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Kong Hee, the Church Builder
Kong Hee received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Lord in 1975. After his conversion,
Kong attended a small neighborhood Anglican church for the next 13 years. Upon graduation
with a Computer Science degree from the National University of Singapore, and after a short
stint working in the Anglican church, Kong was planning to be a missionary in the Philippines.
It was during that time when he felt the call of God to start a church in downtown area of
Singapore. On May 7, 1989, City Harvest Church was founded with a handful of 20 young people.
Today, the church Kong has built is unique in Asia for the following reasons: (1) With a
membership of 24,000 members, it is the second largest local congregation in Asia today. (2) A
US$28,000,000 titanium-clad underground church complex that is fully paid for. (3) Its
worship and ministry style is among the most contemporary and progressive among churches
in the world. (4) At a rate of planting one new church every 3 months, CHC is a
missions-minded church. (5) With the largest short-term Bible school in Southeast Asia,
and 10 other branch schools in the Far East, discipleship is the heart of CHC. (6) With
its emphasis to reach out to the spirit, mind and body of the youth, CHC's Emerge
Conferences throughout Asia attracts tens of thousands of young people since 2004. (7) CHC's
motto of kristos kai kosmos is to bring Christ into the marketplace and contemporary culture
of society in a relevant way.
Kong Hee, the Humanitarian
In 1995, Kong felt the call of God to build a "Church Without Walls," which is to take the
love of Christ beyond the four walls of the church in a compassionate and practical way.
Since then, Kong's personal ethos in life is to "find a need and meet it, find a hurt and
heal it."
In 1997, City Harvest Community Services Association was founded to reach out to the less
fortunate, regardless of race, language or religion. CHCSA touches 17,000 lives in Singapore
annually, while building and running many schools, medical centers and orphanages in the
slums of Southeast Asia.
Kong Hee, the Conference Speaker
As a highly-recognized and much sought-after personality in the international speaking
circuit, Kong receives hundreds of invitations each year to lecture in universities,
corporations, churches and conferences around the globe.
To date, more than 1,000,000 have attended his seminars, while countless others in Asia have
heard him through his weekly half-hour television broadcast, "Harvest Time." Kong has
personally spoken in the following countries: Armenia, Australia, Canada, China, Fiji, France,
Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,
Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, USA, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
Kong Hee, the Businessman
Kong and his wife are co-owners of two fashion retail outlets. They are all located along
Orchard Road to Marina Bay, which is Singapore's premier shopping belt. As a business owner,
Kong was off the CHC payroll from 2005. They both serve the church and community services
as volunteers, just like any other lay members of those non-profit organizations.
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