{"id":57861,"date":"2026-06-04T04:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57861"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:37:59","slug":"city-harvest-founder-kong-hee-posts-tribute-to-wife-sun-ho-to-mark-40-years-after-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57861","title":{"rendered":"City Harvest founder Kong Hee posts tribute to wife Sun Ho to mark 40 years after first meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee took to social media on June 1 to mark the 40th anniversary of his first meeting with his wife Sun Ho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Kong, 61, also wished her a happy birthday. Ho, a former Mandopop singer also known as Ho Yeow Sun, turns 54 on June 2. Married since 1992, the couple have a 21-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cToday marks 40 years since I first met you. From the very first day, I knew I had found the one whom my soul loves,\u201d Kong wrote. \u201cYou complete me and make me a better person and follower of Jesus. I was a little late to be your first, but I want all of my last to be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Singaporean senior pastor continued: \u201cI love you, and I will love you until my final breath. And in eternity, I will continue loving you every day, forever and ever. Thank you for being my best friend, my confidante, my lover and my companion through every season of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On May 7, Ho posted on Instagram about tag-teaming with Kong at the Bali Marriage Getaway in 2026. It was billed as a church retreat designed for married couples and was held from May 1 to 3 on the Indonesian island.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base instagram instagram-embed\" title=\"instagram embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYCXgdUPrJ0\/embed\/captioned\/?omitscript=true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWe loved sharing deep and personal insights about marriage \u2013 the highs, the struggles, and the grace that has carried us through the 33.5 years (and counting),\u201d the<!-- --> <!-- -->local performer wrote.<!-- --> <!-- -->\u201cWe can truly say that we\u2019re even deeper in our connection and love as a couple&#8230; we are each other\u2019s safe place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Kong co-founded City Harvest Church with Ho in 1989. The church found itself caught up in a scandal when Kong\u00a0and\u00a0five other\u00a0church leaders were found guilty of criminal breach of trust in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The six of them had misused $50 million in church funds for a project which involved spreading the gospel through the secular music career of Ho, who was not implicated in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/city-harvest-case-heres-all-you-need-to-know?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Kong was released from\u00a0jail in August 2019<\/span><\/a> after serving more than two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Ho made her show business debut with the album Sun With Love in 2002 and went on to put out more Mandarin albums till 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In 2003, she released her debut American single Where Did Love Go, co-produced by David Foster. Her other English-language dance hits include China Wine (2008) and Mr Bill (2008), both produced by Wyclef Jean of the American rap group the Fugees.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base instagram instagram-embed\" title=\"instagram embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZDCyVwGktH\/embed\/captioned\/?omitscript=true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/city-harvest-founder-kong-hee-posts-loving-tribute-to-wife-sun-ho-to-mark-40-years-of-first-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee took to social media on June 1 to mark the 40th anniversary of his first meeting with his wife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}