Urgent church meeting on Frank Houston’s paedophilia kept secret, court told

Assemblies of God meeting at Sydney Qantas Club was organised at Hillsong church founder Brian Houston's request, trial hears

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Pentecostal church movement executives agreed to keep the details of an urgent meeting discussing Frank Houston's paedophilia a secret, a New South Wales court has been told.

Keith Ainge, a former Assemblies of God in Australia (AOG) secretary, said the meeting at the Sydney Qantas Club in late December 1999 came about urgently at the request of Frank's son Brian Houston, then the national AOG president.