Brian Houston (pastor)
| Brian Houston | |
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| Born |
17 February 1954 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Pastor |
| Spouse(s) | Bobbie Houston |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | brianandbobbie |
Brian Houston (born 17 February 1954) is a pastor in the Australian Christian Churches. He is currently the senior pastor at Hillsong Church which has locations around the world. He was the National President of Australian Christian Churches from 1997 to 2009. The denomination is the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God.
Houston was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 February 1954. His parents, Frank and Hazel, were then Salvation Army officers. When Houston was three his parents joined the Assemblies of God in New Zealand and began pastoring a church in Lower Hutt, near Wellington. Here Houston and his brother and three sisters spent their childhood. After completing school he went to a Bible college for three years. Shortly after completing college he met his future wife, Bobbie, on Papamoa Beach in New Zealand during a Christian convention. They were married in 1977.
After moving to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 1978, Houston served at the Sydney Christian Life Centre in Darlinghurst, where he became the assistant pastor to his father, Frank Houston. In 1980 he started a church on the Central Coast and worked at a church in Liverpool in 1981. In 1983, Houston saw a need in Sydney's north-western suburbs and hired the Baulkham Hills Public School hall to start a new church, the Hills Christian Life Centre. The first service was held on Sunday, 14 August 1983.
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