The Geelong Revival Centers is the unlikely name of a global religious group, comprised of over 20 centres around the world.

It's been described as an extremist Pentecostal network, and for over 65 years it was run by one man, its founder, Noel Hollins.

We're in a warfare, and I hope we see ourselves as soldiers, and it will continue until Jesus comes.

Hollands died in 2024, but his church has remained, and it's now got different leadership that is apparently equally as strict as his own.

Former members, including those who grew up in the church,

say it's a cult and they're lobbying for Australia's coercive control laws to be applied to an

investigation. Ryan Kerry and Nat Murphy both grew up in the Geelong Revival Centre and they're

now part of a network of former members, seeking to expose the group's practices and what they call

its abuses. They join us today on Australian True Crime to talk about it. This is Australian

True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,

the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Koolin Nation.

And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains discussions around suicide.

Breaking news.

We've had reports of a gunman taking three hostages in Bermansy, London.

Let's go straight to our reporter at the scene.

Sarah, what can you tell us?

The gunman is Luke Descham married to Camilla. Luke's my husband. Kind, loving. A killer? No.

In famous last words by best-selling author Gillian McAllister, mother and wife Camilla,

must find out why her husband

destroyed her family and put it right.

Famous last words.

Out in paperback now.

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