Brian and Bobbie Houston, founding pastors of Hillsong Church, have started their new online ministry entitled Jesus Followers. The Houstons have revealed that they are in "desperate" need of a television production studio.
"This is going to be a faith ministry, and I'm really believing God will give us a big powerful group of partners who will stand with us in the building of Jesus Followers," Brian Houston said in a recent broadcast from Motor City Church in Detroit, Michigan.
"Because, like anything, we're building a new ministry, we're building a new church, and frankly we're starting with nothing, and we've got desperate needs."
"Right now we're on the other side of the country from where Bobbie and I are based at the moment, but we can't do that every single time," he continued. "We're believing God for a studio, and that comes with the need for not only television cameras but production crew, people to operate those cameras and people to work with us in production. ... It's a faith venture, and I believe as people partner and give, that you can help us make a difference."
In 2022, Brian Houston resigned from Hillsong church after an internal investigation found he behaved inappropriately towards two women. The first incident involved "inappropriate text messages" sent to a female staffer in 2013.
The second incident occurred in 2019, during a Hillsong annual conference in Sydney Olympic Park that Prime Minister Scott Morrison opened.
The church said Mr Houston was drinking with a group and after being locked out of his hotel room, ended up knocking on the door of a woman who he met earlier. The woman, who was not a member of the church, opened the door and Mr Houston went into her room and spent 40 minutes there.
