Sun Ho

Rev Sun Ho is the co-founder of City Harvest Church (CHC), which she co-founded with her husband Kong in 1989. CHC has an average weekly attendance of 23,868, with a collective membership of approximately 45,000 when including all branch and affiliate churches. Sun is the chief executive officer of the church. As the executive pastor, she also provides spiritual direction and oversight relating to the overall vision, functions, programmes, and services of the church.

Born into a middle-income family, Sun was a jovial and carefree child for most of her growing-up years. Things changed when a period of abuse in her childhood caused her to spiral deep into severe depression and guilt. At 16, Sun heard the gospel and was introduced to Jesus as her Saviour and Lord. When she put her faith in Christ, she was filled with the presence and power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4-5, 8; Acts 2:1-4). The Lord lifted her up from the abyss of hopelessness, bringing healing to her damaged soul, making her whole.

Deeply impacted by the love of God, Sun purposed in her heart to live for Christ and the gospel – to become a vessel of God’s love and blessings to others. When God called Kong to start CHC in 1989, Sun served as his assistant, doing all the necessary work to get their fledgling congregation off the ground. Gifted as a worship leader, administrator, and prophetic preacher, Sun soon earned the respect of all. At 21 years old, she was already travelling to the Philippines as a young evangelist, preaching in the villages and slums of Laoag and Iloilo City.

Together with Pastor Kong, they started the Church Without Walls (CWW) initiatives in 1996 and co-founded City Harvest Community Services Association (CHCSA)  in 1997, with the shared mission of aiding underprivileged children, youth-at-risk, single parents, unwed mothers, the elderly, the intellectually disabled, the terminally ill, and migrant workers. Annually, CWW assists 9,632 individuals in need, while CHCSA supports 1,962 members of the community.

In 2002, Pastor Kong began preaching on the cultural mandate, challenging Christians to engage contemporary culture with relevance, creatively reaching society with the love of Christ and the gospel (Gen 1:28; Matt 5:13-16; John 17:15-17). With the blessing of the congregation and the Church Board, Sun was commissioned to helm the Crossover Project, using pop music as a means of evangelism to the unchurched.

From 2002 to 2010, Sun worked with producers and songwriters such as Wyclef Jean, David Foster, and Diane Warren, becoming the first Asian artist to have a series of #1 hits on the American Billboard Dance Chart. She also had the honour of performing the Olympic Anthem at a ceremony in the Forbidden City, a lead-up to the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Sun performed live in over 100 concerts, to more than half a million people throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Moved by the testimony of her past struggle with depression, thousands gave their hearts to Jesus.

Sun’s foray into the pop arena also enabled her to reach the less fortunate communities in countries like Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and China, using the royalties from her albums to build rehabilitation centres, schools, and more. Her humanitarian efforts have also supplied relief aids to the Aceh tsunami crisis, Sichuan, and Haiti earthquakes. Her outreach extended to Honduras in Central America, providing assistance to babies suffering from hydrocephalus.

In 2003, Sun was named one of “The Outstanding Young Persons of the World” for her humanitarian efforts.

In 2004, in recognition of her contributions to the educational welfare of underprivileged children through the building of schools in China, Sun was named the “Ambassador of Love” for the Children and Youth Foundation of China.

Since 2010, Sun has been based in Singapore, tending to the church as it navigated through its most challenging period. Although she no longer sings in the secular industry, she last performed at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in 2011, before 66,700 in a Christian event hosted by her spiritual parents, the late Rev Dr and Mrs David Yonggi Cho.

Sun was ordained in 2015, with her ordination certificate signed by Dr David Yonggi Cho. In 2018, together with Rev Dr Bobby Chaw, Sun co-founded The Harvest Network, a fellowship of like-minded congregations around the region who share the CHC DNA. As a part of our spiritual family, these churches continue to make a difference through the preaching of the gospel, winning the lost for Christ and making disciples of all the nations (Matt 24:14; 28:19-20).