Brian and Bobbie Houston family
like in your home?
also into raising kids, we all had the sense that
within the lives of these kids.
together we were called to build church and to
[Laura] For us, we were born into this family love people and to love God. Because we had [Laura] Me and Peter both grew up in church,
where it was all about building church and that unified vision as a family it really put things we’ve known each other since we were just
passion for building the Kingdom of God. That into perspective for us, even within the journey young kids ourselves in the kids’ ministry at our
was just our normal, and we’ve never known of establishing our own faith in Jesus. I don’t church. We grew up discipled by truly incredible
anything different. But within that you go through know what to say, its such a unique situation youth leaders ourselves. It felt like a natural
this journey of forging your faith for yourself. where all of us now serve God and love God progression for us to become youth leaders.
All three of us kids had moments in our lives and are working in the church, I think its by the When we got together and were married, we
where we had to step back from what we knew grace of God, really. weren’t these overly ambitious people, we
because of our parents and find that revelation
weren’t really looking for leadership roles, but
of Jesus and that personal relationship for [WM] Hillsong has wisely identified and it just was this natural progression where we
ourselves. Within that there were journeys of honored the separate age groups within found ourselves leading our youth ministry
discovering who we are and what our purpose the newborn to 20-year-old age category. across Australia. I think one of the major values
is, and our calling, and finding where we fit Marketers call that “market segmentation”. of our church and the vision of our church right
all in our unique ways. But I’m so grateful for Toddlers are not the same as grade school from the beginning was to bridge the gaps of
the legacy that we have, I’m so grateful for kids, grade schoolers are not the same as generations. We’ve always had a major youth
my parents’ examples of what it is to follow “tweens”, and tweens are not the same as focus, and we’ve always put a lot of resource
Jesus, what it looks like to be passionate and junior high and high schoolers. The only thing into reaching young people. When it became
to build an extraordinary church. My parents that I am aware of that works across all age our time and we really came to the forefront of
often mention when they got married a part of levels is candy. (Ha!) Tell us about Hillsong’s doing that, I felt like the Holy Spirit was doing
their vows were, “Because we know that we Young & Free, and the heart behind it. You and something within me for the generations. What
are called together.” And I think they took that your husband Peter are making a huge impact I felt was we needed to give them their own
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