Kenneth Max Copeland was born on December 6, 1936,[1] raised in West Texas near a United States Army Air Forces airfield.

The Monday through Friday television broadcasts feature a Copeland family member, either alone or with another minister, discussing subjects from the Bible.

[citation needed] The Victory Channel's popular FlashPoint current-events prophecy program is hosted by pastor Gene Bailey and reaches approximately 11,000 households.

FlashPoint commonly features nationally known ministry leaders such as Lance Wallnau and Hank Kunneman; other guests have included Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Marjorie Taylor Greene and former Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.

[23][24] Kenneth Copeland Ministries is located in Fort Worth, Texas, on a 33-acre (13 ha) property that was once Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake), a United States Marine Corps air base, valued in 2008 at $554,160 (equivalent to $784,218 in 2023) by Tarrant Appraisal District.

[26] As of 2024, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records indicated that no aircraft were based at the airport, and that it had a single usable runway;[27] that same year, KCM told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that it was raising money to resurface the second runway so it could be used again, and it was using the former Marine Corps hospital building as a medical clinic for church members.

In 2018, KCM acquired a Gulfstream V that was formerly owned by Tyler Perry,[30] and was restoring a 1962 Beech H-18 Twin, which the ministry plans to use for disaster relief efforts.

On August 17, 2022 the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, called and personally thanked Copeland and KCM for their support of Ukrainian and Russian Jews.

[46] Before the 2016 election, Copeland said that Christians who did not vote for Trump would be guilty of murder, referring to the pro-choice stance of Hillary Clinton.

[49] During the 2024 Southwest Believers' Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Copeland told the thousands in attendance and online that voting is a sacred trust.

[54] The Copelands' financial records and a list of KCM's board of directors are not publicly available; the information is held in confidence by the Internal Revenue Service.

[54] Responding to media questions, Copeland pointed to an accounting firm's declaration that his jet travel complied with federal tax laws.

[55][56] KCM subsequently filed suit with the Tarrant Appraisal District in January 2009 and its petition to have the aircraft's tax-exempt status restored was granted in March 2010.

[59] United States Senator Chuck Grassley has questioned some of the flights taken by these aircraft, including layovers in Maui, Fiji, and Honolulu.

[40][60][61] In 2015, Copeland, in a broadcast alongside fellow televangelist Jesse Duplantis, defended the use of private jets as a necessary part of their ministry.

[40][62][63][64] Mike Huckabee, a 2008 Republican presidential primary candidate who made six appearances on Copeland's program Believer's Voice of Victory[65] rented KCM's facilities for a fundraiser, which was criticized by the Trinity Foundation.

[66] As a result of the Huckabee appearances, KCM was one of six ministries investigated in the United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations.

[70][71] In 2013, a measles outbreak with 25 confirmed cases in Tarrant County was attributed in the press to anti-vaccination sentiments expressed by members of the Copeland Ministries.

[76][77][78] John Oliver criticized the Copelands for using tax laws to live in a $6.3 million mansion as the parsonage allowance for their home is not subject to income taxes,[79] for using church donations to buy a $20 million jet that was used for trips to a ski resort and a private game ranch,[80] and for promotion of healing through faith and skepticism of medicine.

In May 2019, he received criticism for his lavish lifestyle after Inside Edition released an interview where he defended his purchase of a private jet.

Local leaders criticized the event, attended by hundreds of people, but were unable to enforce public health restrictions because religious gatherings were exempt under Governor Greg Abbott's executive orders.