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Hillsong’s Connection with Gloria Jeans

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 [...]

Gloria Jeans in hot water

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 [...]

The Evangelical back scratching network – Gloria Jeans, Compassion and Mercy Ministries

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 [...]

Gloria Jeans have dropped Mercy… except in Vietnam

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 [...]

No Rear View Mirror Thinking for Peter Irvine

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 [...]