Sun Ho
Knowing Sun Ho
Sun Ho co-founded City Harvest Church (CHC) with Kong Hee in 1989. Married since 1992, they have a 19-year-old son, Dayan.
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 childhood abuse caused her to spiral into severe depression and guilt. At 16, Sun heard the gospel and was introduced to Jesus as her Saviour and Lord. Deeply impacted by the love of God, Sun purposed in her heart to live for Christ and the gospel. 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 ministered alongside Kong, building CHC into a strong local church. 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 Kong, they co-founded the “Church Without Walls” initiatives (1996) and City Harvest Community Services Association (1997), both of which assisted 11,594 needy individuals in 2023. In recognition of Sun’s humanitarian work among the poor and needy, particularly children, she received the “Outstanding Young Person of the World” Award from Junior Chamber International in 2003.
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 in many Asian countries. She worked with secular 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. Her mix of music and humanitarian work opened doors in many countries. She used the royalties from her albums to build schools, rehabilitation centres, medical clinics, and more. Her humanitarian efforts also included relief supplies to the Aceh tsunami crisis (2004), the Sichuan (2008) and Haiti (2010) earthquakes, and babies suffering from hydrocephalus in Honduras.
In 2004, she was named “Ambassador of Love” by the Children and Youth Foundation of China for establishing schools among underprivileged kids. Additionally, she was appointed “Charity Ambassador of Love” for the Special Olympic World Summer Games in Shanghai in 2007 and served as the “Music Ambassador” for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Songfest. She had the honour of performing the Olympic Anthem at the Forbidden City, in a lead-up to the opening of the Olympics games. During those years, Sun had 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.
Although Sun no longer sings in the secular music industry, she performed at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in 2011, before a crowd of 66,700 at an event hosted by the late Dr David Yonggi Cho, who pastored the world’s largest congregation. In 2015, she was ordained into the ministry by Dr Cho.
Since 2010, Sun has been the chief executive officer of CHC, overseeing a congregation of 23,868 members and a collective membership of approximately 45,000, including all branch and affiliate churches. In 2012, CHC was one of the 10 global churches larger than America’s largest.1