Frank Houston | |
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8th General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in New Zealand | |
In office December 1965 – June 1977 | |
Preceded by | R R Read |
Succeeded by | Jim Williams |
Senior Pastor, Sydney Christian Life Centre | |
In office June 1977 – 10 May 1999 | |
Preceded by | new title |
Succeeded by | Brian and Bobbie Houston |
Personal details | |
Born | Whanganui, New Zealand | 22 April 1922
Died | 8 November 2004 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 82)
Spouse(s) | Hazel Scott (m. 19??; died 2004) |
Children | 5, including Brian Houston |
William Francis "Frank" Houston (22 April 1922 – 8 November 2004) was a Pentecostal Christian pastor in the Assemblies of God in New Zealand and Australia. Frank Houston founded Sydney Christian Life Centre, which would eventually come under the leadership of his son Pastor Brian Houston before merging into Hillsong Church. In the last years of his life, Frank Houston’s conduct of child sexual abuse was exposed.