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City Harvest Church () or CHC is a pentecostal megachurch in Singapore. Founded in 1989 by Kong Hee, the church officially bases its values on Charismatic and Pentecostal teachings, with emphases on such "doctrines" as "the Great Commandment", "the Great Commission" and "the Cultural Mandate".〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=City Harvest Church )〕 City Harvest Church is a member of several interchurch organisations, including the National Council of Churches of Singapore, Evangelical Fellowship of Singapore, and Festival of Praise Fellowship. Services are held at its church building in Jurong West and rented hall space at Suntec International Convention Centre. CHC has affiliate churches in the region, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia and United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=City Harvest Church )〕 In 2015, six church leaders (pastors Kong Hee and Tan Ye Peng, finance committee member John Lam Leng Hung, and fund or finance managers Chew Eng Han, Serina Wee and Sharon Tan) were sentenced to jail, after being found in court to be guilty of all charges of criminal breach of trust and falsification of accounts. This was the result of arrests made in 2012 and a trial which began in 2013, investigating the misuse of a total of S$50 million of church funds in 2007 or 2008 to either fund (Kong's wife) Sun Ho's music career or cover-up the initial misuse. Kong, pinpointed as the "key man" behind the scandal, received the heaviest jail term of eight years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34589867 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-city-harvest-trial-0 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120626-355491.html )〕 ==Overview== The church has been described by the ''Charisma'' magazine as "one of the largest congregations in Asia." It had a year-end service attendance of 17,364 attendees.〔City Harvest Annual Report 2013〕 The Congregation size (2013 figure) is listed as 18,192.〔 39% of the congregation are below the age of 25 years and the average age is 30. 46% of them are men, 35% are married, 61.7% are single. 52.8% of them are working adults, while most of the rest are children or students. The church holds various weekly services in English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, and Indonesian. It also has weekly services for children and the underprivileged. The church has 22 pastors and assistant pastors,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=City News )〕 with eleven of them ordained as reverends, while at least two incumbent senior pastors are in line to serve their imprisonment sentences at Changi Prison from 2016. The 165 full-time staff work from two locations: the Jurong West premises and the corporate office at Suntec City. Committees report to the main CHC Management Board, whose office bearers are elected annually by its 720 executive members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=City Harvest Church )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City Harvest Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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