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A CALL TO PRAYER & ACTION
We wish to urge our readers to please pray for members of City Harvest Church. Our heart does go out to the people who are heavily involved in CHC.
Below the youtube video was the following,
“About 50 staff and members of City Harvest Church have started lining up outside the Subordinate Courts before the crack of dawn on Wednesday for the first day of a highly anticipated trial against six leaders of the church charged with fraud.
Some arrived as early as 11pm on Tuesday night in the hopes of getting a seat in what is expected to be a packed courtroom.” – SPHRazorTV, Large crowds gather outside Subordinate Courts at 6.45am for CHC trial, Published on May 14, 2013. (Accessed 15/05/2013.)
There is no doubt that City Harvest Church is a Word of Faith cult. Not to mention it has been publicly condemned as a movement that is not Christian and labeled a scam.
Because the world can see it and not the followers, heartless comments have been thrown against CHC members. While CHC members do need to be educated that they are involved in a Word of Faith cult, they do not need to belittled like this:
“As these group of dumb ass supporters of this evil church’s collaborators are just like Hitler’s children who were so willing to die with them after so many years of propaganda . The only difference between Hitler and Kong and Co is that one fought for war while the other schemed for money!” – lance lau, http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=rK-FZ6XczVnqqxaJiTQFt36EwulRyejuz4iy4FzuzfM, 15/05/2013.
“Satan followers.
How dumb can human being get?” – pokemonyu, http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=rK-FZ6XczVl2f1IqddImj3eDKQ-SGomARqC6D4ArJzY, 15/05/2013.
“yea queuing for satan” – nickachiu, http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=rK-FZ6XczVkkMqKEh5cW_jAIgZbzE_VrgWf0WOZX1DI, 15/05/2013.
We are aware that we get over 500 hits a day from our Singaporean readers. If you are involved with a more reformed or conservative bible-believing church, can we encourage you to be involved in CHC members lives and lead them out of the CHC cult? Have a meal or bible study with them and lead them into the truth through humility and prayer. May these videos on Kong Hee make your task easier. They can easily be refuted using ther scripture:
Kong Hee: A Word Of Faith Heretic (Part 1)
To Christians everywhere. Please pray for the churches in Singapore to be effective in ministering to CHC members in this time. CHC memebrs are vulnerable and exposed to unfair attack in these times. They are not the enemy. False teachers like Phil Pringle and Kong Hee are. The world now have an excuse to hate Christianity because of these false teachers. Pray for God’s sheep.
THE NEWS
The Straits Times reports,
“Prosecutors for the City Harvest trial said they had evidence of a “deliberately planned” scheme by church leaders aimed at moving millions of dollars.
In their opening statement, prosecutors said that the offences committed by church pastor Kong Hee and five other church staff were not “isolated technical breaches or inadvertent occasional missteps”.
Rather, they were part of a “deliberately planned, meticulously coordinated, and carefully executed scheme which stretched over a prolonged period of time and involved the movement of millions of dollars”.
The prosecution said they would prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused are guilty of all charges. Kong Hee, and five senior members – Tan Ye Peng, Sharon Tan, Chew Eng Han, Serina Wee and John Lam Leng Hung – were arrested and charged last year for allegedly funnelling $24 million into sham bond investments to further the career of Kong’s wife, pop-singer Ho Yeow Sun between 2007 and 2008.
The money used was from the church’s Building Fund which was earmarked to build a new church.
Another $26.6 million is said to have been misappropriated to cover up the sham investments in a procedure known as “round-tripping”. This was supposedly done to throw the church’s auditors’ off “the scent of the bogus bonds”, said the prosecution.
These were not the genuine commercial transactions the accused persons made them out to be.
It is immaterial whether the accused thought the promotion of Ms Ho’s music career would further the broader objectives of the church. Rather, the question is whether diverting money from the Building Fund under the guise of purported bond investments to fund her career was an authorised use of the money, said the prosecution.
The six face varying counts of criminal breach of trust and falsifying accounts. The first offence is punishable with a life sentence, or up to 20 years in prison and a fine. The second carries a maximum of 10 years in jail, a fine or both.
The six accused have agreed to be jointly tried on all the charges against them.”
Source: Strait Times, Prosecution-City-Harvest-Church-Leaders-Had-Deliberately-Planned. (Credit to groupsects.wordpress.com for obtaining the article first.)
City New also reported the case,
Two Sides Of The Story
Posted on 15 May 2013
By The City News Team
Three years after investigations started, trial commences for six affected CHC leaders, with key differences in how the prosecution and defense wish to take the case forward
CN PHOTOS: Daniel Poh & Michael Chan.
RIGHT from first day of the trial for the six affected leaders of City Harvest Church, the prosecution and defense show major differences in how they view the case and seek to proceed.
The prosecution alleges that CHC’s senior pastor Kong Hee, pastor Tan Ye Peng, Serina Wee, Sharon Tan, John Lam and Chew Eng Han have misappropriated more than S$50 million of church funds and have committed criminal breach of trust. The accused have agreed to be jointly tried for all the charges brought against them.
The prosecution also said that the building fund of the church was inappropriately used for alleged “sham” investments in two companies Xtron and Firna to further the music career of Kong’s wife Sun Ho. In addition, the prosecution stated their defined parameters of the trial.
Before a gallery filled with more than 50 members of the public, mostly CHC members, the prosecution said it is immaterial whether the accused thought Ho’s music career would further the broader objectives of the church. Rather, deputy public prosecutor Mavis Chionh said, the issue lies with whether the building fund was used in an “authorized” manner or not. The prosecution also said it was inconsequential to the case whether Sun’s crossing over into the entertainment circle is “theologically legitimate” or not.
But the defense disagreed. The lawyers sought clarification from the prosecution on whether they equate the Crossover Project with Sun’s music career, and the defense also emphasized that since the case involves a church, theological legitimacy has to be considered, adding “as a matter of fact, there was no unlawful loss of monies by the church.”
The first prosecution witness to take the stand is Lai Baoting, a former accounting staff of CHC. She took the stand to answer questions about emails that were sent from her using an Xtron email account, before the court session broke for lunch.
The trial, which started this morning at nearly 10am, signifies a key development in a long-drawn case about the finances of CHC, which first unfolded when the Commissioner of Charities and Commercial Affairs Department launched investigations into its accounts in May 2010.
Senior Counsel N. Sreenivasan toldCity News that there are two key things to note: one, that the prosecution wants to maintain that the use of the building fund for the Crossover Project was unauthorized, but “as my learned friend Edwin Tong said in open court, the use was not unauthorized. But I won’t comment as it’s an issue before the court.”
The second key thing to bear in mind is fourfold: “The accused had no wrongful gain; there was no unlawful loss; the Church made good and there has been no dishonesty.”
Senior District Judge See Kee Oon hears the case. The trial continues this afternoon.
Source: The City News Team, City News, Two Sides Of The Story, 15/05/2013. (Accessed 15/05/2013.)
Today Online also published their article on the case here:
http://www.todayonline.com/city-harvest-execs-schemed-move-money-prosecution
C3 Church Watch 
Wow!!
I’m curious – did anyone notice if Phil Pringle was there to give him moral support?
No?
I didn’t think so – he wasn’t one of those loyal supporters waiting in line from 4:30am.
Watcher – I’m curious – did anyone notice the past two C3OF church services, when they said Phil Pringle is in Singapore supporting Kong Hee?
No?
I didn’t think so – you were all too busy farting around on this site making crap up.
Of course! We all know he’s “advisory pastor” along with A R Bernard. But I said “he wasn’t one of those loyal supporters waiting in line from 4:30am.” (By the way he was in Switzerland, on the usual circuit, – he said this while “filling-in” at CHC last weekend. Seriously, Kong Hee was at that service, why wasn’t he preaching?)
Phil Pringle has serious ‘face” to uphold in the Asian community over there. He believes his words have power to proclaim victory over the trial, called the trial “evil”. Really? Evil?
Even though the evidence is being brought fairly and truthfully, even though the 6 charged have been allowed to continue working, even though thousands have left CHC as a result of the scandal. Even though Kong Hee himself says “you got me into this mess, you have to get me out of it”….
By the way – now wash your mouth out with soap.
“you were all too busy farting around on this site making crap up.”
Dear, oh dear, oh dear! Are you perchance a Christian, sweetheart? You must really have a bee in your bonnet, carrying on like that – and in a public forum, no less!
Does your husband know that you are posting comments like that here? I hope you got his permission to vent your spleen, because you should remain subject to him in all things, but in particular with regards to matters spiritual, given that women are so easily deceived and led astray (if you have ever read your Bible, you may be familiar with the story of Adam and Eve).
Anyway, I suppose you cannot grasp the supreme irony of Phil flying to Singapore to “support” Kong when it was in fact Phil’s “mentoring” and “prophecies” that got Kong into all this trouble in the first place.
And perhaps you would like to let us know: who paid for Phil’s trip to Singapore? Did he pay for that himself, or did the money come out of the pockets of CHC members, who, having already been robbed blind by Kong and his big-spending wife, are now being asked to underwrite a desperate and futile bid to contain the fallout from the scam?
Yeah, Phil Pringle has shown absolutely no support. You know, if you don’t count that time he immediately flew over to Singapore to be with Kong when it all went down to begin with. And then once or twice a month ever since.
Selfish uncaring bastard.
So Kyle,
Could you tell us who paid for Pringle’s airfare to Singapore? Did he pay out of his own pocket? And who paid for his accommodation in Singapore?
And when Kong Hee comes to Australia to spout drivel at C3 conferences, who pays his way?
If you were offered a trip to Singapore at someone else’s expense, and you decided to go, would that make you “selfless” or would it make you greedy and opportunistic?
You know, I can’t answer any of those questions. Perhaps you can point me in the direction of some proof to your implied claims that Ps Phil did not pay for his airfare and accommodation himself.
“You know, I can’t answer any of those questions.”
I bet you can’t. Why don’t you ask “Pastor” Phil? (Or is it “Doctor” Phil?)
Talking of who pays for what, did you know that it cost $30,000 for Roland Poon to publish public apologies to CHC in Singaporean newspapers? That was because CHC categorically denied his claims that the “church” was funding Sun Ho’s so-called career in music, and they threatened legal action against Mr Poon unless he retracted his accusations.
So it seems that Kong Hee and his mates are a pack of liars, doesn’t it Kyle? Now if “pastor” Phil is Kong’s “mentor”, don’t you think that he should have an opinion on the fact that his star pupil has turned out to be a mendacious money-grubber? Or is it the case that truthfulness is not as important as “being successful”?
I don’t believe that anyone from the CHC hierarchy has yet seen fit to apologise to Mr Poon, much less reimburse the cost of the newspaper ads. Why hasn’t Phil publicly rebuked Kong for his lies and thoroughly disgraceful behaviour, Kyle? Since Phil is an “advisory pastor” for CHC, why doesn’t he show some integrity and apologise to Mr Poon on their behalf? If Phil is a man of God, how is it that he doesn’t care about truth, or about upright conduct?
Are you going to tell me that you can’t answer any of those questions either?
I am seriously disgusted by the way you’re handling this whole situation.
You take a single youtube clip of someone siding with you about CHC, and make it sound like EVERYONE is saying the church is a cult. Then you make yourself out to care for the members of CHC, and tell people to pray that they get out of what you claim is a cult, because you decided that Kong Hee is guilty before the trial even began. You don’t know the whole story. Neither do I. All we have is the reports of secular newspapers who quite often make any church out to be the bad guy (homosexual marriage debate, anyone?).
How about, innocent until proven guilty, and pray for Kong and Sun (not to mention their own son caught in the middle of all this), and pray that the truth come out and that, whatever the outcome, God can turn it into something good.
Kyle – I wonder if ANYONE considers the things that Phil Pringle said to Kong Hee, the “prophetic” proclamations he made, to Kong Hee , about purchasing the Suntec building.
It’s all available to hear, in context, no twisting, just their own vain words.
The words of Kong Hee himself “you got me into this mess, you have to get me out of it!”.
Again it’s all available to hear, in context, no twisting, just their own vain words.
Had we seen Phil Pringle walking up those court steps with Kong Hee and his wife, now that would have been truly a significant moment. Standing by his man, his own reputation being of no account, to be seen along side them.
Marcie – did Sun consider her son when she exposed herself so publically and vulgarly in those song clips “China Wine” and “Kill Bill”?
Once again, I think we need to recommend you view Dr Paul Choo, fellow Singaporean pastor and his view of the situation:
Is it a cult? The markers are there.
“I am seriously disgusted by the way you’re handling this whole situation.”
Well then don’t read the posts and comments on this blog.
“You […] make it sound like EVERYONE is saying [CHC] is a cult.”
Not everyone is saying that; some people still want to throw their money at Kong Hee so that Sun Ho can become a star in the secular music world (even though she is way too old, has no talent, and is not particularly good looking). Only people who can see that CHC is in fact a cult are saying that it’s a cult (of course, the number of people who can see that are increasing rapidly).
“How about, innocent until proven guilty […]”.
Kong is guilty of preaching lies in God’s name and masquerading as a pastor, so given that he has proved himself to be both a fraud and a liar, it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising to see him convicted of other offences in a court of law. But even if Kong is exonerated in the courts, he is still going to have to answer to God for the things he has done, which is the more serious problem he is facing – the courts can only sentence someone to life imprisonment, but God can sentence someone for all eternity.
“You don’t know the whole story. Neither do I.”
You overestimate yourself, Marcie: your problem is not that you don’t know the whole story, it is that you don’t know anything at all.
“You overestimate yourself, Marcie: your problem is not that you don’t know the whole story, it is that you don’t know anything at all.”
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