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 23,000 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 mission-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 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, 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.