representative of Gods justice? Bizarre! I think your stated profession is that of a builder. There are many Professionals, including a current Royal Commission, looking after the victims, hearing their stories with compassion, and I have no doubt they will get compensation if they think that will help. We are blessed to live in a society that no longer hides such hideous crimes against children. If you are a Christian you will be aware we ALL stand accountable before God on the day of judgement. The only thing I can say in my father’s defense, is that he taught us, along with many others, the gospel which is totally redeeming. I admire my amazing brother for his efforts for the kingdom of God, despite his agony. I’ve watched him grow and flourish as he has practised forgiveness on a scale most never have to consider. Your blog is contemptible and I won’t be revisiting it. Writing can be used in such a beautiful way to inspire and influence people for Jesus. May I suggest you find something edifying to write.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
This preaching is right for the Frank Houston matter, by Bill Johnson. 1Cor5, expelling and a form of shame with purpose, cleaning up the act with God, and covering sinners’ blind spots. ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Also, Calvary Chapel going through similar. Chuck Smith Sr., wouldn’t deal with his church at large either. Google: Alex Grenier and spiritualsoundingboard, or ocweekly.com; L.A.Times and Christianity Today articles in 2007 exposing corruption etc and do over fifty hours of reads of similar corruption. When you ignore child abuse and wanting wives to be battered wives, punching bags, and don’t deal with homosexuality which will breed child molestation, pedophile evil, you’re just as evil.
What famous Calvary Chapel pastor stood a woman up and called her donkey’s ass for wanting to leave her husband that was molesting kids, wow; wonder what evil sin this false leader hiding and then his son ends up beheaded car accident, wow. Was dealing with exposing molestation in Foursquare/Calvary Chapel to NO avail. Foursquare ran the parents out didn’t pay for counseling for boys but they were acceptable to take their money as long as NOT questioning. Sad to say, what your dealing with is in ALL demonations (not misspelled).
Unholy Anointing by H.A. Lewis exposes corruption along with Dr. Rebecca Brown’s book, “Setting the Captives Free” and it’s rampant in the church. Look at the AOG movement how many leaders have made the news for homosexuality, what religion will breed, read Charisma, contact Trinity Foundation, Dallas TX and do reads in L.A. And O?C. Newspapers and Christianity Today and they are still in ministry=amazing. “Religion is to the church what cancer is to the body”. AOG’s and Foursquare have same issues and DON’T deal with either but they want the people’s time and money to be kept in their lifestyle and dead business of selling their god, their Jesus and their unholy spirit. Christians cannot, will not and choose NOT to think for themselves, the Matriarchal B_tches, Patriarchal Disasters are robbing their families, God does NOT get any money nor the homeless/poor for the most part. Follow that money trail and question to the unth degree. Question where information comes from and the source.
Basically the people are supporting habitual liars, liars where the money goes who they help and NOT getting correct biblical teaching. People for most part are supporting wolves, hirelings, false shepherds. People aren’t healed up and whole; if they were all these evil regimes/movements would not exist. Research a matter.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Can you clarify, is it Peter Lawton or Laughton as seeing discrepancy in blog. Also, can you post the site instead of referring to regarding Peter’s abuse that you write about.
In reading, Frank’s son is just as evil as his father if he doesn’t make it right by the victims and one million is not enough. Contact Dr. Susan Forward and talk to her about what each victim should receive, she wrote a book: “Incest, molestation and it’s devastation”. By the way ALL her books are excellent reads, Toxic Parents also. Maybe her, Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil can help to resolve these issues(take it public maybe on latter’s show and Dr. Laura’s radio program).
Could you cover the definition of homosexual tendencies that Peter told Frank to come out and admit he was homosexual=what to look for. Austin Miles book would expose the AOG’s for being highly homosexual and child molesting, which they are. Wrote a book (which has not been published) eleven years after Austin Miles book; not knowing he existed saying the same things. My church was just different players and submitted it to David Wilkerson, Dr. James Dobson and heads of church leadership to deal with. Been addressing it hardcore with David Wilkerson since 1992 until his death and year 2000 to a group of so-called Christian leaders that dubbed The Round Table”. Look at J.Lee Grady’s book on AOG Lies and Dogma or William Lobdell’s Losing My Religion.
By the way, Laurie your wrong, frank’s sin is over everyone here’s perfect example: Over a Decade ago a friend gave me one of Hillsong’s Worship Tape and said she played it and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. So, listened to it and gave it back to her and said there’s pedophile, child molestation and homosexuality going on in the church and it’s coming out in the music and those three usually go hand in hand. she did not believe me and went to a very gifted man in Aussie or New Zealand and he told her the same thing. She asked me what to do with it, I said do you want to deal with those evil spirits keep the tape, personally I WOULD STOMP THE HELL out of it. I WILL NOT EVER PLAY OR have hillsong’s music. Someone gave me a CD and threw it away. Worse to NEVER make it right by the victims but taking money in the name of the father, son, Holy Ghost, wow. Taking money and living the good life.
How much does Brian/Hillsong own, worth, business, real estate, vacation and ranch homes, money overseas and or property, vehicles, planes or mentioned items hidden in other people’s names? How much $ is going to help the poor, fatherless, widow, homeless, alien, stranger. The true shepherd lives poor/poverty lifestyle; Jesus and Disciples were example and you will read that also in Arthur Katz’s and Leonard Ravenhill’s written works. Nothing gives it away more than the true vs. false more than this. Another used car salesman selling his dead religion, how sad. Brian isn’t even Broken or repentant or real; false church it’s a means of Business to make money for lifestyle and no one is judging fruit. Majority of so-called Christian do NOT know what a true father and shepherd look like, hillsong would NOT exist if the people did. Read Dick Suphen’s article on Christian Brainwashing. I lived my life around my church cult and so glad got out. Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by Johnson and Van Vomderan, Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola.
Go to Babel, Pentecost, my time at IHOP by Gary Wallin and other articles by Kendall Beachey Blog. Read their articles and all comments. Also: spiritualabuseawaremess.com, churchexiters.org, surviving church.org, report church abuse to rickross.com (do all those reads), Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX unfortunately abuse sites are like the energizer bunny they keep going and going. Have pages of sites and list of church abuse books. Comments, it will tell you how to research church abuse. Always Research a matter and get unbrainwashed and think for yourself and not live your life for or through someone else.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kathryn. Pastor Frank Houston died in 2004. He never was charged by the Police or did jail time. His son Pastor Brian Houston protected him. Hillsong/ Pastor Brian have lied about the number of Pastor Frank Houston’s victims saying there was only one 40 years ago. This is the official version I read on their web-site. I have counted 15 victims ranging in age from 10 to their late 20s. He was a secret homosexual and pedophile who liked boys and young men. All the time he was the most prominent AOG clergy in New Zealand first until 1977 and then Australia. He came to Sydney to escape the heat on him from allegations of pedophile activities while pastoring Lower Hutt AOG in Wellington, NZ. I’m convinced there are more than 15 victims. Two victims have contacted me after reading my articles on this site. If you google “Frank Houston and Peter Lawton” you’ll find graphic testimony by the victim Peter Lawton, Frank’s worship pastor, of Frank’s predatory homosexual abuse of him when he was a young man in his 20s and Frank was about 60 and living with his wife Hazel. Pastor Frank groomed Peter Lawton by inviting him to live with Frank and his wife Hazel in their flat in Lane Cove, Sydney. In this way Pastor Frank could groom and then abuse him. It’s very sad and vile stuff. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The bad root Hillsong grew from. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Phil. Pastor Brian Houston’s motives are probably quite complex. I believe he likes the good life. I’d like to see Brian share some of his success with the victims of his dad’s pedaphile activities, in the sense of substantial compensation and the provision of independent counselling for Pastor Frank Houston’s victims. I’m thinking in terms of one million dollars per victim plus independent counselling. It will never erase the hurt and invasion by his dad but it may help. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes this Pastor Frank Houston part 1 blog has proved very popular. I think it strikes a chord. People want to reconcile the sins of a pastor with their holy ministerial front.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
To all readers and commenters on this Site of mine: All comments are most welcome on this site. If you have been abused by Pastor Frank Houston or any other Pastor or Church leader please feel free to write to me initially by simply writing a comment on this site asking me to contact you. Then if I feel you are bona fide I’ll send you my email address so we can correspond. Some day soon I’d like to bring Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God to account for the serious damage caused to Pastor Frank Houston’s victims by a very evil, Jackyl and Hyde individual: That is, Pastor Frank Houston. RIP Frank…not. “Woe to him who touches one of my children” said Jesus. Donald ElleyApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Mark. Frank continued to minister for many many years whilst concealing these awful things. I think the problem people have is that they were crimes against children and young impressionable men, not consenting adults. I think to draw parallels to life of Paul in this completely misses the mark. Their lives were nothing alike. I grew up in Franks church and have been around the AOG for a long time. The fact that Frank continued to minister whilst concealing these crimes raises some very serious questions. I know people who have based their whole life’s calling on a ‘prophetic word’ that Frank gave them that would seem to have backed up very specific prayers, and impressions, to and from God, that would have been completely unknowable to Frank in the natural. How could this be? How can a man work in the gifts of the Holy Spirit whilst concealing such awful things? I’m a believer, but I have also sinned with the best of them, and still do every day in one way or another, but I also know how even a seemingly trivial sin can affect my ability to engage with and hear from God, until I’ve dealt with it (which sometimes requires me to repeat the process of “dealing with it” regularly). There are some deeply important theological issues surrounding this that this denomination would do well to assess. The damage from his sins still has shock-waves and implications even after his death and I think to forgive and pray as you say is certainly part of it, but don’t underestimate the power of assessing, quantifying and learning from what happened here. Those poor little ones who have since grown up with such damage inflicted upon them. I too was also abused and have since forgiven and moved on. No one is rioting as far as I can tell.
If I may please ask, If Frank Houston admitted of his past sins and has repented and reconciled with Jesus then who are we to judge? The bible says “All have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory, We lie if we are to say we have no sin in us” Are you with me? St.Paul the greatest apostle of christ , What exactly was he doing before he renounced and reconciled with Jesus? He was a murderer who would not spare man,woman,child who were christians , So if Jesus chose him out of all people to preach and write the Gospel how come you dont question his integrity? Believe me I was also very much a victim of such acts while I was a child but yes once you forgive and pray for that person it is all cleansed and you dont hate anyone anymore. Jesus said” Let the person who has never sinned be the first to condemn and stone the woman who was a sinner” Who are we to Judge? Who are we to condemn? Are we so righteous ? My dear brothers and sisters please show compassion to the sinner and pray for them rather than trying to accuse ,blame and start rioting and rebelling such acts are from the devil , May GOD bless all of you, Praise God Amen.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I am myself am the victim of a pedophile from age 3 to about 10 or 11. I forgave my uncle who victimized me. God along with some really loving Godly people helped me to do this. I am not his judge, I do not know the circumstances of his life and what led him to do such horrible things. It is not my job to pay him back or carry hate in my heart towards his though his actions to me caused me a great of suffering, pain, guilt and rage for many years, once I came to understand that God knew every hair on my uncle’s head and would reconcile what happened to me in his own way I could take my uncle off my hook and put him on Gods hook. He alone could really judge because he knew details and all the facts that I did not know. Forgiving my uncle freed me to allow God to work in my life all the healing that I needed and He made me totally free. I have no residual feeling toward my uncle what so ever. He is gone from this world now and I know that justice was done whether he found forgiveness from God or whether he is rotting in hell really has nothing to do with me because I am okay either way. I trust my God, my Father to have done the right thing and I am ok with that. I am deeply troubled with the reactions of the Church (meaning the christians) in and around the church. So often when a leader falls, commits sin, rather than “the Church” becoming a place of healing we become a mob who does nothing but attack the sinner amongst us. We forget that we are saved by Grace and only by Grace we stand. We forget that “there, but for the Grace of God goes I”. Of course he (Frank) needed to be removed from Pastoring to protect any future victims. But was there ever any effort put forth to minister to him and to see if he could have been helped out of his sin. It is no wonder that sin and error in the ministry is often covered up because we the church are like wild animals looking for the kill. It grieves my heart that we have no mercy and cannot find a way to help our brothers and sisters out of the darkness. We throw them to the wolves like yesterdays garbage. We the church fail to be like Jesus to our fallen comrade in the fight and kill him instead. I don’t believe Jesus would do it this way. The Pharisee’s would have handled it this way for sure but Jesus said those that are without sin cast the first stone. Could you really cast the first stone? I know I would not be able to. Gandhi was known to have said ” I would have become a Christian, had it not been for the Christians I met” How horrible to think what we do to make a bad situation worse . We are not part of the solution, but we are part of the problem.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The sins of a man do not cover an entire church. We have the power in Jesus Christ to claim authority over such sin and Hillsong church can and will continue to thrive. Their true leader is Jesus.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have removed the brief mention of you and your relationships from this article as they were passing comments and I am not out to hurt or offend you. Donald.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have sent you an email welcoming your version to be emailed to me. I will make any required change as the truth is important to me.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Don, you really could have contacted me. I would have confessed my whole story to you with dates. I have done this many times. Your version of events is totally wrong and yet you have openly accused me without any fact. My relationship with Victoria started nine months after Janine had left me… Yes Don, Janine left me..no immorality, no other party. Not the other way round. I had left Hillsong almost twelve months earlier. My email address is geoffreybullock@me.com. Why not try a little biblical. integrity and contact me. I would be quite happy to tell you the whole story, if you’re prepared to listen. Perhaps you may have the courage to retract your mis truths. Perhaps not.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
After Frank Houston’s paedophilia was exposed, I find it inexplicable that anybody wants to be linked with hillsong.My God doesn’t need paedophiles to do His work on Earth.A rotten apple spoils the barrel. How can people seriously suggest that God chose him for a leadership role?ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The bible says be babes in the things of evil and wise in the things of understanding! Brian initiated the investigation with regards to his fathers shameful behaviour.this in itself must have been agonising to do.brian is an upright man with the blessing of God on his ministry.leave him be and thank God for his integrity and conduct through it all. stop fussing about who started hillsong and acknowledge Gods hand in it all.he is the one to be honoured seek the giver not the gift! karenApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
There was also Jeff Bullock who was a Hillsong music prodigy until he l created a scandal by leaving his wife and 5 young children for another lady.
This also is not true – Geoff did not leave his wife and five children for another woman – his marriage fell apart adn after that he met another woman.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Geoff Bullock was very talented. So was Darlene. So are many others. Trevor King is another talent from those days. One day about 10 years ago I was at my parents church in Howick, Auckland. There were about 500 people there and i couldn’t see the pianist but he was playing beautifully in a style I knew. To my surpise it was Trevor King from the CLC Darlinghurst days. From the time Geoff’s marriage collapsed his ministry was doomed to decline. This always happens to Christian musicians and preachers who loose their marriage. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Pastor Brian Houston founded hillsong. To Brian, Geoff was always replacable. Many subsequent musicians had equal or greater success since Geoff. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
You say that you were there and a leader in the movement then you ought to know that to say that Frank Houston is the founder of Hillsong inaccurate. Houston founded Waterloo CLC from where Brian left to found Hills CLC which took on the name Hillsong following the huge success of the Hillsong conferences begun by Geoff Bullock. in actual fact Hilsong owes its success directly to the success of its music which came is relaly all down to Geoff Bullock – not Frank or Brian. Brian was smart enough to see where to hitch his wagon to – had it not been for Geoff Bullock, Brian Houston would have nothing and Hillsong would not exist.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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
The pedophile Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Pictured here in the 1940s when he was sexually abusing boys in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages.
Donald Elley of Bellingen
December 26, 2022
Of all the thousands of articles on this, my personal blog-site, this is my article which causes me the most pain in my heart. It’s about the boy and male teen victims of Hillsong’s founder Frank Houston.
Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used Christian ministry to gain access to little boys from 1940 to 2004 when he died.
Frank’s son, Brian Houston, allowed Frank access to little boys and children until Frank died. Even after Frank was banned from preaching in 1999 by Brian and the Australian AOG, Frank continued to preach. Even the next week on Hillsong TV in Canberra. Brian denies this. But Brian couldn’t deny an audio of Frank preaching at Maitland AOG just north of Sydney in September 2004. This was two months before Frank died.
Brian tried to argue at court Frank had dementia. I know what dementia sounds like and looks like. My mother Valerie died of dementia almost three years ago in January 2020. She was non compos mentis.
Latin: non compos mentis translates as “not of sound mind.”
Frank was compos mentis (of a sound mind) and full intelligible until the end of his life.
Frank does repeat himself a few times in the audio. But no more than Brian repeats himself in very sermon he preaches. And Frank was always far more lucid and entertaining than Brian.
Brian’s preaching is for the lunatic asylum, not a learned Christian pulpit.
Frank’s preaching is for the pedophile caverns of Hades.
What Brian can’t deny is the testimony of eye-witnesses ho saw when was going on, including me. I wish Detective Hamil had had a good chat with me to fill in the gaps. I should have approached him.
Detective Hamil, who led the second investigation into Brian’s concealment of Frank from police, is a nice guy. A family man. I think he was thinking of his kids as he tried to unravel Hillsong.
It’s a shame Brian didn’t think of his kids and grandkids. How many Houstons did Frank sexually abuse in his lifetime. Starting with Brian and his brother Graeme to the grandkids.
Now I’m finding out Frank sexually abused girls too.
Folks, we are still only seeing the dark top of a very dark and evil rabbit-hole. I intend to do a deeper dive to find out all. Pray for me. It will be my privilege to reveal everything I find out. It is in the service of humanity to expose all the Prosperity gospel crooks, not just in Australian and in New Zealand, my country of origin, but globally. Particularly in America where there are so many.
Donald Elley of Bellingen on Australia’s nightly Channel Nine program “A Current Affair” on December 5, 2022. The first day of Brian’s Sydney court case. The charge is a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The maximum jail term is seven years. You can find this program on Channel Nine’s website.
December 9, 2022
I’ve added reader’s comments from my original article of September 13, 2012 to the end of this revision.
This article was first published on this, my personal blog-site on September 13, 2012
I’ve been writing on the subject of Hillsong and the Houstons for over a decade now. I first touched on this subject in 2012 while writing on my father’s life. Dad was a Christian clergy like Pastor Frank. They preached and worked in Christian ministry on opposite sides of town. My father Rev Don Elley in the elite Wellington suburb of Khandallah. Pastor Frank in down-market Lower Hutt. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital. Lower Hutt is very different today. Khandallah is much the same.
Pastor Brian goes to court December 5, 2022
Pastor Brian is currently appearing in Downing Street Local Court in Sydney’s CBD for a three week trial which started on Monday December 5, 2022.
Pastor Brian has been charged by New South Wales police with a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The pedophile Pastor Brian concealed is his father Frank Houston. For many decades, seven decades, Frank pretended to be a Christian pastor to access little boys and sexually abuse them. This started in the 1940s back in New Zealand when Frank was in his twenties. Frank chose the Salvation Army as his first port of call for secret pedophile activities.
Frank in his first disguise as a Salvation Army officer in the 1940s. He rose in ranks to a Captain. This was during WWII. While Australian and New Zealand troops were fighting the Nazis, Italy, Japan and their allies like Turkey, Frank was avoiding New Zealand war service by pretending to be a caring Salvation Army officer. This was in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages. A survivor of sexual abuse by Frank aged in his 80s recently appeared at the ongoing New Zealand Royal Commission into Care. The New Zealand government is doing the same kind of investigation into pedophile activity in institutions, churches and orphanages as was done in Australia from 2013 to 2016. This abuse survivor testified that he was sexually abused as a boy by Frank Houston in a Salvation Army orphanage in New Zealand’s South Island.
Frank abusing boys in the New Zealand AOG 1950 to 1977 when he moved to Australia
After being kicked of the Salvos in the late 1940s, for abusing boys, Frank had ‘a nervous breakdown’ and was in psychiatric institutions. It is likely he did this to avoid being handed over to police and being put in jail.
All this time his wife Hazel, Pastor Brian’s mother, was supporting Frank and in effect enabling him in his pedophilia. She later labelled her husbands fetish for boys as “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Undeterred in the late 1940s, Frank got involved with the New Zealand AOG. This was in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, at Ellerslie AOG. His mentor there was Pastor Ray Bloomfield. I don’t know if Ray Bloomfield was a pedophile. If anyone can help me out on that one, it would be appreciated.
In time Frank became an AOG pastor. Innocent AOG pastors and congregants in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond had no idea what Frank was up to. Frank became a famous New Zealand AOG pastor and evangelist by the 1960s. Untouchable. he could do what he wanted a regarded boys. The number of Frank Houston boy victims from the 1940s on is unknown. It may be thousands. Several thousand. Do the math.
Frank abusing boys in Australia and beyond 1960s to 1970s
Frank rose to be head of the New Zealand AOG. His tenure was from 1965 to 1977. During the 1960s and 1970s Frank abused boys all over New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Sri Lanka, South Pacific Islands and elsewhere.
Frank abusing Maori boys 1960s to 1960s
During the 1960s to 1970s, Frank was abusing Maori boys as a famous AOG evangelist. I find this aspect of what Frank did particularly disturbing.
On the run from New Zealand police
By the 1970s, Frank was out of control in his abuse of boys. Parents of abused boys at Lower Hutt AOG, Frank’s church where Pastor Brian was raised, became very upset. There was a confrontation and many congregants left. I heard about this in 1977 from Stan and Sheila Carter.
So the heat was on Frank and he up and moved to Australia. To escape arrest by New Zealand police.
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was a year before his son Brian arrived in Australia. Brian likes to say he founded Hillsong. This is a Brian lie. One of many.
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong.
Pastor Brian with his father Pastor Frank in the 1970s
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women.
These offences include visiting a young Hillsong female’s hotel room and being alone with her in the middle of the night after Hillsong Conference. I think they had sex but no one is talking (yet).
Sydney media are trying to get the young Hillsong lady to talk on camera.
This would really rock Brian, and Brian’s wife Bobbie’s, world.
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board. Bobbie has got a bit more crazy than her normal unhinged self recently. Some of her sermons, if you could call her convoluted and sometimes irreverent blurbs a sermon, have been off-the-dial.
Bobbie does this coughing, burping and tears thing while preaching. Quite bizarre. I think Bobbie has trouble controlling her personal demons who want to speak to the planet too.
Brian Houston was charged by New South Wales police with concealing a pedophile on August 5, 2021
Brian Houston of Hillsong was charged with pedophile concealment crimes by Australian police on Thursday August 5, 2021. The maximum penalty is seven years in jail. Brian appeared in court in Sydney on October 5, 2021 for a First Mention. There was a Second Mention on Tuesday November 23, 2021 and a Third Mention on January 27, 2022. There was a fourth mention on March 3, 2022.
The Hearing is in December 2022
Brian has plead “not guilty” at each mention.
Brian will get a lesser jail sentence if he pleads guilty. Like Pharaoh before Moses, Brian won’t negotiate. Brian will only fly the white flag of surrender in jail. Even there, Brian will still be maintaining his innocence.
Brian Houston stepped down as global head of Hillsong
The Australian Royal Commission
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in its Findings, recommended Pastor Brian Houston, the then head of Hillsong Church, be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
An official recommendation was passed on to NSW Police and the NSW Justice Department by the Royal Commission.
The crimes are that Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches top leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Pastor Brian Houston, his wife Pastor Bobbie Houston, Hillsong business manager George Aghajanian, Hillsong elder Nabi Saleh, President of the New South Wales Assemblies of God John McMartin, National Assemblies of God General Secretary Keith Ainge and all the other top Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leaders had a fiduciary and legal duty to report Brian’s father Frank to Australian police when he confessed in 1999.
They failed to do this.
The fiduciary duty of a church leader comprises a duty of care towards their congregation. To lead them, to protect them and to care for them.
Instead of reporting Frank Houston to police, the above Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leadership, gave Frank a slap on the hand and allowed him to go on preaching, prophesying and (God forbid) laying hands on AOG congregants wherever he fancied to go in his misnitry. Nothing changed.
They moved Frank to quiet, off-the-grid localities so no one would report him to police. They told AOG congregants that Frank and his wife Hazel “had retired” and were AOG Royalty. No mention was made of Frank’s “problem with boys”, as Hazel liked to call Frank’s lifelong past-time or hobby of child rape.
At this stage only Brian has been charged.
The Origins of Hillsong Church
Rev Frank Houston the Night-Stalker, preying on little boys in their childhood beds.
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade.
Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
New Zealand Herald July 11, 2020
Frank Houston at Coogee Beach, Sydney in 1969.
The First Hillsong
The first name of Hillsong was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church met in Sherbrooke Hall, Double Bay, Sydney. The first meeting was on 16 July 1977 led by Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father.
Rev Frank Houston with young congregant at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst then, in 1980. This is the pedophile Frank Houston sneaking in a little homo hug on an unsuspecting young man who is lapping up the attention. There were hundreds like him. At this time Frank was having a secret homosexual affair with his young worship pastor Peter Laughton aged 23.
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong’s boy and teen sex abuse victims.
I have revealed them all to the world on this, my personal blogs-site. This has always been with their permission and their desire if their names are mentioned.
I do not search for victims. They always contact me.
I do not seek media publicity. They approach me for information.
Three new accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston 11 July 2020
Two New Zealand Herald articles of 11 July 2020 mention three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now.
The number of known Frank Houston boy and male teen victims I have identified is now 17 or more.
Recent revelations that Frank sexually abused boys in a New Zealand Salvation Army boys home in the 1940s and on evangelistic crusades amongst New Zealand Maoris have thrown the needle off the dial of my boy victim count.
It is no longer possible for me to put an accurate figure on the number of Frank Houston’s boy victims globally.
When I add in sexual abuse of little boys at a Salvation Army Boys Home in New Zealand in the 1940s and add in AOG crusades and ministry trips from the 1950s to 1960s in New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, Chile and other the countries, the possibilities of the number of boy victims is almost endless.
I believe from the evidence there are over 400 boy and teen victims, maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Frank’s son Brian, who I know personally, said to Australian media in 2014, “We may never know the number of victims”. I knew Brian from 1981 at early Hillsong. I haven’t talked with Brian since early 2000s when I left Hillsong for good.
Pastor Brian Houston current head of Hillsong: “We may never know the number of dad’s boy sex abuse victims”‘
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020 mentions three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now
Frank Houston preaching in in 1969 during his time as Assemblies of God in New Zealand General Superintendent from 1965 to 1977.
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020:
Three Frank Houston child sex abuse accounts which are new to me.
New abuse account one:
“From 1945 to 1948, Frank Houston worked at a boys’ home in Temuka run by the Salvation Army, which has confirmed receiving a complaint in 2003 from someone who said they suffered abuse at his hands during that time. A spokeswoman for the Salvation Army said it had provided information relating to the complaint to the Royal Commission.”
New abuse account two:
“In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.”
“Then came a second knock on the door. Barry was approached by a church elder who – aware of the complaint over Williams – disclosed an allegation of sexual offending by Frank Houston.
New abuse account three:
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade. Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
My comments:
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. I’ve believed for a long time that the reason was because of complaints of child sexual abuse.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
Crikey (Australian media) August 25, 2021. Journalist David Hardaker on Frank Houston and the NZ Salvation Army
“It has since emerged that Frank Houston’s offending stretched back 50 years to the 1940s when he was a lieutenant in the Salvation Army in New Zealand, his country of birth. The New Zealand Salvation Army has confirmed to Crikey that in 2003 it received an allegation of abuse by Houston during his tenure at the Temuka Boys’ Home, near Dunedin on the South Island, between 1945 and 1948. (Houston resigned from the Salvation Army in 1952.) The Salvation Army said it met with the survivor of the abuse in 2003. The case has been sent to New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, set up three years ago”.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
I’ve heard about Frank Houston doing crusades in rural areas of New Zealand, particularly amongst indigenous New Zealanders, the Maoris.
Frank’s son Brian mentions this in a romantic and euphoric way in his last book, ‘Live, Love, Lead’.
However, I’ve always had bad feelings about these crusades of Frank and his “love” and interest in the Maori people.
It’s sad to think that Frank was sexually abusing heaps of Maori boys in rural areas of New Zealand in the 1960s to 1970s.
Note of 18 November 2018
Frank Houston boy sex abuse victim, Brett Sengstock, known as boy victim AHA, who appeared anonymously at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has appeared on the Australian Channel Nine Sixty Minutes TV program recently to tell his story in person because he is dying of cancer.
Boy victim AHA Brett Sengstock – Brett is dying of cancer. Brett wants Brian Houston brought to justice for hiding and protecting his old pedophile dad from going to the clink – from 1999 when Frank confessed to November 2004 age he died.
Note of 22 April 2018
I know Hillsong and the Houstons better than anyone, having been at Hillsong from its beginnings.
Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father, came to Sydney from New Zealand in 1977. He was on the run from New Zealand police for untold and almost innumerable sex offences against little boys during the previous four decades.
I was at Hillsong before Brian Houston became a pastor in 1982, and before Hillsong was called Hillsong.
I helped Frank Houston build up Hillsong for a decade from 1981 to 1990.
The more I write about Hillsong, the sicker I feel. And the more I know about Hillsong, the sicker I feel.
But I go on writing, to warn people off Hillsong and to give Frank Houston’s multitudes of boy victims a voice.
My mission and goal is to destroy Hillsong. To expose it. To warn people off it. To set the record straight. To outline the truth about Hillsong.
Note of 27 October 2017
Pastor Brian Houston, the current head pastor of Hillsong Church Global is to face pedophile protection charges some time in the near future from the Australian police and authorities.
I’ve edited the article below reflecting current up to date information.
“Pastor” Brian Houston pictured with his child rapist dad Frank. Brian hid and protected Frank from the Australian police from when Frank confessed in 1999, to when Frank died five years later in 2004.
This article and its updates
This article outlines the history of Pastor Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong and his secret sexual abuse of hundreds of little boys, male pre-teens and male teens over seven decades. This occurred for possibly 70 years if you include his grandchildren and ‘rent boys’ (underage male prostitutes).
This site is the most authoritative and comprehensive site on Hillsong corruption, Houston corruption and Hillsong pedophilia.
This article was first published on this site on 9 September 2012, prior to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of 2013 to 2016.
It has been updated since as more facts have come to light and more events have unfolded.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed from the New Zealand Salvation Army for sexually abusing boys.
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a lifelong secret pedophile
I’ve come to the conclusion from the evidence I’ve compiled over many years, and from my experience from 1981 to 2000 as an attender of Hillsong, in the 1980s as a senior lay pastor, and especially since hearing boy victim AHA’s testimony, that the Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used the Christian ministry to secretly and stealthily, access little boys and young teens for child and under-age sexual abuse and child rape.
In other words, Frank Houston was first a pedophile. He was not at any time a genuine Christian or a genuine Christin pastor. Frank Houston was a wolf in sheep’s clothing all his life from his early teens.
Frank used Christian ministry to access little children.
Frank Houston’s primary sexual focus and preference was little pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
Frank liked male teens or young adult men if little boys were not available.
In his prime as a male in the 1960s to 1970s Frank had an insatiable sexual desire for little boys and young male teens. But mainly little boys.
A pedophile with a primary focus on pubescent children is a hebephile, a clinical psychological term.
Hebephilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14 and showing Tanner stages 2 to 3 of physical development. It differs from pedophilia (the primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children), and from ephebophilia (the primary sexual interest in later adolescents, typically ages 15–19). While individuals with a sexual preference for adults may have some sexual interest in pubescent-aged individuals, researchers and clinical diagnoses have proposed that hebephilia is characterized by a sexual preference for pubescent rather than adult partners.”
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile in that his sexual orientation and focus was primarily on pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
In my mind, this sexual orientation makes Frank Houston’s sex crimes against children even more heinous, especially since he was masquerading and pretending to be a Christian pastor.
Frank Houston’s crimes were not a one-off or an occasional dalliance in child sex crimes, but a lifelong secret and persistent activity involving hundreds, if not thousands of boy and male teen victims.
Frank was bisexual
Frank was bisexual in that he had five children.
It is probable that Frank did not have sex with his wife after the birth of their five children.
No one will ever know since they both died in 2004. And Hazel was not the type to tell.
Hazel knew Frank was a pedophile from the 1940s when he was reported for abusing children while working at a New Zealand Salvation Army home in the 1940s. He was removed from the Salvation Army.
So Hazel was complicit, codependent, a protector of Frank and an enabler.
Hazel and Frank Houston founders of Hillsong. In New Zealand in the 1940s.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed as a Salvation Army captains for sexual abuse of little boys.
Frank was a homosexual
In 1980, Frank Houston, aged 58, embarked on a four year homosexual affair with his young 23 year old worship leader Peter Laughton.
Peter Laughton, Frank Houston’s young worship leader and homosexual lover aged 23 in 1980.
Sexual involvement with a 20-year-old male, rather than with little boys and early teen boys, was an exception, although there is evidence of countless masked homosexual encounters over Frank Houston’s whole lifetime with males over the age of homosexual consent which is 16 to 18 in most Western countries.
Pastor Brian Houston, current head pastor of Hillsong – Brian, who I knew personally for twenty years, has been recommended to the Australian police by the Australian Royal Commission to be charged with pedophile protection crimes.
Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church has been recommended for prosecution for pedophile protection crimes
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in its Findings recommended Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Note 19 October 2014
In early October 2014, The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse examined the Australian Assemblies of God (which has the new name Australian Christian Churches), Hillsong and Pastors Frank and Brian Houston.
If you are interested in down-loading the Royal Commission transcripts, testimonies of victims and other relevant documents go to http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au.
To read a series of my blog articles on the Royal Commission on this site, they start on 20 September 2014 with “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part One. Royal Commission…”. If you google this title you’ll find it and other articles written by me on this my personal blog-site.
You can then scroll a few articles further into October 2014 and you’ll see all the articles sequentially in chronological order on “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston…” and Royal Commission materials.
If you know of any pedophile cases involving Pastor Frank Houston at any time anywhere in the world then please send me a message and I’ll email you back so we can confidentially talk about your case by email. No information will be published without your consent.
The following blog article on Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile activities was written on 13 September 2012 and it has been updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Blog article of 13 September 2012 (updated 27 October 2017)
The pedophile Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong
Pastor Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was two years before his son Brian arrived in Australia.
Here are two advertisements for early Hillsong Church meetings in Eastern Suburbs, Sydney in 1977 published in the Sydney Morning Herald. .
The Sydney Morning Herald 9 July 1977.
The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 16 July 1977
Hillsong
Hillsong is by far Australia’s largest church numbering 30,000 in Australia. Its headquarters are in Baulkham Hills in Western Sydney.
It has churches throughout the world in twenty locations. Hillsong claims 150,000 in its network world-wide in 2021. This is a very small number of adherents if viewed on a global basis.
Hillsong is like the small dog on the big street. Because of its strong cash-flow and music resources, it has made a lot of noise globally, but most people can tell Hillsong is completely dodgy and a money-cult.
Pastor Frank Houston was the head of the New Zealand Assemblies of God (AOG) from 1965 to 1977, and a prominent leader in the Australian Assemblies of God denomination from the 1980s to 1990s.
By the time Frank Houston confessed to secret pedophile crimes at age 77 he was revered across the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God movements as a great holy pastor, Christian leader and a great evangelist.
The truth is he was a rotten secret pedophile all that time, for many decades, probably since his early teens.
The Assemblies of God (AOG)
The Assemblies of God (AOG) is a Protestant denomination which started in the early 20th century in America and has spread across the planet. Its emphasis is on the Holy Spirit and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, like faith, healing and speaking in tongues.
The Protestants
A Protestant denomination is a denomination (international church organisation) whose origins are in “Protesting” against the Church of Rome.
Protesting, often at the greatest risk to their lives, against the Roman Catholic Church’s errant doctrines, its power, its Popes, its Bishops, its mercenary Jesuits of old. And its domination and blood-letting and martyrdom of true believers throughout the world. For over 1700 years until modern times.
If you think I’m exaggerating then google “The Waldenses”, who were Protestants the Church of Rome genocided in parts of France in the 16th century, or “The Covenanters”, who the Church of Rome hunted and wiped out in 17th century Scotland.
The Jesuit mercenaries and Papist rulers of England desecrated their bodies after death and threw their corpses on rubbish tips as a warning to a fearful populace.
These were brave men who gave their lives for the cause of Christ.
Compare these very brave men and women to Frank Houston, who was a secret life-long pedophile and covert homosexual masquerading in the disguise of a Christian pastor, whose coal-black dark secrets weren’t exposed until the last years of his life.
Frank Houston pedophile founder of Hillsong “preaching up a storm”, as he’d like to say in the 1980s.
Frank Houston’s confession to being a lifelong secret pedophile
A two-year investigation of pedophile allegations going back to the 1960s, ordered by his son, Pastor Brian Houston, at the time head of the Australian Assemblies of God, and conducted by a prominent Australian AOG clergy on the AOG national executive, Pastor John Lewis, found that the allegations were true.
Pastor John Lewis on Nexus Church, Brisbane website. Died from cancer in 2020.
Frank Houston was banned for life from ever ministering in the AOG in Australia and New Zealand in December 1999 aged 77.
But he didn’t stop preaching and ministering and Brian and other AOG leaders allowed him free reign to preach and pray and prophecy over the unsuspecting.
These are the crimes of Brian Houston, John Lewis and other top ACC and Hillsong leaders.
Pastor John Lewis report in 2000 on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities with little boys
Frank’s death
Frank Houston’s life ended in shame in November 2004. He spent his last days contemplating his place in Eternity. The burdens of his dark secrets were troubling his mind until the end.
How would God treat him in the Hereafter? These were among many questions which plagued his dark mind as he faced that looming day. For from the evidence Frank Houston had been a pedophile since his early teens, a period of seventy years.
I knew Frank Houston personally
This blog article is the first in a series of articles in which I will recall information, reflections and personal feelings on this gifted, strange and very tortured man, who I knew very well for two decades. Or at least I thought I did.
I worked closely with Frank Houston through the decade of the 1980s as a builder doing building fit-out and renovations for Christian Life Centre (CLC), Darlinghurst, as Hillsong was known in the early days, and as a lay leader.
I was a prominent and successful lay leader at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst, with ten home fellowship groups under my care. I pioneered these groups in the challenging Inner City of Sydney. I attended CLC again for a few years in the mid to late 1990s. I was there when Pastor Frank Houston got stood down and the whole organisation changed its name from Christian Life Centre to Hillsong in 2000.
I should add that I was a strong Christian prior to first attending Hillsong in 1981. This may have kept me safe from allowing Frank Houston to do stuff like lay hands on me in prayer. A highly dangerous event in hindsight for anyone.
Frank Houston’s legacy
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like former co-head pastor of Hillsong City Campus, Pastor Jonathan Wilson, who is now pastoring in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy
Jonathan Wilson, with second wife Dianne, in pastoring California. Dianne’s former husband Geoff is married to Jonathan’s daughter – a kind of fallen Pentecostal wife-swap.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson. Former Hillsong Senior Pastor. Likes pedophiles.
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like Pastor Jonathan Wilson who has strong links with Brian still, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy.
Jonathan Wilson told media at Frank Houston’s funeral in November 2012, “I regard Frank as a friend”. So Jonathan Wilson likes a lifelong secret child rapist parading as a Christian clergy as his friend.
The reality is that no amount of spin and re-invention can remove the dark black stains of the seven decades long trail of child sexual abuse that “Pastor Frank” engaged in.
Pastor Brian Houston. Growing fat while while he hangs out the victims of his dad’s abuse to dry. “Sorry victims of dad’s abuse, I’m a leading Christian pastor, but you’re on your own. Have a good life. Sorry again- Haha ha ha…By the way boy victim AHA, it was your own fault you were sexually abused by my father Frank – you tempted him. This is what Brian told the AHA (Brett Sengstock).
Over seventeen boy and young teen known victims
I have verified seventeen or more victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child and teen sex abuse.
Everyone closely associated with this matter senses there are a lot more victims out there.
From the evidence there are over 400 boy, pre-teen and teen victims. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Many will not remember the incidents due to psychological defence mechanisms because of the trauma of the sexual abuse event(s).
And there would be, from the evidence, 1000s of male victims of masked homosexual and pedophile abuse.
Frank Houston: “I was very active as a pedophile in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Pastor Frank Houston after his confession to pedophilia in 1999 said to his son Brian, “I was very active as a pedophile at that time”. He was referring to the period from the 1940s to 1970s back in New Zealand, when he was in his 40s to 50s, when most of his known boy victims were sexually abused by him.
Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life
I believe Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life from his early teens.
Frank got kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was a Captain. It has now been established that it was for pedophilia.
Frank Houston was a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland, New Zealand..
Note 11 July 2020
Frank Houston sexually abused boys at New Zealand Salvation Army Orphanages in the 1940s
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. It has now been established that my postulations on this matter were accurate.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald confirmed my allegations in an article in the New Zealand Herald today (11 July 2020):
“The Herald has confirmed that fresh allegations of abuse by the AOG’s former leading light, Pastor Frank Houston, have been provided to the Royal Commission.
One allegation, that he sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka, opens up the span of Houston’s alleged predatory behaviour to cover decades.”
David Fisher is referring to the recent New Zealand Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse.
What organisation except Hillsong would still love its pedophile founder?
Pastor Frank Houston was a pedophile who used his Christian pastor’s ministry as a disguise and camouflage to gain the confidence and trust of innocent believing Christian families so he could access their children undetected for the purposes of sexually abusing them.
Pastor Frank Houston was never genuine in anything he did. He mocked us all. How could a man be a genuine Christian pastor when he was secretly a life-long hardened criminal pedophile? Its not possible.
Frank Houston Boy victim AHA
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014 at a Hearing in Sydney revealed a witness AHA, who was abused in the Sydney suburb of Coogee when he was an innocent little boy aged 7 to 12 years old, in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Boy victim AHA was brave enough to testify anonymously in person.
It made me cry.
It was real bad stuff indeed.
It made me very angry, particularly since Pastor Brian Houston, the son of Pastor Frank Houston, like Pilate in the Bible who washed his hands of responsibility for Jesus prior to his death, has washed his hands of responsibility to help and care for the boy and teen victims of his dad’s abuse, who are now in their 50s and early 60s.
If you go to my blog articles starting on Tuesday 7 October 2014, you’ll find all the horrific details of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse of victim AHA including genitalia fondling, digital anal penetration, masturbation of the victim as he reached early puberty, and Frank Houston using and getting the victim to pleasure him over a period of five years.
My source is AHA’s testimony on Day One of the Royal Commission’s examination of Hillsong, where AHA spoke for most of the day.
It’s tragic, graphic, sordid, horrific and completely culpable by Hillsong, the Australian AOG and Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston has tried for 14 years to bury his father sexual abuse of children, sanitise it, and try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Dah…“What we didn’t do is report it to police.” Brian Houston, son of Hillsong founder Frank Houston, is surrounded by media following his 2014 appearance at a Royal Commission into child abuse.
Pastor Brian Houston had tried for 14 years to bury his father Frank’s sexual abuse of children, to sanitise it, and to try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Frank Houston has long departed but the corruption lives on in the errant and corrupt behaviour of his offspring, particularly in the life and deeds of Pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston, the current Head of Hillsong mega-church.
Rev William Frank…enstein Houston. Molester of little boys. The most corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost.
Over Seventeen Known Boy and Young Teen Victims
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse also mentioned six other little boy victims of Pastor Frank Houston in New Zealand in the 1960s. But there are many more.
I have been writing since September 2012 that there were six boy victims of Frank Houston in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in the 1960s.
My count of child sex abuse victims of Frank Houston:
I have evidence of 17 or more boy and male teen victims.
I have evidence of two teen victims, Peter Fowler, who went public in the 1970s with the encouragement of the now deceased prophet Pastor Philip Powell and teen victim ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a direct result of Frank Houston’s sexual abuse.
From the testimony of the boy victims and the circumstantial evidence, I believe there were over four hundred victims of Frank Houston’s abuse. He confessed to Brian Houston, his son, in circa 1999, that he was very active as a pedophile, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Here are the boy victims aged 7 to 12, and one teenager aged 15 years old:
1. Six 10 year old boys Pastor Frank Houston molested while Head Pastor of Lower Hutt Assemblies of God (AOG), Wellington, New Zealand in the 1960s, while at the same time, General Superintendent of the New Zealand AOG (from 1965 to 1977).
2. Sydney boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock), as above revealed on Day One of Hillsong’s time at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014.
This is a particularly sordid case of repeated child sexual abuse of a little 7 year old boy by Pastor Frank Houston which continued for 5 years. I have covered this case in detail in my blogs on the Royal Commission starting on the 7 October 2014.
3. One 15 year old boy, Peter Fowler, in the Lower Hutt AOG, New Zealand. The Lower Hutt AOG paid out Peter, but it wasn’t much money.
4. At least 4 boy victims at Assemblies of God Church camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. See my blogs on victim SA1 (my code name for him) dated 16 and 17 October 2014. SA1 was aged 11 years old at the tie of the abuse.
5. One young man in Auckland, New Zealand, ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a result of the abuse. He was in his late teens.
I sense there are a lot more New Zealand boy, pre-teen and teen male victims.
7. One boy aged 8 years old, in a suburb near Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. My code name for him is WNZ1. The abuse was very similar to the Royal Commission victim AHA.
WNZ1 believes there were more boy abuse victims in his suburb. See my blogs date 18 and 19 October 2014.
8. Frank sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka.
9.In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.
10. Boy victims in Waikato area of New Zealand in the 1960s. Frank was doing crusades often amongst Maoris. “Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.” Untold boy and teen victims. Impossible to know how many.
TOTAL: 17 and many more victims. 400 plus boy and teen victims based on the evidence. Maybe over 1000-2000 boy victims.
Boy victim SA1 from Adelaide South Australia
One of the victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child sexual abuse at Kleimzeg Assemblies of God camps in South Australia in the early 1970s, SA1, contacted me after reading articles about Pastor Frank Houston on this blog site. He shared there were several other victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile abuse at these camps.
The epicentre of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities at these South Australian camps was the boy’s toilet block.
The abuse involved the fondling of little boys genitalia and masturbation in the toilet block and bunk room. Pastor Frank Houston was very confident, blazen, perverse and tactile.
Yes Pastor Frank Houston. The greatest and most prominent AOG Pastor in Australia and New Zealand from 1970s to 1998, when the truth of his duality emerged.
Frank Houston was a secretive, manipulative, sordid, dishonest and heartless criminal pedophile for 70 years from the 1930s until his death in 2004.
Pastor Brian Houston’s lies about the number of victims continues to this day
The official line of Hillsong Church and Pastor Brian Houston was that his father, Pastor William Francis “Frank” Houston only abused one boy in New Zealand 40 years ago.
This is the line that they held from the late 1990s to the Royal Commission in October 2014.
This is the view that was on their web-site for over a decade. When I was researching articles I wrote about Frank Houston and his pedophile activities in 2012, Hillsong’s website and all the accounts by Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong media reflected this great lie.
This is the view they have told the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers.
This view is totally inaccurate and a blatant lie by Brian Houston.
It emerged at the Royal Commission that Pastor Brian Houston has known that this official view was untrue and a lie all this time.
Folks we’ve been all been deceived.
What is still lacking from Frank’s son, Pastor Brian Houston and the Hillsong Movement, which Brian controls, is any real degree of honesty and openness about Frank Houston.
For example, why won’t Brian and the AOG release the official AOG report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities?
Why didn’t Brian admit his father did numerous pedophile and homosexual acts, and not just one, like Brian portrayed for 14 years, until the Royal Commission exposed his lies? Why do Brian lie to us all? How can Brian lie like this and be a prominent Christian pastor?
Why is Brian Houston still lying about the number of victims telling Sydney’s channel nine reporter Leila McKinnon earlier this year when she asked how many victims Brian believes there are now, Brian hesitantly replied “six”. This is despite Brian knowing about at least 8 victims in 1999 and at least 9 victims in 2004. Why lie Brian? Who is the Father of Lies?
Was Brian Houston sexually abused by his rampant pedophile father Frank?
And the question lingers, was Pastor Brian Houston himself, and his brother Graeme, sexually abused by their father Frank?
Maybe that’s too personal for Brian to admit, if anything occurred.
Or maybe he can’t remember.
These dark memories are normally suppressed and buried by the defence mechanisms of the human psyche.
Brian’s brother Graeme has refused to attend church since his teens. Why?
Further, were Brian and Graeme aware of the accusations against his father while he was a lad?
The pre-adolescent little boys Pastor Frank Houston sexually abused in Lower Hutt were Brian and Graeme’s age at the time.
Brian even stayed with his dad at AHA’s family home in Coogee, while his father lay on top of victim AHA all night and abused him for the week of their stay on one of the many visits. One can see why pedophile Frank Houston liked to go to Sydney and stay at AHA’s parent’s house. Disgusting.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s overseas “evangelistic” trips overseas were really sex holidays away from his wife and people who he was accountable to.
Details of boy victim AHA’s sexual abuse
While Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of little 7 year old AHA, who is now 52, the skinny spider-like Pastor Frank Houston sexually molested him. He fondled his genitals, he fondled his little thighs and bottom, and he digitally penetrated him. AHA shared on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission that he froze with fear.
Boy victim AHA wondered, why was this hero of the faith, a godly man who my mum and dad loved, doing this to me?
Victim AHA lay frozen with fear as Frank Houston, the pariah, lay on top of him all night. The cats howled, the night birds cackled as the do in Australia, the dogs barked down the street and the garbos rattled their bins, and all this time through those long chill hours, Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of AHA doing awful creepy, very perverse things to AHA.
If you think I’m being too graphic, this is what AHA said at the Royal Commission. These are the facts the Royal Commission’s lawyer, Simeon Beckett, read out. These are the facts that AHA read out from his witness statement on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Sydney.
Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad
It is interesting to note that victim AHA, who spoke anonymously at the Royal Commission, stated that Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad.
Pastor Brian Houston has denied this. I believe victim AHA because he sounded very honest and very coherent. Pastor Brian Houston hasn’t been honest about all this stuff for over 14 years.
The Royal Commission has also revealed how Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston have been heartless towards child abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG Pastor and leader pedophiles.
If you read my blogs on 7 to 10 October you’ll get drift.
Pastor Brian Houston the head pastor of Hillsong mega-church, a very wealthy “church” organisation, has refused to help the boy and young teen victims in any way
Pastor Brian Houston. Living in the shadow of his father Frank who he adored. I wonder how he feels about his dad now the tsunami of his dad’s pedophilia has hit the fan?
Brian at the Royal Commission
At the Royal Commission on 9 October, when Pastor Brian Houston was the star witness, he wiggled and swirmed in the hot seat of the witness box. Then he straight out said they won’t help the victims in any way. The reasons are outlined in my blog articles on this site of 9 and 10 October 2104.
Pastor Frank Houston. Creepy. Self-confessed pedophile.
Peter Laughton’s homosexual affair with Frank Houston
Since Peter Laughton, Pastor Frank Houston’s young worship leader, went public in 2007 about Frank’s abuse of him in the early 1980s, the Houston family have taken the line that Peter Laughton was a consenting male with their father Frank. In his early 20s at the time of his abuse in the early 1980s, Peter was over the age of consent which is 18 in Australia for consenting homosexual acts.
But is it ok before God for the most prominent AOG clergy in Australia and New Zealand, aged 58, to indulge in numerous sordid homosexual acts with his young worship leader?
At the time the homosexual liaison started Pastor Frank Houston was 58 and Peter was 20.
I fail to see how the Houston’s can dismiss this series of incidents with Peter Lawton so readily.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston. Total deviate and con-artist.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston was an active secret pedophile and homosexual particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s.
By 1990 he was 68 and his homosexual and pedophile libido seemed to have dropped off. I haven’t found any pedophile dirty old man Houston victims.
A reader of this site commented recently that he knew Frank Houston in the 1950s at Ellerslie AOG in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote in a comment on this site that Pastor Frank Houston had fixation about male swimmers. There were some NZ Olympic swimmers training. A young Pastor Frank Houston used to go down to the local swimming pool to watch them training and perve on them.
If you knew Pastor Frank Houston at this time and you know of pedophile incidents could you please contact me. I suspect his pedophile activities started earlier than Lower Hutt AOG.
Frank Houston was sexually abused by his father Frank
At the Royal Commission, Pastor Brian Houston told the Commission that his dad had been abused by his father, also Frank. This is no secret because Pastor Frank use to share about this from the pulpit at Christian Life Centre in the 1980s.
Pastor Frank Houston openly shared how his dad was very mean to him and his mum. That his dad had an affair with the woman next door, based his wife, and other bad stuff. The ABC of Psychology says that people who were sexually abused as children often go on to sexually abuse children when they are older/ become adults. That’s a big subject.
Peter Laughton spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007
If you google “Frank Houston” or “Frank Houston abuse” you’ll find plenty of transcript of detailed sordid accounts of Frank Houston’s sexual activities with Peter Laughton.
Peter has given interviews to the Sydney Morning Herald.
In these interviews Peter speaks honestly and candidly about the homo-erotic activities Frank Houston led him to do. It’s interesting yet very sad reading.
Please bear in mind that Frank Houston was aged 58, and the most prominent AOG clergy at the time, and he was abusing a vulnerable and needy young man aged 20 who was his Church worship leader. Heavy stuff indeed.
The investigation and being caught
The release of the official AOG Report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities is a document which would be helpful to the victims of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities. What is more important? Protecting Frank Houston’s legacy and reputation, the Houston name and Hillsong’s reputation, or allowing some healing and closure, not only to Frank’s numerous pedophile victims, but also to the countless others who were part of Christian Life Centre and Hillsong in the early days and who were deeply hurt and shattered by revelations of Frank’s secret activities.
Frank’s pedophile activities were not destined to remain a secret to his grave. By the late 90s the chorus of complaints was to become deafening. The AOG, and in particular, the then National Chief Executive Pastor Brian Houston, his son, were forced to investigate and do something about it.
Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst the second name for Hillsong
I personally knew Peter Laughton at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst.
Peter was very talented singer, song-writer and composer. A nice guy. Sensitive. Artistic.
No one had any idea that Frank Houston aged 58 and a revered pastor and his worship leader Peter Laughton age 20 were involved in a four year homosexual affair from 1980 to 1984.
Extraordinary talent at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst
In those days Frank had gathered together some extraordinary musical talent.
Frank had recruited Pastor David Johnston from Los Angeles to found international Institute of Creative Ministries (IICM), a music, singing and dance Ministries School. David worked at Wesley College for decades since these times. David is a very talented pastor, violinist, composer and worship leader.
Trevor King was also there. Trevor now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Trevor is very talented on the piano and led the band and was the Music Pastor.
Geoff Bullock is another muso who owes his success to the Houstons. Unfortunately Geoff’s personal life became a train-wreck when his marriage fell over and his ministry has never recovered to the heights of his success under the Houstons. Particularly under Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston is truly a king-maker. So much talent. So many scandals.
Pastor Frank Houston with Hazel, his faithful, enabling and supportive wife- who knew he was molesting little boys for many decades. Hazel knew he was a pedophile since the 1940s.
Peter Laughton was looking for father love
Peter Laughton is a really nice guy.
Outgoing, talented and sensitive.
In Frank, Peter has said that he was looking for father love. The kind of love Frank gave him was secretive, self-gratifying and impure.
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses that they find impossible to control. Their victims are really just objects of their desire. There is no care or love towards their victims. For the pedophile it is “all about me”.
I wrote another 13 articles, which are on this blog-site, on this subject of Pastor Frank Houston from 13 September 2012.
My memories of the man and what I experienced during the 1980s and 1990s while attending Hillsong Church.
I have written over 200 other articles on Hillsong and the Royal Commission.
Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in world history
I have come to the conclusion that Pastor Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in the history of the planet.
To do what Frank Houston did to little boys and teens all his lifetime, while maintaining the front of a holy man of God is the very gravest of sins known to mortal man.
Since I wrote this article in September 2012, and since the Royal Commission examined the Houstons and Hillsong, Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission barrister, publicly recommended in December 2014 that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged by the NSW Police for not reporting and for sheltering a pedophile, his old life-long pedophile father, Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of the Hillsong organisation.
In October 2015 the Royal Commission recommended Brian Houston for prosecution in its Findings.
Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Frank’s son and successor. Facing pedophile protection charges which will wipe the smile from his well-fed fully, corrupt face.
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Though there are certain arguments to be made for the separation of church and state I believe the authorities must step up and take a stand on all these charlatans who bestow themselves with the title of “Pastor”. Any weasel in this country can call himself/herself “Pastor” and then set about living the life of an “untouchable”. These fakes are responsible for an increasing amount of mental health problems and domestic abuse and it is astounding to me that no one in the Government seems willing or able to do something about it. These charlatans, in my view, could not get away with what they do unless they enjoyed the protection of people in very high positions. Hillsong and Houston should never be able to use the title “Pastor” and benefit from that title in any way – Houston is nothing more than business executive who, by virtue of inheriting his father’s business, has been allowed to act, it would seem, with impunity as he fleeces the naïve and vulnerable without conscience. When will we find even one man with integrity in the Government who has the courage to call for a complete investigation of this man, this snake pit of Hillsong, the financial dealings, and the damage that is being inflicted whilst they target young people in our community who just get carried away with the mind-numbing music and intoxicating atmosphere. I have no objection to what Hillsong does or how they run their business – but I most strongly object to them doing it in the name of God! A Government committee set up to hear evidence of people who have been abused by this church (all forms of abuse) and others like it is long overdue. The Government is already involved by giving them tax benefits because of their church status, so a little more constructive “interference” wouldn’t go astray, would it?
Don, when are you doing to wake up to the fact that the Brian Houston is not a pastor?He’s an impostor, preaching a different Jesus and a different gospel for money. Who is leading more people to hell than anyone could imagine.
Hmmm. Art Katz (Arthur) even wrote in a book that he always had major problems with Worship Leaders and when he was alive wrote him the why and sent a copy to his Admin Ass’t or whatever Title they gave Simon Hensman at the time. Believe it was in his “Prophetic Call” book. Have my theories, a lot of them are Perfectionist (“Living With A Perfectionist” by David Stoop, Manic/Bi-Polar (Dr. Susan Forward, Herb Goldberg, Victoria Secunda, David Elkind, Dr. Laura might cover that well along with Leann Payne’s written works); dormant Homosexual’s (very unhealed; “Kingdom of Self and God Players by Earl Jabay); then there’s “Healing of Damaged Emotions” and his other books by David Semands. When looked up Definition of a Cult; #12, 21 (in the next page section, it defines definition of a sociopath; think a lot of Pastor’s/Leader’s/Priest have VERY unhealed issues themselves. What’s sad is they don’t deal with their issues and then put themselves in position to abuse children and people in general (and we are ALL God’s children no matter what age).
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
P.S. You referenced in an article Tanya Levin wrote a book and David Marr by Black Inc. (What’s that title? When went to research for lot’s of books by a David Marr)!
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
What I wrote about Geoff Bullock originally is what he told me he did, at a private meeting a long time ago. I only removed what I wrote because he was hurt by the truth. I’m not out to hurt Geoff Bullock, who is broken by life anyway. Brian Houston used him as a living breathing human soul and as a stepping stone to climb the spiritual mountain of Brian’s own ego and success. Geoff is just another train wreck and discard of the Houstons, Brian and Frank- like all the other victims, be they spiritual or psychological or physical or sexual abuse victims of the evil Houston express train.
Don You do not seem to have asked his forgiveness for your long-time error and the damage it must have caused him. Perhaps you have done so in private…
Brian Houston hasn’t helped any of the victims as at 8 October 2015. The Royal Commission interviewed victim AHA and AHA contacted me shortly after, via this site. We’re in touch by email occasionally. AHA would let me know if Brian had helped him. SA1 (my code-name) is a victim of Frank Houston in South Australia. Brian could contact me if he wanted to help him. Victim WNZ1 (Wellington, New Zealand) contacted Brian in the mid 2000s and Brian fobbed him off. I am in touch with WNZ1 and his wife. If Brian wanted to help them he could let me know and I’d put him in touch with them. The bottom-line is that Brian, the Houstons and Hillsong don’t want to help any of the victims. Brian Houston is the ultimate lying con-artist and he makes out he cares but he is a selfish greedy charlatan who won’t help anyone but himself and his clan. Hillsong is a cash-cow to maintain his lavish lifestyle and to get off on his fame. However Brian’s fame is turning to notoriety and soon he’ll be charged with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile. At that point he’ll be shamed and all his assumed glory will turn to dust.
To my readers: Its a year since the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse subpoened Pastor Brian Houston and other Hillsong/ ACC Leaders. It now seems likely that the NSW Police will charge Brian Houston with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile, his old very corrupt dad Frank Houston. Donald
I’ve published four testimonies of sexual abuse by boy victims on this site. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse has produced a boy victim AHA who is now in his fifties who was horrifically abused for over five years by Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s son, Pastor Brian Houston, the current CEO said after the Royal Commission in October last year in Sydney, Australia, “we may never know the number of the victims of my father”. How much proof do you need Stephane? The Royal Commission has recommended that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged for sheltering and not reporting his father Frank to the Police from 1998 until Frank died in 2004. We are waiting to see if the Australian authorities take this action. Donald.
Kerri. Frank Houston’s pedophilia activity was public knowledge from about 2007 when Peter Lawton was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. If you google ‘Sydney Morning Herald Peter Lawton Frank Houston abuse 2007’ you’ll find the information in a David Marr SMH article about Tanya Levin’s book on Hillsong. The information is in the second half of this article.
i’ll publish this article soon on this site.
Although Peter was a consenting male when abused by Frank Houston who was 60, Peter feels Frank took advantage of him and abused him.
About this time it became known that Frank Houston was also guilty of multiple historic pedophile abuse events, mainly with little boys ages 7 to 12 years old. This was the preferred demography of his victims.
Brian Houston sheltered his old pedo dad for 5 years until he died in 2004 and he didn’t report him to the Police as required by NSW Law.
Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission’s leading lawyer when they were examining the Houstons and Hillsong in October last year, publicly recommended in December that Brian Houston be charged with these offences.
There are 14 articles starting on 9 September 2012 specifically about Frank Houston’s abuse of boys and other sins like doing hatchet jobs on good men of God like Dr David Johnson, his Worship director in the early to late 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst.
From October last year I’ve written about 100 articles on this subject.
If you want to understand the full picture start reading.
This site is by far the most authoritative and comprehensive factual site on the subjects of Frank Houston, Frank Houston’s pedophilia, Brian Houston’s lack of response to the victims, Brian Houston’s corruption on multiple levels, Hillsong’s corruption on multiple levels, the New Zealand and Australian AOG/ ACC Churches corruption and the sexual sins of Australian and New Zealand prominent Pentecostal leaders over the past 50 years.
Am I to glean from this comment that Frank Houston’s abhorrent behaviour was public knowledge as far back as the early 1970s? Is is even possible therefore that Brian Houston had heard nothing about it before the time he now claims? I would like to know more about this as it pertains to a conversation I had with Brian Houston in 1988. How is it possible that so many people seemed to be aware of Frank Houston’s actions and yet Brian Houston claims that he heard nothing about his father’s paedophilia during these years before the family came to Australia?
So true.. ‘God does forgive ALL Sins’ .. providing the Sinner truly Repents. And when a Sinner truly repents of their Sin, (no matter how vile the Sin) you can rest assured that there is ‘No Returning to that Sin’. We know that God has FORGIVEN us of our Sins when we don’t Go Back to them, like the dog to the vomit and the sow to the mud.This is the proof and fruit of the quality of our Repentance. Godly or Not .. ref/2 Corinthians 7:10. When God Forgives us .. we are ‘Forgiven, Cleansed, Delivered and Empowered against that Sin’ once and for all in one hit. How great Thou Art O Lord God! The Soul Saving Question is, how could Frank Houston have Truly Repented of his perversion when there is a trail (a record) of repeated ongoing similar acts of paedophilia. One thing is for sure, the Liar will not enter the Kingdom of God, paedophile or not… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yE-xl-HJs ..
its so sad—ive seen the holy spirit move in and through paster frank housten to bless and heal many–thank god he was self confessed –god forgives all sin
Re: Counsel, Deliverance, Peace of Mind and Emotional Recovery .. Those in the Body of the Christ all have different gifts, according to the Grace given to each of us by Yahweh. If your gift is prophesying, then Prophesy/Speak in ‘Accordance with Your Faith’ Measure. Yes, Faith in the Christ can move Mountains and do the Impossible. As an X Alcoholic, X Chain smoker, X Drug user and X Filthy Immoral Wretch who Chain smoked and smokes no more, I know first hand the ‘Power of Faith-Obedience in the Christ’, hence I offer Messiahs Way above all others Jesus says I AM the Way! .. ref/Romans 12:6, Hebrews 11 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Xm9ykp0lA .. 🙂
Robyn. Personally, I found Dr Cliff Powell of the Christian Psychological Services in Mona Vale, Sydney helpful after my marriage fell over in 1996. My ex-wife took me along because she felt it might help our marriage. We saw Cliff a few times. Then, when my ex refused to give up her lover, Cliff told her that it was a waste of time proceeding with her. Cliff then asked me if I would like to continue alone. I felt I need that support and someone to talk the deep stuff through with who was a strained professional. Cliff is a Christian behavioural psychologist. He prayed with me at the start of every session and then we’d chat for 3/4 hour. His approach was gentle and supportive. I went to see him every 2 weeks for a while then it tapered off to every three months then I didn’t need him anymore. I found the whole process with him over a few years extremely helpful. In respect to any victims I’d encourage them to, if possible, find a counsellor or psychologist who is at least empathic to the Christian faith, and talk their stuff through with them. They don’t have to be full-on Christian but its better if they are at least a bible believing Christian of some Protestant denomination. Donald
Hi Donald.. Re/Psychs .. I myself suffer from ‘PTS Indefinite’ according to a Psych Report from a respected Psych in Brisbane City.. due to me being set on Fire (abused) by a Maniac-Muslim (2002) as I preached Jesus as God Almighty and Saviour in the streets of Brisbane. Plus I was food poisoned (abused) by a Muslim Kebab Shop (2008) resulting in a Heart Attack and the Senior Cardiac Surgeons at the RBH Brisbane said I needed ‘5 statins and a Stent’ in my heart or I would die. However, I chose to Look to Jesus, the God of All Flesh, by the leading of His Spirit and all is well with my Soul-Mind, Will and Emotions. And how can you be a Psych and a Sold Out Christian-Follower of Jesus at the same time?. While Psychology deals with the Mind and Jesus deals with the Spirit – Hearts of Humanity. And aren’t Christians born of a Spirit of Sanity, a Sound Mind and the Prince of Peace.. re/2 Timothy 1:7, John 3:5, Isaiah 23:6.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvjpe5HK4M .. The Glory belongs to Jesus!.. 🙂
There are many good psychologists and counsellors and many good Christian ones who allow clients to work with their Christian beliefs ,who do assist people to deal with anxiety, depression and PTSD associated with abuse. People should be given the option of seeking help, assistance and support and know of services that are available.
Gidday Donald.. Re/Victims of Religious Abusers and Pagan Abusers .. I don’t believe that it is a good idea at all to refer ‘Abused People’ to Psychologists and Psychiatrists for they can only ever offer temporary and very limited help, especially for the ‘Mind and Emotions’. Apparently Psych’s are numbered among the most ‘Mentally and Emotionally’ Unstable people in the World. Keep fighting the Good (News) Fight Donald, because only a Remnant are .. ref/Matt 11:28, Isaiah 23:6, Matt 7:13-14 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/jesus_turns_nightmares_into_happ.htm ..
Tanya. I leave any information or opinions on this site so long as people aren’t attacking others etc. So your info is here for anyone. I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as a Hillsong Watch group or anything. This is a private blog site with no affiliation or bias. I am OK with all the Protestant Churches so long as they are biblically based and embrace the moving and gifts of the Holy Spirit. In that statement I just lost a lot of friends. Donald
Hi I’m not asking you to be aligned with anything. I’m asking you to refer people to the appropriate services so that they can access the help that is in place, legally, socially, psychologically etc. The victims that you are in contact with have a right to know about the services available to them. That’s all.
here is the link for the most accessible form of compensation. i would support your class action efforts, but it’s important people know about the standard avenues as well.
Donald, please can you pass on my email to anyone who requests it. it’s tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com I’m not sure if you’re aware but the Attorney General will provide free advice and application to Victims Services. It’s important that you refer ppl to Victims services where they can get free counselling from Victims of Crime too, as an option. Just so that people have that option. please pass my email onto Evan who requested it and to anyone else trying to get in touch with me. Thanks
How pathetic that Churched people like the Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and other Orthodox Religions such as RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church, Salvos etc .. refuse to comply fully when found out for their abominable acts and Wilful Destruction of peoples lives and then a FUND is set up for the Victims. Not that the Victims don’t deserve payment but It really sounds like this kind of behaviour/abuse is about to be Accepted and Counted as part of Church Behaviour… So why did Jesus die on the Tree, didn’t Jesus say it is FINISHED?.. and that ALL was accomplished (by Him for us @ the Tree) and that we can do ALL things through Messiah who gives us strength via His Victory. Well it is the Last Days isn’t it .. ref/Romans 13:1-14 .. “When the Devil comes in like a Flood, Holy Ghost will raise the Standard”.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/torn_between.htm ..
Reblogged this on kristinesteyne and commented: there are many many comments at the bottom of this blog. I believe also that Brian Houston should definitely reported his father
Donald, It is no trivial thing what you are doing here for these people. And you have no doubt been instrumental in helping these Victims somewhat, in easing their pain. However, if they stay close to Jesus, He will bring them through to a Glorious End. Yes, I still pray for you and the Victims (even though I know them not) as Father leads, He knows them and every hair in their head. I do believe in Miracles Donald and they are real easy for Jesus to perform, piece of cake actually.. I am believing for a Miracle for you and them. Go in the Strength of Our Lord.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/heart_attack.htm ..
Paul. I’m going to explore the possibilities of legal action. The main thing to me is that the victims are empowered and can get on with their lives in a positive godly manner. All three boy victims I am in touch with by email and on this site, AHA, WNZ1 and SA1 are all feeling heaps better for speaking out and having their say. This site is the only forum for WNZ1 and SA1 to do this. AHA spoke out at the Royal Commission and he has been making a few comments on this site. It’s great these men, now in their 50s to 60s are able to do this. They can have their say anonymously and feel empowered. It’s all about the victims and their families. Donald
Katharine. The Royal Commission, the Australian Government, the AOG/ ACC, Hillsong will do nothing to help the victims. Pastor Brian Houston has said he won’t do anything for the victims. On what basis do you write: “Trying to sue Brian would not succeed and would be a waste of time and money as well as your energy”. Are you a barrister who specialises in criminal law? You also write “I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so the victims can get counselling and maybe a support group”. Well, Katharine, the Assemblies of God in Australia doesn’t exist any more. Then you write “They would have to sue the individual church i.e. Klemzig AOG top get any compensation”. If you’re saying the AOG will sue the Klemzig AOG, well the AOG don’t exist. Even if it did it wouldn’t sue an AOG Church. You then say “I understand the Royal Commission is going to make recommendation about compensation”. The Royal commission is unable to help with compensation but it can make a recommendation to the NSW or respective State where the victim was abused to charge someone with a criminal offence for not reporting pedophilia. They will also comment on the culpability of the ACC, Hillsong or Brian Houston, but it won’t do anything about it. The only way the boy victims of Frank Houston will get any compensation is if there is a class action initiated by the victims themselves. No one else is going to help them. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about legally to be honest. But it’s a free world re expressing your views. Donald
Gidday Donald, around October 9 .. I recall saying this, regarding Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and their abuse of children .. “Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this Entire Case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church”. And even have the Gall to shout aloud ‘thanks be unto God for Vindicating us’. Donald, this is not to put a wet blanket on things but we do live in a ‘World of Unrighteousness’ after all, and let us never forget that MONEY TALKS.. A place calling itself a ‘Church-Holy Place’ doesn’t get as Materially/Financially Rich as Hillsong through being HONEST.. LOL… The Real Judgment and the Real Sentencing is on it’s Way and none of us can escape this one .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3hggV7i2Y8 ..
Trying to sue brian would not succeed and would waste a lot of time and money as well as your energy. I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so that the victims could get counselling and maybe form a support group . They would have to sue the individual church ie klemzig aog to get any compensation. I understand that the royal commission is going to make recommendations about compensation . Maybe franks adult victims will then come forward . And no I don’t work and would never work for hillsong katharine
Evan. Tanya Levin is a former Hillsong member and a Hillsong watch type of person. Tanya wrote a book, “People in glasshouse…”. I haven’t read it or been to her website, if she has one. I would think that Tanya has a lot of information. If you google “Tanya Levin” or Hillsong related words and phrases which critique Hillsong, its prosperity etc you’ll find her stuff. Tanya said, in this comments part of my site, that she wanted to talk with me, swap info etc and maybe form a coalition. I told her I wanted to be unaligned. I’m happy to receive any information that will help me take a class action with Frank Houston’s victims against Hillsong, AOG/ACC and Pastor Brain Houston for compensation. I’m going to start a Trust Fund for victims of Frank Houston to fund a civil class action for victim compensation and a criminal case. I am looking to get Pastor Brian Houston criminally charged and convicted for not reporting AHA and other pedophile cases between 1999/ 1998 until the current Royal Commission in 2014. I am not convinced Brian didn’t know about his father’s pedophile activities earlier then 1999/ 1998 and would appreciate any information from anyone out there which would prove that Brian knew earlier. Donald
This whole thing with the Houston’s, Hillsong – CLC – ACC, is really all about Judgment and Righteous-Judgment is a Loving thing. It is surely helpful, profitable to all concerned and not concerned. Yes, even those watching on can learn.. ref/1 Timothy 5:19-20. I know I am. I can never forget the day that Messiah had me go to ‘Steve Erwin/the Crocodile Hunter’ some years back now, to give him the ‘Message of the Christ’. I have written 12 books in my short Ministry of 27 years and out of the 12 books, Holy Ghost led me to take him the book.. ‘Birds and Fish’. To put it bluntly, this book was about DEATH. And you know what, it wasn’t long after I took that book to Steve he died a the hand-tail of a Stingray and I still wonder today, did he ‘read and hearken’ to the Message of that book and where will Steve be at the Judgment Stand of the Christ, will it be the ‘Great White Throne’ or the ‘Saints Stand’ ?.. Judgment is a Serious thing but it is also a Beautiful thing. The Beggar Lazarus had the right idea.. “Stay in right Standing with God no matter what”.. the Rich man in his uptown robes wasn’t so smart was he. Hope all you bloggers have a nice day .. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/steve_irwin.htm ..
Rejoice!.. for this is the day that Yahweh has made, without hands. At the end of the day and even Life itself as we know it on planet earth .. it really doesn’t matter what people think about us, say about us or think they know about us .. we will all stand at the ‘Judgment Seat of the Christ’ and we shall ALL give account of ALL things done while in our body, whether that be Good or Evil .. scary hey.. that is, if our Heart is not Right with Yahweh.. Thank God for ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’. We no doubt serve the ‘God of Promises’ .. 🙂 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zEt0eTsts …
The attached is a little simplistic and consequently doesn’t dwell on Frank. Dad was a fine father to a household of 8 on low paid wages at GM where the body shop finisher receive free milk to compensate for lead poisoning from filing the lead filled blemishes. However he was a bigoted old school “keep politics out of sport” rugby supporter who couldn’t come to grips with HART’s “No Maori No Tour”. We argued too much and my wife preferred we not visit.
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Tanya. Re Brian’s sisters. They’re on the early blogs from 2 years ago. They commented about 2 weeks ago. If you can’t find them let me know and i’ll do a search. Donald
Tanya. The Commission contacted me 1.5 weeks ago asking for me to contact the South Australian victim. I put him in touch with the Royal Commission and he made statement. Another two men have contacted me from New Zealand. Both are victims new to me. The Commission has given me contact names and phone numbers for victims to phone them on.
As the Royal Commission were the ones to ask for Brian Houston’s to take the stands, there were obvious reasons. To ensure that the safety of these children are on top priority and that the institute or church are reacting in a positive manner so that these bad acts are not repeated in the future.
I appreciate your response. Not to be pedantic, but the Commission is investigating both the institution and “its officials” so while Brian Houston is obviously not on trial, his personal response is also the concern of the Commission.
Below you’ll find a link to the page that outlines the expressed purposes Royal Commission which may clarify things for others as well.
I agree that it is our right to judge the intentions of people of any church. Having said this, I do believe that when someone is saved or born again, they give their lives to Jesus and follow Him. However, that does not mean the person won’t fall into temptation . … of course he will, he will probably even sin… Satan’s aim is to break up the church and that is exactly what he will aim at… Peter denied Christ, not once but thrice. He lied that he did not know who Jesus was. Thank our Good Lord that we are not saved by what we do but by Grace that can be given by God alone. I don’t know if Frank Houston asked for forgiveness or not, even Brian Houston may never know but God does. So by judging his salvation by the words Brian Houston used at the Royal Commission is not the right way to go.
Now going back to the church and judging the church that we attend, of course we should. In fact, if you read my earlier post, I don’t think I denied that there. But you will get many in churches who will fall into temptation and sin but we have to look at the church as a whole. If someone has done wrong in the church, how has the church reacted towards the person involved. That is actually what the Royal Commission is all about, not to put Brian Houston on trial but to see if the church has reacted against the perpetrator in the correct manner and not pushed the situation under the carpet and I think they did get their answer.
Hi i just saw this. No worries, then ignore my previous comment. Can you please direct me to the sisters’ comments? Congrats on all this work by the way…
Hi Donald, Please make sure you let victims know about the official Royal Commission agency to guide them through the whole process from making a statement and through to including legal advice re compensation. It’s at knowmore.org.au thanks and please feel free to contact me at tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com We’re all trying to put our heads together at the moment and your site is a real help!
RE: ROMANS 3:23 .. Says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm ..
I’m sure you don’t mean to, but you are using Romans 3:23 as a proof texts.
I don’t think anyone here is condemning anyone, but they are following scriptural guidelines and are judging whether the Houston’s actions line up with the Word of God. You are correct though, it is not our “right”, but it is our responsibility!.
Here’s a link to all the scriptures that show you that we are meant to judge those within the church. Just cut and paste it into whatever search engine you use if it doesn’t open directly.
Also, I don’t think the reason that people start blogs is “only” when “you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man”. People start blogs for all sorts of reasons.
Please read the link I sent you as you’ll be able to see that not only are we supposed to judge people within the church.
Finally, I think the author has already indicated that his intention is to assist the victims to get to the right authorities.
Paige .. here is part of your Comment on rewind .. Quote.. “At the heart of this, is that your father attacked ‘SOMETHING’ that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable ‘COMMODITY’, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man”.. end of Quote. So children are SOMETHING and children are a COMMODITY … Hello?.. 🙂 .. do you know what a COMMODITY is?.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
I appreciate that you must be in such pain right now. No child should have to experience either being molested or being parented by a child molester. I know my natural overwhelming instinct would be to minimize the horror, to try and find a way to accommodate justice without destroying everything around me in the process. I don’t think anyone questions how absolutely devastating that this must be for you and your brother.
However, that has been where so much of the focus has is (your brother’s pain not yours). I’m aware that Brian has had tens of thousands of supporters pledging their loyalty and condemnation of everyone who dares to suggest that he should be accountable. But your brother’s messages continue to be embedded with calls for sympathy and we’ve heard so much about his pain (this is the first time I’ve heard about his siblings though) but so little about the victims. Shouldn’t that concern us?
I have not read other people’s opinions, I have only read the statements, listened to the cases and read Brian’s own words but this is the overwhelming pattern in his language.
I have been watching the Royal Commission and they have indicated that what he did was wrong in taking on your father’s judgement and in not reporting it to the authorities. Yesterday, your brother admitted that in church, but also put the blame on the AOG leadership as well. I’m not sure if you heard it, but it has been posted.
I think a lot of Christians are wondering why it has taken so long for this to come into the light? Why would someone who has testified that they were deeply traumatized and conflicted, then argue that they handled the situation objectively and ethically. When asked why, Brian said because it needed someone with “courage” and “guts” to do it. Courage and guts to do what? Slap your father on the wrist and suspend him from ministering? That doesn’t make sense, but it does raise a lot of doubts.
I don’t mean to simply criticize your brother, but I do hope that I can explain why people are asking questions. Why I am asking questions?
Of course we will all be accountable on judgement day, but this blog, I suspect, isn’t about judgement day, nor is the Royal Commission about judgement day, it’s living the truth in the past, present and future on this earth. An earth in which we are supposed to be the light and a people that are above reproof. If we have lost our saltiness, and the world needs to reprove us for having failed to act justly, then we are indeed in trouble. Your brother has been reproved by the world by failing to act justly and all of us are wearing that. Out on the street, my non-Christian friends are asking me for answers, so I think it’s fair enough that I try and get some for them.
I know it is deeply personal to you, but what happened happened while your father was in ministry and that ministry, directly or indirectly, led to the formation of Hillsong. The world has a right to ask questions of the church and when they do we should come up squeaky clean. When we don’t, and that happens unfortunately, then we should at least admit it.
You make the comment that your brother has practiced forgiveness on a scale that most never have to consider. I think that could be deemed fairly offensive to those who today are dealing with a lost childhood. At the heart of this, is that your father attacked something that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable commodity, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man.
I hope this helps you understand people’s concerns a little better.
Paige. I agree with every word you’ve just written. Before the start of the Royal Commission I was hopeful that Brian might listen and show some humility and care. However I am convinced that Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and AOG/ ACC are incapable of listening. My focus is on the victims, not just the sexual victims but all the folks who gave their lives and hearts to the cause of Christ under Pastor Frank Houston and were abused in other ways. Even Brian has been betrayed and deceived horribly by his own dad. But that does not excuse Brian under the Laws of Australia and New Zealand. Brian should have reported the crime of pedophilia of his dad to the Authorities in Australia and New Zealand and let them decide what to do with his dad. Given people like Rolf Harris are 84 and still doing goal, it’s a given that Frank would have been jailed. By failing to report his dad, Pastor Brian Houston may end up being charged, not with his dad’s sins but for not reporting them and concealing them. The compensation of victims issue is another big consideration and my thinking is a class action by the boy abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston would succeed. Donald
Hi Mark, No-one has yet claimed, including Brian, that his father repented of his sins. In fact, Brian explains that his father effectively pined away until his death in deep depression. This hardly describes a man who has been reconciled with Jesus. Also, Frank was forced to admit one crime, to which he had no choice but to admit because the evidence was indisputable, but even then did not admit to all the children that he had molested, just the one. This is not repentance or being “reconciled with Jesus” no matter how you spin it.
With this unconfessed sin in his heart, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank continued to attend a small Sydney church, be around children and pray for people. My Bible says that this is the works of the devil.
When Brian was asked on a radio with 2G (you can google it and both watch and listen to it), he was asked if he thought his father was in heaven. Had Frank repented, the answer would surely have been “Yes”, but Brian admitted that he did not know, though he hoped he was. Even when Frank was forced to admit his crime, he did not report himself to authorities, he did not resign and he did not seek out his victims to make restitution (remember he never paid the $10,000, Brian arranged this).
I am so grateful to the Lord that they are Christians who believe that we should be more accountable for our behaviour than the world is. I am grateful for those who believe it is the job of the church, as mandated in scripture, to call out hypocrisy, false teaching and double standards WHEREVER they are found.
For those arguing grace, forgiveness and compassion, I suspect you have not understood these words in relation to the whole counsel of God. These are all powerfully forces that lead into the arms of God, but Frank rejected them when he denied these things to others. It is important that you understand that judgement within the church, is also a means of grace, forgiveness and compassion.
You also fail to remember that as Frank, as Brian does also, set himself up as a leader and teacher of men, he, according to scripture, became more accountable to God and to the church. Those who are not holding them to account are in fact the ones doing them the most harm.
If you would see Brian Houston survive this, then you will reprove, rebuke and admonish him.
Tanya. I don’t want to collaborate. I’m just doing what I can for the cause. Any information I glean that I’m able to share will be on this site. Donald
Hey Noel, how’s it going?.. Rom 3:23 says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
HI…having trouble contacting you… please be aware that we are all putting our heads together…thanks for all this info….please send your email..? or find me on facebook.. we’ll get to the heart of this together x
Some interesting WFH Bio – http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/ADPCM/e-to-h/houston-william-francis-frank-1922-/ I had always assumed that the book keeping errors were not sufficient reason for the Salvation Army to expell the then youthful Frank and went with the gossip that there would be sufficient cause if it was say an extramarital affair. Whatever it was, caused his “backsliding” for three years until Tony Austin invited him to the Khyber Pass AoG in where Ray Bloomfield took him under his wing and within six weeks had made him the Assistant Minister at his popular Ellerslie AOG church. However this arrangement didn’t last long, as Bloomfield suddenly moved Canada in ’55, leaving Frank with his large 400 congregation which quickly dwindled to about 80. Frank stuck with it until December 1959 when he was offered Lower Hutt AOG. CJ
I don’t think anyone here has not been improper or vindictive. I think, they just want the truth to be reflected and as you have seen everything you have put forward has not been correct. If at all, you seem to be aiming at Hillsong and Brian Houston, Read your post again.
I also still don’t see how a blog is helping victims. You will agree that Pastor Brian Houston is not accountable for his father’s actions and actually cannot answer for him at all but still made an attempt to understand the victims point of view. I watched the Royal Commission, which in my opinion is a good thing especially to know if the right thing was done and, I think Brian Houston spoke exactly as it was from his perspective. On the other hand, if you watched the Royal Commission on the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell with his own confession said that while he had taken up the abuse cases with the Vatican, they shunned him aside and in fact told him not to come again with these cases. Now that is a problem when the church does not heed to something brought to their notice. We are all sinners but I believe that when we see something wrong happening, we should not push it aside but instead do the right thing which I think Brian Houston did do in 1999.
Kepa. I basically agree with ACC’s 10 points about gays. I have had a lot of interaction with gays in Sydney over the decades. If a man or woman decides they want to seek the Holy Spirit through the Lord Jesus Christ they will make contact with the Divine. The Holy Spirit will help them come to terms with how He feels about the situation. And then the Holy Spirit will show the gay man or women what is the next step. Its about wholeness as a human being. Donald
Noel. Thank you for sharing your views. I welcome anyone to comment so long as its done in a polite and not a vindictive manner. I am not able to share more about my conversations with victims. Save to say there are many. I’m doing what I can to help them. They all have counsellors. They like my blogs and what I have to say and feel empowered by them. My opinions and views are well-known on this site. Donald
Rom 3:23 says “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are no one to commend another man as we are all sinners. The only one who can judge is God Himself.
If as you say are helping others do you think that you are equipped enough to help them. It would be better if you directed them to the correct source for a proper investigation. The need to start a blog arises only when you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man, something which none of us have the right to.
10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. – so what does this infer??? that such people don’t accept Christ????????
Hi Donald, People may find this interesting… This is what Hillsong and ACC (Australian Christian Churches) actually believe about Homosexuality & Lesbianism:
1. Homosexuality is referred to directly and specifically in the scriptures. 2. Homosexuality violated God’s plan for provision and family. 3. Biologically God did not create the human body for homosexual activity. 4. Homosexual activity is unhygenic as can be seen in the high rates of infection with, and the transmission of AIDS amongst those who practice homosexuality. 5. Homosexuality is a dangerous practice that reduces life expectancy of the participant by 25years. 6. Homosexuality is a chosen ‘behaviour’. 7. It is a ‘choice’ – Not a natural, biological, hormonal or genetically governed behaviour. 8. We oppose the legalization of homosexuality. 9. God loves the homosexual despite their sin and is willing to forgive the homosexual and bring them to wholeness. 10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. Source: ACC Ministers Manual: Ethics Statements (Homosexuality & Lesbianism)
BE YE ‘PERFECT’ AS FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT!.. What was that?.. Do we here these words in the Churches anymore?.. LOL.. 🙂 .. If a Minister mentions the word ‘PERFECT’ in the pulpit today, the congregation splinter and he is considered .. DELUDED .. 🙂 .. this gives us all a good idea on how many churched people are Really Saved from Eternal Hell Fire.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRc0h2jjX8 .. Enjoy!
Deb. You are correct. Hillsong was just a continuation of Christian Life Centre. Simple as that. But Pastor Brian Houston is using this entity change from Christian Life Centre, Sydney to Hillsong to say to the 13 plus boy victims of his father’s abuse: “Sorry about the abuse occurring at Christian Life Centre, other parts of Australia and New Zealand when my dad Frank was in the AOG or City Hillsong. You see the AOG New Zealand is a separate entity from the AOG Australia and the AOG Australia is now Australian Christian Churches anyway and Christian Life Centre Sydney is now Hillsong City campus. So unless your abuse happened in Hillsong Baulkham Hills since 2000, I’m definitely not liable. Not even morally because I have no morals towards the victims so how could I be morally liable?” Donald
Paul.Thank you for your support and belief in what I’m doing. One victim who wrote to me on this site about being abused by Pastor Frank Houston contacted the Royal Commission this week with my help and gave them a written account of his story. He emailed me after and said that its made him feel a lot better and empowered. The abuse occurred when he was just 11 and happened several times at an AOG church camp in Australia. TV One in New Zealand contacted me and asked me for some leads on NZ victims of Pastor Frank Houston and I was able to point them where to find some. I was contacted today by a NZ victim in an area of NZ where I’ve had no evidence of abuse and I’m in communication to see if I can help them. Donald
Hello Michelle, I don’t know you personally neither do I know Donald personally but one thing I do know of Donald is this .. “Donald has a Backbone (which is more than I can say about most church leaders today) and he Truly cares about people, especially abused people and I have no doubt that God Almighty ‘will and is’ backing him in his pursuit of Righteousness and Justice for those who have been beaten down and have no Voice”. And one more thing, I don’t really do the ‘blog-thing’ but I find myself here on Donald’s Blog, as Father leads. And have you noticed that Donald’s Blog has no ‘Coward, Compromising Notice’ on it such as.. “All comments on this Blog are subject to Moderation”.. I like that, I like that people are free to speak what is ‘Really in their Hearts’ and are not Controlled and Restricted by Pharisees, Sadducees and People Pleasers. Let me recommend this article link (of my fellow minister) for your reading, RE: Judge Not. And also, let me say, Proud People wouldn’t dare put their Name, Time and Strength on the line for others, (proud people have no genuine care for anyone but themselves) please consider what I have just said Michelle, it may prove to be helpful as you go further down the road .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. 🙂
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Justice certainly needs to happen but sounds like you’re playing God, judge and jury, Donald. Let the authorities handle it. Be very very careful Donald, pride goes before the fall. I understand your righteous anger but never be so self righteous to think YOU could never fall. This sounds like a witch hunt you are conducting.
so terrible sad all of this, words fail me! Judgement must indeed start in the house of God and flow on out from there to the rest of the world. When Jesus returns He will be looking for a holy and pure bride who walks in the ways of God. It is up to all of us (individually and as the body of Christ) to be ready for His return. And you can be sure His coming is not far away, take heed of the parable of the 10 virgins (5 were wise, 5 were foolish. Look and see what happened, what was the outcome!). Those who have been wronged need justice, healing.
On the subject of lying. I would like to comment on Maureen’s statement about her dad not founding hillsong. Is she splitting hairs? I was in the meeting that day Brian and 40/45? Others were commissioned out to start a church at baulkham hills from CLC. We were also told that we and our tithes would help to fund them until they could get on their feet. Yes that church changed and involved into hillsong but that was a growth and change of name only. It still came from and was funded and founded out of her dad’s church. Surely someone like Maureen would know the truth of this? Wouldn’t you think?
There is God’s laws and the laws of the country. Crimes are dealt with in a COURT OF LAW. Not by anyone’s compassion and forgiveness. You are foolish to suggest that crimes are acts of the devil.If you were right.what is the use of having laws. Don’t come back to me with more quotes from the bible to justify what you said According to you, we can justify all the crimes committed in this world by blaming it on the devil. Judge: ” Yes dear man it wasnt your fault you molested that innocent child, it was an act from the devil” Youre a cretin mate to suggest we cant question Frank Houstons If you truly were abused yourself in this manner, do you honestly believe your forgiveness helped anyone else that that person may have abused? Or the abuser itself?
Gidday Donald .. I watched part of the RC on Houston this afternoon via streaming and from what I can see .. this Hillsong mob are as Cunning as a Dunny Rat, they’ll run around the bowl all day and never fall in. Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this entire case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church. All supposed Protestants (save RC’s) who dare not Protest any more, especially against Sin. And worse than that, Hellsong will have the gall to say .. “Thanks be unto God for Vindicating us”… 🙂 .. From the little I have seen/heard of Houston on live-streaming, he doesn’t give a hoot about anyone else but Brian, Frank/deceased and Hillsongs Furtherance. AOG are Crooks and ‘Wordplay Professionals’. I don’t believe any of them could lie straight in bed.. 🙂 .. I’ve said it for decades and people, so called Christians, pew warmers and Pastors alike HATE me for it .. “AOG is a Den of Thieves and who in their right mind would want to be associated with them”. Yes, I have had opportunity to be part ( a minister) with them, on more than one occasion (1 being with Garden City Church) but the Spirit in me said ‘Stay Away’.. thanks but no thanks .. 🙂 .. ref/Psalm 1:1 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo71.htm ..
Good Morning Donald.. I read your Oct 8 Comment on the RC-Houston and although the Saga is grim I still liked the dry-humour. As for your Oct 7 Comment, well, it was just so sad to read. So this man/FH controlled this boy AHA for 5 years, most certainly was no mistake was it. Wilful damage, damnable Sin outside of True-Repentance. I never seen Jim Williams X Pastor of Garden City Church ever go before the Courts either for his Sexual Misconduct with young girls in New Zealand, prior to coming to Australia, just another White Washed-Stone Wall job I guess. ‘Amazing Grace’ it is that Saves Souls from Eternal Hell Fire that live in Ongoing Known Sin Un-Repented… ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’ what a Beautiful Message filled with God’s Love .. ref/Luke 24:47 .. 🙂 .. Go in the strength of our God – Jesus, who is the Christ .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/tradingongrace.htm ..
Denis. Thank you for your comment and concerns. Would you mind detailing anything you feel is inaccurate? I started writing about Pastor Frank Houston two years ago. That was when I wrote the article on this site: “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. It was shortly after my father’s death, who was also a pastor. I was writing about dad and his life, mainly for my family and people who knew dad. In the course of my recollections and memories I wrote a blog about dad and Frank Houston because they were pastors in the same city in New Zealand. That was in Wellington in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Their contrasting backgrounds, congregational demography and so on was interesting to me. You see Denis, this is a private blog site which is only my opinion. I write the world as I see it. If I get the facts wrong, I’d like to know. Also I very much believe in the ethos of democracy and freedom of expression. So if you or anyone disagrees with me, that’s OK. I hope this explains a bit about where I’m coming from. Donald
Sorry Maureen something is not right in the Houston family. Your brother is wealthy, he is high profile, he is powerful and he has achieved many wonderful things as you say. However, I see a man in a deep rut of pain and shame that he is digging with his action of not shouting from his stage everything he knows. The truth will set him free. I’m afraid there are skeletons in Brian’s closet that caused him to start digging this rut. I’m not suggesting they are the same skeletons as your fathers but there are skeletons. A man without these skeletons would have just jumped on the grenade from the outset with the faith that Jesus Christ will restore.
Hello Donald. I have read your blog page and find numerous assumptions that you have come to. Please get the facts before you go into the public arena. You appear to be on a mission to avenge the sexual abuse of one man. Assumptions presented as fact are damaging to people and once stated by go it can not be withdrawn. Your assumptions have entered minds and they take it as fact. Be careful and use wisdom.
John. What age did Sheila live to and what happened to the nice house they built? Your dad was a very good man and you’re fortunate to have had a father like him. I can’t remember if I went to Stan’s funeral but I may have. Where was it held? I went to Pastor Tom Marshall’s funeral and watched the coffin being lowered into the hole. His funeral was at the Cemetery at North Ryde in Sydney. He got cancer unexpectedly and died quickly. Tom was one of the men of God who I think really had a close walk with God. Sometimes he’d radiate God’s Presence. Did you get on well with Stan? I’ll read the AOG link you mention. Did Stan and Sheila ever mention the scandal involving Frank’s abuse of 6 ten year old boys at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s and several at AOG youth camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. I’m trying to get more details. Do you know anyone who might know? Donald
Donald – yes indeed, I’m Stan’s second son. Incidentally, prior to her move to Africa as a missionary, Sheila was my mother’s midwife for me back in ’43 at the maternity home behind what is now the Hutt City AoG. If your interested in correcting the Wiki version of NZL AoG, Pastor Ian G Clark, whom I respected, has written its history – http://ifphc.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/assemblies-of-god-in-new-zealand/#more-662 If I recall it correctly of when I was 14/15 & vacationed in Ellerslie at my best friend home, Ray Bloomfield was a short overweight American type preacher that I didn’t really appreciate – but I understand there may have been some friction there with WFH. I moved to Ardmore in ’64 & lost contact with religion having some personal disbelief with the results of the Nicene “Convention”. I helped Dad & Sheila with the electrical wiring of their house and Dad died in ’78 a few months prior to my leaving NZL for Indonesia where now reside. I have no further juicy tales to tell of WFH except to say that I really had no trust in him and considered him and his ilk as a charlatan. (I once observed a Dentist from the congregation swear that the dental fillings one prayed for convert was receiving were from God – why didn’t he just get real teeth?) If evangelicals were a little more openly tolerant towards gay society then pedophilia would have a better chance to be recognised earlier. How many gay men & women are so because they were abused before reaching a mature enough age to understand the consequences.?
Paul. Don’t worry. Most people don’t comment. The views have gone through the roof. I’ve never set out to please people and write what tickles their ears. I have a huge number of viewers on a wide variety of subjects. The Frank Houston blogs are the most popular, particular “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. This was my first blog on Frank Houston a couple of years ago. Thank you for your comments and encouragement. I’m going to organise a class action if Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston don’t do something for the victims that is acceptable to me and the victims. One class action against the New Zealand AOG and one here in Australia against Hillsong and the AOG (now called the Australian Christian Churches). Donald
Well Donald .. day 2 has nearly passed us by and the ‘Stone Walling’ has already begun.. LOL!.. otherwise you’ll cry. The World, the News Reports tell us that even they are being deceived into thinking that Brian Houston and His Churched Leaders are all just Innocent Peoples saying with one accord.. “Silver and Gold have we None”. Jesus did say that ‘His people’ look for and long for the ‘New Heavens and the New Earth’ where RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS. It certainly doesn’t dwell on this earth, save in the Holy Remnant Peoples. ‘Admitting’ that we are Sinners or we have done wrong or that something is vile is not True Repentance, something needs to be done. The whole Saga of Frank Houston and his Filthy ways is not about his son Brian Admitting that his dad was a ‘Sodomite and Child Molester’… and then let’s move on now and Business as Usual. The entire case is not complete and never will be, in the eyes of the Righteous or the Righteous One-Jesus the Christ, until every single Victim is Accounted for, Compensated for and Catered for with whatever they need in order to ease the Horrific Damage dumped upon these little ones, by these Filthy Rich Wolves in Sheep’s Garments. If all I can do is continue to Encourage you to press forward with your ‘Findings and Conviction’ and also Pray for you and this ‘White -Washed’ situation, this is what I’ll do. But as you have already said “Some sins are Evident and Dealt with on earth while others follow them to the Grave”. Which was the case with Frank Houston. So was it 1 Child Molested or was it 21?. Frank and his wife’s sudden death also left a question mark in my mind .. And yes, dear Donald, only the ‘Salty’ will be Spared!!.. from Eternal Torment .. I notice that your Blog is not flooded with comments on such an Important Subject but neither is ‘The Narrow Road Flooded with Travellers’ .. ref/Matthew 7:13-14 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVY3MNm-VE .. Maranatha!
Rose. Its all voluntary re tithing and I have been going to church almost all my life. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses and has had its ups and downs but I’ve found my Christian faith has sustained me. My dad was a Pastor and from knee high he told me tales of human error, even pedophilia in the Church. And that was in the 1960s and 1970s. Everywhere you have people inside the Church or outside the Church you’ll find evil and human depravity. Donald
Paul. Thank you for mentioning me. I want to be one of those who follows in the footsteps of the brave heroes of the faith in the hall of fame in Hebrews chapter 11. Its been travelling around in my spirit lately the scripture in Revelation about if we’re lukewarm then God will spew us out of His mouth. Donald
I left CLC in its beginning days at Waterloo. Nobody explained such a thing as Diapraxis $$$, but I could see its outworking. I could see the signs and knew it was time to get out. This did not mean that I stopped being a Christian. The wickedness of men is a given and I alone must stand before God and give account. There was a time that the CLC bookshop had the likes of Francis schaeffer and Derek Prince etc. A number of years later I returned to CLC to check out its bookshop, to use the bookshop as a barometer regarding the church’s spirituality; as expected it had gone into decline. The simplistic books of Kennith Copeland were in full view; Copeland a known Freemason, as are Kennith Hagin and Billy Graham.
Many years later I chose to look at the top contemporary Christian music CD’s. As I listened to these, I was appalled; gone was the music of Keith Green and John Michael Talbot, true Christian music. Next I discovered a youtube hillsong video. This included a ‘so called’ Christian thrash metal band by the name of Pergamum; any Christian worth his salt should instantly know that (from the book of Revelations) Pergamum is the ‘seat of satan’; Pergamum being found in Turkey. The Pergamum altar being currently housed in a Berlin German museum; the same copied Pergamum altar that Obama used for his 2008 democratic(sic) convention. How a so called Christian Church could house a thrash metal band firstly, next one named Pergamum (seat of satan) was truly disgusting, while also intriguing to me. I wondered at the people that stood and watched this band; you could see at some level that they were troubled, yet they did nothing.
You who are without sin let him cast the first stone. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. A look at the old testament, in all its honesty, reveals the failings of man. The race we run is one to the finish line. Would you catch me in a hillsong church? Only to check out how far the fruit has fallen, then I’m out of there.
Beyond this, these are the sign of the times; the great falling away, the kali yuga. Yet this has all been in the making for many thousands of years. Mystery Babylon, gnostics, Alumbrados, The Church of Rome, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, witches, and satanists etc. Many who think that they have the absolute truth and yet are beguiled, (Do I think I have all the answers? No, but I make it my life’s work to find answers to the most important of questions). The Jesuits being some of the most heinous and depraved; the cause of most of the worlds wars and death of millions – mystery babylon. These same jesuits that secretly obtaining most of the worlds wealth via its illuminati run international bankers, via its owned reserve banks of this world. These very same who run the media and create religions. The very same people who set up tele-evangelists i.e. wolves in sheep’s clothing. Tele-evangelists who are also commonly Freemasons. Freemasonry which acknowledges at its 31st to 33rd levels that the god they worship is lucifer. This same lucifer which is the name which the UN had its publishing company named as ‘lucifer publishing’ now lucis trust. The same illuminati, inclusive of Murdoch who owns Harper Collins, which prints its ‘so called’ Christian bibles i.e. corrupted bibles. See videos ‘A lamp in the dark’ and ‘Tares among the wheat’ for the ongoing attack and corruption of the bible via the Vatican Jesuits. See also Libellusjesuitus.pdf as the the magical working of the Vatican Jesuits in conjuration of the demons of hell. As for those who still do not believe in a spiritual battle, you might like to look at all the books and videos of satanism and black magic readily available on Amazon.com and youtube; interesting are the works of E.A.Koetting on both of these websites. A person who will teach you of Human sacrifice but will smile when he tells you that he has not been apart of this. The Roman Church who is well aware of the spiritual realm and which secretly uses the forces of darkness to maintain power, all the while working for the Fascist New World Order, One world Government and One world Church – luciferian doctrine. The confessions of witches will tell you that they will attend church services; to merely sit in a service as a point of darkness to filter through to the church. Yes the people on top, the oligarchy, the is called illumanists, satanists know what is going on, what is at stake; power mad leeches of humanity; the ones that refer to the rest of us as useless eaters, cockroaches ready for the slaughter of the UN’s Agenda 21, Bohemium Grove and Georgia Guide Stones.
Yes I was also saddened to hear about Frank Houston, while every minister is a target, the mind boggles as to the wickedness of man. Saddened to watch what was becoming and did become of CLC, but with what I have just described above, you might have a glimpse into what is beyond what most just see on the surface. The rock of the Christian faith is the word of God. The Vatican and gnostics etc will tell you to place your trust on ‘Tradition and revelation’ all the while attacking the word of God and even corrupt the newer bibles. A look at Westcott and Hort (Jesuits) will show you from their written correspondences how they would seek to distort and destroy people’s faith in the bible (firstly via using the Jesuit Sinaiticus corrupted manuscript and then via casting doubt via the margin notes). There is a reason why there are Christians who stand firm on bibles that use the ‘majority script’ i.e. textus receptus manuscripts i.e King James Version; this verses the Vatican distorted manuscripts that most bibles these days are corrupted by. Wisely did St Paul state that “our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers..” For my liking any major church these days, especially that has Tele-evangelists are immediately suspect. The oligarchy which has most of the worlds wealth and controls most of the media, luciferians, are not going to let any church or minister that is not one of theirs, be able to positively influence the masses. The watered down churches of today are ripe for the One world Church. The Vatican created Islam to kill the true Christian and Jews and the game goes on. Why, did you not know that Mohammad’s wife of 15 years senior was a Roman Catholic that lived in a Roman Catholic convent? See information as presented by ex-jesuit Alberto Rivera – All roads lead to Rome. The tower of Babel – the U.N, Atheism verses Religion, the Hegelian dialectic, to achieve the One World’s Religion of the luciferian doctrine, the new age movement, man as god, all giving homage to lucifer. Stupid minds, Credit card mentalities – you can have it now, but one day you’ll have to pay up with interest.
So, you can listen to the lies and the distortions, you can run to Atheism etc like an ostrich with its head in the sand, but this does not negate the spiritual realm and the criteria of giving account as to ones earthly life’s actions. As for me, I’ll still stand by the one who spoke the greatest of all truth, the one who spoke words pertaining to eternal life – Yashaya (Jesus Christ).
Yes Donald.. Our great Lord-Jesus talks about ‘Thoroughly Purging His Church’ and if we don’t want to come under His Winnowing Fan’ .. how shall we be His, how shall we be Saved . .. would we not be only Born-Again Bastards?.. Not all Israel are Israel are they. And MANY will call Lord-Lord!.. whom Jesus will Deny He ever knew them. This Message was our Mid Week Teaching taught today.. 8.10.2014. And I make mention of Brian/Frank Houston, Hillsong and other Heathen Religious People-Organisations. You may find some time to listen. I also made mention of yourself-Donald. Keep up the Goodly Work, I’m sure Father – Ancient of Days is proud of you. Yahweh always backs His Truth and all who speak it in it’s Entirety – Full Counsel, never known Him any other way in 27 years Ministry .. Our motto @ JtCm-Mission is .. Honesty, Truth and Humility, with Jesus as Preeminent .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTlsPMenBc .. thank you Donald for keeping me posted .. Jesus Bless you .. 🙂 ..
Paul. I’m watching the whole Hearing and will continue to write blogs. Pastor Brian Houston issued a statement yesterday after the Royal cCommission denying he told victim AHA that he was tempting his dad. Please think about it: for 5 years the victim who was aged just 7 was abused by pastor Frank Houston and Pastor Brian Houston says the AHA was tempting his dad. This is the only victim the Royal Commission has heard from so far. From 2000 Pastor Brian Houston as head of the AOG took over the case of his dad. All the evidence from inside the Commission and from my sources says that Pastor Brian Houston did nothing at all to help the victims of his dad’s abuse in any way, apart from the shameful attempt at a buy-off at Thornleigh McDonald’s where a deal was done with AHA for $10,000 to be paid. AHA then had to chase Pastor Brian Houston for the cheque which arrived in the post with no cover letter. Pastor Frank Houston then tried to hush it all up and shut the matter down and has lied lied lied ever since. The Royal Commission is on to Pastor Brian Houston and he should be a worried man, if he’s not already. Before Sydney and the world Pastor Brian Houston’s shameful treatment of victims of his dad’s abuse is being played out. It was the top story on Sydney and National Sky News last night. there were large articles in the Sydney morning Herald and Daily Telegraph. Very very sad for the victims. Not good for the body of Christ. Purging sometimes has to come. Some people are judged on this earth. For some the judgment awaits them. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Sickening! This is so typical of Churches, never deal with anything properly or even biblically – shame on them! Shut all churches down I reckon or start TAXING them, after all, do they not TAX the members with the TITHE?? !! Of course they doApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Well Donald, day 1 is done with the Houston/Hillsong – CLC – AOG – ACC .. Saga and a little has been given recognition. People will always have THEIR views but the TRUTH is the truth and we can’t escape it, no matter what we try to do to camouflage it. As I watched the News last night, they said that F. Houston meet with one young victim @ Maccas and cut a deal with him for 10K $ and it was contracted on a MACCAS Tissue. How Low can ya Go?.. What a cheap trick, it’s just insult after insult isn’t it for all victims and even for the intelligence of the Commission, the Law and God’s Law, not to mention the Christian Community at large.This tells all, the REAL character of Franky Houston, not his Religious AOG Showcase Character but the real man within. F. Houston (within the secret meet) WILFULLY Abused and Wrecked a young mans life (along with multiple others) and then degraded him again by cutting a deal with him on a tissue paper. VERY CLASSY INDEED. Basically treating him like a piece of scrap meat, (the old nudge-nudge wink-wink say not more ). Franky basically tried to mop up such a Great Filthy Mess with a MACCAS TISSUE, now that is deluded in the first degree. Just a Band-Aid for the Leper. With no Respect whatsoever for humanity, let alone Christianity or Christ. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR?. However, I find one great insult and Sin in the midst of all this filth and that is, Brian Houston plays the ‘Liar and the Denier’ in this whole filthy mess and we all know that Jesus called ‘Satan the Father of Lies’. Hence, there is no lower character a person can be, in the eyes of God-Yahweh .. than a LIAR. Brian needs to Repent, come clean, face the music and move on in honesty and humility with expectation of Salvation on Faith-Obedience .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLVLODCJbI …ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes, its all about the victims. That’s what these articles of mine are about. Helping the victims and bringing hillsong, Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG to account. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
John. I had forgotten Frank served at Ellerslie. In what capacity did he serve? Was Ray Bloomfield involved there? Are there any Frank Houston victims of abuse from that period? Yes, i agree Frank was into male physique and bodies. That is normal for a homosexual but not for a prominent AOG pastor. Sad. So are you the son of Stan Carter? Stan was an amazing man. I met Stan at large interdenominational charismatic meeting at Karori, Wellington, where he was on the door. It was 1976-77. As you’d know he had a ministry of helps. I then got to know Stan and Sheila well at Kapiti Christian Centre. I recall Stan’s smile as he greeted people at the door at Karori. I was a young Christian aged 19 and used to help him on the door. I spent time with them as they built their new home on Kapiti beachfront. It would be worth a lot of money today. Stan was tireless in his work and then dropped dead from that heart attack. Stan and Sheila told me about Pastor Frank Houston being accused of pedophilia in the early 1970s. There was a big blow-up and a lot of people left. Do you know the facts on that incident? What age did Sheila live to? She was a very godly woman and had served as an AOG missionary in Africa for decades. Sheila shared how the tribes would run their pagan ceremonies all night with loud drumming and so ion and it would be quite scary. Stan and Sheila were quaint living in that little caravan as they build their house. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kylie. Pastor Brian Houston is in no way responsible for his father;s pedophile and homosexual sins, which are many and involve 12 or more victims, probably 20 plus, over all the decades from the 1960s until the 1980s. I haven’t found any dirty old man Frank Houston victims. If you read the last two blogs I’ve written last night and this morning you’ll understand where Brian is culpable and responsible. As head of Hillsong, as pastor Frank’s successor and as head of the AOG denomination for 12 years until 2009, he has been heartless, cold and arrogant towards the victims of his dad’s abuse. He has also been in denial. it is a difficult time for Brian and the Houston family. There are other issues too. For example, the Houstons have grown fat on royalties on hill song products and music, which is in reality stealing from God. What is God’s is Gods. What is mortal mans belongs to mortal man. You don’t profit from the things of God and the holy gospel. Its wrong. Its stealing from God. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
My spouse and I stumbled over here different web page and thought I may as well check things out. I like what I see so i am just following you. Look forward to looking into your web page yet again.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I just cant’ help feeling for those poor, young and helpless children that had been abused by Frank Houston. I have two boys myself. Just feel how heartless this man is for raping and abusing these children, the fear , helplessness and pain that their little bodies and minds have to injure from that evil of a man. I’m sorry but i wish he is burning in hell now for hurting those little ones.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Donald – Some Bios of Frank omit the period he served at Elerslie prior to being called to Lower Hutt where my father was a Deacon – I understand you have met him as you quote him and my stepmother somewhere. One of the strangest encounters with Frank that I recall vividly, was his obsession with the physique and athletic ability of school boy swimmers. In particular he confided that he frequented the then new Nae Nae Olympic swimming pool, to watch the swimming races. He had breached the subject some time in 1960 I believe, when I was in the sixth form, saying how much he enjoyed watching the performance of Robbie Walker an outstanding swimmer from our school. Maybe this was the start of his deviant obsession.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
P.s i strongly agree though that Frank Houston should be put on show for what he’s done and everything should be shared with the media, justice for those poor victims is all they have! And perhaps Hill song needs to fully accept and come to terms with the extent of his terrible doings!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I’m shattered by this disturbing news, I feel for Brian and his family because they are in a terrible situation that is not their doing nor do they have any control of, offenders always have children of their own and Brian happens to be the child of a terrible man but this is not his fault and I feel he shouldn’t be blamed for his father’s actions, I have been part of Hill song for many years on and off and although I consider my self a Christian I’ve never read the Bible nor do I take it very seriously yet I pray every night, so please don’t think I’m bias! I call a spade a spade and take people on face value, Brian/hillsong have done so much good over the years and helped so many people in need and yet this becomes quickly forgotten in bad times in the media, Brian may have been abused himself has anyone thought of that?? And does this make him not worthy to preach because his family life isn’t perfect, that church is amazing for people in need and it’s all thanks to Brians hard work if people think that it’s all been easy and he’s just scammed money out of people then their wrong he has worked hard, and had to leave his children to go overseas to constantly dedicate his life to helping others, all I can sayis I’m devastated but not hating these people due to others actions, family or not!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Lynda. You are correct that Pastor Brian Houston has knowledge of other cases. Victim AHA is an example of an Australian victim that Brian has known about since 1998. I’m sure it is very difficult for Brian. We know each other although I haven’t spoken to him for a long time. I don’t understand the psychology but Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong still persist with that official view of only one victim in New Zealand 40 years ago. Pastor Brian is having a lot of difficulty coming to terms with the activities of his dad. As are the other Houstons such as Beverly Houston who mentions the family trauma about her dad in comments on this site. The Houston denial is about to change. The Royal Commission which started today says that it has knowledge of 7 victims. I have knowledge of 11 plus. One of the purposes of my articles is to clarify with everyone that Pastor Frank Houston was a continual pedophile and homosexual from the 1960s when he was in his 30s until the 1980s when he was over 60. I also want Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston to start caring about the victims. Listening to them. Respecting them. Paying for a counsellor of their choice and one million dollars payout per victim. Thank you for your comments.DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hello , since reading this I have googled abit more about it . Just wanted to bring to your attention that there is a u tube clip of Pastor Brian Housten discussing this as the most difficult time in his life , and he clearly refers to “victims” and also mentions a meeting with at least one other victim as well . Thought I would mention it as I’m sure seeing how you are doing a blog and obviously have a lot of facts about the case , that you would also want to ensure accuracy in all areas of reporting . CheersApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
A BLESSING FOR ALL .. from Brother: Donald Wilson, this is a timely Message for the AOG-ACC for sure. Brother Donald was Principal of 2 Christian Schools in New Zealand and his dad by the leading of Holy Ghost departed from the AOG in the end, through disgust and that was going back 50 years, so what does that tell you .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/freedom.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Good Morning Donald .. Yes, it is a Goodly Morn, why?.. because it’s Commission Day.I would like to watch the Commission hearing, if time permits, otherwise I look forward to reading the paperback version. Sounds like you’re the man for this very job, and Father has a perfect way of finding the right man for every job, re/Little David-chosen above his warlord buffed-brothers. My fellow minister (Brother: Donald Wilson) in the Christ comes from NZ and his dad Pastor: William Wilson used to walk with Smith Wigglesworth when he was about. And has said to me on occasion that all these Ministers who use Wigglesworth’s name (for their own ends), re/Houston, Nalliah, Hinn, Copeland, Meyer, I’ve even heard ‘Jim Williams’ of Garden City Church when it was called such, drop his name when convenient. I met Jim Williams @ GCC many years ago and when I shook his hand the ‘Spirit of the Lord’ said to me he was going to be removed from GC within 12 months and he was removed only months later. When I told some of his fans this, they said I was jealous of him, charged at me and told me to be very careful what I say. He is another that was caught out for his taste for the young. Brother Donald doubted very much whether Wigglesworth would even give the people mentioned the time of day. I had a small happening with Freddy Evans/AOG too one time, an arrogant man if ever there was one. I haven’t read Bobby Houston’s book or any of Brian’s (the titles are enough) but I have heard both on TV and the little I could bear was suffice, 10 mins is overkill. Yes, I must agree, the AOG along with the RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church and Salvation Army are sticklers for ‘Stone Walling’ and are in deep water in Yahweh’s Eyes. I am praying that justice be done and the truth revealed .. you are in my prayers .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/devil_is_a_pervert.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Paul. Yes that’s the time for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Live stream starting at 10.30am today Tuesday at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au. I have knowledge of far more AOG pastors and leaders who are guilty of pedophile activities and have been protected by the AOG from prosecution, than Pastor Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s dad, who died in 2004, and was a secret homosexual and pedophile for over 40 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg re Hillsong and the Australian AOGs damage to Christendom. In a previous comment you reference the book Bobbie Houston’s “Kingdom women like sex”. I can’t find teachings like this in the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Can you imagine the reaction of Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth and Kathryn Kulmann to writings like this and Pastor Brian Houston’s writings about riches, money and prosperity? There is so much wrong with Hillsong and a large number of the AOG and modern pentecostal churches in Australia and all over the Western World. The problem is that we haven’t had a revival for a long time to flush all the worldiness out of our hearts and lives. When Pastor Brian Houston took over Christian Life Centre Sydney in the 1997 he shut down all the Holy Spirit soaker meetings, the prayer meetings and Christian Commandos, the outreach ministry in Kings Cross. He sanitised everything and all the Pentecostal stuff stopped. No prophecies, no healings, no deliverance. All the foundations of the ministry of Jesus, the Apostle Paul and the early church. All the things of the Holy Spirit, the early church and Pentecost stopped. This is where we must return to. The simplicity of faith in Christ. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount- Matthew 5-7. I Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. Acts 2 and Pentecost and the beginnings of Christianity. 1904-7 Azuza Street and the Welsh Revival Smith Wigglesworth, John G Lake, Katherine Kulman and so on. Those that have gone before us who are worth reading. If you read the Sermons of John G Lake and then read Bobby Houston’s “Christian Woman love sex” you might puke. I haven’t read her or Brian’s books but I intend to read them all and to do a full analysis of Hillsong and explain how it has gone off the rails and taken most of Australian Pentecost off the right track with it. I’m not without hope because the Holy Spirit is the greatest and sometimes He has to dismantle a whole denomination or organisation to bring forth new buds and establish what is right. A generation will rise up soon who are sick of the greed, corruption and money and sex emphasis in Hillsong and the Pentecostal church and who will embrace the true tenets of Christianity as found in the New Testament and the early church. All the best with the godly fight. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I have had my own experiences and run-ins with AOG – ACC Church Ministers and Members over 27 years Ministry and everyone of them disgusted me, still do. They are surely off with the Pixies. I have a few people in my fellowship that escaped the clutches of the AOG and the stories they have told me simply confirm and add to my original view of that Religious – Franchise. I always hoped that this wicked Religious Organisation/Business/Franchise would be ‘Exposed’ for what it really is. Looks like Yahweh gave me my wish, at least part of it for now. It was my wife that came across this blog today on her phone and she mentioned it to me this afternoon. The funny thing is, my wife didn’t attend our Church yesterday for she wasn’t well and she didn’t know what I Preached (not as yet). But I did mention Brian Houston and his ‘Affluent Church in New York’ in my prelude. How Brian was boasting on TV of how Hillsong are making headway into the Big Ticked Night Clubs where all the Wealthy, cashed up Sodomites, Transvestites and Depraved Women hang out. And then I come across this blog, well you could have pushed me over with a pin. Didn’t Jesus say to ‘Abstain from even the Appearances of Evil’?.. And what would AOG – Hillsong know about Worship anyway?. True Worship involves selflessness. It’s the 7.10. 2014 tomorrow isn’t it, yeah.. ‘Joy Comes in the Morning’ says the Lord of all Equity… 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo215.htm .. Yesterdays Message @ JtCm-Mission, Brisbane City .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8Nh92DmyE ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Pastor Brian Houston is about to appear before the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission is looking at the response to child abuse by the Assemblies of God, the Australian Christian Churches (a conglomerate of Pentecostal churches including the AOG, Hillsong and Pastor Frank Houston). Pastor Frank Houston, Brian’s father abused 11 plus victims, probably a lot more, mainly young boys aged 10-11 as very prominent Assemblies of God (AOG) pastor over 4 plus decades. These abuses took place in Australia and New Zealand. There are other AOG pastors who will be examined at this Hearing starting next Tuesday 7 October 2014 in Sydney. There is admissable evidence that Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG pastors did these things. The attitude of Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG in Australia and New Zealand has been to stonewall victims, try to hush them up and not compensate them properly or normally at all, if possible. You be the judge whether we should all go on with our lives and pretend child abuse of innocents by AOG pastors and leaders hasn’t happened and isn’t still happening. Pedophilia is a crime and there are serious consequences. The Australian Government certainly isn’t letting it go, in the AOG or any other church or institution. And I thank God for that. Future and present children need as much protection as possible from these evil predators. Especially from the clergy, for people don’t expect the clergy to be wolves in sheep’s apparel.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Absolutely Karen swart. I agree people need to leave Brian Houston alone god is in charge we can not condemn. Anyone only god can judge and I think it’s great Brian has done what he did he is a truly Remarkable manApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Maureen. Unfortunately you are in denial. To date the Australian AOG, Hillsong and your brother Brian have stalled and blocked any research or examination of Pastor Frank Houston’s numerous child sexual abuse victims. It would be nice if Pastor Brian Houston would face up to the music. I’m not optimistic. I would expect Brian and the AOG to stonewall the Royal Commission. It would be nice if this is not the case.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Oh my goodness! This is the most appalling writing… Quite abhorrent. How dare you state these serious matters as fact when it is profoundly flawed with misinformation and outright slander! I don’t know who you are Donald Elley, but I suggest you need to examine your own life. My father, Frank Houston was a pedophile. We, his family had no knowledge of this whatsoever! We were/are all completely traumatised by the fact. I have grandchildren now in their teens and have had to explain their genetic ‘heritage’. It had nothing to do with us, but we wear the stigma. Brian has gone on to serve God in ways you could never possibly understand with your small-mindedness…. Despite his total personal grief! Dad did NOT found Hillsong Church. I cannot quite figure your motives? Do you fancy yourself as some kind of representative of Gods justice? Bizarre! I think your stated profession is that of a builder. There are many Professionals, including a current Royal Commission, looking after the victims, hearing their stories with compassion, and I have no doubt they will get compensation if they think that will help. We are blessed to live in a society that no longer hides such hideous crimes against children. If you are a Christian you will be aware we ALL stand accountable before God on the day of judgement. The only thing I can say in my father’s defense, is that he taught us, along with many others, the gospel which is totally redeeming. I admire my amazing brother for his efforts for the kingdom of God, despite his agony. I’ve watched him grow and flourish as he has practised forgiveness on a scale most never have to consider. Your blog is contemptible and I won’t be revisiting it. Writing can be used in such a beautiful way to inspire and influence people for Jesus. May I suggest you find something edifying to write.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
This preaching is right for the Frank Houston matter, by Bill Johnson. 1Cor5, expelling and a form of shame with purpose, cleaning up the act with God, and covering sinners’ blind spots. ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Also, Calvary Chapel going through similar. Chuck Smith Sr., wouldn’t deal with his church at large either. Google: Alex Grenier and spiritualsoundingboard, or ocweekly.com; L.A.Times and Christianity Today articles in 2007 exposing corruption etc and do over fifty hours of reads of similar corruption. When you ignore child abuse and wanting wives to be battered wives, punching bags, and don’t deal with homosexuality which will breed child molestation, pedophile evil, you’re just as evil.
What famous Calvary Chapel pastor stood a woman up and called her donkey’s ass for wanting to leave her husband that was molesting kids, wow; wonder what evil sin this false leader hiding and then his son ends up beheaded car accident, wow. Was dealing with exposing molestation in Foursquare/Calvary Chapel to NO avail. Foursquare ran the parents out didn’t pay for counseling for boys but they were acceptable to take their money as long as NOT questioning. Sad to say, what your dealing with is in ALL demonations (not misspelled).
Unholy Anointing by H.A. Lewis exposes corruption along with Dr. Rebecca Brown’s book, “Setting the Captives Free” and it’s rampant in the church. Look at the AOG movement how many leaders have made the news for homosexuality, what religion will breed, read Charisma, contact Trinity Foundation, Dallas TX and do reads in L.A. And O?C. Newspapers and Christianity Today and they are still in ministry=amazing. “Religion is to the church what cancer is to the body”. AOG’s and Foursquare have same issues and DON’T deal with either but they want the people’s time and money to be kept in their lifestyle and dead business of selling their god, their Jesus and their unholy spirit. Christians cannot, will not and choose NOT to think for themselves, the Matriarchal B_tches, Patriarchal Disasters are robbing their families, God does NOT get any money nor the homeless/poor for the most part. Follow that money trail and question to the unth degree. Question where information comes from and the source.
Basically the people are supporting habitual liars, liars where the money goes who they help and NOT getting correct biblical teaching. People for most part are supporting wolves, hirelings, false shepherds. People aren’t healed up and whole; if they were all these evil regimes/movements would not exist. Research a matter.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Can you clarify, is it Peter Lawton or Laughton as seeing discrepancy in blog. Also, can you post the site instead of referring to regarding Peter’s abuse that you write about.
In reading, Frank’s son is just as evil as his father if he doesn’t make it right by the victims and one million is not enough. Contact Dr. Susan Forward and talk to her about what each victim should receive, she wrote a book: “Incest, molestation and it’s devastation”. By the way ALL her books are excellent reads, Toxic Parents also. Maybe her, Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil can help to resolve these issues(take it public maybe on latter’s show and Dr. Laura’s radio program).
Could you cover the definition of homosexual tendencies that Peter told Frank to come out and admit he was homosexual=what to look for. Austin Miles book would expose the AOG’s for being highly homosexual and child molesting, which they are. Wrote a book (which has not been published) eleven years after Austin Miles book; not knowing he existed saying the same things. My church was just different players and submitted it to David Wilkerson, Dr. James Dobson and heads of church leadership to deal with. Been addressing it hardcore with David Wilkerson since 1992 until his death and year 2000 to a group of so-called Christian leaders that dubbed The Round Table”. Look at J.Lee Grady’s book on AOG Lies and Dogma or William Lobdell’s Losing My Religion.
By the way, Laurie your wrong, frank’s sin is over everyone here’s perfect example: Over a Decade ago a friend gave me one of Hillsong’s Worship Tape and said she played it and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. So, listened to it and gave it back to her and said there’s pedophile, child molestation and homosexuality going on in the church and it’s coming out in the music and those three usually go hand in hand. she did not believe me and went to a very gifted man in Aussie or New Zealand and he told her the same thing. She asked me what to do with it, I said do you want to deal with those evil spirits keep the tape, personally I WOULD STOMP THE HELL out of it. I WILL NOT EVER PLAY OR have hillsong’s music. Someone gave me a CD and threw it away. Worse to NEVER make it right by the victims but taking money in the name of the father, son, Holy Ghost, wow. Taking money and living the good life.
How much does Brian/Hillsong own, worth, business, real estate, vacation and ranch homes, money overseas and or property, vehicles, planes or mentioned items hidden in other people’s names? How much $ is going to help the poor, fatherless, widow, homeless, alien, stranger. The true shepherd lives poor/poverty lifestyle; Jesus and Disciples were example and you will read that also in Arthur Katz’s and Leonard Ravenhill’s written works. Nothing gives it away more than the true vs. false more than this. Another used car salesman selling his dead religion, how sad. Brian isn’t even Broken or repentant or real; false church it’s a means of Business to make money for lifestyle and no one is judging fruit. Majority of so-called Christian do NOT know what a true father and shepherd look like, hillsong would NOT exist if the people did. Read Dick Suphen’s article on Christian Brainwashing. I lived my life around my church cult and so glad got out. Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by Johnson and Van Vomderan, Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola.
Go to Babel, Pentecost, my time at IHOP by Gary Wallin and other articles by Kendall Beachey Blog. Read their articles and all comments. Also: spiritualabuseawaremess.com, churchexiters.org, surviving church.org, report church abuse to rickross.com (do all those reads), Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX unfortunately abuse sites are like the energizer bunny they keep going and going. Have pages of sites and list of church abuse books. Comments, it will tell you how to research church abuse. Always Research a matter and get unbrainwashed and think for yourself and not live your life for or through someone else.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kathryn. Pastor Frank Houston died in 2004. He never was charged by the Police or did jail time. His son Pastor Brian Houston protected him. Hillsong/ Pastor Brian have lied about the number of Pastor Frank Houston’s victims saying there was only one 40 years ago. This is the official version I read on their web-site. I have counted 15 victims ranging in age from 10 to their late 20s. He was a secret homosexual and pedophile who liked boys and young men. All the time he was the most prominent AOG clergy in New Zealand first until 1977 and then Australia. He came to Sydney to escape the heat on him from allegations of pedophile activities while pastoring Lower Hutt AOG in Wellington, NZ. I’m convinced there are more than 15 victims. Two victims have contacted me after reading my articles on this site. If you google “Frank Houston and Peter Lawton” you’ll find graphic testimony by the victim Peter Lawton, Frank’s worship pastor, of Frank’s predatory homosexual abuse of him when he was a young man in his 20s and Frank was about 60 and living with his wife Hazel. Pastor Frank groomed Peter Lawton by inviting him to live with Frank and his wife Hazel in their flat in Lane Cove, Sydney. In this way Pastor Frank could groom and then abuse him. It’s very sad and vile stuff. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The bad root Hillsong grew from. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Phil. Pastor Brian Houston’s motives are probably quite complex. I believe he likes the good life. I’d like to see Brian share some of his success with the victims of his dad’s pedaphile activities, in the sense of substantial compensation and the provision of independent counselling for Pastor Frank Houston’s victims. I’m thinking in terms of one million dollars per victim plus independent counselling. It will never erase the hurt and invasion by his dad but it may help. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes this Pastor Frank Houston part 1 blog has proved very popular. I think it strikes a chord. People want to reconcile the sins of a pastor with their holy ministerial front.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
To all readers and commenters on this Site of mine: All comments are most welcome on this site. If you have been abused by Pastor Frank Houston or any other Pastor or Church leader please feel free to write to me initially by simply writing a comment on this site asking me to contact you. Then if I feel you are bona fide I’ll send you my email address so we can correspond. Some day soon I’d like to bring Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God to account for the serious damage caused to Pastor Frank Houston’s victims by a very evil, Jackyl and Hyde individual: That is, Pastor Frank Houston. RIP Frank…not. “Woe to him who touches one of my children” said Jesus. Donald ElleyApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Mark. Frank continued to minister for many many years whilst concealing these awful things. I think the problem people have is that they were crimes against children and young impressionable men, not consenting adults. I think to draw parallels to life of Paul in this completely misses the mark. Their lives were nothing alike. I grew up in Franks church and have been around the AOG for a long time. The fact that Frank continued to minister whilst concealing these crimes raises some very serious questions. I know people who have based their whole life’s calling on a ‘prophetic word’ that Frank gave them that would seem to have backed up very specific prayers, and impressions, to and from God, that would have been completely unknowable to Frank in the natural. How could this be? How can a man work in the gifts of the Holy Spirit whilst concealing such awful things? I’m a believer, but I have also sinned with the best of them, and still do every day in one way or another, but I also know how even a seemingly trivial sin can affect my ability to engage with and hear from God, until I’ve dealt with it (which sometimes requires me to repeat the process of “dealing with it” regularly). There are some deeply important theological issues surrounding this that this denomination would do well to assess. The damage from his sins still has shock-waves and implications even after his death and I think to forgive and pray as you say is certainly part of it, but don’t underestimate the power of assessing, quantifying and learning from what happened here. Those poor little ones who have since grown up with such damage inflicted upon them. I too was also abused and have since forgiven and moved on. No one is rioting as far as I can tell.
If I may please ask, If Frank Houston admitted of his past sins and has repented and reconciled with Jesus then who are we to judge? The bible says “All have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory, We lie if we are to say we have no sin in us” Are you with me? St.Paul the greatest apostle of christ , What exactly was he doing before he renounced and reconciled with Jesus? He was a murderer who would not spare man,woman,child who were christians , So if Jesus chose him out of all people to preach and write the Gospel how come you dont question his integrity? Believe me I was also very much a victim of such acts while I was a child but yes once you forgive and pray for that person it is all cleansed and you dont hate anyone anymore. Jesus said” Let the person who has never sinned be the first to condemn and stone the woman who was a sinner” Who are we to Judge? Who are we to condemn? Are we so righteous ? My dear brothers and sisters please show compassion to the sinner and pray for them rather than trying to accuse ,blame and start rioting and rebelling such acts are from the devil , May GOD bless all of you, Praise God Amen.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I am myself am the victim of a pedophile from age 3 to about 10 or 11. I forgave my uncle who victimized me. God along with some really loving Godly people helped me to do this. I am not his judge, I do not know the circumstances of his life and what led him to do such horrible things. It is not my job to pay him back or carry hate in my heart towards his though his actions to me caused me a great of suffering, pain, guilt and rage for many years, once I came to understand that God knew every hair on my uncle’s head and would reconcile what happened to me in his own way I could take my uncle off my hook and put him on Gods hook. He alone could really judge because he knew details and all the facts that I did not know. Forgiving my uncle freed me to allow God to work in my life all the healing that I needed and He made me totally free. I have no residual feeling toward my uncle what so ever. He is gone from this world now and I know that justice was done whether he found forgiveness from God or whether he is rotting in hell really has nothing to do with me because I am okay either way. I trust my God, my Father to have done the right thing and I am ok with that. I am deeply troubled with the reactions of the Church (meaning the christians) in and around the church. So often when a leader falls, commits sin, rather than “the Church” becoming a place of healing we become a mob who does nothing but attack the sinner amongst us. We forget that we are saved by Grace and only by Grace we stand. We forget that “there, but for the Grace of God goes I”. Of course he (Frank) needed to be removed from Pastoring to protect any future victims. But was there ever any effort put forth to minister to him and to see if he could have been helped out of his sin. It is no wonder that sin and error in the ministry is often covered up because we the church are like wild animals looking for the kill. It grieves my heart that we have no mercy and cannot find a way to help our brothers and sisters out of the darkness. We throw them to the wolves like yesterdays garbage. We the church fail to be like Jesus to our fallen comrade in the fight and kill him instead. I don’t believe Jesus would do it this way. The Pharisee’s would have handled it this way for sure but Jesus said those that are without sin cast the first stone. Could you really cast the first stone? I know I would not be able to. Gandhi was known to have said ” I would have become a Christian, had it not been for the Christians I met” How horrible to think what we do to make a bad situation worse . We are not part of the solution, but we are part of the problem.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The sins of a man do not cover an entire church. We have the power in Jesus Christ to claim authority over such sin and Hillsong church can and will continue to thrive. Their true leader is Jesus.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have removed the brief mention of you and your relationships from this article as they were passing comments and I am not out to hurt or offend you. Donald.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have sent you an email welcoming your version to be emailed to me. I will make any required change as the truth is important to me.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Don, you really could have contacted me. I would have confessed my whole story to you with dates. I have done this many times. Your version of events is totally wrong and yet you have openly accused me without any fact. My relationship with Victoria started nine months after Janine had left me… Yes Don, Janine left me..no immorality, no other party. Not the other way round. I had left Hillsong almost twelve months earlier. My email address is geoffreybullock@me.com. Why not try a little biblical. integrity and contact me. I would be quite happy to tell you the whole story, if you’re prepared to listen. Perhaps you may have the courage to retract your mis truths. Perhaps not.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
After Frank Houston’s paedophilia was exposed, I find it inexplicable that anybody wants to be linked with hillsong.My God doesn’t need paedophiles to do His work on Earth.A rotten apple spoils the barrel. How can people seriously suggest that God chose him for a leadership role?ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The bible says be babes in the things of evil and wise in the things of understanding! Brian initiated the investigation with regards to his fathers shameful behaviour.this in itself must have been agonising to do.brian is an upright man with the blessing of God on his ministry.leave him be and thank God for his integrity and conduct through it all. stop fussing about who started hillsong and acknowledge Gods hand in it all.he is the one to be honoured seek the giver not the gift! karenApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
There was also Jeff Bullock who was a Hillsong music prodigy until he l created a scandal by leaving his wife and 5 young children for another lady.
This also is not true – Geoff did not leave his wife and five children for another woman – his marriage fell apart adn after that he met another woman.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Geoff Bullock was very talented. So was Darlene. So are many others. Trevor King is another talent from those days. One day about 10 years ago I was at my parents church in Howick, Auckland. There were about 500 people there and i couldn’t see the pianist but he was playing beautifully in a style I knew. To my surpise it was Trevor King from the CLC Darlinghurst days. From the time Geoff’s marriage collapsed his ministry was doomed to decline. This always happens to Christian musicians and preachers who loose their marriage. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Pastor Brian Houston founded hillsong. To Brian, Geoff was always replacable. Many subsequent musicians had equal or greater success since Geoff. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
You say that you were there and a leader in the movement then you ought to know that to say that Frank Houston is the founder of Hillsong inaccurate. Houston founded Waterloo CLC from where Brian left to found Hills CLC which took on the name Hillsong following the huge success of the Hillsong conferences begun by Geoff Bullock. in actual fact Hilsong owes its success directly to the success of its music which came is relaly all down to Geoff Bullock – not Frank or Brian. Brian was smart enough to see where to hitch his wagon to – had it not been for Geoff Bullock, Brian Houston would have nothing and Hillsong would not exist.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Pictured here in the 1940s when he was sexually abusing heaps of boys in New Zealand Salvo orphanages.
Donald Elley of Bellingen
December 26, 2022
Of all the thousands of articles on this, my personal blog-site, this is my article which causes me the most pain in my heart. It’s about the boy and male teen victims of Hillsong’s founder Frank Houston.
Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile, who used Christian ministry to gain access to little boys from 1940 to 2004 when he died.
His son, Brian, allowed Frank access to little boys and children until Frank died. Even after Frank was banned from preaching in 1999 by Brian and the Australian AOG, Frank continued to preach. Even the next week on Hillsong TV in Canberra. Brian denies this. But Brian couldn’t deny an audio of Frank preaching at Maitland AOG just north of Sydney in September 2004. This was two months before Frank died.
Brian tried to argue at court Frank had dementia. I know what dementia sounds like and looks like. My mother Valerie died of dementia almost three years ago in January 2020. She was non compos mentis.
Latin: non compos mentis translates as “not of sound mind.”
Frank was compos mentis (of a sound mind) and full intelligible until the end of his life.
Frank does repeat himself a few times in the audio. But no more than Brian repeats himself in very sermon he preaches. And Frank was always far more lucid and entertaining than Brian.
Brian’s preaching is for the lunatic asylum, not a learned Christian pulpit.
Frank’s preaching is for the pedophile caverns of Hades.
What Brian can’t deny is the testimony of eye-witnesses ho saw when was going on, including me. I wish Detective Hamil had had a good chat with me to fill in the gaps. I should have approached him.
Detective Hamil, who led the second investigation into Brian’s concealment of Frank from police, is a nice guy. A family man. I think he was thinking of his kids as he tried to unravel Hillsong.
It’s a shame Brian didn’t think of his kids and grandkids. How many Houstons did Frank sexually abuse in his lifetime. Starting with Brian and his brother Graeme to the grandkids.
Now I’m finding out Frank sexually abused girls too.
Folks, we are still only seeing the dark top of a very dark and evil rabbit-hole. I intend to do a deeper dive to find out all. Pray for me. It will be my privilege to reveal everything I find out. It is in the service of humanity to expose all the Prosperity gospel crooks, not just in Australian and in New Zealand, my country of origin, but globally. Particularly in America where there are so many.
Donald Elley of Bellingen on Australia’s nightly Channel Nine program “A Current Affair” on December 5, 2022. The first day of Brian’s Sydney court case. The charge is a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The maximum jail term is seven years. You can find this program on Channel Nine’s website.
December 9, 2022
I’ve added reader’s comments from my original article of September 13, 2012 to the end of this revision.
This article was first published on this, my personal blog-site on September 13, 2012
I’ve been writing on the subject of Hillsong and the Houstons for over a decade now. I first touched on this subject in 2012 while writing on my father’s life. Dad was a Christian clergy like Pastor Frank. They preached and worked in Christian ministry on opposite sides of town. My father Rev Don Elley in the elite Wellington suburb of Khandallah. Pastor Frank in down-market Lower Hutt. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital. Lower Hutt is very different today. Khandallah is much the same.
Pastor Brian goes to court December 5, 2022
Pastor Brian is currently appearing in Downing Street Local Court in Sydney’s CBD for a three week trial which started on Monday December 5, 2022.
Pastor Brian has been charged by New South Wales police with a criminal charge of concealing a pedophile. The pedophile Pastor Brian concealed is his father Frank Houston. For many decades, seven decades, Frank pretended to be a Christian pastor to access little boys and sexually abuse them. This started in the 1940s back in New Zealand when Frank was in his twenties. Frank chose the Salvation Army as his first port of call for secret pedophile activities.
Frank in his first disguise as a Salvation Army officer in the 1940s. He rose in ranks to a Captain. This was during WWII. While Australian and New Zealand troops were fighting the Nazis, Italy, Japan and their allies like Turkey, Frank was avoiding New Zealand war service by pretending to be a caring Salvation Army officer. This was in New Zealand Salvation Army orphanages. A survivor of sexual abuse by Frank aged in his 80s recently appeared at the ongoing New Zealand Royal Commission into Care. The New Zealand government is doing the same kind of investigation into pedophile activity in institutions, churches and orphanages as was done in Australia from 2013 to 2016. This abuse survivor testified that he was sexually abused as a boy by Frank Houston in a Salvation Army orphanage in New Zealand’s South Island.
Frank abusing boys in the New Zealand AOG 1950 to 1977 when he moved to Australia
After being kicked of the Salvos in the late 1940s, for abusing boys, Frank had ‘a nervous breakdown’ and was in psychiatric institutions. It is likely he did this to avoid being handed over to police and being put in jail.
All this time his wife Hazel, Pastor Brian’s mother, was supporting Frank and in effect enabling him in his pedophilia. She later labelled her husbands fetish for boys as “Frank’s problem with boys”.
Undeterred in the late 1940s, Frank got involved with the New Zealand AOG. This was in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, at Ellerslie AOG. His mentor there was Pastor Ray Bloomfield. I don’t know if Ray Bloomfield was a pedophile. If anyone can help me out on that one, it would be appreciated.
In time Frank became an AOG pastor. Innocent AOG pastors and congregants in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond had no idea what Frank was up to. Frank became a famous New Zealand AOG pastor and evangelist by the 1960s. Untouchable. he could do what he wanted a regarded boys. The number of Frank Houston boy victims from the 1940s on is unknown. It may be thousands. Several thousand. Do the math.
Frank abusing boys in Australia and beyond 1960s to 1970s
Frank rose to be head of the New Zealand AOG. His tenure was from 1965 to 1977. During the 1960s and 1970s Frank abused boys all over New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Sri Lanka, South Pacific Islands and elsewhere.
Frank abusing Maori boys 1960s to 1960s
During the 1960s to 1970s, Frank was abusing Maori boys as a famous AOG evangelist. I find this aspect of what Frank did particularly disturbing.
On the run from New Zealand police
By the 1970s, Frank was out of control in his abuse of boys. Parents of abused boys at Lower Hutt AOG, Frank’s church where Pastor Brian was raised, became very upset. There was a confrontation and many congregants left. I heard about this in 1977 from Stan and Sheila Carter.
So the heat was on Frank and he up and moved to Australia. To escape arrest by New Zealand police.
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977
Frank Houston founded Hillsong in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was a year before his son Brian arrived in Australia. Brian likes to say he founded Hillsong. This is a Brian lie. One of many.
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong
Brian was back in New Zealand getting married when Pastor Frank founded Hillsong.
Pastor Brian with his father Pastor Frank in the 1970s
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women
Brian Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Global Board for sexual indiscretions against young Hillsong women.
These offences include visiting a young Hillsong female’s hotel room and being alone with her in the middle of the night after Hillsong Conference. I think they had sex but no one is talking (yet).
Sydney media are trying to get the young Hillsong lady to talk on camera.
This would really rock Brian, and Brian’s wife Bobbie’s, world.
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board
Bobbie Houston has been sacked by Hillsong Board. Bobbie has got a bit more crazy than her normal unhinged self recently. Some of her sermons, if you could call her convoluted and sometimes irreverent blurbs a sermon, have been off-the-dial.
Bobbie does this coughing, burping and tears thing while preaching. Quite bizarre. I think Bobbie has trouble controlling her personal demons who want to speak to the planet too.
Brian Houston was charged by New South Wales police with concealing a pedophile on August 5, 2021
Brian Houston of Hillsong was charged with pedophile concealment crimes by Australian police on Thursday August 5, 2021. The maximum penalty is seven years in jail. Brian appeared in court in Sydney on October 5, 2021 for a First Mention. There was a Second Mention on Tuesday November 23, 2021 and a Third Mention on January 27, 2022. There was a fourth mention on March 3, 2022.
The Hearing is in December 2022
Brian has plead “not guilty” at each mention.
Brian will get a lesser jail sentence if he pleads guilty. Like Pharaoh before Moses, Brian won’t negotiate. Brian will only fly the white flag of surrender in jail. Even there, Brian will still be maintaining his innocence.
Brian Houston stepped down as global head of Hillsong
The Australian Royal Commission
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in its Findings, recommended Pastor Brian Houston, the then head of Hillsong Church, be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
An official recommendation was passed on to NSW Police and the NSW Justice Department by the Royal Commission.
The crimes are that Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches top leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Pastor Brian Houston, his wife Pastor Bobbie Houston, Hillsong business manager George Aghajanian, Hillsong elder Nabi Saleh, President of the New South Wales Assemblies of God John McMartin, National Assemblies of God General Secretary Keith Ainge and all the other top Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leaders had a fiduciary and legal duty to report Brian’s father Frank to Australian police when he confessed in 1999.
They failed to do this.
The fiduciary duty of a church leader comprises a duty of care towards their congregation. To lead them, to protect them and to care for them.
Instead of reporting Frank Houston to police, the above Hillsong and Australian Assemblies of God leadership, gave Frank a slap on the hand and allowed him to go on preaching, prophesying and (God forbid) laying hands on AOG congregants wherever he fancied to go in his misnitry. Nothing changed.
They moved Frank to quiet, off-the-grid localities so no one would report him to police. They told AOG congregants that Frank and his wife Hazel “had retired” and were AOG Royalty. No mention was made of Frank’s “problem with boys”, as Hazel liked to call Frank’s lifelong past-time or hobby of child rape.
At this stage only Brian has been charged.
The Origins of Hillsong Church
Rev Frank Houston the Night-Stalker, preying on little boys in their childhood beds.
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade.
Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
New Zealand Herald July 11, 2020
Frank Houston at Coogee Beach, Sydney in 1969.
The First Hillsong
The first name of Hillsong was Eastern Suburbs Christian Life Centre. The church met in Sherbrooke Hall, Double Bay, Sydney. The first meeting was on 16 July 1977 led by Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father.
Rev Frank Houston with young congregant at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst then, in 1980. This is the pedophile Frank Houston sneaking in a little homo hug on an unsuspecting young man who is lapping up the attention. There were hundreds like him. At this time Frank was having a secret homosexual affair with his young worship pastor Peter Laughton aged 23.
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong
This blog article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere of Frank Houston founder of Hillsong’s boy and teen sex abuse victims.
I have revealed them all to the world on this, my personal blogs-site. This has always been with their permission and their desire if their names are mentioned.
I do not search for victims. They always contact me.
I do not seek media publicity. They approach me for information.
Three new accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston 11 July 2020
Two New Zealand Herald articles of 11 July 2020 mention three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now.
The number of known Frank Houston boy and male teen victims I have identified is now 17 or more.
Recent revelations that Frank sexually abused boys in a New Zealand Salvation Army boys home in the 1940s and on evangelistic crusades amongst New Zealand Maoris have thrown the needle off the dial of my boy victim count.
It is no longer possible for me to put an accurate figure on the number of Frank Houston’s boy victims globally.
When I add in sexual abuse of little boys at a Salvation Army Boys Home in New Zealand in the 1940s and add in AOG crusades and ministry trips from the 1950s to 1960s in New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, Chile and other the countries, the possibilities of the number of boy victims is almost endless.
I believe from the evidence there are over 400 boy and teen victims, maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Frank’s son Brian, who I know personally, said to Australian media in 2014, “We may never know the number of victims”. I knew Brian from 1981 at early Hillsong. I haven’t talked with Brian since early 2000s when I left Hillsong for good.
Pastor Brian Houston current head of Hillsong: “We may never know the number of dad’s boy sex abuse victims”‘
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020 mentions three accounts of sexual abuse by Frank Houston that I didn’t know about until now
Frank Houston preaching in in 1969 during his time as Assemblies of God in New Zealand General Superintendent from 1965 to 1977.
New Zealand Herald article of 11 July 2020:
Three Frank Houston child sex abuse accounts which are new to me.
New abuse account one:
“From 1945 to 1948, Frank Houston worked at a boys’ home in Temuka run by the Salvation Army, which has confirmed receiving a complaint in 2003 from someone who said they suffered abuse at his hands during that time. A spokeswoman for the Salvation Army said it had provided information relating to the complaint to the Royal Commission.”
New abuse account two:
“In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.”
“Then came a second knock on the door. Barry was approached by a church elder who – aware of the complaint over Williams – disclosed an allegation of sexual offending by Frank Houston.
New abuse account three:
“Through the elder, and then the father of the victims, Barry learned of Houston visiting the Waikato area about 25 years earlier on a crusade. Like the other cases – of which Barry was unaware until years later – Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.”
My comments:
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. I’ve believed for a long time that the reason was because of complaints of child sexual abuse.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
Crikey (Australian media) August 25, 2021. Journalist David Hardaker on Frank Houston and the NZ Salvation Army
“It has since emerged that Frank Houston’s offending stretched back 50 years to the 1940s when he was a lieutenant in the Salvation Army in New Zealand, his country of birth. The New Zealand Salvation Army has confirmed to Crikey that in 2003 it received an allegation of abuse by Houston during his tenure at the Temuka Boys’ Home, near Dunedin on the South Island, between 1945 and 1948. (Houston resigned from the Salvation Army in 1952.) The Salvation Army said it met with the survivor of the abuse in 2003. The case has been sent to New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, set up three years ago”.
Donald Elley of Bellingen:
I’ve heard about Frank Houston doing crusades in rural areas of New Zealand, particularly amongst indigenous New Zealanders, the Maoris.
Frank’s son Brian mentions this in a romantic and euphoric way in his last book, ‘Live, Love, Lead’.
However, I’ve always had bad feelings about these crusades of Frank and his “love” and interest in the Maori people.
It’s sad to think that Frank was sexually abusing heaps of Maori boys in rural areas of New Zealand in the 1960s to 1970s.
Note of 18 November 2018
Frank Houston boy sex abuse victim, Brett Sengstock, known as boy victim AHA, who appeared anonymously at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has appeared on the Australian Channel Nine Sixty Minutes TV program recently to tell his story in person because he is dying of cancer.
Boy victim AHA Brett Sengstock – Brett is dying of cancer. Brett wants Brian Houston brought to justice for hiding and protecting his old pedophile dad from going to the clink – from 1999 when Frank confessed to November 2004 age he died.
Note of 22 April 2018
I know Hillsong and the Houstons better than anyone, having been at Hillsong from its beginnings.
Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s father, came to Sydney from New Zealand in 1977. He was on the run from New Zealand police for untold and almost innumerable sex offences against little boys during the previous four decades.
I was at Hillsong before Brian Houston became a pastor in 1982, and before Hillsong was called Hillsong.
I helped Frank Houston build up Hillsong for a decade from 1981 to 1990.
The more I write about Hillsong, the sicker I feel. And the more I know about Hillsong, the sicker I feel.
But I go on writing, to warn people off Hillsong and to give Frank Houston’s multitudes of boy victims a voice.
My mission and goal is to destroy Hillsong. To expose it. To warn people off it. To set the record straight. To outline the truth about Hillsong.
Note of 27 October 2017
Pastor Brian Houston, the current head pastor of Hillsong Church Global is to face pedophile protection charges some time in the near future from the Australian police and authorities.
I’ve edited the article below reflecting current up to date information.
“Pastor” Brian Houston pictured with his child rapist dad Frank. Brian hid and protected Frank from the Australian police from when Frank confessed in 1999, to when Frank died five years later in 2004.
This article and its updates
This article outlines the history of Pastor Frank Houston the founder of Hillsong and his secret sexual abuse of hundreds of little boys, male pre-teens and male teens over seven decades. This occurred for possibly 70 years if you include his grandchildren and ‘rent boys’ (underage male prostitutes).
This site is the most authoritative and comprehensive site on Hillsong corruption, Houston corruption and Hillsong pedophilia.
This article was first published on this site on 9 September 2012, prior to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of 2013 to 2016.
It has been updated since as more facts have come to light and more events have unfolded.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed from the New Zealand Salvation Army for sexually abusing boys.
Frank Houston founder of Hillsong was a lifelong secret pedophile
I’ve come to the conclusion from the evidence I’ve compiled over many years, and from my experience from 1981 to 2000 as an attender of Hillsong, in the 1980s as a senior lay pastor, and especially since hearing boy victim AHA’s testimony, that the Frank Houston was a lifelong secret pedophile who used the Christian ministry to secretly and stealthily, access little boys and young teens for child and under-age sexual abuse and child rape.
In other words, Frank Houston was first a pedophile. He was not at any time a genuine Christian or a genuine Christin pastor. Frank Houston was a wolf in sheep’s clothing all his life from his early teens.
Frank used Christian ministry to access little children.
Frank Houston’s primary sexual focus and preference was little pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
Frank liked male teens or young adult men if little boys were not available.
In his prime as a male in the 1960s to 1970s Frank had an insatiable sexual desire for little boys and young male teens. But mainly little boys.
A pedophile with a primary focus on pubescent children is a hebephile, a clinical psychological term.
Hebephilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14 and showing Tanner stages 2 to 3 of physical development. It differs from pedophilia (the primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children), and from ephebophilia (the primary sexual interest in later adolescents, typically ages 15–19). While individuals with a sexual preference for adults may have some sexual interest in pubescent-aged individuals, researchers and clinical diagnoses have proposed that hebephilia is characterized by a sexual preference for pubescent rather than adult partners.”
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile
Frank Houston was primarily a pedophile in that his sexual orientation and focus was primarily on pre-pubescent boys aged 7 to 11.
In my mind, this sexual orientation makes Frank Houston’s sex crimes against children even more heinous, especially since he was masquerading and pretending to be a Christian pastor.
Frank Houston’s crimes were not a one-off or an occasional dalliance in child sex crimes, but a lifelong secret and persistent activity involving hundreds, if not thousands of boy and male teen victims.
Frank was bisexual
Frank was bisexual in that he had five children.
It is probable that Frank did not have sex with his wife after the birth of their five children.
No one will ever know since they both died in 2004. And Hazel was not the type to tell.
Hazel knew Frank was a pedophile from the 1940s when he was reported for abusing children while working at a New Zealand Salvation Army home in the 1940s. He was removed from the Salvation Army.
So Hazel was complicit, codependent, a protector of Frank and an enabler.
Hazel and Frank Houston founders of Hillsong. In New Zealand in the 1940s.
The secret lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston with his complicit, protective, lying wife Hazel. She knew about Frank’s “problem with boys” as she referred to it from the 1940s when Frank was removed as a Salvation Army captains for sexual abuse of little boys.
Frank was a homosexual
In 1980, Frank Houston, aged 58, embarked on a four year homosexual affair with his young 23 year old worship leader Peter Laughton.
Peter Laughton, Frank Houston’s young worship leader and homosexual lover aged 23 in 1980.
Sexual involvement with a 20-year-old male, rather than with little boys and early teen boys, was an exception, although there is evidence of countless masked homosexual encounters over Frank Houston’s whole lifetime with males over the age of homosexual consent which is 16 to 18 in most Western countries.
Pastor Brian Houston, current head pastor of Hillsong – Brian, who I knew personally for twenty years, has been recommended to the Australian police by the Australian Royal Commission to be charged with pedophile protection crimes.
Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church has been recommended for prosecution for pedophile protection crimes
In October 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in its Findings recommended Pastor Brian Houston the current head of Hillsong Church be charged with pedophile protection crimes by the Australian police and authorities.
Pastor Brian Houston and his Hillsong and Australian Christian Churches leadership associates conspired to conceal Brian’s father, the lifelong secret pedophile Frank Houston, from the NSW Police. Frank Houston confessed to a lifetime of secret child sexual abuse and child raping in 1999.
Note 19 October 2014
In early October 2014, The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse examined the Australian Assemblies of God (which has the new name Australian Christian Churches), Hillsong and Pastors Frank and Brian Houston.
If you are interested in down-loading the Royal Commission transcripts, testimonies of victims and other relevant documents go to http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au.
To read a series of my blog articles on the Royal Commission on this site, they start on 20 September 2014 with “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston. Part One. Royal Commission…”. If you google this title you’ll find it and other articles written by me on this my personal blog-site.
You can then scroll a few articles further into October 2014 and you’ll see all the articles sequentially in chronological order on “Hillsong. Pastor Brian Houston…” and Royal Commission materials.
If you know of any pedophile cases involving Pastor Frank Houston at any time anywhere in the world then please send me a message and I’ll email you back so we can confidentially talk about your case by email. No information will be published without your consent.
The following blog article on Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile activities was written on 13 September 2012 and it has been updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Blog article of 13 September 2012 (updated 27 October 2017)
The pedophile Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong
Pastor Frank Houston was the founder of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia in 1977. This was two years before his son Brian arrived in Australia.
Here are two advertisements for early Hillsong Church meetings in Eastern Suburbs, Sydney in 1977 published in the Sydney Morning Herald. .
The Sydney Morning Herald 9 July 1977.
The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 16 July 1977
Hillsong
Hillsong is by far Australia’s largest church numbering 30,000 in Australia. Its headquarters are in Baulkham Hills in Western Sydney.
It has churches throughout the world in twenty locations. Hillsong claims 150,000 in its network world-wide in 2021. This is a very small number of adherents if viewed on a global basis.
Hillsong is like the small dog on the big street. Because of its strong cash-flow and music resources, it has made a lot of noise globally, but most people can tell Hillsong is completely dodgy and a money-cult.
Pastor Frank Houston was the head of the New Zealand Assemblies of God (AOG) from 1965 to 1977, and a prominent leader in the Australian Assemblies of God denomination from the 1980s to 1990s.
By the time Frank Houston confessed to secret pedophile crimes at age 77 he was revered across the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God movements as a great holy pastor, Christian leader and a great evangelist.
The truth is he was a rotten secret pedophile all that time, for many decades, probably since his early teens.
The Assemblies of God (AOG)
The Assemblies of God (AOG) is a Protestant denomination which started in the early 20th century in America and has spread across the planet. Its emphasis is on the Holy Spirit and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, like faith, healing and speaking in tongues.
The Protestants
A Protestant denomination is a denomination (international church organisation) whose origins are in “Protesting” against the Church of Rome.
Protesting, often at the greatest risk to their lives, against the Roman Catholic Church’s errant doctrines, its power, its Popes, its Bishops, its mercenary Jesuits of old. And its domination and blood-letting and martyrdom of true believers throughout the world. For over 1700 years until modern times.
If you think I’m exaggerating then google “The Waldenses”, who were Protestants the Church of Rome genocided in parts of France in the 16th century, or “The Covenanters”, who the Church of Rome hunted and wiped out in 17th century Scotland.
The Jesuit mercenaries and Papist rulers of England desecrated their bodies after death and threw their corpses on rubbish tips as a warning to a fearful populace.
These were brave men who gave their lives for the cause of Christ.
Compare these very brave men and women to Frank Houston, who was a secret life-long pedophile and covert homosexual masquerading in the disguise of a Christian pastor, whose coal-black dark secrets weren’t exposed until the last years of his life.
Frank Houston pedophile founder of Hillsong “preaching up a storm”, as he’d like to say in the 1980s.
Frank Houston’s confession to being a lifelong secret pedophile
A two-year investigation of pedophile allegations going back to the 1960s, ordered by his son, Pastor Brian Houston, at the time head of the Australian Assemblies of God, and conducted by a prominent Australian AOG clergy on the AOG national executive, Pastor John Lewis, found that the allegations were true.
Pastor John Lewis on Nexus Church, Brisbane website. Died from cancer in 2020.
Frank Houston was banned for life from ever ministering in the AOG in Australia and New Zealand in December 1999 aged 77.
But he didn’t stop preaching and ministering and Brian and other AOG leaders allowed him free reign to preach and pray and prophecy over the unsuspecting.
These are the crimes of Brian Houston, John Lewis and other top ACC and Hillsong leaders.
Pastor John Lewis report in 2000 on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities with little boys
Frank’s death
Frank Houston’s life ended in shame in November 2004. He spent his last days contemplating his place in Eternity. The burdens of his dark secrets were troubling his mind until the end.
How would God treat him in the Hereafter? These were among many questions which plagued his dark mind as he faced that looming day. For from the evidence Frank Houston had been a pedophile since his early teens, a period of seventy years.
I knew Frank Houston personally
This blog article is the first in a series of articles in which I will recall information, reflections and personal feelings on this gifted, strange and very tortured man, who I knew very well for two decades. Or at least I thought I did.
I worked closely with Frank Houston through the decade of the 1980s as a builder doing building fit-out and renovations for Christian Life Centre (CLC), Darlinghurst, as Hillsong was known in the early days, and as a lay leader.
I was a prominent and successful lay leader at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst, with ten home fellowship groups under my care. I pioneered these groups in the challenging Inner City of Sydney. I attended CLC again for a few years in the mid to late 1990s. I was there when Pastor Frank Houston got stood down and the whole organisation changed its name from Christian Life Centre to Hillsong in 2000.
I should add that I was a strong Christian prior to first attending Hillsong in 1981. This may have kept me safe from allowing Frank Houston to do stuff like lay hands on me in prayer. A highly dangerous event in hindsight for anyone.
Frank Houston’s legacy
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like former co-head pastor of Hillsong City Campus, Pastor Jonathan Wilson, who is now pastoring in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy
Jonathan Wilson, with second wife Dianne, in pastoring California. Dianne’s former husband Geoff is married to Jonathan’s daughter – a kind of fallen Pentecostal wife-swap.
Pastor Jonathan Wilson. Former Hillsong Senior Pastor. Likes pedophiles.
Pastor Brian Houston, and others like Pastor Jonathan Wilson who has strong links with Brian still, have tried to sanitise and re-invent Pastor Frank Houston’s life and legacy.
Jonathan Wilson told media at Frank Houston’s funeral in November 2012, “I regard Frank as a friend”. So Jonathan Wilson likes a lifelong secret child rapist parading as a Christian clergy as his friend.
The reality is that no amount of spin and re-invention can remove the dark black stains of the seven decades long trail of child sexual abuse that “Pastor Frank” engaged in.
Pastor Brian Houston. Growing fat while while he hangs out the victims of his dad’s abuse to dry. “Sorry victims of dad’s abuse, I’m a leading Christian pastor, but you’re on your own. Have a good life. Sorry again- Haha ha ha…By the way boy victim AHA, it was your own fault you were sexually abused by my father Frank – you tempted him. This is what Brian told the AHA (Brett Sengstock).
Over seventeen boy and young teen known victims
I have verified seventeen or more victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child and teen sex abuse.
Everyone closely associated with this matter senses there are a lot more victims out there.
From the evidence there are over 400 boy, pre-teen and teen victims. Maybe over 1000. Maybe 2000 plus.
Many will not remember the incidents due to psychological defence mechanisms because of the trauma of the sexual abuse event(s).
And there would be, from the evidence, 1000s of male victims of masked homosexual and pedophile abuse.
Frank Houston: “I was very active as a pedophile in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Pastor Frank Houston after his confession to pedophilia in 1999 said to his son Brian, “I was very active as a pedophile at that time”. He was referring to the period from the 1940s to 1970s back in New Zealand, when he was in his 40s to 50s, when most of his known boy victims were sexually abused by him.
Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life
I believe Pastor Frank Houston was doing pedophile activities all his life from his early teens.
Frank got kicked out of the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was a Captain. It has now been established that it was for pedophilia.
Frank Houston was a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland, New Zealand..
Note 11 July 2020
Frank Houston sexually abused boys at New Zealand Salvation Army Orphanages in the 1940s
I’ve been writing for many years that I believe Frank Houston sexually abused boys in the New Zealand Salvation Army from 1942. Frank Houston was a captain in the New Zealand Salvation Army in the 1940s. He was kicked out of that movement. It has now been established that my postulations on this matter were accurate.
The pedophile Frank Houston in one of his early disguises as a Salvation Army Captain in Auckland New Zealand in the 1940s to early 1950s.
David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald confirmed my allegations in an article in the New Zealand Herald today (11 July 2020):
“The Herald has confirmed that fresh allegations of abuse by the AOG’s former leading light, Pastor Frank Houston, have been provided to the Royal Commission.
One allegation, that he sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka, opens up the span of Houston’s alleged predatory behaviour to cover decades.”
David Fisher is referring to the recent New Zealand Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse.
What organisation except Hillsong would still love its pedophile founder?
Pastor Frank Houston was a pedophile who used his Christian pastor’s ministry as a disguise and camouflage to gain the confidence and trust of innocent believing Christian families so he could access their children undetected for the purposes of sexually abusing them.
Pastor Frank Houston was never genuine in anything he did. He mocked us all. How could a man be a genuine Christian pastor when he was secretly a life-long hardened criminal pedophile? Its not possible.
Frank Houston Boy victim AHA
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014 at a Hearing in Sydney revealed a witness AHA, who was abused in the Sydney suburb of Coogee when he was an innocent little boy aged 7 to 12 years old, in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Boy victim AHA was brave enough to testify anonymously in person.
It made me cry.
It was real bad stuff indeed.
It made me very angry, particularly since Pastor Brian Houston, the son of Pastor Frank Houston, like Pilate in the Bible who washed his hands of responsibility for Jesus prior to his death, has washed his hands of responsibility to help and care for the boy and teen victims of his dad’s abuse, who are now in their 50s and early 60s.
If you go to my blog articles starting on Tuesday 7 October 2014, you’ll find all the horrific details of Pastor Frank Houston’s abuse of victim AHA including genitalia fondling, digital anal penetration, masturbation of the victim as he reached early puberty, and Frank Houston using and getting the victim to pleasure him over a period of five years.
My source is AHA’s testimony on Day One of the Royal Commission’s examination of Hillsong, where AHA spoke for most of the day.
It’s tragic, graphic, sordid, horrific and completely culpable by Hillsong, the Australian AOG and Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston has tried for 14 years to bury his father sexual abuse of children, sanitise it, and try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Dah…“What we didn’t do is report it to police.” Brian Houston, son of Hillsong founder Frank Houston, is surrounded by media following his 2014 appearance at a Royal Commission into child abuse.
Pastor Brian Houston had tried for 14 years to bury his father Frank’s sexual abuse of children, to sanitise it, and to try to make it go away, but like a Frankenstein monster it has jumped from the grave and is now attacking and tormenting Pastor Brian Houston, his supporters and the whole Houston clan of three generations.
Frank Houston has long departed but the corruption lives on in the errant and corrupt behaviour of his offspring, particularly in the life and deeds of Pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston, the current Head of Hillsong mega-church.
Rev William Frank…enstein Houston. Molester of little boys. The most corrupt Pentecostal priest since the day of Pentecost.
Over Seventeen Known Boy and Young Teen Victims
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse also mentioned six other little boy victims of Pastor Frank Houston in New Zealand in the 1960s. But there are many more.
I have been writing since September 2012 that there were six boy victims of Frank Houston in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in the 1960s.
My count of child sex abuse victims of Frank Houston:
I have evidence of 17 or more boy and male teen victims.
I have evidence of two teen victims, Peter Fowler, who went public in the 1970s with the encouragement of the now deceased prophet Pastor Philip Powell and teen victim ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a direct result of Frank Houston’s sexual abuse.
From the testimony of the boy victims and the circumstantial evidence, I believe there were over four hundred victims of Frank Houston’s abuse. He confessed to Brian Houston, his son, in circa 1999, that he was very active as a pedophile, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Here are the boy victims aged 7 to 12, and one teenager aged 15 years old:
1. Six 10 year old boys Pastor Frank Houston molested while Head Pastor of Lower Hutt Assemblies of God (AOG), Wellington, New Zealand in the 1960s, while at the same time, General Superintendent of the New Zealand AOG (from 1965 to 1977).
2. Sydney boy victim AHA (Brett Sengstock), as above revealed on Day One of Hillsong’s time at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 7 October 2014.
This is a particularly sordid case of repeated child sexual abuse of a little 7 year old boy by Pastor Frank Houston which continued for 5 years. I have covered this case in detail in my blogs on the Royal Commission starting on the 7 October 2014.
3. One 15 year old boy, Peter Fowler, in the Lower Hutt AOG, New Zealand. The Lower Hutt AOG paid out Peter, but it wasn’t much money.
4. At least 4 boy victims at Assemblies of God Church camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. See my blogs on victim SA1 (my code name for him) dated 16 and 17 October 2014. SA1 was aged 11 years old at the tie of the abuse.
5. One young man in Auckland, New Zealand, ANZ1 (my code-name) who suicided as a result of the abuse. He was in his late teens.
I sense there are a lot more New Zealand boy, pre-teen and teen male victims.
7. One boy aged 8 years old, in a suburb near Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. My code name for him is WNZ1. The abuse was very similar to the Royal Commission victim AHA.
WNZ1 believes there were more boy abuse victims in his suburb. See my blogs date 18 and 19 October 2014.
8. Frank sexually abused a child between 1945-1948 while helping run a Salvation Army children’s home in Temuka.
9.In the mid-1970s, a young man in Palmerston North told a visiting pastor he had been sexually assaulted by Frank Houston.
10. Boy victims in Waikato area of New Zealand in the 1960s. Frank was doing crusades often amongst Maoris. “Houston stayed overnight, and then descended on the boys after dark to sexually assault them in their childhood beds.” Untold boy and teen victims. Impossible to know how many.
TOTAL: 17 and many more victims. 400 plus boy and teen victims based on the evidence. Maybe over 1000-2000 boy victims.
Boy victim SA1 from Adelaide South Australia
One of the victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s child sexual abuse at Kleimzeg Assemblies of God camps in South Australia in the early 1970s, SA1, contacted me after reading articles about Pastor Frank Houston on this blog site. He shared there were several other victims of Pastor Frank Houston’s pedophile abuse at these camps.
The epicentre of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities at these South Australian camps was the boy’s toilet block.
The abuse involved the fondling of little boys genitalia and masturbation in the toilet block and bunk room. Pastor Frank Houston was very confident, blazen, perverse and tactile.
Yes Pastor Frank Houston. The greatest and most prominent AOG Pastor in Australia and New Zealand from 1970s to 1998, when the truth of his duality emerged.
Frank Houston was a secretive, manipulative, sordid, dishonest and heartless criminal pedophile for 70 years from the 1930s until his death in 2004.
Pastor Brian Houston’s lies about the number of victims continues to this day
The official line of Hillsong Church and Pastor Brian Houston was that his father, Pastor William Francis “Frank” Houston only abused one boy in New Zealand 40 years ago.
This is the line that they held from the late 1990s to the Royal Commission in October 2014.
This is the view that was on their web-site for over a decade. When I was researching articles I wrote about Frank Houston and his pedophile activities in 2012, Hillsong’s website and all the accounts by Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong media reflected this great lie.
This is the view they have told the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers.
This view is totally inaccurate and a blatant lie by Brian Houston.
It emerged at the Royal Commission that Pastor Brian Houston has known that this official view was untrue and a lie all this time.
Folks we’ve been all been deceived.
What is still lacking from Frank’s son, Pastor Brian Houston and the Hillsong Movement, which Brian controls, is any real degree of honesty and openness about Frank Houston.
For example, why won’t Brian and the AOG release the official AOG report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities?
Why didn’t Brian admit his father did numerous pedophile and homosexual acts, and not just one, like Brian portrayed for 14 years, until the Royal Commission exposed his lies? Why do Brian lie to us all? How can Brian lie like this and be a prominent Christian pastor?
Why is Brian Houston still lying about the number of victims telling Sydney’s channel nine reporter Leila McKinnon earlier this year when she asked how many victims Brian believes there are now, Brian hesitantly replied “six”. This is despite Brian knowing about at least 8 victims in 1999 and at least 9 victims in 2004. Why lie Brian? Who is the Father of Lies?
Was Brian Houston sexually abused by his rampant pedophile father Frank?
And the question lingers, was Pastor Brian Houston himself, and his brother Graeme, sexually abused by their father Frank?
Maybe that’s too personal for Brian to admit, if anything occurred.
Or maybe he can’t remember.
These dark memories are normally suppressed and buried by the defence mechanisms of the human psyche.
Brian’s brother Graeme has refused to attend church since his teens. Why?
Further, were Brian and Graeme aware of the accusations against his father while he was a lad?
The pre-adolescent little boys Pastor Frank Houston sexually abused in Lower Hutt were Brian and Graeme’s age at the time.
Brian even stayed with his dad at AHA’s family home in Coogee, while his father lay on top of victim AHA all night and abused him for the week of their stay on one of the many visits. One can see why pedophile Frank Houston liked to go to Sydney and stay at AHA’s parent’s house. Disgusting.
The pedophile Frank Houston’s overseas “evangelistic” trips overseas were really sex holidays away from his wife and people who he was accountable to.
Details of boy victim AHA’s sexual abuse
While Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of little 7 year old AHA, who is now 52, the skinny spider-like Pastor Frank Houston sexually molested him. He fondled his genitals, he fondled his little thighs and bottom, and he digitally penetrated him. AHA shared on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission that he froze with fear.
Boy victim AHA wondered, why was this hero of the faith, a godly man who my mum and dad loved, doing this to me?
Victim AHA lay frozen with fear as Frank Houston, the pariah, lay on top of him all night. The cats howled, the night birds cackled as the do in Australia, the dogs barked down the street and the garbos rattled their bins, and all this time through those long chill hours, Pastor Frank Houston lay on top of AHA doing awful creepy, very perverse things to AHA.
If you think I’m being too graphic, this is what AHA said at the Royal Commission. These are the facts the Royal Commission’s lawyer, Simeon Beckett, read out. These are the facts that AHA read out from his witness statement on Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Sydney.
Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad
It is interesting to note that victim AHA, who spoke anonymously at the Royal Commission, stated that Pastor Brian Houston accused victim AHA of tempting his dad and being the cause of all the trouble for his dad.
Pastor Brian Houston has denied this. I believe victim AHA because he sounded very honest and very coherent. Pastor Brian Houston hasn’t been honest about all this stuff for over 14 years.
The Royal Commission has also revealed how Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston have been heartless towards child abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG Pastor and leader pedophiles.
If you read my blogs on 7 to 10 October you’ll get drift.
Pastor Brian Houston the head pastor of Hillsong mega-church, a very wealthy “church” organisation, has refused to help the boy and young teen victims in any way
Pastor Brian Houston. Living in the shadow of his father Frank who he adored. I wonder how he feels about his dad now the tsunami of his dad’s pedophilia has hit the fan?
Brian at the Royal Commission
At the Royal Commission on 9 October, when Pastor Brian Houston was the star witness, he wiggled and swirmed in the hot seat of the witness box. Then he straight out said they won’t help the victims in any way. The reasons are outlined in my blog articles on this site of 9 and 10 October 2104.
Pastor Frank Houston. Creepy. Self-confessed pedophile.
Peter Laughton’s homosexual affair with Frank Houston
Since Peter Laughton, Pastor Frank Houston’s young worship leader, went public in 2007 about Frank’s abuse of him in the early 1980s, the Houston family have taken the line that Peter Laughton was a consenting male with their father Frank. In his early 20s at the time of his abuse in the early 1980s, Peter was over the age of consent which is 18 in Australia for consenting homosexual acts.
But is it ok before God for the most prominent AOG clergy in Australia and New Zealand, aged 58, to indulge in numerous sordid homosexual acts with his young worship leader?
At the time the homosexual liaison started Pastor Frank Houston was 58 and Peter was 20.
I fail to see how the Houston’s can dismiss this series of incidents with Peter Lawton so readily.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston. Total deviate and con-artist.
Pastor Frank Houston was attracted to boys, adolescent boys and men in their 20s. His sexual orientation was young and male.
Pastor Frank Houston was an active secret pedophile and homosexual particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s.
By 1990 he was 68 and his homosexual and pedophile libido seemed to have dropped off. I haven’t found any pedophile dirty old man Houston victims.
A reader of this site commented recently that he knew Frank Houston in the 1950s at Ellerslie AOG in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote in a comment on this site that Pastor Frank Houston had fixation about male swimmers. There were some NZ Olympic swimmers training. A young Pastor Frank Houston used to go down to the local swimming pool to watch them training and perve on them.
If you knew Pastor Frank Houston at this time and you know of pedophile incidents could you please contact me. I suspect his pedophile activities started earlier than Lower Hutt AOG.
Frank Houston was sexually abused by his father Frank
At the Royal Commission, Pastor Brian Houston told the Commission that his dad had been abused by his father, also Frank. This is no secret because Pastor Frank use to share about this from the pulpit at Christian Life Centre in the 1980s.
Pastor Frank Houston openly shared how his dad was very mean to him and his mum. That his dad had an affair with the woman next door, based his wife, and other bad stuff. The ABC of Psychology says that people who were sexually abused as children often go on to sexually abuse children when they are older/ become adults. That’s a big subject.
Peter Laughton spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007
If you google “Frank Houston” or “Frank Houston abuse” you’ll find plenty of transcript of detailed sordid accounts of Frank Houston’s sexual activities with Peter Laughton.
Peter has given interviews to the Sydney Morning Herald.
In these interviews Peter speaks honestly and candidly about the homo-erotic activities Frank Houston led him to do. It’s interesting yet very sad reading.
Please bear in mind that Frank Houston was aged 58, and the most prominent AOG clergy at the time, and he was abusing a vulnerable and needy young man aged 20 who was his Church worship leader. Heavy stuff indeed.
The investigation and being caught
The release of the official AOG Report on Frank Houston’s pedophile activities is a document which would be helpful to the victims of Frank Houston’s pedophile activities. What is more important? Protecting Frank Houston’s legacy and reputation, the Houston name and Hillsong’s reputation, or allowing some healing and closure, not only to Frank’s numerous pedophile victims, but also to the countless others who were part of Christian Life Centre and Hillsong in the early days and who were deeply hurt and shattered by revelations of Frank’s secret activities.
Frank’s pedophile activities were not destined to remain a secret to his grave. By the late 90s the chorus of complaints was to become deafening. The AOG, and in particular, the then National Chief Executive Pastor Brian Houston, his son, were forced to investigate and do something about it.
Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst the second name for Hillsong
I personally knew Peter Laughton at Christian Life Centre Darlinghurst.
Peter was very talented singer, song-writer and composer. A nice guy. Sensitive. Artistic.
No one had any idea that Frank Houston aged 58 and a revered pastor and his worship leader Peter Laughton age 20 were involved in a four year homosexual affair from 1980 to 1984.
Extraordinary talent at early Hillsong, called CLC Darlinghurst
In those days Frank had gathered together some extraordinary musical talent.
Frank had recruited Pastor David Johnston from Los Angeles to found international Institute of Creative Ministries (IICM), a music, singing and dance Ministries School. David worked at Wesley College for decades since these times. David is a very talented pastor, violinist, composer and worship leader.
Trevor King was also there. Trevor now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Trevor is very talented on the piano and led the band and was the Music Pastor.
Geoff Bullock is another muso who owes his success to the Houstons. Unfortunately Geoff’s personal life became a train-wreck when his marriage fell over and his ministry has never recovered to the heights of his success under the Houstons. Particularly under Pastor Brian Houston.
Pastor Brian Houston is truly a king-maker. So much talent. So many scandals.
Pastor Frank Houston with Hazel, his faithful, enabling and supportive wife- who knew he was molesting little boys for many decades. Hazel knew he was a pedophile since the 1940s.
Peter Laughton was looking for father love
Peter Laughton is a really nice guy.
Outgoing, talented and sensitive.
In Frank, Peter has said that he was looking for father love. The kind of love Frank gave him was secretive, self-gratifying and impure.
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses
The pedophile is secretive and motivated by deep impure needs and impulses that they find impossible to control. Their victims are really just objects of their desire. There is no care or love towards their victims. For the pedophile it is “all about me”.
I wrote another 13 articles, which are on this blog-site, on this subject of Pastor Frank Houston from 13 September 2012.
My memories of the man and what I experienced during the 1980s and 1990s while attending Hillsong Church.
I have written over 200 other articles on Hillsong and the Royal Commission.
Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in world history
I have come to the conclusion that Pastor Frank Houston is the worst Pentecostal Pastor in the history of the planet.
To do what Frank Houston did to little boys and teens all his lifetime, while maintaining the front of a holy man of God is the very gravest of sins known to mortal man.
Since I wrote this article in September 2012, and since the Royal Commission examined the Houstons and Hillsong, Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission barrister, publicly recommended in December 2014 that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged by the NSW Police for not reporting and for sheltering a pedophile, his old life-long pedophile father, Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of the Hillsong organisation.
In October 2015 the Royal Commission recommended Brian Houston for prosecution in its Findings.
Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Frank’s son and successor. Facing pedophile protection charges which will wipe the smile from his well-fed fully, corrupt face.
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Though there are certain arguments to be made for the separation of church and state I believe the authorities must step up and take a stand on all these charlatans who bestow themselves with the title of “Pastor”. Any weasel in this country can call himself/herself “Pastor” and then set about living the life of an “untouchable”. These fakes are responsible for an increasing amount of mental health problems and domestic abuse and it is astounding to me that no one in the Government seems willing or able to do something about it. These charlatans, in my view, could not get away with what they do unless they enjoyed the protection of people in very high positions. Hillsong and Houston should never be able to use the title “Pastor” and benefit from that title in any way – Houston is nothing more than business executive who, by virtue of inheriting his father’s business, has been allowed to act, it would seem, with impunity as he fleeces the naïve and vulnerable without conscience. When will we find even one man with integrity in the Government who has the courage to call for a complete investigation of this man, this snake pit of Hillsong, the financial dealings, and the damage that is being inflicted whilst they target young people in our community who just get carried away with the mind-numbing music and intoxicating atmosphere. I have no objection to what Hillsong does or how they run their business – but I most strongly object to them doing it in the name of God! A Government committee set up to hear evidence of people who have been abused by this church (all forms of abuse) and others like it is long overdue. The Government is already involved by giving them tax benefits because of their church status, so a little more constructive “interference” wouldn’t go astray, would it?
Don, when are you doing to wake up to the fact that the Brian Houston is not a pastor?He’s an impostor, preaching a different Jesus and a different gospel for money. Who is leading more people to hell than anyone could imagine.
Hmmm. Art Katz (Arthur) even wrote in a book that he always had major problems with Worship Leaders and when he was alive wrote him the why and sent a copy to his Admin Ass’t or whatever Title they gave Simon Hensman at the time. Believe it was in his “Prophetic Call” book. Have my theories, a lot of them are Perfectionist (“Living With A Perfectionist” by David Stoop, Manic/Bi-Polar (Dr. Susan Forward, Herb Goldberg, Victoria Secunda, David Elkind, Dr. Laura might cover that well along with Leann Payne’s written works); dormant Homosexual’s (very unhealed; “Kingdom of Self and God Players by Earl Jabay); then there’s “Healing of Damaged Emotions” and his other books by David Semands. When looked up Definition of a Cult; #12, 21 (in the next page section, it defines definition of a sociopath; think a lot of Pastor’s/Leader’s/Priest have VERY unhealed issues themselves. What’s sad is they don’t deal with their issues and then put themselves in position to abuse children and people in general (and we are ALL God’s children no matter what age).
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
P.S. You referenced in an article Tanya Levin wrote a book and David Marr by Black Inc. (What’s that title? When went to research for lot’s of books by a David Marr)!
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH. Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims. Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
What I wrote about Geoff Bullock originally is what he told me he did, at a private meeting a long time ago. I only removed what I wrote because he was hurt by the truth. I’m not out to hurt Geoff Bullock, who is broken by life anyway. Brian Houston used him as a living breathing human soul and as a stepping stone to climb the spiritual mountain of Brian’s own ego and success. Geoff is just another train wreck and discard of the Houstons, Brian and Frank- like all the other victims, be they spiritual or psychological or physical or sexual abuse victims of the evil Houston express train.
Don You do not seem to have asked his forgiveness for your long-time error and the damage it must have caused him. Perhaps you have done so in private…
Brian Houston hasn’t helped any of the victims as at 8 October 2015. The Royal Commission interviewed victim AHA and AHA contacted me shortly after, via this site. We’re in touch by email occasionally. AHA would let me know if Brian had helped him. SA1 (my code-name) is a victim of Frank Houston in South Australia. Brian could contact me if he wanted to help him. Victim WNZ1 (Wellington, New Zealand) contacted Brian in the mid 2000s and Brian fobbed him off. I am in touch with WNZ1 and his wife. If Brian wanted to help them he could let me know and I’d put him in touch with them. The bottom-line is that Brian, the Houstons and Hillsong don’t want to help any of the victims. Brian Houston is the ultimate lying con-artist and he makes out he cares but he is a selfish greedy charlatan who won’t help anyone but himself and his clan. Hillsong is a cash-cow to maintain his lavish lifestyle and to get off on his fame. However Brian’s fame is turning to notoriety and soon he’ll be charged with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile. At that point he’ll be shamed and all his assumed glory will turn to dust.
To my readers: Its a year since the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse subpoened Pastor Brian Houston and other Hillsong/ ACC Leaders. It now seems likely that the NSW Police will charge Brian Houston with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile, his old very corrupt dad Frank Houston. Donald
I’ve published four testimonies of sexual abuse by boy victims on this site. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse has produced a boy victim AHA who is now in his fifties who was horrifically abused for over five years by Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s son, Pastor Brian Houston, the current CEO said after the Royal Commission in October last year in Sydney, Australia, “we may never know the number of the victims of my father”. How much proof do you need Stephane? The Royal Commission has recommended that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged for sheltering and not reporting his father Frank to the Police from 1998 until Frank died in 2004. We are waiting to see if the Australian authorities take this action. Donald.
Kerri. Frank Houston’s pedophilia activity was public knowledge from about 2007 when Peter Lawton was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. If you google ‘Sydney Morning Herald Peter Lawton Frank Houston abuse 2007’ you’ll find the information in a David Marr SMH article about Tanya Levin’s book on Hillsong. The information is in the second half of this article.
i’ll publish this article soon on this site.
Although Peter was a consenting male when abused by Frank Houston who was 60, Peter feels Frank took advantage of him and abused him.
About this time it became known that Frank Houston was also guilty of multiple historic pedophile abuse events, mainly with little boys ages 7 to 12 years old. This was the preferred demography of his victims.
Brian Houston sheltered his old pedo dad for 5 years until he died in 2004 and he didn’t report him to the Police as required by NSW Law.
Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission’s leading lawyer when they were examining the Houstons and Hillsong in October last year, publicly recommended in December that Brian Houston be charged with these offences.
There are 14 articles starting on 9 September 2012 specifically about Frank Houston’s abuse of boys and other sins like doing hatchet jobs on good men of God like Dr David Johnson, his Worship director in the early to late 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst.
From October last year I’ve written about 100 articles on this subject.
If you want to understand the full picture start reading.
This site is by far the most authoritative and comprehensive factual site on the subjects of Frank Houston, Frank Houston’s pedophilia, Brian Houston’s lack of response to the victims, Brian Houston’s corruption on multiple levels, Hillsong’s corruption on multiple levels, the New Zealand and Australian AOG/ ACC Churches corruption and the sexual sins of Australian and New Zealand prominent Pentecostal leaders over the past 50 years.
Am I to glean from this comment that Frank Houston’s abhorrent behaviour was public knowledge as far back as the early 1970s? Is is even possible therefore that Brian Houston had heard nothing about it before the time he now claims? I would like to know more about this as it pertains to a conversation I had with Brian Houston in 1988. How is it possible that so many people seemed to be aware of Frank Houston’s actions and yet Brian Houston claims that he heard nothing about his father’s paedophilia during these years before the family came to Australia?
So true.. ‘God does forgive ALL Sins’ .. providing the Sinner truly Repents. And when a Sinner truly repents of their Sin, (no matter how vile the Sin) you can rest assured that there is ‘No Returning to that Sin’. We know that God has FORGIVEN us of our Sins when we don’t Go Back to them, like the dog to the vomit and the sow to the mud.This is the proof and fruit of the quality of our Repentance. Godly or Not .. ref/2 Corinthians 7:10. When God Forgives us .. we are ‘Forgiven, Cleansed, Delivered and Empowered against that Sin’ once and for all in one hit. How great Thou Art O Lord God! The Soul Saving Question is, how could Frank Houston have Truly Repented of his perversion when there is a trail (a record) of repeated ongoing similar acts of paedophilia. One thing is for sure, the Liar will not enter the Kingdom of God, paedophile or not… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yE-xl-HJs ..
its so sad—ive seen the holy spirit move in and through paster frank housten to bless and heal many–thank god he was self confessed –god forgives all sin
Re: Counsel, Deliverance, Peace of Mind and Emotional Recovery .. Those in the Body of the Christ all have different gifts, according to the Grace given to each of us by Yahweh. If your gift is prophesying, then Prophesy/Speak in ‘Accordance with Your Faith’ Measure. Yes, Faith in the Christ can move Mountains and do the Impossible. As an X Alcoholic, X Chain smoker, X Drug user and X Filthy Immoral Wretch who Chain smoked and smokes no more, I know first hand the ‘Power of Faith-Obedience in the Christ’, hence I offer Messiahs Way above all others Jesus says I AM the Way! .. ref/Romans 12:6, Hebrews 11 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Xm9ykp0lA .. 🙂
Robyn. Personally, I found Dr Cliff Powell of the Christian Psychological Services in Mona Vale, Sydney helpful after my marriage fell over in 1996. My ex-wife took me along because she felt it might help our marriage. We saw Cliff a few times. Then, when my ex refused to give up her lover, Cliff told her that it was a waste of time proceeding with her. Cliff then asked me if I would like to continue alone. I felt I need that support and someone to talk the deep stuff through with who was a strained professional. Cliff is a Christian behavioural psychologist. He prayed with me at the start of every session and then we’d chat for 3/4 hour. His approach was gentle and supportive. I went to see him every 2 weeks for a while then it tapered off to every three months then I didn’t need him anymore. I found the whole process with him over a few years extremely helpful. In respect to any victims I’d encourage them to, if possible, find a counsellor or psychologist who is at least empathic to the Christian faith, and talk their stuff through with them. They don’t have to be full-on Christian but its better if they are at least a bible believing Christian of some Protestant denomination. Donald
Hi Donald.. Re/Psychs .. I myself suffer from ‘PTS Indefinite’ according to a Psych Report from a respected Psych in Brisbane City.. due to me being set on Fire (abused) by a Maniac-Muslim (2002) as I preached Jesus as God Almighty and Saviour in the streets of Brisbane. Plus I was food poisoned (abused) by a Muslim Kebab Shop (2008) resulting in a Heart Attack and the Senior Cardiac Surgeons at the RBH Brisbane said I needed ‘5 statins and a Stent’ in my heart or I would die. However, I chose to Look to Jesus, the God of All Flesh, by the leading of His Spirit and all is well with my Soul-Mind, Will and Emotions. And how can you be a Psych and a Sold Out Christian-Follower of Jesus at the same time?. While Psychology deals with the Mind and Jesus deals with the Spirit – Hearts of Humanity. And aren’t Christians born of a Spirit of Sanity, a Sound Mind and the Prince of Peace.. re/2 Timothy 1:7, John 3:5, Isaiah 23:6.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvjpe5HK4M .. The Glory belongs to Jesus!.. 🙂
There are many good psychologists and counsellors and many good Christian ones who allow clients to work with their Christian beliefs ,who do assist people to deal with anxiety, depression and PTSD associated with abuse. People should be given the option of seeking help, assistance and support and know of services that are available.
Gidday Donald.. Re/Victims of Religious Abusers and Pagan Abusers .. I don’t believe that it is a good idea at all to refer ‘Abused People’ to Psychologists and Psychiatrists for they can only ever offer temporary and very limited help, especially for the ‘Mind and Emotions’. Apparently Psych’s are numbered among the most ‘Mentally and Emotionally’ Unstable people in the World. Keep fighting the Good (News) Fight Donald, because only a Remnant are .. ref/Matt 11:28, Isaiah 23:6, Matt 7:13-14 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/jesus_turns_nightmares_into_happ.htm ..
Tanya. I leave any information or opinions on this site so long as people aren’t attacking others etc. So your info is here for anyone. I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as a Hillsong Watch group or anything. This is a private blog site with no affiliation or bias. I am OK with all the Protestant Churches so long as they are biblically based and embrace the moving and gifts of the Holy Spirit. In that statement I just lost a lot of friends. Donald
Hi I’m not asking you to be aligned with anything. I’m asking you to refer people to the appropriate services so that they can access the help that is in place, legally, socially, psychologically etc. The victims that you are in contact with have a right to know about the services available to them. That’s all.
here is the link for the most accessible form of compensation. i would support your class action efforts, but it’s important people know about the standard avenues as well.
Donald, please can you pass on my email to anyone who requests it. it’s tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com I’m not sure if you’re aware but the Attorney General will provide free advice and application to Victims Services. It’s important that you refer ppl to Victims services where they can get free counselling from Victims of Crime too, as an option. Just so that people have that option. please pass my email onto Evan who requested it and to anyone else trying to get in touch with me. Thanks
How pathetic that Churched people like the Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and other Orthodox Religions such as RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church, Salvos etc .. refuse to comply fully when found out for their abominable acts and Wilful Destruction of peoples lives and then a FUND is set up for the Victims. Not that the Victims don’t deserve payment but It really sounds like this kind of behaviour/abuse is about to be Accepted and Counted as part of Church Behaviour… So why did Jesus die on the Tree, didn’t Jesus say it is FINISHED?.. and that ALL was accomplished (by Him for us @ the Tree) and that we can do ALL things through Messiah who gives us strength via His Victory. Well it is the Last Days isn’t it .. ref/Romans 13:1-14 .. “When the Devil comes in like a Flood, Holy Ghost will raise the Standard”.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/torn_between.htm ..
Reblogged this on kristinesteyne and commented: there are many many comments at the bottom of this blog. I believe also that Brian Houston should definitely reported his father
Donald, It is no trivial thing what you are doing here for these people. And you have no doubt been instrumental in helping these Victims somewhat, in easing their pain. However, if they stay close to Jesus, He will bring them through to a Glorious End. Yes, I still pray for you and the Victims (even though I know them not) as Father leads, He knows them and every hair in their head. I do believe in Miracles Donald and they are real easy for Jesus to perform, piece of cake actually.. I am believing for a Miracle for you and them. Go in the Strength of Our Lord.. http://www.fireandhammer.com/heart_attack.htm ..
Paul. I’m going to explore the possibilities of legal action. The main thing to me is that the victims are empowered and can get on with their lives in a positive godly manner. All three boy victims I am in touch with by email and on this site, AHA, WNZ1 and SA1 are all feeling heaps better for speaking out and having their say. This site is the only forum for WNZ1 and SA1 to do this. AHA spoke out at the Royal Commission and he has been making a few comments on this site. It’s great these men, now in their 50s to 60s are able to do this. They can have their say anonymously and feel empowered. It’s all about the victims and their families. Donald
Katharine. The Royal Commission, the Australian Government, the AOG/ ACC, Hillsong will do nothing to help the victims. Pastor Brian Houston has said he won’t do anything for the victims. On what basis do you write: “Trying to sue Brian would not succeed and would be a waste of time and money as well as your energy”. Are you a barrister who specialises in criminal law? You also write “I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so the victims can get counselling and maybe a support group”. Well, Katharine, the Assemblies of God in Australia doesn’t exist any more. Then you write “They would have to sue the individual church i.e. Klemzig AOG top get any compensation”. If you’re saying the AOG will sue the Klemzig AOG, well the AOG don’t exist. Even if it did it wouldn’t sue an AOG Church. You then say “I understand the Royal Commission is going to make recommendation about compensation”. The Royal commission is unable to help with compensation but it can make a recommendation to the NSW or respective State where the victim was abused to charge someone with a criminal offence for not reporting pedophilia. They will also comment on the culpability of the ACC, Hillsong or Brian Houston, but it won’t do anything about it. The only way the boy victims of Frank Houston will get any compensation is if there is a class action initiated by the victims themselves. No one else is going to help them. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about legally to be honest. But it’s a free world re expressing your views. Donald
Gidday Donald, around October 9 .. I recall saying this, regarding Houstons – Hillsong – ACC and their abuse of children .. “Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this Entire Case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church”. And even have the Gall to shout aloud ‘thanks be unto God for Vindicating us’. Donald, this is not to put a wet blanket on things but we do live in a ‘World of Unrighteousness’ after all, and let us never forget that MONEY TALKS.. A place calling itself a ‘Church-Holy Place’ doesn’t get as Materially/Financially Rich as Hillsong through being HONEST.. LOL… The Real Judgment and the Real Sentencing is on it’s Way and none of us can escape this one .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3hggV7i2Y8 ..
Trying to sue brian would not succeed and would waste a lot of time and money as well as your energy. I would personally like to see the Assemblies of God set up a fund so that the victims could get counselling and maybe form a support group . They would have to sue the individual church ie klemzig aog to get any compensation. I understand that the royal commission is going to make recommendations about compensation . Maybe franks adult victims will then come forward . And no I don’t work and would never work for hillsong katharine
Evan. Tanya Levin is a former Hillsong member and a Hillsong watch type of person. Tanya wrote a book, “People in glasshouse…”. I haven’t read it or been to her website, if she has one. I would think that Tanya has a lot of information. If you google “Tanya Levin” or Hillsong related words and phrases which critique Hillsong, its prosperity etc you’ll find her stuff. Tanya said, in this comments part of my site, that she wanted to talk with me, swap info etc and maybe form a coalition. I told her I wanted to be unaligned. I’m happy to receive any information that will help me take a class action with Frank Houston’s victims against Hillsong, AOG/ACC and Pastor Brain Houston for compensation. I’m going to start a Trust Fund for victims of Frank Houston to fund a civil class action for victim compensation and a criminal case. I am looking to get Pastor Brian Houston criminally charged and convicted for not reporting AHA and other pedophile cases between 1999/ 1998 until the current Royal Commission in 2014. I am not convinced Brian didn’t know about his father’s pedophile activities earlier then 1999/ 1998 and would appreciate any information from anyone out there which would prove that Brian knew earlier. Donald
This whole thing with the Houston’s, Hillsong – CLC – ACC, is really all about Judgment and Righteous-Judgment is a Loving thing. It is surely helpful, profitable to all concerned and not concerned. Yes, even those watching on can learn.. ref/1 Timothy 5:19-20. I know I am. I can never forget the day that Messiah had me go to ‘Steve Erwin/the Crocodile Hunter’ some years back now, to give him the ‘Message of the Christ’. I have written 12 books in my short Ministry of 27 years and out of the 12 books, Holy Ghost led me to take him the book.. ‘Birds and Fish’. To put it bluntly, this book was about DEATH. And you know what, it wasn’t long after I took that book to Steve he died a the hand-tail of a Stingray and I still wonder today, did he ‘read and hearken’ to the Message of that book and where will Steve be at the Judgment Stand of the Christ, will it be the ‘Great White Throne’ or the ‘Saints Stand’ ?.. Judgment is a Serious thing but it is also a Beautiful thing. The Beggar Lazarus had the right idea.. “Stay in right Standing with God no matter what”.. the Rich man in his uptown robes wasn’t so smart was he. Hope all you bloggers have a nice day .. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/steve_irwin.htm ..
Rejoice!.. for this is the day that Yahweh has made, without hands. At the end of the day and even Life itself as we know it on planet earth .. it really doesn’t matter what people think about us, say about us or think they know about us .. we will all stand at the ‘Judgment Seat of the Christ’ and we shall ALL give account of ALL things done while in our body, whether that be Good or Evil .. scary hey.. that is, if our Heart is not Right with Yahweh.. Thank God for ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’. We no doubt serve the ‘God of Promises’ .. 🙂 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zEt0eTsts …
The attached is a little simplistic and consequently doesn’t dwell on Frank. Dad was a fine father to a household of 8 on low paid wages at GM where the body shop finisher receive free milk to compensate for lead poisoning from filing the lead filled blemishes. However he was a bigoted old school “keep politics out of sport” rugby supporter who couldn’t come to grips with HART’s “No Maori No Tour”. We argued too much and my wife preferred we not visit.
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Are we Saved by Grace?.. and simply rendered powerless when it comes to Temptation and do we really have to surrender to Sin, like, are we sold under Sin and does Sin have dominion over the people of God in the 21st Century. Whatever happened to ‘Where Sin abounds Grace-God’s Power (is readily available) abounds even More’ and ‘When we are tempted, Yahweh provides a Way Out’, that is if we are interested.. ref/1 Corinth 10:13. And does Jesus say.. “Yeah brethren, sorry bout that.. but .. I didn’t really come to take away ‘ALL’ your Sins, what do you think it is, better still, who do you think I AM?.. God or something?.. next you’ll be expecting Me to do the Impossible on your Faith-Obedience”.. 🙂 .. ref/Ephesians 2:8, John 1:29, Romans 6:1-23, 1 Peter 4:1, Luke 6:46 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/failuresandthefreedom.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIS313IozQ ..
Tanya. Re Brian’s sisters. They’re on the early blogs from 2 years ago. They commented about 2 weeks ago. If you can’t find them let me know and i’ll do a search. Donald
Tanya. The Commission contacted me 1.5 weeks ago asking for me to contact the South Australian victim. I put him in touch with the Royal Commission and he made statement. Another two men have contacted me from New Zealand. Both are victims new to me. The Commission has given me contact names and phone numbers for victims to phone them on.
As the Royal Commission were the ones to ask for Brian Houston’s to take the stands, there were obvious reasons. To ensure that the safety of these children are on top priority and that the institute or church are reacting in a positive manner so that these bad acts are not repeated in the future.
I appreciate your response. Not to be pedantic, but the Commission is investigating both the institution and “its officials” so while Brian Houston is obviously not on trial, his personal response is also the concern of the Commission.
Below you’ll find a link to the page that outlines the expressed purposes Royal Commission which may clarify things for others as well.
I agree that it is our right to judge the intentions of people of any church. Having said this, I do believe that when someone is saved or born again, they give their lives to Jesus and follow Him. However, that does not mean the person won’t fall into temptation . … of course he will, he will probably even sin… Satan’s aim is to break up the church and that is exactly what he will aim at… Peter denied Christ, not once but thrice. He lied that he did not know who Jesus was. Thank our Good Lord that we are not saved by what we do but by Grace that can be given by God alone. I don’t know if Frank Houston asked for forgiveness or not, even Brian Houston may never know but God does. So by judging his salvation by the words Brian Houston used at the Royal Commission is not the right way to go.
Now going back to the church and judging the church that we attend, of course we should. In fact, if you read my earlier post, I don’t think I denied that there. But you will get many in churches who will fall into temptation and sin but we have to look at the church as a whole. If someone has done wrong in the church, how has the church reacted towards the person involved. That is actually what the Royal Commission is all about, not to put Brian Houston on trial but to see if the church has reacted against the perpetrator in the correct manner and not pushed the situation under the carpet and I think they did get their answer.
Hi i just saw this. No worries, then ignore my previous comment. Can you please direct me to the sisters’ comments? Congrats on all this work by the way…
Hi Donald, Please make sure you let victims know about the official Royal Commission agency to guide them through the whole process from making a statement and through to including legal advice re compensation. It’s at knowmore.org.au thanks and please feel free to contact me at tanyaelizabethlevin@gmail.com We’re all trying to put our heads together at the moment and your site is a real help!
RE: ROMANS 3:23 .. Says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm ..
I’m sure you don’t mean to, but you are using Romans 3:23 as a proof texts.
I don’t think anyone here is condemning anyone, but they are following scriptural guidelines and are judging whether the Houston’s actions line up with the Word of God. You are correct though, it is not our “right”, but it is our responsibility!.
Here’s a link to all the scriptures that show you that we are meant to judge those within the church. Just cut and paste it into whatever search engine you use if it doesn’t open directly.
Also, I don’t think the reason that people start blogs is “only” when “you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man”. People start blogs for all sorts of reasons.
Please read the link I sent you as you’ll be able to see that not only are we supposed to judge people within the church.
Finally, I think the author has already indicated that his intention is to assist the victims to get to the right authorities.
Paige .. here is part of your Comment on rewind .. Quote.. “At the heart of this, is that your father attacked ‘SOMETHING’ that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable ‘COMMODITY’, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man”.. end of Quote. So children are SOMETHING and children are a COMMODITY … Hello?.. 🙂 .. do you know what a COMMODITY is?.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
I appreciate that you must be in such pain right now. No child should have to experience either being molested or being parented by a child molester. I know my natural overwhelming instinct would be to minimize the horror, to try and find a way to accommodate justice without destroying everything around me in the process. I don’t think anyone questions how absolutely devastating that this must be for you and your brother.
However, that has been where so much of the focus has is (your brother’s pain not yours). I’m aware that Brian has had tens of thousands of supporters pledging their loyalty and condemnation of everyone who dares to suggest that he should be accountable. But your brother’s messages continue to be embedded with calls for sympathy and we’ve heard so much about his pain (this is the first time I’ve heard about his siblings though) but so little about the victims. Shouldn’t that concern us?
I have not read other people’s opinions, I have only read the statements, listened to the cases and read Brian’s own words but this is the overwhelming pattern in his language.
I have been watching the Royal Commission and they have indicated that what he did was wrong in taking on your father’s judgement and in not reporting it to the authorities. Yesterday, your brother admitted that in church, but also put the blame on the AOG leadership as well. I’m not sure if you heard it, but it has been posted.
I think a lot of Christians are wondering why it has taken so long for this to come into the light? Why would someone who has testified that they were deeply traumatized and conflicted, then argue that they handled the situation objectively and ethically. When asked why, Brian said because it needed someone with “courage” and “guts” to do it. Courage and guts to do what? Slap your father on the wrist and suspend him from ministering? That doesn’t make sense, but it does raise a lot of doubts.
I don’t mean to simply criticize your brother, but I do hope that I can explain why people are asking questions. Why I am asking questions?
Of course we will all be accountable on judgement day, but this blog, I suspect, isn’t about judgement day, nor is the Royal Commission about judgement day, it’s living the truth in the past, present and future on this earth. An earth in which we are supposed to be the light and a people that are above reproof. If we have lost our saltiness, and the world needs to reprove us for having failed to act justly, then we are indeed in trouble. Your brother has been reproved by the world by failing to act justly and all of us are wearing that. Out on the street, my non-Christian friends are asking me for answers, so I think it’s fair enough that I try and get some for them.
I know it is deeply personal to you, but what happened happened while your father was in ministry and that ministry, directly or indirectly, led to the formation of Hillsong. The world has a right to ask questions of the church and when they do we should come up squeaky clean. When we don’t, and that happens unfortunately, then we should at least admit it.
You make the comment that your brother has practiced forgiveness on a scale that most never have to consider. I think that could be deemed fairly offensive to those who today are dealing with a lost childhood. At the heart of this, is that your father attacked something that this world, Christian and non-Christian, considers its most valuable commodity, children. Children belong to all of us so that when they hurt children, they are accountable to all of us, not just to one man.
I hope this helps you understand people’s concerns a little better.
Paige. I agree with every word you’ve just written. Before the start of the Royal Commission I was hopeful that Brian might listen and show some humility and care. However I am convinced that Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and AOG/ ACC are incapable of listening. My focus is on the victims, not just the sexual victims but all the folks who gave their lives and hearts to the cause of Christ under Pastor Frank Houston and were abused in other ways. Even Brian has been betrayed and deceived horribly by his own dad. But that does not excuse Brian under the Laws of Australia and New Zealand. Brian should have reported the crime of pedophilia of his dad to the Authorities in Australia and New Zealand and let them decide what to do with his dad. Given people like Rolf Harris are 84 and still doing goal, it’s a given that Frank would have been jailed. By failing to report his dad, Pastor Brian Houston may end up being charged, not with his dad’s sins but for not reporting them and concealing them. The compensation of victims issue is another big consideration and my thinking is a class action by the boy abuse victims of Pastor Frank Houston would succeed. Donald
Hi Mark, No-one has yet claimed, including Brian, that his father repented of his sins. In fact, Brian explains that his father effectively pined away until his death in deep depression. This hardly describes a man who has been reconciled with Jesus. Also, Frank was forced to admit one crime, to which he had no choice but to admit because the evidence was indisputable, but even then did not admit to all the children that he had molested, just the one. This is not repentance or being “reconciled with Jesus” no matter how you spin it.
With this unconfessed sin in his heart, as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Frank continued to attend a small Sydney church, be around children and pray for people. My Bible says that this is the works of the devil.
When Brian was asked on a radio with 2G (you can google it and both watch and listen to it), he was asked if he thought his father was in heaven. Had Frank repented, the answer would surely have been “Yes”, but Brian admitted that he did not know, though he hoped he was. Even when Frank was forced to admit his crime, he did not report himself to authorities, he did not resign and he did not seek out his victims to make restitution (remember he never paid the $10,000, Brian arranged this).
I am so grateful to the Lord that they are Christians who believe that we should be more accountable for our behaviour than the world is. I am grateful for those who believe it is the job of the church, as mandated in scripture, to call out hypocrisy, false teaching and double standards WHEREVER they are found.
For those arguing grace, forgiveness and compassion, I suspect you have not understood these words in relation to the whole counsel of God. These are all powerfully forces that lead into the arms of God, but Frank rejected them when he denied these things to others. It is important that you understand that judgement within the church, is also a means of grace, forgiveness and compassion.
You also fail to remember that as Frank, as Brian does also, set himself up as a leader and teacher of men, he, according to scripture, became more accountable to God and to the church. Those who are not holding them to account are in fact the ones doing them the most harm.
If you would see Brian Houston survive this, then you will reprove, rebuke and admonish him.
Tanya. I don’t want to collaborate. I’m just doing what I can for the cause. Any information I glean that I’m able to share will be on this site. Donald
Hey Noel, how’s it going?.. Rom 3:23 says clearly that all ‘HAVE’ sinned.. (and I ‘WAS’ the biggest and the Filthiest) but this is ‘past-tense’. How can someone go on in Known-Sin and be Saved?.. Serial Paedophilia is nothing to be sneezed at, especially when it concerns Church Leaders, AOG – ACC, RCC, Salvos, Anglicans, Uniting Churches, Presbyterians or otherwise. Condemning the Wilful-Ongoing-Sinful ‘Deeds’ of another is not necessarily Condemning them. Much rather helping them, clean the slate prior to the Judgment Day. Surely this is Love.The reality is, for ALL professing Christians and Ministers (and this Message is rarely told in Churches today and there’s certainly no Money or Fans in it) .. “WITHOUT HOLINESS WE WON’T SEE GOD”.. ref/Hebrews 12:14. And Jesus said that we are to Judge within ‘The Church’ providing we have ‘No Known-Sin’ in our own lives, (re: remove the twig, plank, even saw mill) only the Hypocrite is banned BY GOD from judging.. isn’t Jesus wonderful.. 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2-HiremCI ..
HI…having trouble contacting you… please be aware that we are all putting our heads together…thanks for all this info….please send your email..? or find me on facebook.. we’ll get to the heart of this together x
Some interesting WFH Bio – http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/ADPCM/e-to-h/houston-william-francis-frank-1922-/ I had always assumed that the book keeping errors were not sufficient reason for the Salvation Army to expell the then youthful Frank and went with the gossip that there would be sufficient cause if it was say an extramarital affair. Whatever it was, caused his “backsliding” for three years until Tony Austin invited him to the Khyber Pass AoG in where Ray Bloomfield took him under his wing and within six weeks had made him the Assistant Minister at his popular Ellerslie AOG church. However this arrangement didn’t last long, as Bloomfield suddenly moved Canada in ’55, leaving Frank with his large 400 congregation which quickly dwindled to about 80. Frank stuck with it until December 1959 when he was offered Lower Hutt AOG. CJ
I don’t think anyone here has not been improper or vindictive. I think, they just want the truth to be reflected and as you have seen everything you have put forward has not been correct. If at all, you seem to be aiming at Hillsong and Brian Houston, Read your post again.
I also still don’t see how a blog is helping victims. You will agree that Pastor Brian Houston is not accountable for his father’s actions and actually cannot answer for him at all but still made an attempt to understand the victims point of view. I watched the Royal Commission, which in my opinion is a good thing especially to know if the right thing was done and, I think Brian Houston spoke exactly as it was from his perspective. On the other hand, if you watched the Royal Commission on the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell with his own confession said that while he had taken up the abuse cases with the Vatican, they shunned him aside and in fact told him not to come again with these cases. Now that is a problem when the church does not heed to something brought to their notice. We are all sinners but I believe that when we see something wrong happening, we should not push it aside but instead do the right thing which I think Brian Houston did do in 1999.
Kepa. I basically agree with ACC’s 10 points about gays. I have had a lot of interaction with gays in Sydney over the decades. If a man or woman decides they want to seek the Holy Spirit through the Lord Jesus Christ they will make contact with the Divine. The Holy Spirit will help them come to terms with how He feels about the situation. And then the Holy Spirit will show the gay man or women what is the next step. Its about wholeness as a human being. Donald
Noel. Thank you for sharing your views. I welcome anyone to comment so long as its done in a polite and not a vindictive manner. I am not able to share more about my conversations with victims. Save to say there are many. I’m doing what I can to help them. They all have counsellors. They like my blogs and what I have to say and feel empowered by them. My opinions and views are well-known on this site. Donald
Rom 3:23 says “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
We are no one to commend another man as we are all sinners. The only one who can judge is God Himself.
If as you say are helping others do you think that you are equipped enough to help them. It would be better if you directed them to the correct source for a proper investigation. The need to start a blog arises only when you want to condemn the sinful deeds of another man, something which none of us have the right to.
10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. – so what does this infer??? that such people don’t accept Christ????????
Hi Donald, People may find this interesting… This is what Hillsong and ACC (Australian Christian Churches) actually believe about Homosexuality & Lesbianism:
1. Homosexuality is referred to directly and specifically in the scriptures. 2. Homosexuality violated God’s plan for provision and family. 3. Biologically God did not create the human body for homosexual activity. 4. Homosexual activity is unhygenic as can be seen in the high rates of infection with, and the transmission of AIDS amongst those who practice homosexuality. 5. Homosexuality is a dangerous practice that reduces life expectancy of the participant by 25years. 6. Homosexuality is a chosen ‘behaviour’. 7. It is a ‘choice’ – Not a natural, biological, hormonal or genetically governed behaviour. 8. We oppose the legalization of homosexuality. 9. God loves the homosexual despite their sin and is willing to forgive the homosexual and bring them to wholeness. 10. We advocate counselling of homosexuals to help them abandon their practice of homosexuality and accept Christ. Source: ACC Ministers Manual: Ethics Statements (Homosexuality & Lesbianism)
BE YE ‘PERFECT’ AS FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT!.. What was that?.. Do we here these words in the Churches anymore?.. LOL.. 🙂 .. If a Minister mentions the word ‘PERFECT’ in the pulpit today, the congregation splinter and he is considered .. DELUDED .. 🙂 .. this gives us all a good idea on how many churched people are Really Saved from Eternal Hell Fire.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRc0h2jjX8 .. Enjoy!
Deb. You are correct. Hillsong was just a continuation of Christian Life Centre. Simple as that. But Pastor Brian Houston is using this entity change from Christian Life Centre, Sydney to Hillsong to say to the 13 plus boy victims of his father’s abuse: “Sorry about the abuse occurring at Christian Life Centre, other parts of Australia and New Zealand when my dad Frank was in the AOG or City Hillsong. You see the AOG New Zealand is a separate entity from the AOG Australia and the AOG Australia is now Australian Christian Churches anyway and Christian Life Centre Sydney is now Hillsong City campus. So unless your abuse happened in Hillsong Baulkham Hills since 2000, I’m definitely not liable. Not even morally because I have no morals towards the victims so how could I be morally liable?” Donald
Paul.Thank you for your support and belief in what I’m doing. One victim who wrote to me on this site about being abused by Pastor Frank Houston contacted the Royal Commission this week with my help and gave them a written account of his story. He emailed me after and said that its made him feel a lot better and empowered. The abuse occurred when he was just 11 and happened several times at an AOG church camp in Australia. TV One in New Zealand contacted me and asked me for some leads on NZ victims of Pastor Frank Houston and I was able to point them where to find some. I was contacted today by a NZ victim in an area of NZ where I’ve had no evidence of abuse and I’m in communication to see if I can help them. Donald
Hello Michelle, I don’t know you personally neither do I know Donald personally but one thing I do know of Donald is this .. “Donald has a Backbone (which is more than I can say about most church leaders today) and he Truly cares about people, especially abused people and I have no doubt that God Almighty ‘will and is’ backing him in his pursuit of Righteousness and Justice for those who have been beaten down and have no Voice”. And one more thing, I don’t really do the ‘blog-thing’ but I find myself here on Donald’s Blog, as Father leads. And have you noticed that Donald’s Blog has no ‘Coward, Compromising Notice’ on it such as.. “All comments on this Blog are subject to Moderation”.. I like that, I like that people are free to speak what is ‘Really in their Hearts’ and are not Controlled and Restricted by Pharisees, Sadducees and People Pleasers. Let me recommend this article link (of my fellow minister) for your reading, RE: Judge Not. And also, let me say, Proud People wouldn’t dare put their Name, Time and Strength on the line for others, (proud people have no genuine care for anyone but themselves) please consider what I have just said Michelle, it may prove to be helpful as you go further down the road .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/trueorfalse.htm .. 🙂
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Justice certainly needs to happen but sounds like you’re playing God, judge and jury, Donald. Let the authorities handle it. Be very very careful Donald, pride goes before the fall. I understand your righteous anger but never be so self righteous to think YOU could never fall. This sounds like a witch hunt you are conducting.
so terrible sad all of this, words fail me! Judgement must indeed start in the house of God and flow on out from there to the rest of the world. When Jesus returns He will be looking for a holy and pure bride who walks in the ways of God. It is up to all of us (individually and as the body of Christ) to be ready for His return. And you can be sure His coming is not far away, take heed of the parable of the 10 virgins (5 were wise, 5 were foolish. Look and see what happened, what was the outcome!). Those who have been wronged need justice, healing.
On the subject of lying. I would like to comment on Maureen’s statement about her dad not founding hillsong. Is she splitting hairs? I was in the meeting that day Brian and 40/45? Others were commissioned out to start a church at baulkham hills from CLC. We were also told that we and our tithes would help to fund them until they could get on their feet. Yes that church changed and involved into hillsong but that was a growth and change of name only. It still came from and was funded and founded out of her dad’s church. Surely someone like Maureen would know the truth of this? Wouldn’t you think?
There is God’s laws and the laws of the country. Crimes are dealt with in a COURT OF LAW. Not by anyone’s compassion and forgiveness. You are foolish to suggest that crimes are acts of the devil.If you were right.what is the use of having laws. Don’t come back to me with more quotes from the bible to justify what you said According to you, we can justify all the crimes committed in this world by blaming it on the devil. Judge: ” Yes dear man it wasnt your fault you molested that innocent child, it was an act from the devil” Youre a cretin mate to suggest we cant question Frank Houstons If you truly were abused yourself in this manner, do you honestly believe your forgiveness helped anyone else that that person may have abused? Or the abuser itself?
Gidday Donald .. I watched part of the RC on Houston this afternoon via streaming and from what I can see .. this Hillsong mob are as Cunning as a Dunny Rat, they’ll run around the bowl all day and never fall in. Well, I believe that Hillsong are going to run this entire case to the end and walk away laughing at everyone, just as the Roman Catholic Whore Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos and the rotten Uniting Church. All supposed Protestants (save RC’s) who dare not Protest any more, especially against Sin. And worse than that, Hellsong will have the gall to say .. “Thanks be unto God for Vindicating us”… 🙂 .. From the little I have seen/heard of Houston on live-streaming, he doesn’t give a hoot about anyone else but Brian, Frank/deceased and Hillsongs Furtherance. AOG are Crooks and ‘Wordplay Professionals’. I don’t believe any of them could lie straight in bed.. 🙂 .. I’ve said it for decades and people, so called Christians, pew warmers and Pastors alike HATE me for it .. “AOG is a Den of Thieves and who in their right mind would want to be associated with them”. Yes, I have had opportunity to be part ( a minister) with them, on more than one occasion (1 being with Garden City Church) but the Spirit in me said ‘Stay Away’.. thanks but no thanks .. 🙂 .. ref/Psalm 1:1 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo71.htm ..
Good Morning Donald.. I read your Oct 8 Comment on the RC-Houston and although the Saga is grim I still liked the dry-humour. As for your Oct 7 Comment, well, it was just so sad to read. So this man/FH controlled this boy AHA for 5 years, most certainly was no mistake was it. Wilful damage, damnable Sin outside of True-Repentance. I never seen Jim Williams X Pastor of Garden City Church ever go before the Courts either for his Sexual Misconduct with young girls in New Zealand, prior to coming to Australia, just another White Washed-Stone Wall job I guess. ‘Amazing Grace’ it is that Saves Souls from Eternal Hell Fire that live in Ongoing Known Sin Un-Repented… ‘Repentance and Forgiveness’ what a Beautiful Message filled with God’s Love .. ref/Luke 24:47 .. 🙂 .. Go in the strength of our God – Jesus, who is the Christ .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/tradingongrace.htm ..
Denis. Thank you for your comment and concerns. Would you mind detailing anything you feel is inaccurate? I started writing about Pastor Frank Houston two years ago. That was when I wrote the article on this site: “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. It was shortly after my father’s death, who was also a pastor. I was writing about dad and his life, mainly for my family and people who knew dad. In the course of my recollections and memories I wrote a blog about dad and Frank Houston because they were pastors in the same city in New Zealand. That was in Wellington in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Their contrasting backgrounds, congregational demography and so on was interesting to me. You see Denis, this is a private blog site which is only my opinion. I write the world as I see it. If I get the facts wrong, I’d like to know. Also I very much believe in the ethos of democracy and freedom of expression. So if you or anyone disagrees with me, that’s OK. I hope this explains a bit about where I’m coming from. Donald
Sorry Maureen something is not right in the Houston family. Your brother is wealthy, he is high profile, he is powerful and he has achieved many wonderful things as you say. However, I see a man in a deep rut of pain and shame that he is digging with his action of not shouting from his stage everything he knows. The truth will set him free. I’m afraid there are skeletons in Brian’s closet that caused him to start digging this rut. I’m not suggesting they are the same skeletons as your fathers but there are skeletons. A man without these skeletons would have just jumped on the grenade from the outset with the faith that Jesus Christ will restore.
Hello Donald. I have read your blog page and find numerous assumptions that you have come to. Please get the facts before you go into the public arena. You appear to be on a mission to avenge the sexual abuse of one man. Assumptions presented as fact are damaging to people and once stated by go it can not be withdrawn. Your assumptions have entered minds and they take it as fact. Be careful and use wisdom.
John. What age did Sheila live to and what happened to the nice house they built? Your dad was a very good man and you’re fortunate to have had a father like him. I can’t remember if I went to Stan’s funeral but I may have. Where was it held? I went to Pastor Tom Marshall’s funeral and watched the coffin being lowered into the hole. His funeral was at the Cemetery at North Ryde in Sydney. He got cancer unexpectedly and died quickly. Tom was one of the men of God who I think really had a close walk with God. Sometimes he’d radiate God’s Presence. Did you get on well with Stan? I’ll read the AOG link you mention. Did Stan and Sheila ever mention the scandal involving Frank’s abuse of 6 ten year old boys at Lower Hutt AOG in the 1960s and several at AOG youth camps in South Australia in the early 1970s. I’m trying to get more details. Do you know anyone who might know? Donald
Donald – yes indeed, I’m Stan’s second son. Incidentally, prior to her move to Africa as a missionary, Sheila was my mother’s midwife for me back in ’43 at the maternity home behind what is now the Hutt City AoG. If your interested in correcting the Wiki version of NZL AoG, Pastor Ian G Clark, whom I respected, has written its history – http://ifphc.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/assemblies-of-god-in-new-zealand/#more-662 If I recall it correctly of when I was 14/15 & vacationed in Ellerslie at my best friend home, Ray Bloomfield was a short overweight American type preacher that I didn’t really appreciate – but I understand there may have been some friction there with WFH. I moved to Ardmore in ’64 & lost contact with religion having some personal disbelief with the results of the Nicene “Convention”. I helped Dad & Sheila with the electrical wiring of their house and Dad died in ’78 a few months prior to my leaving NZL for Indonesia where now reside. I have no further juicy tales to tell of WFH except to say that I really had no trust in him and considered him and his ilk as a charlatan. (I once observed a Dentist from the congregation swear that the dental fillings one prayed for convert was receiving were from God – why didn’t he just get real teeth?) If evangelicals were a little more openly tolerant towards gay society then pedophilia would have a better chance to be recognised earlier. How many gay men & women are so because they were abused before reaching a mature enough age to understand the consequences.?
Paul. Don’t worry. Most people don’t comment. The views have gone through the roof. I’ve never set out to please people and write what tickles their ears. I have a huge number of viewers on a wide variety of subjects. The Frank Houston blogs are the most popular, particular “Frank Houston. Part one. Frank Houston’s pedophile activities”. This was my first blog on Frank Houston a couple of years ago. Thank you for your comments and encouragement. I’m going to organise a class action if Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston don’t do something for the victims that is acceptable to me and the victims. One class action against the New Zealand AOG and one here in Australia against Hillsong and the AOG (now called the Australian Christian Churches). Donald
Well Donald .. day 2 has nearly passed us by and the ‘Stone Walling’ has already begun.. LOL!.. otherwise you’ll cry. The World, the News Reports tell us that even they are being deceived into thinking that Brian Houston and His Churched Leaders are all just Innocent Peoples saying with one accord.. “Silver and Gold have we None”. Jesus did say that ‘His people’ look for and long for the ‘New Heavens and the New Earth’ where RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS. It certainly doesn’t dwell on this earth, save in the Holy Remnant Peoples. ‘Admitting’ that we are Sinners or we have done wrong or that something is vile is not True Repentance, something needs to be done. The whole Saga of Frank Houston and his Filthy ways is not about his son Brian Admitting that his dad was a ‘Sodomite and Child Molester’… and then let’s move on now and Business as Usual. The entire case is not complete and never will be, in the eyes of the Righteous or the Righteous One-Jesus the Christ, until every single Victim is Accounted for, Compensated for and Catered for with whatever they need in order to ease the Horrific Damage dumped upon these little ones, by these Filthy Rich Wolves in Sheep’s Garments. If all I can do is continue to Encourage you to press forward with your ‘Findings and Conviction’ and also Pray for you and this ‘White -Washed’ situation, this is what I’ll do. But as you have already said “Some sins are Evident and Dealt with on earth while others follow them to the Grave”. Which was the case with Frank Houston. So was it 1 Child Molested or was it 21?. Frank and his wife’s sudden death also left a question mark in my mind .. And yes, dear Donald, only the ‘Salty’ will be Spared!!.. from Eternal Torment .. I notice that your Blog is not flooded with comments on such an Important Subject but neither is ‘The Narrow Road Flooded with Travellers’ .. ref/Matthew 7:13-14 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVY3MNm-VE .. Maranatha!
Rose. Its all voluntary re tithing and I have been going to church almost all my life. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses and has had its ups and downs but I’ve found my Christian faith has sustained me. My dad was a Pastor and from knee high he told me tales of human error, even pedophilia in the Church. And that was in the 1960s and 1970s. Everywhere you have people inside the Church or outside the Church you’ll find evil and human depravity. Donald
Paul. Thank you for mentioning me. I want to be one of those who follows in the footsteps of the brave heroes of the faith in the hall of fame in Hebrews chapter 11. Its been travelling around in my spirit lately the scripture in Revelation about if we’re lukewarm then God will spew us out of His mouth. Donald
I left CLC in its beginning days at Waterloo. Nobody explained such a thing as Diapraxis $$$, but I could see its outworking. I could see the signs and knew it was time to get out. This did not mean that I stopped being a Christian. The wickedness of men is a given and I alone must stand before God and give account. There was a time that the CLC bookshop had the likes of Francis schaeffer and Derek Prince etc. A number of years later I returned to CLC to check out its bookshop, to use the bookshop as a barometer regarding the church’s spirituality; as expected it had gone into decline. The simplistic books of Kennith Copeland were in full view; Copeland a known Freemason, as are Kennith Hagin and Billy Graham.
Many years later I chose to look at the top contemporary Christian music CD’s. As I listened to these, I was appalled; gone was the music of Keith Green and John Michael Talbot, true Christian music. Next I discovered a youtube hillsong video. This included a ‘so called’ Christian thrash metal band by the name of Pergamum; any Christian worth his salt should instantly know that (from the book of Revelations) Pergamum is the ‘seat of satan’; Pergamum being found in Turkey. The Pergamum altar being currently housed in a Berlin German museum; the same copied Pergamum altar that Obama used for his 2008 democratic(sic) convention. How a so called Christian Church could house a thrash metal band firstly, next one named Pergamum (seat of satan) was truly disgusting, while also intriguing to me. I wondered at the people that stood and watched this band; you could see at some level that they were troubled, yet they did nothing.
You who are without sin let him cast the first stone. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. A look at the old testament, in all its honesty, reveals the failings of man. The race we run is one to the finish line. Would you catch me in a hillsong church? Only to check out how far the fruit has fallen, then I’m out of there.
Beyond this, these are the sign of the times; the great falling away, the kali yuga. Yet this has all been in the making for many thousands of years. Mystery Babylon, gnostics, Alumbrados, The Church of Rome, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, witches, and satanists etc. Many who think that they have the absolute truth and yet are beguiled, (Do I think I have all the answers? No, but I make it my life’s work to find answers to the most important of questions). The Jesuits being some of the most heinous and depraved; the cause of most of the worlds wars and death of millions – mystery babylon. These same jesuits that secretly obtaining most of the worlds wealth via its illuminati run international bankers, via its owned reserve banks of this world. These very same who run the media and create religions. The very same people who set up tele-evangelists i.e. wolves in sheep’s clothing. Tele-evangelists who are also commonly Freemasons. Freemasonry which acknowledges at its 31st to 33rd levels that the god they worship is lucifer. This same lucifer which is the name which the UN had its publishing company named as ‘lucifer publishing’ now lucis trust. The same illuminati, inclusive of Murdoch who owns Harper Collins, which prints its ‘so called’ Christian bibles i.e. corrupted bibles. See videos ‘A lamp in the dark’ and ‘Tares among the wheat’ for the ongoing attack and corruption of the bible via the Vatican Jesuits. See also Libellusjesuitus.pdf as the the magical working of the Vatican Jesuits in conjuration of the demons of hell. As for those who still do not believe in a spiritual battle, you might like to look at all the books and videos of satanism and black magic readily available on Amazon.com and youtube; interesting are the works of E.A.Koetting on both of these websites. A person who will teach you of Human sacrifice but will smile when he tells you that he has not been apart of this. The Roman Church who is well aware of the spiritual realm and which secretly uses the forces of darkness to maintain power, all the while working for the Fascist New World Order, One world Government and One world Church – luciferian doctrine. The confessions of witches will tell you that they will attend church services; to merely sit in a service as a point of darkness to filter through to the church. Yes the people on top, the oligarchy, the is called illumanists, satanists know what is going on, what is at stake; power mad leeches of humanity; the ones that refer to the rest of us as useless eaters, cockroaches ready for the slaughter of the UN’s Agenda 21, Bohemium Grove and Georgia Guide Stones.
Yes I was also saddened to hear about Frank Houston, while every minister is a target, the mind boggles as to the wickedness of man. Saddened to watch what was becoming and did become of CLC, but with what I have just described above, you might have a glimpse into what is beyond what most just see on the surface. The rock of the Christian faith is the word of God. The Vatican and gnostics etc will tell you to place your trust on ‘Tradition and revelation’ all the while attacking the word of God and even corrupt the newer bibles. A look at Westcott and Hort (Jesuits) will show you from their written correspondences how they would seek to distort and destroy people’s faith in the bible (firstly via using the Jesuit Sinaiticus corrupted manuscript and then via casting doubt via the margin notes). There is a reason why there are Christians who stand firm on bibles that use the ‘majority script’ i.e. textus receptus manuscripts i.e King James Version; this verses the Vatican distorted manuscripts that most bibles these days are corrupted by. Wisely did St Paul state that “our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers..” For my liking any major church these days, especially that has Tele-evangelists are immediately suspect. The oligarchy which has most of the worlds wealth and controls most of the media, luciferians, are not going to let any church or minister that is not one of theirs, be able to positively influence the masses. The watered down churches of today are ripe for the One world Church. The Vatican created Islam to kill the true Christian and Jews and the game goes on. Why, did you not know that Mohammad’s wife of 15 years senior was a Roman Catholic that lived in a Roman Catholic convent? See information as presented by ex-jesuit Alberto Rivera – All roads lead to Rome. The tower of Babel – the U.N, Atheism verses Religion, the Hegelian dialectic, to achieve the One World’s Religion of the luciferian doctrine, the new age movement, man as god, all giving homage to lucifer. Stupid minds, Credit card mentalities – you can have it now, but one day you’ll have to pay up with interest.
So, you can listen to the lies and the distortions, you can run to Atheism etc like an ostrich with its head in the sand, but this does not negate the spiritual realm and the criteria of giving account as to ones earthly life’s actions. As for me, I’ll still stand by the one who spoke the greatest of all truth, the one who spoke words pertaining to eternal life – Yashaya (Jesus Christ).
Yes Donald.. Our great Lord-Jesus talks about ‘Thoroughly Purging His Church’ and if we don’t want to come under His Winnowing Fan’ .. how shall we be His, how shall we be Saved . .. would we not be only Born-Again Bastards?.. Not all Israel are Israel are they. And MANY will call Lord-Lord!.. whom Jesus will Deny He ever knew them. This Message was our Mid Week Teaching taught today.. 8.10.2014. And I make mention of Brian/Frank Houston, Hillsong and other Heathen Religious People-Organisations. You may find some time to listen. I also made mention of yourself-Donald. Keep up the Goodly Work, I’m sure Father – Ancient of Days is proud of you. Yahweh always backs His Truth and all who speak it in it’s Entirety – Full Counsel, never known Him any other way in 27 years Ministry .. Our motto @ JtCm-Mission is .. Honesty, Truth and Humility, with Jesus as Preeminent .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTlsPMenBc .. thank you Donald for keeping me posted .. Jesus Bless you .. 🙂 ..
Paul. I’m watching the whole Hearing and will continue to write blogs. Pastor Brian Houston issued a statement yesterday after the Royal cCommission denying he told victim AHA that he was tempting his dad. Please think about it: for 5 years the victim who was aged just 7 was abused by pastor Frank Houston and Pastor Brian Houston says the AHA was tempting his dad. This is the only victim the Royal Commission has heard from so far. From 2000 Pastor Brian Houston as head of the AOG took over the case of his dad. All the evidence from inside the Commission and from my sources says that Pastor Brian Houston did nothing at all to help the victims of his dad’s abuse in any way, apart from the shameful attempt at a buy-off at Thornleigh McDonald’s where a deal was done with AHA for $10,000 to be paid. AHA then had to chase Pastor Brian Houston for the cheque which arrived in the post with no cover letter. Pastor Frank Houston then tried to hush it all up and shut the matter down and has lied lied lied ever since. The Royal Commission is on to Pastor Brian Houston and he should be a worried man, if he’s not already. Before Sydney and the world Pastor Brian Houston’s shameful treatment of victims of his dad’s abuse is being played out. It was the top story on Sydney and National Sky News last night. there were large articles in the Sydney morning Herald and Daily Telegraph. Very very sad for the victims. Not good for the body of Christ. Purging sometimes has to come. Some people are judged on this earth. For some the judgment awaits them. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Sickening! This is so typical of Churches, never deal with anything properly or even biblically – shame on them! Shut all churches down I reckon or start TAXING them, after all, do they not TAX the members with the TITHE?? !! Of course they doApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Well Donald, day 1 is done with the Houston/Hillsong – CLC – AOG – ACC .. Saga and a little has been given recognition. People will always have THEIR views but the TRUTH is the truth and we can’t escape it, no matter what we try to do to camouflage it. As I watched the News last night, they said that F. Houston meet with one young victim @ Maccas and cut a deal with him for 10K $ and it was contracted on a MACCAS Tissue. How Low can ya Go?.. What a cheap trick, it’s just insult after insult isn’t it for all victims and even for the intelligence of the Commission, the Law and God’s Law, not to mention the Christian Community at large.This tells all, the REAL character of Franky Houston, not his Religious AOG Showcase Character but the real man within. F. Houston (within the secret meet) WILFULLY Abused and Wrecked a young mans life (along with multiple others) and then degraded him again by cutting a deal with him on a tissue paper. VERY CLASSY INDEED. Basically treating him like a piece of scrap meat, (the old nudge-nudge wink-wink say not more ). Franky basically tried to mop up such a Great Filthy Mess with a MACCAS TISSUE, now that is deluded in the first degree. Just a Band-Aid for the Leper. With no Respect whatsoever for humanity, let alone Christianity or Christ. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR?. However, I find one great insult and Sin in the midst of all this filth and that is, Brian Houston plays the ‘Liar and the Denier’ in this whole filthy mess and we all know that Jesus called ‘Satan the Father of Lies’. Hence, there is no lower character a person can be, in the eyes of God-Yahweh .. than a LIAR. Brian needs to Repent, come clean, face the music and move on in honesty and humility with expectation of Salvation on Faith-Obedience .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLVLODCJbI …ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes, its all about the victims. That’s what these articles of mine are about. Helping the victims and bringing hillsong, Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG to account. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
John. I had forgotten Frank served at Ellerslie. In what capacity did he serve? Was Ray Bloomfield involved there? Are there any Frank Houston victims of abuse from that period? Yes, i agree Frank was into male physique and bodies. That is normal for a homosexual but not for a prominent AOG pastor. Sad. So are you the son of Stan Carter? Stan was an amazing man. I met Stan at large interdenominational charismatic meeting at Karori, Wellington, where he was on the door. It was 1976-77. As you’d know he had a ministry of helps. I then got to know Stan and Sheila well at Kapiti Christian Centre. I recall Stan’s smile as he greeted people at the door at Karori. I was a young Christian aged 19 and used to help him on the door. I spent time with them as they built their new home on Kapiti beachfront. It would be worth a lot of money today. Stan was tireless in his work and then dropped dead from that heart attack. Stan and Sheila told me about Pastor Frank Houston being accused of pedophilia in the early 1970s. There was a big blow-up and a lot of people left. Do you know the facts on that incident? What age did Sheila live to? She was a very godly woman and had served as an AOG missionary in Africa for decades. Sheila shared how the tribes would run their pagan ceremonies all night with loud drumming and so ion and it would be quite scary. Stan and Sheila were quaint living in that little caravan as they build their house. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kylie. Pastor Brian Houston is in no way responsible for his father;s pedophile and homosexual sins, which are many and involve 12 or more victims, probably 20 plus, over all the decades from the 1960s until the 1980s. I haven’t found any dirty old man Frank Houston victims. If you read the last two blogs I’ve written last night and this morning you’ll understand where Brian is culpable and responsible. As head of Hillsong, as pastor Frank’s successor and as head of the AOG denomination for 12 years until 2009, he has been heartless, cold and arrogant towards the victims of his dad’s abuse. He has also been in denial. it is a difficult time for Brian and the Houston family. There are other issues too. For example, the Houstons have grown fat on royalties on hill song products and music, which is in reality stealing from God. What is God’s is Gods. What is mortal mans belongs to mortal man. You don’t profit from the things of God and the holy gospel. Its wrong. Its stealing from God. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
My spouse and I stumbled over here different web page and thought I may as well check things out. I like what I see so i am just following you. Look forward to looking into your web page yet again.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I just cant’ help feeling for those poor, young and helpless children that had been abused by Frank Houston. I have two boys myself. Just feel how heartless this man is for raping and abusing these children, the fear , helplessness and pain that their little bodies and minds have to injure from that evil of a man. I’m sorry but i wish he is burning in hell now for hurting those little ones.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Donald – Some Bios of Frank omit the period he served at Elerslie prior to being called to Lower Hutt where my father was a Deacon – I understand you have met him as you quote him and my stepmother somewhere. One of the strangest encounters with Frank that I recall vividly, was his obsession with the physique and athletic ability of school boy swimmers. In particular he confided that he frequented the then new Nae Nae Olympic swimming pool, to watch the swimming races. He had breached the subject some time in 1960 I believe, when I was in the sixth form, saying how much he enjoyed watching the performance of Robbie Walker an outstanding swimmer from our school. Maybe this was the start of his deviant obsession.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
P.s i strongly agree though that Frank Houston should be put on show for what he’s done and everything should be shared with the media, justice for those poor victims is all they have! And perhaps Hill song needs to fully accept and come to terms with the extent of his terrible doings!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I’m shattered by this disturbing news, I feel for Brian and his family because they are in a terrible situation that is not their doing nor do they have any control of, offenders always have children of their own and Brian happens to be the child of a terrible man but this is not his fault and I feel he shouldn’t be blamed for his father’s actions, I have been part of Hill song for many years on and off and although I consider my self a Christian I’ve never read the Bible nor do I take it very seriously yet I pray every night, so please don’t think I’m bias! I call a spade a spade and take people on face value, Brian/hillsong have done so much good over the years and helped so many people in need and yet this becomes quickly forgotten in bad times in the media, Brian may have been abused himself has anyone thought of that?? And does this make him not worthy to preach because his family life isn’t perfect, that church is amazing for people in need and it’s all thanks to Brians hard work if people think that it’s all been easy and he’s just scammed money out of people then their wrong he has worked hard, and had to leave his children to go overseas to constantly dedicate his life to helping others, all I can sayis I’m devastated but not hating these people due to others actions, family or not!ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Lynda. You are correct that Pastor Brian Houston has knowledge of other cases. Victim AHA is an example of an Australian victim that Brian has known about since 1998. I’m sure it is very difficult for Brian. We know each other although I haven’t spoken to him for a long time. I don’t understand the psychology but Pastor Brian Houston and Hillsong still persist with that official view of only one victim in New Zealand 40 years ago. Pastor Brian is having a lot of difficulty coming to terms with the activities of his dad. As are the other Houstons such as Beverly Houston who mentions the family trauma about her dad in comments on this site. The Houston denial is about to change. The Royal Commission which started today says that it has knowledge of 7 victims. I have knowledge of 11 plus. One of the purposes of my articles is to clarify with everyone that Pastor Frank Houston was a continual pedophile and homosexual from the 1960s when he was in his 30s until the 1980s when he was over 60. I also want Hillsong, the AOG and Pastor Brian Houston to start caring about the victims. Listening to them. Respecting them. Paying for a counsellor of their choice and one million dollars payout per victim. Thank you for your comments.DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hello , since reading this I have googled abit more about it . Just wanted to bring to your attention that there is a u tube clip of Pastor Brian Housten discussing this as the most difficult time in his life , and he clearly refers to “victims” and also mentions a meeting with at least one other victim as well . Thought I would mention it as I’m sure seeing how you are doing a blog and obviously have a lot of facts about the case , that you would also want to ensure accuracy in all areas of reporting . CheersApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
A BLESSING FOR ALL .. from Brother: Donald Wilson, this is a timely Message for the AOG-ACC for sure. Brother Donald was Principal of 2 Christian Schools in New Zealand and his dad by the leading of Holy Ghost departed from the AOG in the end, through disgust and that was going back 50 years, so what does that tell you .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/freedom.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Good Morning Donald .. Yes, it is a Goodly Morn, why?.. because it’s Commission Day.I would like to watch the Commission hearing, if time permits, otherwise I look forward to reading the paperback version. Sounds like you’re the man for this very job, and Father has a perfect way of finding the right man for every job, re/Little David-chosen above his warlord buffed-brothers. My fellow minister (Brother: Donald Wilson) in the Christ comes from NZ and his dad Pastor: William Wilson used to walk with Smith Wigglesworth when he was about. And has said to me on occasion that all these Ministers who use Wigglesworth’s name (for their own ends), re/Houston, Nalliah, Hinn, Copeland, Meyer, I’ve even heard ‘Jim Williams’ of Garden City Church when it was called such, drop his name when convenient. I met Jim Williams @ GCC many years ago and when I shook his hand the ‘Spirit of the Lord’ said to me he was going to be removed from GC within 12 months and he was removed only months later. When I told some of his fans this, they said I was jealous of him, charged at me and told me to be very careful what I say. He is another that was caught out for his taste for the young. Brother Donald doubted very much whether Wigglesworth would even give the people mentioned the time of day. I had a small happening with Freddy Evans/AOG too one time, an arrogant man if ever there was one. I haven’t read Bobby Houston’s book or any of Brian’s (the titles are enough) but I have heard both on TV and the little I could bear was suffice, 10 mins is overkill. Yes, I must agree, the AOG along with the RCC, Anglicans, Uniting Church and Salvation Army are sticklers for ‘Stone Walling’ and are in deep water in Yahweh’s Eyes. I am praying that justice be done and the truth revealed .. you are in my prayers .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/devil_is_a_pervert.htm ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Paul. Yes that’s the time for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Live stream starting at 10.30am today Tuesday at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au. I have knowledge of far more AOG pastors and leaders who are guilty of pedophile activities and have been protected by the AOG from prosecution, than Pastor Frank Houston, Brian Houston’s dad, who died in 2004, and was a secret homosexual and pedophile for over 40 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg re Hillsong and the Australian AOGs damage to Christendom. In a previous comment you reference the book Bobbie Houston’s “Kingdom women like sex”. I can’t find teachings like this in the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Can you imagine the reaction of Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth and Kathryn Kulmann to writings like this and Pastor Brian Houston’s writings about riches, money and prosperity? There is so much wrong with Hillsong and a large number of the AOG and modern pentecostal churches in Australia and all over the Western World. The problem is that we haven’t had a revival for a long time to flush all the worldiness out of our hearts and lives. When Pastor Brian Houston took over Christian Life Centre Sydney in the 1997 he shut down all the Holy Spirit soaker meetings, the prayer meetings and Christian Commandos, the outreach ministry in Kings Cross. He sanitised everything and all the Pentecostal stuff stopped. No prophecies, no healings, no deliverance. All the foundations of the ministry of Jesus, the Apostle Paul and the early church. All the things of the Holy Spirit, the early church and Pentecost stopped. This is where we must return to. The simplicity of faith in Christ. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount- Matthew 5-7. I Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. Acts 2 and Pentecost and the beginnings of Christianity. 1904-7 Azuza Street and the Welsh Revival Smith Wigglesworth, John G Lake, Katherine Kulman and so on. Those that have gone before us who are worth reading. If you read the Sermons of John G Lake and then read Bobby Houston’s “Christian Woman love sex” you might puke. I haven’t read her or Brian’s books but I intend to read them all and to do a full analysis of Hillsong and explain how it has gone off the rails and taken most of Australian Pentecost off the right track with it. I’m not without hope because the Holy Spirit is the greatest and sometimes He has to dismantle a whole denomination or organisation to bring forth new buds and establish what is right. A generation will rise up soon who are sick of the greed, corruption and money and sex emphasis in Hillsong and the Pentecostal church and who will embrace the true tenets of Christianity as found in the New Testament and the early church. All the best with the godly fight. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I have had my own experiences and run-ins with AOG – ACC Church Ministers and Members over 27 years Ministry and everyone of them disgusted me, still do. They are surely off with the Pixies. I have a few people in my fellowship that escaped the clutches of the AOG and the stories they have told me simply confirm and add to my original view of that Religious – Franchise. I always hoped that this wicked Religious Organisation/Business/Franchise would be ‘Exposed’ for what it really is. Looks like Yahweh gave me my wish, at least part of it for now. It was my wife that came across this blog today on her phone and she mentioned it to me this afternoon. The funny thing is, my wife didn’t attend our Church yesterday for she wasn’t well and she didn’t know what I Preached (not as yet). But I did mention Brian Houston and his ‘Affluent Church in New York’ in my prelude. How Brian was boasting on TV of how Hillsong are making headway into the Big Ticked Night Clubs where all the Wealthy, cashed up Sodomites, Transvestites and Depraved Women hang out. And then I come across this blog, well you could have pushed me over with a pin. Didn’t Jesus say to ‘Abstain from even the Appearances of Evil’?.. And what would AOG – Hillsong know about Worship anyway?. True Worship involves selflessness. It’s the 7.10. 2014 tomorrow isn’t it, yeah.. ‘Joy Comes in the Morning’ says the Lord of all Equity… 🙂 .. http://www.fireandhammer.com/JTCMNo215.htm .. Yesterdays Message @ JtCm-Mission, Brisbane City .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8Nh92DmyE ..ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Pastor Brian Houston is about to appear before the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission is looking at the response to child abuse by the Assemblies of God, the Australian Christian Churches (a conglomerate of Pentecostal churches including the AOG, Hillsong and Pastor Frank Houston). Pastor Frank Houston, Brian’s father abused 11 plus victims, probably a lot more, mainly young boys aged 10-11 as very prominent Assemblies of God (AOG) pastor over 4 plus decades. These abuses took place in Australia and New Zealand. There are other AOG pastors who will be examined at this Hearing starting next Tuesday 7 October 2014 in Sydney. There is admissable evidence that Pastor Frank Houston and other AOG pastors did these things. The attitude of Pastor Brian Houston and the AOG in Australia and New Zealand has been to stonewall victims, try to hush them up and not compensate them properly or normally at all, if possible. You be the judge whether we should all go on with our lives and pretend child abuse of innocents by AOG pastors and leaders hasn’t happened and isn’t still happening. Pedophilia is a crime and there are serious consequences. The Australian Government certainly isn’t letting it go, in the AOG or any other church or institution. And I thank God for that. Future and present children need as much protection as possible from these evil predators. Especially from the clergy, for people don’t expect the clergy to be wolves in sheep’s apparel.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Absolutely Karen swart. I agree people need to leave Brian Houston alone god is in charge we can not condemn. Anyone only god can judge and I think it’s great Brian has done what he did he is a truly Remarkable manApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Maureen. Unfortunately you are in denial. To date the Australian AOG, Hillsong and your brother Brian have stalled and blocked any research or examination of Pastor Frank Houston’s numerous child sexual abuse victims. It would be nice if Pastor Brian Houston would face up to the music. I’m not optimistic. I would expect Brian and the AOG to stonewall the Royal Commission. It would be nice if this is not the case.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Oh my goodness! This is the most appalling writing… Quite abhorrent. How dare you state these serious matters as fact when it is profoundly flawed with misinformation and outright slander! I don’t know who you are Donald Elley, but I suggest you need to examine your own life. My father, Frank Houston was a pedophile. We, his family had no knowledge of this whatsoever! We were/are all completely traumatised by the fact. I have grandchildren now in their teens and have had to explain their genetic ‘heritage’. It had nothing to do with us, but we wear the stigma. Brian has gone on to serve God in ways you could never possibly understand with your small-mindedness…. Despite his total personal grief! Dad did NOT found Hillsong Church. I cannot quite figure your motives? Do you fancy yourself as some kind of representative of Gods justice? Bizarre! I think your stated profession is that of a builder. There are many Professionals, including a current Royal Commission, looking after the victims, hearing their stories with compassion, and I have no doubt they will get compensation if they think that will help. We are blessed to live in a society that no longer hides such hideous crimes against children. If you are a Christian you will be aware we ALL stand accountable before God on the day of judgement. The only thing I can say in my father’s defense, is that he taught us, along with many others, the gospel which is totally redeeming. I admire my amazing brother for his efforts for the kingdom of God, despite his agony. I’ve watched him grow and flourish as he has practised forgiveness on a scale most never have to consider. Your blog is contemptible and I won’t be revisiting it. Writing can be used in such a beautiful way to inspire and influence people for Jesus. May I suggest you find something edifying to write.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
This preaching is right for the Frank Houston matter, by Bill Johnson. 1Cor5, expelling and a form of shame with purpose, cleaning up the act with God, and covering sinners’ blind spots. ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Also, Calvary Chapel going through similar. Chuck Smith Sr., wouldn’t deal with his church at large either. Google: Alex Grenier and spiritualsoundingboard, or ocweekly.com; L.A.Times and Christianity Today articles in 2007 exposing corruption etc and do over fifty hours of reads of similar corruption. When you ignore child abuse and wanting wives to be battered wives, punching bags, and don’t deal with homosexuality which will breed child molestation, pedophile evil, you’re just as evil.
What famous Calvary Chapel pastor stood a woman up and called her donkey’s ass for wanting to leave her husband that was molesting kids, wow; wonder what evil sin this false leader hiding and then his son ends up beheaded car accident, wow. Was dealing with exposing molestation in Foursquare/Calvary Chapel to NO avail. Foursquare ran the parents out didn’t pay for counseling for boys but they were acceptable to take their money as long as NOT questioning. Sad to say, what your dealing with is in ALL demonations (not misspelled).
Unholy Anointing by H.A. Lewis exposes corruption along with Dr. Rebecca Brown’s book, “Setting the Captives Free” and it’s rampant in the church. Look at the AOG movement how many leaders have made the news for homosexuality, what religion will breed, read Charisma, contact Trinity Foundation, Dallas TX and do reads in L.A. And O?C. Newspapers and Christianity Today and they are still in ministry=amazing. “Religion is to the church what cancer is to the body”. AOG’s and Foursquare have same issues and DON’T deal with either but they want the people’s time and money to be kept in their lifestyle and dead business of selling their god, their Jesus and their unholy spirit. Christians cannot, will not and choose NOT to think for themselves, the Matriarchal B_tches, Patriarchal Disasters are robbing their families, God does NOT get any money nor the homeless/poor for the most part. Follow that money trail and question to the unth degree. Question where information comes from and the source.
Basically the people are supporting habitual liars, liars where the money goes who they help and NOT getting correct biblical teaching. People for most part are supporting wolves, hirelings, false shepherds. People aren’t healed up and whole; if they were all these evil regimes/movements would not exist. Research a matter.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Can you clarify, is it Peter Lawton or Laughton as seeing discrepancy in blog. Also, can you post the site instead of referring to regarding Peter’s abuse that you write about.
In reading, Frank’s son is just as evil as his father if he doesn’t make it right by the victims and one million is not enough. Contact Dr. Susan Forward and talk to her about what each victim should receive, she wrote a book: “Incest, molestation and it’s devastation”. By the way ALL her books are excellent reads, Toxic Parents also. Maybe her, Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil can help to resolve these issues(take it public maybe on latter’s show and Dr. Laura’s radio program).
Could you cover the definition of homosexual tendencies that Peter told Frank to come out and admit he was homosexual=what to look for. Austin Miles book would expose the AOG’s for being highly homosexual and child molesting, which they are. Wrote a book (which has not been published) eleven years after Austin Miles book; not knowing he existed saying the same things. My church was just different players and submitted it to David Wilkerson, Dr. James Dobson and heads of church leadership to deal with. Been addressing it hardcore with David Wilkerson since 1992 until his death and year 2000 to a group of so-called Christian leaders that dubbed The Round Table”. Look at J.Lee Grady’s book on AOG Lies and Dogma or William Lobdell’s Losing My Religion.
By the way, Laurie your wrong, frank’s sin is over everyone here’s perfect example: Over a Decade ago a friend gave me one of Hillsong’s Worship Tape and said she played it and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. So, listened to it and gave it back to her and said there’s pedophile, child molestation and homosexuality going on in the church and it’s coming out in the music and those three usually go hand in hand. she did not believe me and went to a very gifted man in Aussie or New Zealand and he told her the same thing. She asked me what to do with it, I said do you want to deal with those evil spirits keep the tape, personally I WOULD STOMP THE HELL out of it. I WILL NOT EVER PLAY OR have hillsong’s music. Someone gave me a CD and threw it away. Worse to NEVER make it right by the victims but taking money in the name of the father, son, Holy Ghost, wow. Taking money and living the good life.
How much does Brian/Hillsong own, worth, business, real estate, vacation and ranch homes, money overseas and or property, vehicles, planes or mentioned items hidden in other people’s names? How much $ is going to help the poor, fatherless, widow, homeless, alien, stranger. The true shepherd lives poor/poverty lifestyle; Jesus and Disciples were example and you will read that also in Arthur Katz’s and Leonard Ravenhill’s written works. Nothing gives it away more than the true vs. false more than this. Another used car salesman selling his dead religion, how sad. Brian isn’t even Broken or repentant or real; false church it’s a means of Business to make money for lifestyle and no one is judging fruit. Majority of so-called Christian do NOT know what a true father and shepherd look like, hillsong would NOT exist if the people did. Read Dick Suphen’s article on Christian Brainwashing. I lived my life around my church cult and so glad got out. Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by Johnson and Van Vomderan, Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola.
Go to Babel, Pentecost, my time at IHOP by Gary Wallin and other articles by Kendall Beachey Blog. Read their articles and all comments. Also: spiritualabuseawaremess.com, churchexiters.org, surviving church.org, report church abuse to rickross.com (do all those reads), Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX unfortunately abuse sites are like the energizer bunny they keep going and going. Have pages of sites and list of church abuse books. Comments, it will tell you how to research church abuse. Always Research a matter and get unbrainwashed and think for yourself and not live your life for or through someone else.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Kathryn. Pastor Frank Houston died in 2004. He never was charged by the Police or did jail time. His son Pastor Brian Houston protected him. Hillsong/ Pastor Brian have lied about the number of Pastor Frank Houston’s victims saying there was only one 40 years ago. This is the official version I read on their web-site. I have counted 15 victims ranging in age from 10 to their late 20s. He was a secret homosexual and pedophile who liked boys and young men. All the time he was the most prominent AOG clergy in New Zealand first until 1977 and then Australia. He came to Sydney to escape the heat on him from allegations of pedophile activities while pastoring Lower Hutt AOG in Wellington, NZ. I’m convinced there are more than 15 victims. Two victims have contacted me after reading my articles on this site. If you google “Frank Houston and Peter Lawton” you’ll find graphic testimony by the victim Peter Lawton, Frank’s worship pastor, of Frank’s predatory homosexual abuse of him when he was a young man in his 20s and Frank was about 60 and living with his wife Hazel. Pastor Frank groomed Peter Lawton by inviting him to live with Frank and his wife Hazel in their flat in Lane Cove, Sydney. In this way Pastor Frank could groom and then abuse him. It’s very sad and vile stuff. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The bad root Hillsong grew from. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Phil. Pastor Brian Houston’s motives are probably quite complex. I believe he likes the good life. I’d like to see Brian share some of his success with the victims of his dad’s pedaphile activities, in the sense of substantial compensation and the provision of independent counselling for Pastor Frank Houston’s victims. I’m thinking in terms of one million dollars per victim plus independent counselling. It will never erase the hurt and invasion by his dad but it may help. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Yes this Pastor Frank Houston part 1 blog has proved very popular. I think it strikes a chord. People want to reconcile the sins of a pastor with their holy ministerial front.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
To all readers and commenters on this Site of mine: All comments are most welcome on this site. If you have been abused by Pastor Frank Houston or any other Pastor or Church leader please feel free to write to me initially by simply writing a comment on this site asking me to contact you. Then if I feel you are bona fide I’ll send you my email address so we can correspond. Some day soon I’d like to bring Pastor Brian Houston, Hillsong and the Australian and New Zealand Assemblies of God to account for the serious damage caused to Pastor Frank Houston’s victims by a very evil, Jackyl and Hyde individual: That is, Pastor Frank Houston. RIP Frank…not. “Woe to him who touches one of my children” said Jesus. Donald ElleyApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Mark. Frank continued to minister for many many years whilst concealing these awful things. I think the problem people have is that they were crimes against children and young impressionable men, not consenting adults. I think to draw parallels to life of Paul in this completely misses the mark. Their lives were nothing alike. I grew up in Franks church and have been around the AOG for a long time. The fact that Frank continued to minister whilst concealing these crimes raises some very serious questions. I know people who have based their whole life’s calling on a ‘prophetic word’ that Frank gave them that would seem to have backed up very specific prayers, and impressions, to and from God, that would have been completely unknowable to Frank in the natural. How could this be? How can a man work in the gifts of the Holy Spirit whilst concealing such awful things? I’m a believer, but I have also sinned with the best of them, and still do every day in one way or another, but I also know how even a seemingly trivial sin can affect my ability to engage with and hear from God, until I’ve dealt with it (which sometimes requires me to repeat the process of “dealing with it” regularly). There are some deeply important theological issues surrounding this that this denomination would do well to assess. The damage from his sins still has shock-waves and implications even after his death and I think to forgive and pray as you say is certainly part of it, but don’t underestimate the power of assessing, quantifying and learning from what happened here. Those poor little ones who have since grown up with such damage inflicted upon them. I too was also abused and have since forgiven and moved on. No one is rioting as far as I can tell.
If I may please ask, If Frank Houston admitted of his past sins and has repented and reconciled with Jesus then who are we to judge? The bible says “All have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory, We lie if we are to say we have no sin in us” Are you with me? St.Paul the greatest apostle of christ , What exactly was he doing before he renounced and reconciled with Jesus? He was a murderer who would not spare man,woman,child who were christians , So if Jesus chose him out of all people to preach and write the Gospel how come you dont question his integrity? Believe me I was also very much a victim of such acts while I was a child but yes once you forgive and pray for that person it is all cleansed and you dont hate anyone anymore. Jesus said” Let the person who has never sinned be the first to condemn and stone the woman who was a sinner” Who are we to Judge? Who are we to condemn? Are we so righteous ? My dear brothers and sisters please show compassion to the sinner and pray for them rather than trying to accuse ,blame and start rioting and rebelling such acts are from the devil , May GOD bless all of you, Praise God Amen.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
I am myself am the victim of a pedophile from age 3 to about 10 or 11. I forgave my uncle who victimized me. God along with some really loving Godly people helped me to do this. I am not his judge, I do not know the circumstances of his life and what led him to do such horrible things. It is not my job to pay him back or carry hate in my heart towards his though his actions to me caused me a great of suffering, pain, guilt and rage for many years, once I came to understand that God knew every hair on my uncle’s head and would reconcile what happened to me in his own way I could take my uncle off my hook and put him on Gods hook. He alone could really judge because he knew details and all the facts that I did not know. Forgiving my uncle freed me to allow God to work in my life all the healing that I needed and He made me totally free. I have no residual feeling toward my uncle what so ever. He is gone from this world now and I know that justice was done whether he found forgiveness from God or whether he is rotting in hell really has nothing to do with me because I am okay either way. I trust my God, my Father to have done the right thing and I am ok with that. I am deeply troubled with the reactions of the Church (meaning the christians) in and around the church. So often when a leader falls, commits sin, rather than “the Church” becoming a place of healing we become a mob who does nothing but attack the sinner amongst us. We forget that we are saved by Grace and only by Grace we stand. We forget that “there, but for the Grace of God goes I”. Of course he (Frank) needed to be removed from Pastoring to protect any future victims. But was there ever any effort put forth to minister to him and to see if he could have been helped out of his sin. It is no wonder that sin and error in the ministry is often covered up because we the church are like wild animals looking for the kill. It grieves my heart that we have no mercy and cannot find a way to help our brothers and sisters out of the darkness. We throw them to the wolves like yesterdays garbage. We the church fail to be like Jesus to our fallen comrade in the fight and kill him instead. I don’t believe Jesus would do it this way. The Pharisee’s would have handled it this way for sure but Jesus said those that are without sin cast the first stone. Could you really cast the first stone? I know I would not be able to. Gandhi was known to have said ” I would have become a Christian, had it not been for the Christians I met” How horrible to think what we do to make a bad situation worse . We are not part of the solution, but we are part of the problem.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The sins of a man do not cover an entire church. We have the power in Jesus Christ to claim authority over such sin and Hillsong church can and will continue to thrive. Their true leader is Jesus.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have removed the brief mention of you and your relationships from this article as they were passing comments and I am not out to hurt or offend you. Donald.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Geoff. I have sent you an email welcoming your version to be emailed to me. I will make any required change as the truth is important to me.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Hi Don, you really could have contacted me. I would have confessed my whole story to you with dates. I have done this many times. Your version of events is totally wrong and yet you have openly accused me without any fact. My relationship with Victoria started nine months after Janine had left me… Yes Don, Janine left me..no immorality, no other party. Not the other way round. I had left Hillsong almost twelve months earlier. My email address is geoffreybullock@me.com. Why not try a little biblical. integrity and contact me. I would be quite happy to tell you the whole story, if you’re prepared to listen. Perhaps you may have the courage to retract your mis truths. Perhaps not.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
After Frank Houston’s paedophilia was exposed, I find it inexplicable that anybody wants to be linked with hillsong.My God doesn’t need paedophiles to do His work on Earth.A rotten apple spoils the barrel. How can people seriously suggest that God chose him for a leadership role?ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
The bible says be babes in the things of evil and wise in the things of understanding! Brian initiated the investigation with regards to his fathers shameful behaviour.this in itself must have been agonising to do.brian is an upright man with the blessing of God on his ministry.leave him be and thank God for his integrity and conduct through it all. stop fussing about who started hillsong and acknowledge Gods hand in it all.he is the one to be honoured seek the giver not the gift! karenApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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[…] 10. Hillsong Church – 423k (pastored by Brian Houston, a noted prosperity preacher. Sadly, the church was started by Brian’s father Frank Houston, who late in life admitted to being a pedophile before he founded Hillsong church. There’s a troubling blog, written by someone who worked at the church under the reign of Frank Houston, here.) […]ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
There was also Jeff Bullock who was a Hillsong music prodigy until he l created a scandal by leaving his wife and 5 young children for another lady.
This also is not true – Geoff did not leave his wife and five children for another woman – his marriage fell apart adn after that he met another woman.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Geoff Bullock was very talented. So was Darlene. So are many others. Trevor King is another talent from those days. One day about 10 years ago I was at my parents church in Howick, Auckland. There were about 500 people there and i couldn’t see the pianist but he was playing beautifully in a style I knew. To my surpise it was Trevor King from the CLC Darlinghurst days. From the time Geoff’s marriage collapsed his ministry was doomed to decline. This always happens to Christian musicians and preachers who loose their marriage. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
Greg. Pastor Brian Houston founded hillsong. To Brian, Geoff was always replacable. Many subsequent musicians had equal or greater success since Geoff. DonaldApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
You say that you were there and a leader in the movement then you ought to know that to say that Frank Houston is the founder of Hillsong inaccurate. Houston founded Waterloo CLC from where Brian left to found Hills CLC which took on the name Hillsong following the huge success of the Hillsong conferences begun by Geoff Bullock. in actual fact Hilsong owes its success directly to the success of its music which came is relaly all down to Geoff Bullock – not Frank or Brian. Brian was smart enough to see where to hitch his wagon to – had it not been for Geoff Bullock, Brian Houston would have nothing and Hillsong would not exist.ApprovedSpamTrashLikeEditReply
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Though there are certain arguments to be made for the separation of church and state I believe the authorities must step up and take a stand on all these charlatans who bestow themselves with the title of “Pastor”. Any weasel in this country can call himself/herself “Pastor” and then set about living the life of an “untouchable”. These fakes are responsible for an increasing amount of mental health problems and domestic abuse and it is astounding to me that no one in the Government seems willing or able to do something about it. These charlatans, in my view, could not get away with what they do unless they enjoyed the protection of people in very high positions. Hillsong and Houston should never be able to use the title “Pastor” and benefit from that title in any way – Houston is nothing more than business executive who, by virtue of inheriting his father’s business, has been allowed to act, it would seem, with impunity as he fleeces the naïve and vulnerable without conscience. When will we find even one man with integrity in the Government who has the courage to call for a complete investigation of this man, this snake pit of Hillsong, the financial dealings, and the damage that is being inflicted whilst they target young people in our community who just get carried away with the mind-numbing music and intoxicating atmosphere. I have no objection to what Hillsong does or how they run their business – but I most strongly object to them doing it in the name of God! A Government committee set up to hear evidence of people who have been abused by this church (all forms of abuse) and others like it is long overdue. The Government is already involved by giving them tax benefits because of their church status, so a little more constructive “interference” wouldn’t go astray, would it?
Ewen
I agree. When I use the word “Pastor” for Brian Houston, it is a mock term for a heretic
Don, when are you doing to wake up to the fact that the Brian Houston is not a pastor?He’s an impostor, preaching a different Jesus and a different gospel for money. Who is leading more people to hell than anyone could imagine.
Totally agree with you, Sheehan.
Hmmm. Art Katz (Arthur) even wrote in a book that he always had major problems with Worship Leaders and when he was alive wrote him the why and sent a copy to his Admin Ass’t or whatever Title they gave Simon Hensman at the time. Believe it was in his “Prophetic Call” book. Have my theories, a lot of them are Perfectionist (“Living With A Perfectionist” by David Stoop, Manic/Bi-Polar (Dr. Susan Forward, Herb Goldberg, Victoria Secunda, David Elkind, Dr. Laura might cover that well along with Leann Payne’s written works); dormant Homosexual’s (very unhealed; “Kingdom of Self and God Players by Earl Jabay); then there’s “Healing of Damaged Emotions” and his other books by David Semands. When looked up Definition of a Cult; #12, 21 (in the next page section, it defines definition of a sociopath; think a lot of Pastor’s/Leader’s/Priest have VERY unhealed issues themselves. What’s sad is they don’t deal with their issues and then put themselves in position to abuse children and people in general (and we are ALL God’s children no matter what age).
“People in Glass houses”. It’s from 2007 and Tanya is an atheist now
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH.
Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims.
Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
P.S. You referenced in an article Tanya Levin wrote a book and David Marr by Black Inc. (What’s that title? When went to research for lot’s of books by a David Marr)!
P.S. Correction: Reporting Church Abuse Issues: to Rick Alan Ross Institute (he NO longer has site rickross.com, have my thoughts on the warfare on that endeavor). Also, Trinity Foundation in Dallas, TX Attn: Pete Evans/Ole Anthony. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND TIME; EFFORT IN DOING THIS AND RESEARCHING TRUTH.
Also, the people who are defending this evil don’t want to see their Pastor’s as Warlocks, Witches they want to have their rose-colored glasses on and NOT live in truth and or research a matter so sad for the so many victims.
Some new horrific reads to add to the list: Thieves by Trey Smith; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor, Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons.
What I wrote about Geoff Bullock originally is what he told me he did, at a private meeting a long time ago. I only removed what I wrote because he was hurt by the truth. I’m not out to hurt Geoff Bullock, who is broken by life anyway. Brian Houston used him as a living breathing human soul and as a stepping stone to climb the spiritual mountain of Brian’s own ego and success. Geoff is just another train wreck and discard of the Houstons, Brian and Frank- like all the other victims, be they spiritual or psychological or physical or sexual abuse victims of the evil Houston express train.
Laurie, read Lev 5. It is a hard read.
Don
You do not seem to have asked his forgiveness for your long-time error and the damage it must have caused him. Perhaps you have done so in private…
please ctc me
Brian Houston hasn’t helped any of the victims as at 8 October 2015. The Royal Commission interviewed victim AHA and AHA contacted me shortly after, via this site. We’re in touch by email occasionally. AHA would let me know if Brian had helped him. SA1 (my code-name) is a victim of Frank Houston in South Australia. Brian could contact me if he wanted to help him. Victim WNZ1 (Wellington, New Zealand) contacted Brian in the mid 2000s and Brian fobbed him off. I am in touch with WNZ1 and his wife. If Brian wanted to help them he could let me know and I’d put him in touch with them. The bottom-line is that Brian, the Houstons and Hillsong don’t want to help any of the victims. Brian Houston is the ultimate lying con-artist and he makes out he cares but he is a selfish greedy charlatan who won’t help anyone but himself and his clan. Hillsong is a cash-cow to maintain his lavish lifestyle and to get off on his fame. However Brian’s fame is turning to notoriety and soon he’ll be charged with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile. At that point he’ll be shamed and all his assumed glory will turn to dust.
need help to take the stand, but have proof , both father and son, can u help
To my readers: Its a year since the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse subpoened Pastor Brian Houston and other Hillsong/ ACC Leaders. It now seems likely that the NSW Police will charge Brian Houston with not reporting and sheltering a pedophile, his old very corrupt dad Frank Houston. Donald
Stephane
I’ve published four testimonies of sexual abuse by boy victims on this site. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse has produced a boy victim AHA who is now in his fifties who was horrifically abused for over five years by Pastor Frank Houston, the founder of Hillsong. Frank Houston’s son, Pastor Brian Houston, the current CEO said after the Royal Commission in October last year in Sydney, Australia, “we may never know the number of the victims of my father”. How much proof do you need Stephane? The Royal Commission has recommended that Pastor Brian Houston be criminally charged for sheltering and not reporting his father Frank to the Police from 1998 until Frank died in 2004. We are waiting to see if the Australian authorities take this action. Donald.
Not true! Give us a real proof. OK? 😀
Stéphane from Madagascar
Kerri. Frank Houston’s pedophilia activity was public knowledge from about 2007 when Peter Lawton was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. If you google ‘Sydney Morning Herald Peter Lawton Frank Houston abuse 2007’ you’ll find the information in a David Marr SMH article about Tanya Levin’s book on Hillsong. The information is in the second half of this article.
i’ll publish this article soon on this site.
Although Peter was a consenting male when abused by Frank Houston who was 60, Peter feels Frank took advantage of him and abused him.
About this time it became known that Frank Houston was also guilty of multiple historic pedophile abuse events, mainly with little boys ages 7 to 12 years old. This was the preferred demography of his victims.
Brian Houston sheltered his old pedo dad for 5 years until he died in 2004 and he didn’t report him to the Police as required by NSW Law.
Simeon Beckett, the Royal Commission’s leading lawyer when they were examining the Houstons and Hillsong in October last year, publicly recommended in December that Brian Houston be charged with these offences.
There are 14 articles starting on 9 September 2012 specifically about Frank Houston’s abuse of boys and other sins like doing hatchet jobs on good men of God like Dr David Johnson, his Worship director in the early to late 1980s at CLC Darlinghurst.
From October last year I’ve written about 100 articles on this subject.
If you want to understand the full picture start reading.
This site is by far the most authoritative and comprehensive factual site on the subjects of Frank Houston, Frank Houston’s pedophilia, Brian Houston’s lack of response to the victims, Brian Houston’s corruption on multiple levels, Hillsong’s corruption on multiple levels, the New Zealand and Australian AOG/ ACC Churches corruption and the sexual sins of Australian and New Zealand prominent Pentecostal leaders over the past 50 years.
Donald
Am I to glean from this comment that Frank Houston’s abhorrent behaviour was public knowledge as far back as the early 1970s? Is is even possible therefore that Brian Houston had heard nothing about it before the time he now claims? I would like to know more about this as it pertains to a conversation I had with Brian Houston in 1988. How is it possible that so many people seemed to be aware of Frank Houston’s actions and yet Brian Houston claims that he heard nothing about his father’s paedophilia during these years before the family came to Australia?
So true.. ‘God does forgive ALL Sins’ .. providing the Sinner truly Repents. And when a Sinner truly repents of their Sin, (no matter how vile the Sin) you can rest assured that there is ‘No Returning to that Sin’. We know that God has FORGIVEN us of our Sins when we don’t Go Back to them, like the dog to the vomit and the sow to the mud.This is the proof and fruit of the quality of our Repentance. Godly or Not .. ref/2 Corinthians 7:10. When God Forgives us .. we are ‘Forgiven, Cleansed, Delivered and Empowered against that Sin’ once and for all in one hit. How great Thou Art O Lord God! The Soul Saving Question is, how could Frank Houston have Truly Repented of his perversion when there is a trail (a record) of repeated ongoing similar acts of paedophilia. One thing is for sure, the Liar will not enter the Kingdom of God, paedophile or not… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yE-xl-HJs ..