At least one senior Australian Christian Churches member will give evidence at a two-day Supreme Court hearing

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated November 19 2019 - 4:15pm, first published October 28 2019 - 6:30am
Convicted: Assemblies of God Bible College graduate Chris Bridge in 1971 before he took up a position as youth pastor at a Dubbo Assemblies of God church. He moved to Newcastle in 1975 after allegations he sexually abused two boys at Dubbo were reported to a Dubbo pastor, the then Assemblies of God state superintendent.
Convicted: Assemblies of God Bible College graduate Chris Bridge in 1971 before he took up a position as youth pastor at a Dubbo Assemblies of God church. He moved to Newcastle in 1975 after allegations he sexually abused two boys at Dubbo were reported to a Dubbo pastor, the then Assemblies of God state superintendent.

AUSTRALIAN Christian Churches will try to strike out compensation claims by two child sex victims during a two-day NSW Supreme Court hearing in November, only a year after rejecting Swansea child sex victim Brett Sengstock's claim against the church group on legal technicalities.

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