Immersed in Love,
Propelled into Witness

Equipping believers with strong Pentecostal foundations for
Spirit-led ministry & global missions

A Legacy of Faith, Learning, and Leadership

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Grow in Faith

Grow deep in Scripture through solid Pentecostal teaching and hands-on ministry training that
cultivates maturity and Spirit-empowered living.

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Develop Your Leadership

Be equipped for church, missions, or the marketplace with Spirit-led leadership and ministry training.

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Thrive in a vibrant spiritual community shaped by prayer, mentoring, and ministry that
brings personal growth and lasting impact.

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At SOT, we believe God calls both ministers and marketplace leaders to shine with His Spirit-filled life. For more than 30 years, we have been equipping men and women to be deeply rooted in His Word and immersed in His Spirit, ready to embody Christ’s love and impact the world.

This is a place for you. Come – be trained, be transformed, be sent.

Rev Dr Kong Hee & Rev Sun Ho
Founders  
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A Word from Our Principal

Each of us carries a God-given calling—a unique purpose that He has placed upon our lives. Yet often, in the busyness of life, we may sense the need to draw closer, to know Him deeper, and to be equipped for what He has in store. That is why the School of Theology exists: to create a space where believers can step away from the noise, encounter God afresh, and be grounded in His Word and Spirit.

Rev Dr Bobby Chaw
Principal 
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Rev Dr Kong Hee

Co-Founder and Senior Pastor,
City Harvest Church, Singapore

Rev Sun Ho

Co-Founder, CEO and
Executive Pastor,
City Harvest Church, Singapore

Rev Dr Bobby Chaw

Executive Pastor, Missions Director, Principal,
City Harvest Church, Singapore

Prof April Westbrook

Professor of Old Testament, Vanguard University, USA

Prof Bill Dogterom

Professor of Pastoral Ministries and Spiritual Formation, Vanguard University, USA

Prof Byron Klaus

Past President, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, USA

Prof Douglas Petersen

Distinguished Professor of Social Theology, USA

Prof Frank Macchia

Professor of Systematic Theology, Vanguard University, USA
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Rev Dr Kong Hee

Co-Founder and Senior Pastor, City Harvest Church, Singapore

Kong Hee holds an MA in theology from Vanguard University in the United States and is currently pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Professor Frank Macchia. He also earned a BSc in computer science and information systems from the National University of Singapore. In 2008, he was conferred an honorary doctoral degree by Hansei University.

Kong is the senior pastor of City Harvest Church, which he co-founded with his wife Sun in 1989. CHC has a congregation size of 23,868, with a collective membership of approximately 70,000, including all branch and affiliate churches. In 2012, CHC was ranked the ninth largest church in the world.

Kong did missionary and church-planting work in the 1980s. He founded the School of Theology in 1994, which has since graduated over 8,800 students, many of whom are pastors and missionaries. Alongside his wife, they co-founded the “Church Without Walls” initiatives (1996) and City Harvest Community Services Association (1997), both of which helped 11,594 people in need in 2023. Kong is also a spiritual son of the late Dr David Yonggi Cho.

Rev Sun Ho

Co-Founder, CEO and Executive Pastor, City Harvest Church, Singapore

Sun Ho co-founded City Harvest Church with Pastor Kong Hee in 1989. She was ordained into the ministry by Dr David Yonggi Cho. Since 2010, she has been the chief executive officer of CHC, overseeing a congregation of 23,868 members and a collective membership of more than 70,000, including all branch and affiliate churches.

Together with Kong, they co-founded the “Church Without Walls” initiatives (1996) and City Harvest Community Services Association (1997), both of which assisted 11,594 individuals in need (2023). In recognition of Sun’s humanitarian work among the poor and needy, particularly children, Sun received the “Outstanding Young Person of the World” award from Junior Chamber International in 2003.

In addition to her humanitarian work, Sun was a pop singer, using music as a tool for evangelism in Asia. In 2004, she was named “Ambassador of Love” by the Children and Youth Foundation of China for establishing schools among underprivileged kids. She was also appointed “Charity Ambassador of Love” for the Special Olympic World Summer Games in Shanghai in 2007 and served as the “Music Ambassador” for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Songfest.

Rev Dr Bobby Chaw

Executive Pastor, Missions Director, Principal, City Harvest Church, Singapore

Bobby Chaw holds a DMin from Southern Methodist University, an MDiv from Trinity Theological College, and a BSc in material science from the National University of Singapore.

He is a founding member and executive pastor of City Harvest Church where he has been instrumental in shaping the church’s growth and global influence since his ordination in 2013. In 2018, he co-founded The Harvest Network with Sun Ho, bringing together like-minded congregations across Asia to share CHC’s vision of discipleship, church growth, and revival.

Fluent in both English and Mandarin, Bobby oversees CHC’s Chinese-speaking congregation and pastors a zone within the English-speaking congregation. As mission director, he provides strategic leadership and liaison work for CHC branch churches and THN affiliates. He is also the current president of CHC’s Management Board.

In 2025, Bobby was invited to respond to a paper at the Europe-Asia Pentecostal Summit that brought together scholars and practitioners to dialogue on Pentecostal theology and ministry across cultural contexts.

Prof April Westbrook

Professor of Old Testament, Vanguard University, USA

Prof April Westbrook brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the field of Biblical/Old Testament Studies, with an extensive formal education and over 25 years of teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her commitment to excellence in teaching is evident through institutional recognition, special awards, and consistently high evaluations from students in her classes. She has published and presented scholarly works in the field and is currently working on the Book of 2 Samuel volume for the Pentecostal Commentary Series (Deo/Brill).

Prof April has served in various roles within local church ministry and spoken at many conferences, retreats, and chapel services, having been an ordained minister for over 35 years.

Prof Bill Dogterom

Professor of Pastoral Ministries and Spiritual Formation, Vanguard University, USA

Prof Bill Dogterom holds a PhD, and is a professor of pastoral ministries and spiritual formation, teaching courses in pastoral ministry, spirituality, and practical theology at Vanguard University. Having served in several pastoral roles for over 35 years, including 22 as lead pastor, Prof Bill cares deeply about the local church as the primary expression and leading edge of the mission of God and, by extension, the health and wholeness of those women and men called and gifted by God to serve the church as pastors. This has led him to focus on the care of souls and spiritual direction as the basis of disciple making with the goal of spiritual formation towards Christlikeness for the sake of mission in the world.

The courses he teaches allow for the introduction and practice of essential skills needed for pastoral practice in the context of whole soul health.

Prof Byron Klaus

Past President, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, USA

Prof Byron Klaus was formerly the president of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. Prior to that, he served for 20 years on the faculty and administration of Vanguard University. During that time, he was the vice president of Latin America Childcare (currently known as ChildHope), a child development ministry which helped over 80,000 children in 21 nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has also served in the churches of California, Texas, and Illinois.

Prof Byron received his DMin from Fuller Theological Seminary, MRE from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and BSc from Bethany Bible College. His commitment to leadership development in growing churches around the world has taken him to over 50 nations in the world, where he preaches and develops leaders.

Among his wide spectrum of scholarly works are Called and Empowered: Pentecostal Mission in Global Perspective (1991) and The Globalization of Pentecostalism: A Religion Made to Travel (1999), which he co-edited.

After his retirement from the presidency of AGTS, Prof Byron continued to teach courses at seminary and returned to ChildHope to be its vice president. He received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Alliance for Assemblies of God Higher Education in 2009, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Pentecostal Studies in 2016.

Prof Douglas Petersen

Distinguished Professor of Social Theology, USA

Prof Douglas Petersen is the Margaret S. Smith Distinguished Professor of world missions and intercultural studies at Vanguard University in California. He is one of the foremost ethicists and Pentecostal leaders in the world today. Prof Doug and his wife Myrna founded non-profit organisation Latin America Childcare (currently known as ChildHope) to give hope and a future to poverty-stricken children. Under his leadership, ChildHope has since expanded to 22 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing education, food, and medical programmes to 100,000 children in 300 schools.

Prof Doug received his PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. As a Pentecostal thought leader, he has written books, published many journal articles and book reviews, and given lectures and public addresses in seminaries, Bible colleges and conferences, including the World Vision Leadership Symposium.

In 2022, Prof Doug was honoured for 50 years in ministry by the SoCal Network of the Assemblies of God in San Diego. In 2016, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Pentecostal Studies. His book, Not By Might Nor By Power: A Pentecostal Theology of Social Concern (1996), was selected as one of the Outstanding Books of 1996, as well as the Outstanding Book of the Decade (1990 to 2000). He also received Outstanding Book of the Year in 1999 for The Globalization of Pentecostalism: A Religion Made to Travel (1999).

Prof Doug’s recent teachings include theological themes in the New Testament, the Corinthian letters, organisational business ethics, current issues in mission studies, leadership and global issues, mission and culture in theological perspective, contemporary moral issues, research methodology/leadership studies, entrepreneurship, as well as conflict and change.

Prof Frank Macchia

Professor of Systematic Theology, Vanguard University, USA

Prof Frank Macchia is the associate director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University, and a professor of Christian theology at Vanguard University. He holds a DTh from the University of Basel and an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. He received his doctorate with distinction and won the Jacob Burckhardt Prize for his dissertation on the message of the Blumhardts. Prof Frank was formerly the president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and the editor of its Pneuma journal. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the SPS in 2015. He was also awarded an honorary DDiv from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary, which is the leading seminary for the Church of God.

As an ecumenical theologian, Prof Frank engages in broad conversations, serving six years on the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches in America, as well as in other conversations, such as the Reformed and Pentecostal Dialogue. He has participated in numerous ecumenical consultations, including the World Council of Churches/Evangelical Dialogue, and the Consultation on Christian Unity held at Princeton Theological Seminary.