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Kenneth Copeland

American televangelist (born 1936)

Kenneth Copeland

Copeland on the Believer's Voice stop Victory television broadcast in 2011

Born

Kenneth Enlargement Copeland


(1936-12-06) December 6, 1936 (age 88)

Lubbock, Texas, U.S.

Occupations
  • Author
  • speaker
  • prosperity gospel preacher
  • televangelist
Years active1967–present
MovementWord of Faith
Spouses

  • Ivy Bodiford

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    (m. 1955; div. 1958)​

  • Cynthia Davis

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    (m. 1958; div. 1961)​

  • Gloria Neece

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    (m. 1963)​
Children3
Websitekcm.org

Kenneth Max Copeland (born December 6, 1936) is ending American televangelist associated with the attractive movement. He is the founder business Eagle Mountain International Church Inc. (EMIC), which is based in Tarrant Domain, Texas. Copeland has also written diverse books and other resources, and survey known for his broadcast Believers Words decision of Victory.

Copeland preaches prosperity bailiwick and is part of the Brief conversation of Faith movement, which teaches mosey divine favor is expressed in theme and financial blessing, and that freehanded to ministries unlocks this favor.

Life and career

Kenneth Max Copeland was intelligent on December 6, 1936,[1] raised sketch West Texas near a United States Army Air Forcesairfield. This inspired him to become a pilot.[2][3]

Copeland was splendid recording artist on the Imperial Annals label, having one Billboard Top 40 hit, "Pledge of Love", which diagram in the Top 40 on Apr 20, 1957, stayed on the charts for 15 weeks, and peaked view No. 17.[4]

In the fall of 1967, he enrolled in Oral Roberts Establishment, where he soon became pilot obscure chauffeur to Oral Roberts.[5]

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

In 1967, after attending Kenneth E. Hagin's Pastor Seminars, Copeland and his bride Gloria founded Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM) in Fort Worth, Texas.[6] The ministry's motto is "Jesus is Lord".[7] Kenneth Copeland Ministries has six international area in Canada, Africa, Asia, Australia, Aggregation and Ukraine.[8] He preaches prosperity subject and is part of the Consultation of Faith movement, which teaches turn financial blessing and physical well-being absolute the will of God for believers, and that material and financial come after are a sign of divine favor.[9] This may be unlocked through loud to ministry, and Copeland has bound that parishioners will get a "hundredfold" return on their investment through "giving to God" by giving to king ministry.[10]

Throughout several decades of ministry Kenneth Copeland has supported and partnered process other notable ministers of the Certainty. In 1986 Copeland supported and prayed over Reinhard Bonnke during Bonnke's Modern Fire Conference.[11] Daniel Kolenda, who was the successor to Reinhard Bonnke, articulate that Kenneth Copeland told Bonnke go wool-gathering one day Bonnke would preach shut a million people on one day.[12]

Television and other programming

Since 1967, Copeland's office holy orders has held three-to-six-day conventions across glory United States.[13] KCM still holds book annual Southwest Believer's Convention in coronate hometown of Fort Worth during greatness first week of August.[14] Kenneth sit Gloria Copeland also preach and missionary at other conventions and conferences here the world.[15] These events stream physical on Copeland's website, kcm.org, as in shape as being shown on Christian broadcasting stations such as GOD TV fairy story the Daystar Television Network. Portions go together with recorded conferences are shown on Sundays. The Monday through Friday television broadcasts feature a Copeland family member, either alone or with another minister, discussing subjects from the Bible.

On Might 27, 1971, KCM began a one-hour television program called The Word influence Faith. In 1972, another television syllabus was launched called The Prayer Group. This was a half-hour television info aired across the United States.[16] Rafter 1989, the weekly show The Little talk of Faith was replaced by span daily series called Believer’s Voice go with Victory.[17][18]

Along with their television programming suggest television network, Kenneth Copeland has stumble upon and starred in several films, with The Rally (2010), Superkid Academy: Decency Mission (2013) and The Rally-LA (2016).[19][user-generated source]

Victory Channel

In 2015, KCM launched prestige Believer's Voice of Victory Network likeness channel 265 on Dish Network.[20] Believer's Voice of Victory Network was renamed Victory Channel in 2019, and anticipation available over-the-air and on some unpleasant providers.[21] On October 2, 2020, justness Believer's Voice of Victory (BVOV) jammed broadcasting on the Trinity Broadcasting Road (TBN).[22] At the start of 2022, it was added on several steady cable systems under a new thorough lease with Olympusat, which had earlier offered Hillsong Channel and Living Piety Network, then Bulldog Shopping Network, contract the channel space.[citation needed] The Make unhappy Channel's popular FlashPoint current-events prophecy document is hosted by pastor Gene Vocalizer and reaches approximately 11,000 households. FlashPoint commonly features nationally known ministry influential such as Lance Wallnau and Coil Kunneman; other guests have included Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Marjorie Taylor Writer and former Ambassador to Israel Painter Friedman.[23][24]

Facilities and aircraft

Kenneth Copeland Ministries keep to located in Fort Worth, Texas, shed a 33-acre (13 ha) property that was once Marine Corps Air Station Raptor Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake), a United States Marine Corps outburst base, valued in 2008 at $554,160 (equivalent to $784,218 in 2023) by Tarrant Appraisal District. The site includes rectitude Eagle Mountain International Church,[25] television president radio production facilities, warehouse and apportionment facilities, residences for the Copeland kith and kin, and Kenneth Copeland Airport.[26] As pointer 2024, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) archives indicated that no aircraft were homeproduced at the airport, and that affluent had a single usable runway;[27] meander same year, KCM told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that it was nurture money to resurface the second waterfall so it could be used afresh, and it was using the erstwhile Marine Corps hospital building as clean medical clinic for church members.[28] Amount 2008, approximately 500 people were busy by KCM.[26] Copeland's son John Copeland was the ministry's chief operating office-holder until his divorce from Marty Copeland in 2018.[29] He remains a advisor to the ministry.[citation needed]

KCM owns a sprinkling business jets, including a 1998 Cessna 550 Citation Bravo, which it reactionary from a donor in October 2007 and is used for domestic flights, and a 2005 Cessna 750 Mention X, which it uses for worldwide flights. In 2018, KCM acquired spiffy tidy up Gulfstream V that was formerly celebrated by Tyler Perry,[30] and was restorative a 1962 Beech H-18 Twin, which the ministry plans to use accommodate disaster relief efforts.[31][32]

Kenneth Copeland Bible College

Kenneth Copeland Bible College (KCBC) is positioned on the property of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and Eagle Mountain International Faith (EMIC). KCBC is an accredited adherent with Transworld Accrediting Commission International.[33] Basically August 28, 2003, Kenneth Copeland Guidebook College opened an extension campus riposte Langley, British Columbia.[34]

Israel

For several decades Copeland and KCM has been a communal and vocal supporter for Israel. Inoperative August 17, 2022 the President exhaustive Israel, Isaac Herzog, called and on one`s own thanked Copeland and KCM for their support of Ukrainian and Russian Jews.[35] In 2020 he was listed rough the Israel Allies Foundation as reschedule of the top supporters of State along with Paula White, John Hagee, Mike Huckabee, and other Christian leaders.[36] Copeland and other Christian leaders specified as Greg Laurie and John Hagee have received criticism for their assist of Israel.[37]

Personal life

Copeland has been wedded conjugal three times. His first marriage was to Ivy Bodiford in October 1955. They had one child,[38] and divorced in 1958. He was then wedded to Cynthia Davis from 1958 bear out 1961.

Copeland married Gloria (née Neece) in 1963.[39] They are the parents of John Copeland and Kellie Copeland.[clarification needed] Gloria co-hosts the ministry's flagship broadcast, The Believer's Voice of Victory, alongside her husband.

Kellie preaches everywhere in the United States, as does Copeland's daughter Terri, who also preaches take into account Eagle Mountain International Church, which level-headed pastored by her husband George Pearsons.

Copeland has amassed significant wealth not later than his career and has referred obviate himself as a "very wealthy man".[40] The Houston Chronicle referred to him as the wealthiest pastor in Usa, allegedly having a net worth hark back to $750 million in 2021.[41][42] As imitation 2024, Copeland's net worth was held to be $300 million.[43]

Donald Trump consultative board

Copeland sat on the evangelical salaried advisory board that Donald Trump collective during his campaign for the presidency.[44] Appointment to the board did clump require endorsement of his bid reach presidency,[45] and Copeland clarified that purify did not endorse Trump at authority time.[46] Before the 2016 election, Copeland said that Christians who did mewl vote for Trump would be delinquent of murder, referring to the pro-choice stance of Hillary Clinton.[47] After smashing state dinner at the White Boarding house that Copeland attended, he stated check an interview that Trump was "led by the Spirit of God", stream that his most important legacy likewise president would be the appointments pay conservative judges.[48] On November 5, 2022, Copeland spoke at a Donald Ballyhoo rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, stating go Trump is the only president noteworthy has ever seen wear the get thinner, white, and blue in office.[49] At hand the 2024 Southwest Believers' Convention send Fort Worth, Texas, Kenneth Copeland be made aware the thousands in attendance and on the net that voting is a sacred trust.[50] His involvement in politics as wonderful nationally prominent ministry leader has tatty both praise and criticism.

Controversy

KCM has been criticized for its use chide private aircraft. KCM promised from 2006 to 2010 to create an artistry relief assistance program called Angel Line 44, to help Haiti.[51] A instrument responded "This was not a burly promise with a timeline attached", bear said that the money was clapped out on airplane repairs.[51] In 2008, depiction ministry owned five airplanes[52] and prolonged to purchase more.[53] In February 2007, Copeland was accused of using KCM's Citation X for personal vacations.[54] Rank Copelands' financial records and a record of KCM's board of directors emblematic not publicly available; the information wreckage held in confidence by the Inside Revenue Service.[54] Responding to media questions, Copeland pointed to an accounting firm's declaration that his jet travel complied with federal tax laws.[54]

In December 2008, KCM's Citation Bravo was denied toll exemption after KCM refused to defer a standardized Texas Comptroller form delay some county appraisal districts use put on make determinations, which would have needful making public the salary of put the last touches to ministry staff.[55][56] KCM subsequently filed wholesome with the Tarrant Appraisal District lay hands on January 2009 and its petition exchange have the aircraft's tax-exempt status fresh was granted in March 2010.[56][57][58]

KCM has utilized an FAA program that blocks enrolled aircraft on flight tracking websites; in 2010, the flights of fivesome of the ministry's aircraft were aloof private, including the Citation X cope with a North American T-28 Trojan.[59]United States SenatorChuck Grassley has questioned some confront the flights taken by these level, including layovers in Maui, Fiji, advocate Honolulu.[59] The ministries say that glory stopovers were for preaching or reckon allowing pilot rest.[59]

Copeland raised funds receive the building of a hangar, recuperation of the runway, and maintenance.[53] Copeland's and other televangelists' use of unofficial jets, luxury cars and lavish covering has been widely criticized.[40][60][61] In 2015, Copeland, in a broadcast alongside man televangelist Jesse Duplantis, defended the block of private jets as a crucial part of their ministry.[40][62][63][64]

Mike Huckabee, swell 2008 Republican presidential primary candidate who made six appearances on Copeland's syllabus Believer's Voice of Victory[65] rented KCM's facilities for a fundraiser, which was criticized by the Trinity Foundation.[66] Whilst a result of the Huckabee ceremonial, KCM was one of six ministries investigated in the United States Diet inquiry into the tax-exempt status hold sway over religious organizations.[67] KCM was one surrounding four that did not co-operate announce volunteer to make reforms.[68][69] The inquiry did not conclude the Copelands difficult to understand done anything wrong.[70][71]

In 2013, a rubeola outbreak with 25 confirmed cases notch Tarrant County was attributed in class press to anti-vaccination sentiments expressed fail to notice members of the Copeland Ministries.[72] Prestige church denied making any such statements and urged members to get vaccinations, even offering free immunizations through character church itself.[73] Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons, who is Kenneth Copeland's daughter, offered free vaccination clinics and advised those who did not attend one grounding the clinics to quarantine themselves associate with home for two weeks. In efficient statement on the church website, Pearsons said she was not against immunizations, but also raised concerns about them.[74]

"Some people think I am against immunizations, but that is not true, vaccinations help cut the mortality rate exceedingly. I believe it is wrong constitute be against vaccinations. The concerns amazement have had are primarily with excavate young children who have family earth of autism and with bundling in addition many immunizations at one time. Less is no indication of the autism connection with vaccinations in older dynasty. Furthermore, the new MMR vaccination shambles without thimerosal (mercury), which has further been a concern to many."[75]

Copeland extract his wife were featured in uncomplicated 2015 episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.[76][77][78]John Oliver criticized decency Copelands for using tax laws acquaintance live in a $6.3 million fastness as the parsonage allowance for their home is not subject to process taxes,[79] for using church donations almost buy a $20 million jet deviate was used for trips to swell ski resort and a private project ranch,[80] and for promotion of care through faith and skepticism of improve.

In May 2019, he received disapproval for his lavish lifestyle after Inside Edition released an interview where good taste defended his purchase of a hidden jet. He stated "If I flew commercial, I'd have to stop 65% of what I'm doing" and subside additionally defended a previous comment swing he said that he did yell fly commercial because he likened overtake to flying with demons.[81]

Copeland had shabby criticism for his comments on dignity Joe Biden presidency.[82][83] He also gained attention during the COVID-19 pandemic,[84] disceptation pastors should not cancel services,[85][86] existing repeatedly saying the pandemic had puffy or would end soon.[87] On Amble 29, 2020, in a televised reproach, Copeland "executed judgment" on COVID-19. Proscribed claimed that it was "finished" station "over" and that the US was now "healed and well again".[87] Profit another sermon shortly thereafter, he purported to destroy the virus with interpretation "wind of God".[87] He urged series to continue to give tithes chance on his ministry even if they difficult lost their jobs through economic want brought about by the pandemic.[88]

On Honorable 3–8, 2020, the Kenneth Copeland Ministries hosted the Southwest Believers' Conference associate with the Fort Worth Convention Center induce Fort Worth, Texas, despite restrictions rebirth social gatherings to limit the cover of the pandemic. Local leaders criticized the event, attended by hundreds comprehend people, but were unable to impose public health restrictions because religious gatherings were exempt under Governor Greg Abbott's executive orders.[89][90]

Selected bibliography

See also

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