| Bobbie Houston | |
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| Born | 16 January 1957 New Zealand |
| Occupation | Pastor |
| Spouse | Brian Houston |
| Children | Joel, Ben and Laura |
Bobbie Houston (born 16 January 1957, in New Zealand) is a Pentecostal Christian pastor in the Australian Christian Churches. Bobbie Houston and her husband Brian founded the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia.[1]
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Bobbie was born in New Zealand in 1957. Her father was Tongan and her mother was of Scottish descent. At 15, Bobbie converted to Pentecostal Christianity. Bobbie met Brian when she was 16, and they married in 1977. The newly married couple moved to Australia in February 1978, serving at Sydney Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst, under Brian's father, Frank Houston. In the early 1980s, Brian and Bobbie started a church on the Central Coast, and a church in Liverpool. In 1983, they moved to Sydney's north-western suburbs and hired the Baulkham Hills Public School hall to start a new church, Hills Christian Life Centre. The first service was held on Sunday 14 August 1983 and is today Hillsong Church. Hillsong Church comprises of four major locations (Baulkham Hills, Waterloo, Southwest Sydney and Brisbane), plus extension services across the city, and congregations in London, Kiev, Cape Town, Paris, Stockholm, Moscow, Germany and New York City.
The Colour Your World Women's Conference is hosted by Bobbie and the Hillsong team host in Sydney, London and Kiev annually.
Bobbie runs the weekly women's ministry of Hillsong. In 1997 Bobbie also started the annual Colour Your World Women's Conference.
The Colour Sisterhood (previously Foundation 31) is a foundation set up by Hillsong Church through Hillsong women, the women's ministry of the church. The foundation was established in 2001. At Colour Conference 2005, Houston launched the 'Adopt a home' project.
Bobbie has written two books.
Houston's three grown children, Joel, Ben and Laura, also live in Sydney.
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