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All 6 City Harvest Church leaders filed notices of appeal at the State Courts on Wednesday afternoon. They are appealing against their guilty conviction and jail sentences. All 6 leaders are out on bail with a same bail amount. Only Kong Hee's bail amount was increased from $500,000 to $1.5 million as he will be travelling.

Before the City Harvest trial, it was a fact even on New Creation Church's website that if u wanted to be a registered church member, one of the criteria u had to meet was to tithe a minimum of 6 months! After the CHC trial, NCC effectively removed such statement from their site and toned down on preaching prosperity. Even its senior pastor, Joseph Prince claimed to stop taking church salary and rely on his book royalties, though he never affirmed nor denied that he earned $50,000 a month. I can assure u that he did, as told by an NCC insider, a family friend, who worked for him 4 years before the fact was exposed.

Everyone including Christians have the right to appeal against any court sentence. In this case, I feel that Kong Hee has the right to appeal if he thinks that he does not deserve the 8 year jail sentence meted to him by the district judge. However, reading his appeal statement truly upset me as he was using the Apostle Paul’s imprisonment case to justify his need to appeal as it seems to be biblical.

Following the outrage by some conservative religious people who felt that it was inappropriate for Adam Lambert to headline the 2016 concert organised by Mediacorp at The Float at Marina Bay, some Singaporeans have started another petition for Sun Ho to replace Adam Lambert at the concert. These people believe that Sun Ho is in a better position to represent a "dignified family event" that is not "offensive and potentially divisive" because she embodies values such as family, money, booty-shaking, money, some criminal case, money, God, money, church, and, of course, money. And most importantly, there is no "gay agenda" to turn people and children who watch the performance, gay.

Everyone including Christians have the right to appeal against any court sentence. In this case, I feel that Kong Hee has the right to appeal if he thinks that he does not deserve the 8 year jail sentence meted to him by the district judge.

With the City Harvest Church trial over, culminating with the conviction and sentencing of the six church leaders, it seems pertinent to ask if former church members and organisations that have donated substantially to the church have any legal recourse for recovering their donations. After all, it is now clear that donations have been misused for purposes different from the donors’ intentions. In the spirit of maintaining public trust and confidence in charities, I hope the Commissioner of Charities can look into this issue and provide an avenue for the former church members and donors to claim back their monies.

Why is there a need for church leaders and church workers to keep up with the Jones? And bring this to the extreme? No individual gains? Really? You know who you are. Besides the 6 convicted, how many MORE others have conveniently been enriched along the way as CHC grew/ "prospered" through the years (thanks to the generous giving of sacrificial church members)? How sensitive can you get when you're living it up while the majority of the ordinary church members scrimped and saved every penny to give sacrificially to the Arise and Build, building fund tirelessly year after year? Let's put the SGD 50 million aside. How much more of the building fund collected over the past decade has been carelessly and senselessly spent? I shall not name the private birthday parties, personal grooming items, clothes, shoes, properties, and assistants who share our MPs salaries, etc. Should the CPIB also investigate into these church leaders??

All six City Harvest Church (CHC) leaders were sentenced to between 21 months and 8 years' jail on Friday, with Kong Hee taking the heaviest rap with 8 years in prison and finance manager Chew Eng Han taking the next highest sentence with 6 years in prison.

Singapore's Public Prosecutor asked for stiff sentences against the 6 City Harvest leaders accused of misusing $50 million in church funds. It recommended that church founder Kong Hee be sentenced to 11 to 12 years imprisonment for his crimes.

I was there even before CHC started, in the late 80s and left in the mid 90s. Will give a bit of bio on KH and CHC. In the 70s, KH converted. He was about 16 years old. He actually was a Christian few years earlier but stopped. So the real conversion was at 16.