Brian Houston Biography, Age, Family, Siblings, Wife, Kids, and Net Worth.

Who is Brian Houston?

Brian Charles Houston is a well-known New Zealand-Australian pastor and evangelist. He was the founder and senior pastor at Hillsong Church, found in Sydney with locations across the world. From 1997 to 2009, Houston was the national president of Australian Christian Churches, the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God.

Houston stepped down from his positions within the church in January 2022. This was after he was criminally charged in Australia for allegedly concealing the sexual abuse of a child by his father, which he became aware of in the 1990s. Brian professed his innocence and said that he intends to plead ”not guilty” at the trial, planned for October 2022. He then stepped down as the global senior pastor of the church in March 2022. This was following him being found to have breached the moral code of the church in his behavior with two women.

Brian Houston ministry

In 1978, after moving to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Houston worked at the Sydney Christian Life Centre in Darlinghurst, becoming the assistant pastor to his father Frank. He began a church on the Central Coast in 1980 and served at a church in Liverpool in 1981. Houston then hired the Baulkham Hills Public School hall in Sydney’s north-western suburbs to begin a new church, the Hills Christian Life Centre in 1983. The first service was held on Sunday, August 14, 1983. He was later appointed the president of the Assemblies of God in Australia in May 1997, following the retirement of Andrew Evans. Houston then assisted to create the Australian Christian Churches network of Pentecostal churches in February 2000. The alliance represented around 20,000 regular attenders in affiliate churches and he was its inaugural president. Additionally, he is a member of the Australian Pentecostal Ministers Fellowship (APMF).

Brian is an executive producer for Hillsong Music Australia (HMA), the music ministry of Hillsong Church. Over a couple of years, their music has been successfully chart-topping albums from Hillsong United, born out of the youth ministry. As well as Hillsong Live, which is the ”worship expression” of Hillsong Church and incorporates their whole worship team. Yearly, Hillsong records a live album, and songs from this recording are sung by church congregations all over the world. Their songs include ”Mighty to Save” and ”Shout to the Lord”, with the latter featured on a 2008 special episode of American Idol titled ”Idol Gives Back”.

2018 to present

Hillsong then left the Australian Christian Churches to become an autonomous denomination, identifying itself more as a global and charismatic church in September 2018. The parting was amicable, according to both Hillsong and ACC. New South Wales Police issued a warrant for Houston’s arrest on August 5, 2021, alleging that he concealed child sexual abuse by his father, Frank. At the time of being charged, he was in the United States and resigned from the church’s board as a result of his arrest. He resigned from his role as senior global pastor in March 2022, following an internal investigation into his conduct with two women connected to the church. It was revealed that he had engaged in inappropriate behavior with both women in 2013 and 2019.

How old is Brian Houston?

Brian Charles Houston is aged 68 as of 2022, born on February 17, 1954, in Auckland, New Zealand. He shares his birthday with famous people including Michael Jordan, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Hawkins (1972-2022), Paris Hilton, Sasha Pieterse, Denise Richards, Rene Russo, Bonnie Wright, Billie Joe Armstrong, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Thomas J. Watson, Jim Brown, among others.

Brian Houston Family

Who are Brian Houston’s parents?

Brian Charles Houston was born in Auckland, to Frank Houston and Hazel Houston. His parents joined the Assemblies of God in New Zealand when he was three and started pastoring a church in Lower Hutt, near Wellington. Here, Brian and his four siblings grew up and spent their childhood.

Does Brian Houston have siblings?

Houston was born to his parents in a family of five children, two sons, and three daughters. He has four siblings, a brother, Graeme Houston, and three sisters, Maureen Bradshaw and Beverly Houston.

Brian Houston Education

Following his graduation from high school, Houston joined Bible college for three years. More information about his education is not available to the media for now and will be updated soon.

Brian Houston Wife

Briefly, after college, Houston met his future sweetheart and wife, Bobbie Houston, on Papamoa Beach in New Zealand during a Christian convention. The couple then tied knots in 1977, and presently live in the suburb of Glenhaven, Sydney, Australia.

Brian Houston Children

Houston and his supportive wife, Bobbie have three children in their marriage together. He has two sons Joel Houston and Ben Houston and a daughter Laura Houston. All his children are married and involved in the leadership of Hillsong Church.

Brian Houston Height

Houston has a well-built, muscular, and physically fit body with an impressive height of 6 ft 0 in (1.85 m) and weighs around 77 kg (169 lbs).

Sexual abuse by Frank Houston

Frank Houston, Brian’s father stepped down from the role of senior pastor at Sydney Christian Life Centre on May 10, 1999, and Houston was appointed to the position. He said that Frank ”appeared rushed” to hand his church to him. This was prior to the revelations of Frank’s child sexual abuse becoming known. In 2014, Brian spoke at hearings held by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse fifteen years later. He said that he received an allegation in October 1999 that his father sexually abused an Australian boy. His statement and evidence submitted to the commission revealed that in November 1999, his father confessed to child sexual abuse.

Brian reportedly forced his father into retirement and did not go to the police. The commission censured Houston for his failure to report the sexual abuse allegations against his father. For his failure, he avoided a clear conflict of interest in investigating his own father while serving as national president of the Assemblies of God in Australia. NSW Police issued a warrant on August 5, 2021, for Brian to attend the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on October 5. They were alleging that he concealed child sexual abuse from his father. He was in the U.S. at the time of being charged and resigned from the church’s board due to the arrest. Brian said that he intends to plead ”not guilty” at the trial.

Brian Houston’s Net Worth

New Zealand-Australian pastor and evangelist, Houston, has been active in the ministry from 1978 to the present. He has served with Sydney Christian Life Centre and Assemblies of God Australia (now Australian Christian Churches) and Hillsong Church. Houston throughout his career has garnered an estimated net worth of approximately $12 million as of 2022.