World-Class Tennis Player Turned Healing Minister

13 – 14 December 2008 — Kong Hee visits Victory Life Church, pastored by Margaret Court, who holds 62 Grand Slam titles.

Kong Hee was invited to speak at three services and the graduation ceremony of a Bible school conducted by Victory Life Church. Held in Perth, Australia, the meetings drew a total of 3,500 people to receive the Word of God.

Victory Life Church is pastored by Rev. Dr. Margaret Court, who was ordained to Christian ministry in 1991 after seventeen years of service for the Lord. In the same year, she established Margaret Court Ministries Inc., an outreach ministry to take the gospel to the people and to hold miracle and healing meetings throughout the city.

Surprisingly to some, Court was also an acclaimed international tennis player. Born in 1942, she began playing tennis when she was eight years old and was 17 when she won the first of seven consecutive singles titles at the 1960 Australian Championships.

Court is one of only three players to have achieved a career “boxed set” of Grand Slam titles, winning every possible Grand Slam title—singles, same-sex doubles and mixed doubles—at all four Grand Slam events.

She retired from the tennis circuit in 1976 with sixty-two Grand Slam titles to her credit. Despite her great achievements as an athlete, she saw her current pastoring work as her greatest challenge yet, far surpassing her days in pro-tennis.

Court said, “Victory Life Church is the fulfillment of a vision God gave to me some time ago, that a mighty work of mercy, love and compassion be established in this great city of Perth.”

Being much in demand, not only in Australia but also overseas, Court teaches and ministers with a powerful healing anointing. Her television show, “A Life of Victory,” appears on the Australian Christian Channel.

She is married to Barry Court, who was president of the Pastoralists’ and Graziers’ Association, and became president of the Liberal Party of Western Australia in March 2008.

With a strong outlook on engaging the society in multiple areas, the congregation of Victory Life Church embraced the message shared by Kong Hee, who expounded on the importance for Christians to fulfill the cultural mandate.

In addition to the services and graduation ceremony, Kong also addressed 100 church leaders during a breakfast meeting.