{{short description|New Zealand-born pastor}} {{Multiple issues| {{notability|Biographies|date=August 2013}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2010}} }} {{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Bobbie Houston | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1957|01|16}} | birth_place = New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Pastor | spouse = Brian Houston | parents = | children = 3 | website = {{URL|http://bobbiehouston.com}} }}

'''Roberta Lee Houston'''<ref>{{Cite web|title = Laura Toggs on Instagram: "Unlocked now on @thesecretgardentv EP018 🖤🌹 This is Roberta Lee Houston, affectionately known as @bobbiehouston and to me "Mum"! She is everything kind, selfless, thoughtful, hard-working and world-changing! It's safe to say..."|url = https://www.instagram.com/p/Buw2HaKFO8w/?hl=en|website = Instagram|access-date = 14 March 2019}}</ref> (born 16 January 1957), better known as '''Bobbie Houston''', is a New Zealand-born Australian Pentecostal pastor in the Australian Christian Churches.<ref>Masters, Kim (12 February 2014) [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rough-seas-noah-darren-aronofsky-679315 Rough Seas on 'Noah': Darren Aronofsky Opens Up on the Biblical Battle to Woo Christians (and Everyone Else)]. Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved on 8 November 2015.</ref> Houston and her husband, Brian were the Senior Pastors of the Hillsong Church in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, Australia<ref>{{cite news|title=Biblical profits|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Hillsong-Church-got-federal-funds/2005/02/17/1108609349680.html|access-date=28 December 2010|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=18 February 2005}}</ref> prior to the latter's departure in 2022.

==Personal life==

Bobbie and her husband, Brian Houston moved to Australia in February 1978, serving at Sydney Christian Life Centre, Darlinghurst, under Brian Houston's father, Frank Houston. In the early 1980s, Brian and Bobbie Houston 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.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1427576.htm Australian Story – Interview with Bobbie Houston] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060322160650/http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1427576.htm |date=22 March 2006 }}. Abc.net.au (1 August 2005). Retrieved on 8 November 2015.</ref> The first service was held on Sunday 14 August 1983 and is today Hillsong Church.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://myhillsong.com/about |title=About Hillsong |work=myhillsong.com |access-date=9 March 2012}}</ref> Hillsong Church is located in major cities around the world.

The Colour Your World Women's Conference is hosted annually by Houston and the Hillsong team in Sydney, London, the US, Cape Town and Kiev.

==Ministry==

Houston ran the weekly women's ministry of Hillsong. In 1997 she also started the annual Colour Your World Women's Conference.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

The Colour Sisterhood is a foundation set up by Hillsong Church through Hillsong Women, the women's ministry of the church.

Houston was made redundant on 8 April, which concluded her employment at Hillsong Church following her husband's resignation, according to husband Brian Houston’s Instagram post.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

== Bibliography == Bobbie Houston has written several books. Below are details about her bibliography. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- style="text-align:center;" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | ISBN ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- |''Heaven is in This House'' |2001 |{{ISBN|095773364X}} | |- |''"I'll Have What She's Having'' | 2008 |{{ISBN|0849919770}} | |- |''The Sisterhood'' |2016 |{{ISBN|1455592498}} | |- |''Stay The Path'' |2017 |{{ISBN|1455592528}} | |- |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.brianandbobbie.com Brian and Bobbie Houston's website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001165518/http://www.brianandbobbie.com/ |date=1 October 2008 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080622132918/http://www2.hillsong.com/women/default.asp?pid=799&hidetitle=yes Hillsong Sisterhood's website] *[http://www.hillsong.com Hillsong Church website] *{{Australian Women and Leadership|WLE0499b|Houston, Bobbie (1957–)}}

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