Kong Hee posts video excerpt of Sun Ho's ordination as pastor

As some of you might have learned, following the City Harvest Church six's guilty verdict last week, church founder Kong Hee's wife Sun Ho has been ordained as church pastor in the wake of the high-publicity trial.

Kong, one of the six found guilty of fraud, put up a video on Oct. 19 on his Facebook page, which features a short excerpt of the ceremony:

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Ho (Official) was recently ordained and in that ceremony, Dr. Michael Scales, President of NYACK College, and Rev. Dr. Canon James Wong prayed for her. Thank you for your love and support for Sun as she was recognized, confirmed and commissioned for the work of the ministry. Please continue to pray for Sun & our new generation leadership team, as they work together for CHC 2.0! 耀珊最近被按牧，在那場典禮上，NYACK學院的校長麥克爾斯凱爾斯和王銳覺法政牧師為她禱告。耀珊接到認可、肯定並受委派行神的工，感謝你們對她的愛和支持。耀珊與新世代的領導團隊一起為CHC 2.0努力時，請繼續為他們禱告！

Posted by Kong Hee on Monday, 19 October 2015

We thought it would be helpful to highlight one part of it:

Kong presents Ho with a bible, saying: "40 years ago, I became a believer. This is the first bible I owned. And in every ordination normally the ordaining pastor gives a bible."

"Let this be a symbol of the authority I am handing to you. Sun, this is my bible, it is now in your hands. Let's give Sun a big clap right now."

This ceremony of ordaining Ho as a pastor is interesting because Ho seems to have a history of people mistaking her for a pastor — even her own church's magazine appears to have got it wrong.

Take for example, these "CHC Confessions" posts from 2013:

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remember back then, Pastor Kong scolded a Korean guest preacher, who mistakenly called Sun "Pastor Sun" in his prayer....

Posted by CHC Confessions on Saturday, 1 June 2013

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the recent 24th Anniversary, KH invited Canon James Wong to stage to pray a blessing. Canon James during his ...

Posted by CHC Confessions on Tuesday, 6 August 2013

As well as this New Paper story from April this year, prior to her ordination, which refers to her as a "singer-pastor":

Ho's Wikipedia entry also describes her as having "started as a pastor", and "was a dedicated pastor until she was in her late twenties":

But we guess these could all have gotten it wrong. The best person, apart from Ho herself, to say whether she is or was a pastor or not would be none other than her husband.

Consider, therefore, this 2009 blog post from Kong about his wife and China Wine, which has since disappeared alongside his site konghee.com (it now redirects to his Facebook page). It stated quite explicitly that Ho was not a pastor:

This, as you might expect, left us a bit confused. Was the magazine's copy published in error?

Or perhaps on all those times she was referred to as a pastor, she was never *officially* ordained until now?

Nonetheless, the ordination video is quite worth watching as it sheds more light on how pastors are ordained in Kong's and Ho's church.

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