AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun

Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston told Pastor he would stand down his father after abuse allegations arose

JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 08, 2014

THE father of the founder of the Hillsong Church cried bucket loads of “crocodile tears” when he finally spoke to the man who he had sexually assaulted as a seven-year-old, the child sex abuse royal commission was told today.

Barbara Taylor, a minister of the Emmanuel Christian Family Church, said the victim had told her he had not believed Frank Houston’s tears were real.

The commission has also been told that a week after Brian Houston, founder of the Hillsong Church and former national president of the Pentecostal movement’s Australian Christian Churches, said he would sack his father in 1999, Frank Houston was allegedly still preaching on morning television and was on Hillsong brochures.

Pastor Taylor said she was told that…