Hillsong issued this statement, presumably in response to rumours surrounding the legal battle being fought by Gloria Jeans:
19 April 2010
Hillsong Church does not own or operate Gloria Jeans and has no legal or financial ties to the company.
Gloria Jeans is a privately owned business.
The owners of Gloria Jeans have publically acknowledged that they attend Hillsong [...]
Ruth Pollard reports in the SMH:
THE coffee giant Gloria Jean’s is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that threatens to lift the lid on one of the most secretive companies in Australia.
Owned and run by the Hillsong Church elder Nabi Saleh and the high-profile church member Peter Irvine, Gloria Jean’s parent company, Jireh International, is accused of [...]
Now while Gloria Jeans has pulled their funding and obvious support from Mercy Ministries they do provide support for the Australian evangelical aid group Compassion mentioned here. A reader picked up on this interesting article by Compasion:
International impact: sponsors from abroad
Some are expatriates while others head national or international ministries.
Sponsors of seven children,Andre and Wilma [...]
In the last week I reported that it appeared that Gloria Jeans, ardent supporter Mercy Ministries, had finally dropped support of the deliverance ministry focussed treatment facility. Indeed the article I commented seemed to imply that there had been no concerted support since October 2007.
My personal observations of collection boxes in a Pitt Street Mall [...]
Peter Irvine first came to my attention in March 2008 when he made some disparaging remarks about some clients that had used the Mercy Ministries service he was a director of.
Mercy Ministries director Peter Irvine said the allegations made against the organisation were untrue.
‘‘They said we lock girls in rooms – we don’t have locks [...]