“My vision for City Harvest Church is not merely numerical growth, but spiritual depth”: Interview with Pastor Kong Hee

Pastor Kong Hee, senior pastor of Singapore’s City Harvest Church, discusses his journey from a cast‑away at 11 to founding a megachurch with 24,543 core members and 268 branches, totaling over 80,000 worldwide. He credits 1989’s founding day, May 7, and the 1970s evangelism on Singapore’s National Stadium under Dr Yonggi Cho for shaping the church’s Pentecostal roots. He emphasizes that growth must be rooted in spiritual depth, highlighting 9,432 theology graduates and a future goal of 1,000 Pentecostal scholars. The interview stresses missions to unreached people groups—75.1 % of 5,354 UPGs in Asia and 7,130 worldwide—illustrated by a 2,000‑meter Philippine mission that grew to 1,000 members. He calls for prayer, humility, and intentional UPG engagement as the church’s future path.