In 1989, Pastor Kong Hee felt the call of God to raise up disciples of Christ who will take the gospel throughout Asia.
City Harvest Church was born out of that call and vision.
Pastor Kong Hee received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Lord in 1975.
After his conversion, he 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, Pastor Kong Hee 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.
In 1995, Pastor Kong Hee 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.
As a highly-recognized and much sought-after personality in the international speaking circuit, Pastor Kong Hee 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." He has personally spoken in the following countries: Armenia, Australia, Canada, China, Fiji, 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.
Together with his wife, they co-own four fashion retail outlets. As a business owner, Pastor 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.
