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Evidence at the Commission and various comments on our site have revealed fascinating insights into the dealings of serial pedophile, Frank Houston.
Recently, a commentor shared this information on our site:
I attended Hawkesbury Church (then Hawkesbury Christian Centre) in the early 2000s under its minister Ian Woods, who was then State Superintendent of the AOG and presumably also on the National Executive.
Frank Houston was parked at Hawkesbury after he was stood down and the congregation was told to treat him like royalty. Certainly there was no warning to families in the congregation that we were harbouring a pedophile. He was our National Leader’s father, and a super-apostle in our movement.
Although I do not believe there was a risk of him reoffending, still, what I recall was the total veil of silence that fell over the matter, to the extent that one Hillsong member left the Sunday service when Brian Houston was forced to say something, believing that Frank was guilty of some kind of financial mismanagement.
Brian says that his Father never preached again. I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. While he was with us, he was allowed to preach. Brian is, yet again, a liar.
Source: Truth_will_out, News reports from Royal Commission on Hillsong 08/10/2014, Hillsong Church Watch, https://hillsongchurchwatch.com/2014/10/08/news-reports-from-royal-commision-on-hillsong-08102014/#comment-10079, Submitted on 2014/10/09 at 10:12 am.
The New Zealand Herald reports,
Child molester pastor Frank Houston was ‘still allowed to preach’ after abuse warning
Soon after accused pedophile Frank Houston was stood down by his son Brian Houston – who now runs the popular Hillsong Church in Australia – he was seen on TV preaching in Canberra, a witness has told a national inquiry.
Barbara Taylor, the evangelical pastor who told the Pentecostal movement in 1998 its honoured preacher Frank Houston was a child molester, says it took her months to get the church to take the matter seriously.
Frank Houston died in 2004 and had admitted to the sexual abuse of children in Australia and New Zealand.
She also told a hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that in June, 2000 she had written to Brian Houston about his father saying she had been told “a week after you said you were going to discipline him by standing him down he was preaching and prophetising over people in Canberra”.
Brian Houston wrote to her saying he was hurt by her letter and that Frank Houston was receiving “restoration counselling”.
He also asked her to contact him by phone in future, she said.
Pastor Taylor kept notes of her interactions with the abuse victim, known as AHA for legal reasons, and her dealings with members of the executive of the Assemblies of God (AoG) – the body to which Pentecostal churches are affiliated.
She wanted the matter settled by the church not the “secular courts”.
Hillsong Church leader Brian Houston. Photo / AAP
Brian Houston was national president of the AoG when allegations against his father surfaced.
In late 1998, 20 years after her son told her, the abuse victim’s mother informed Pastor Taylor about Frank Houston – the pastor who was treated like royalty by the devout family.
The commission on Wednesday was taken through Pastor Taylor’s notes recounting her attempts to organise a meeting between AHA and Frank Houston.
She had written to Frank Houston five months after the allegations were first raised and her many attempts to contact him failed. She said he rang and was angry “that I was pursuing” him”.
Pastor Taylor also recorded AHA was extremely distressed the matter had become known but agreed to meet Frank Houston.
AHA told the commission on Tuesday Frank Houston offered him $10,000 during a meeting and asked his forgiveness. Some months after that he received a cheque from Brian Houston.
Pastor Taylor also said she wasn’t kept informed of the actions taken by Brian Houston or the AoG but she considered: “If he (Frank Houston) confessed to Brian he would have really meant it and Brian would have brought him to a place of repentance.”
Pastor Taylor said that at a later meeting with Brian Houston he told her it was a one-off incident by his father and commented the incident was about a “little boy who walked through a room without his clothes on”.
“I took it his father had trivialised the incident to Brian”.
The hearing continues.
Source: Child molester pastor Frank Houston was ‘still allowed to preach’ after abuse warning, New Zealand Herald, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11339319%20, 08/11/2014, 4:50 PM. (Accessed 29/11/2014.)
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Hi , I went to a meeting in Ballina in early 2000’s I think 2001 when Frank houston preached at the AOG affiliated church
God bless
Linton
More cover ups, and lies told by Hillsong leaders – both then and now. Maybe this is just the tip of the ACC/AOG/Hillsong “iceberg”? Maybe there’s a lot more abuse stories that are yet to emerge from the Hillsong cult and it’s affiliates?
I don’t believe that any such revelations would surprise us now though, would they?
False doctrine and immorality always go together – where you find one, you will find the other. They are like old friends, sitting on a park bench together, remembering old times…
Frank Houstons partner in crime was a man called Trevor Metcalf in New Zealand. They both held youth meetings and “teaching sessions” in NZ. Trevor Metcalf served 12 years for his crimes of molesting children in NZ. This stuff goes back years in AOg and Apostolic churches in NZ.
“Why do pastors fail to report abuse in their churches? A lot of reasons. They don’t want to hurt business. They don’t want to scare away people they need to fund their 501(c)3. But it is more than that. It is no secret that most pastors view themselves as called directly by God himself – working directly FOR God and on God’s behalf – to proclaim the message of salvation to get souls into heaven and out of hell. If one views their mission as that important – keeping people out of hell – then you can see why a pastor might choose to decide to keep allegations quiet for the greater “good” – rescuing people from eternal damnation.”
http://fbcjaxwatchdog.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/texas-pastor-arrested-for-not-reporting.html
These crimes against children are on the rise.
http://michaelnewnham.com/?p=19123
There was a report of Franks pastor writing a letter to the ACC, requesting that Frank be reinstated. This Pastor was obviously blinded, by the cover up by the ACC, to Frank’s horrific sins and absolute non existent credibility
Do Tell : I recall the mateship and nepotism that existed in the AOG when Brian was National President.
There was the State and National conferences to attend with the lurks and perks.
No bad words were said about other Pastors because they all wanted to be invited to preach in each other’s churches.
I suspect Frank’s Pastor was trying to earn brownie points from Brian by commending Frank.
Its why that Pastor Danny from “Catch the fire ” { more like burnt from the fire } wanted to honour Frank as a great pioneer in the movement.
Brian actually acknowledged the honour that was stated publicly by Danny.
Wonder what Pastor Danny thinks now about Frank ?
Next prophecy Ps Danny makes , I will be ducking for cover !
Would that be Danny Nalliah from “Pants on Fire ministries”???
http://catchthefire.com.au/
thor : Re: Ps Nalliah, you are right on !
Liar Liar, pants on fire !
He has made some outrageous predictions that have not come to pass.
He supported Frank and Brian Houston.
Again he is trying to enter politics.
I thought pastors were called to serve God and the flock , not some humanistic Government or Kingdom of this world ?
Was he called to be a Shepherd or Politician ?
What do u think ?
I don’t believe he has been called to be either – he is apparently not calm headed – and was formerly involved in the NAR, but is now considered to be a break away.
i know people here in Brisbane that had dealings with him years ago, Many people wrote him off when his ‘parliamentary prophecy’ failed some time ago, but I was never attracted to his silly prophecies or his impetuous approach to things.
I don’t believe that he is here to preach the gospel – it’s all about him…