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"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only true believer and unofficial son, an airport? 

Kenneth Copeland so loved airplanes so much, he bought an airport with the funds you thought were for the needy, the poor, the dying children. So we looked into the real story. Greed. Searching for the craft used to deliver these self- appointed and anointed disciples around the globe was easy. The FEDS keep the records of who owns what.  

Or simply searching on Google and Wikipedia shows how many of these LORDS workers like to bop around in Citations, Challengers and just about anything smaller than John Travolta's 707, John is a Scientologist, another strange new-wave invented mind changing quasi religion, crew but his money came from acting.  Hmmm, maybe I'm wrong, maybe these preachers are actors and all they need is your wallet.
  
 

FROM THE FAA RECORDS DIVISION
 

Airport Ownership and Management from official FAA records
Ownership: Privately-owned
 

Owner:  KEN COPELAND MINISTRIES
                14355 MORRIS DIDO RD.
                NEWARK, TX 76071
Phone 817-252-3501
Manager:  WAYNE COLEMAN

Airport Operational Statistics  (
 
for 12-month period ending 06 March 2009)
 


Aircraft based on the field:

9

Single engine airplanes 

4

Multi engine airplanes 

3

Pure Jet airplanes

2

Aircraft operations

52/ a week (avg)

Local General Aviation

67%

Transient General Aviation

37%

CATTLE AND HORSES**

LOTS

FOOD FOR FRAUD
 

Copeland is different, he asked his benefactors to give him money to start a relief foundation with aircraft to deliver aid to places like Haiti. Then Haiti happened and I guess a
ccording to the Rev. Rich Vermilion, the raised millions of dollars donated bought airplanes but 
 
was never spent on the project which was sold as relief. And has never been accounted for. 
 


There has never been an open accounting or explanation given regarding the Angel Flight 44-earmarked funds given to date according to the investigators. 
He does acknowledge that KCM formed a Disaster Relief Fund, but adds: 
 
A generic relief fund is a far cry from a fully operational disaster-relief aviation ministry … my experience with Kenneth Copeland, his family, and his ministry, has given me the regrettable opinion that they may be nothing more than religious frauds.

He had so many planes he needed an airport, again the flock who are getting "flocked" responded. 
One had to get his own airport. The Kenneth Copeland Airport is a private airport established by Kenneth Copeland Ministries to serve the area of Fort Worth, Texas. 

The Humor Side: It was also rumored that this former troubadour's (somewhat of a singer, not in any venue I buy in) airfield and airplanes were the inspiration for the James Bond Movie, "GOLDFINGER" where they use five Piper Cherokees to put the Fort Knox Gold Repository to sleep with gas.
The similarity, the fleet owed by Copeland puts the flock to sleep, his music does that and he cleans their wallets out just like Goldfinger did. 
  
 

It was later proven not to be true, as Copeland's money investment in aircraft exceeded more than the movie originally grossed.  It was also ascertained the Copeland's story line was as bad as the real Goldfinger script. In a later report, a gynecologist on Park Avenue had threatened to sue because of his name being used.  Milton GOLDFINGER thought the movie was an infringement on his name, and his practice so he decided to have a name change, selecting Milton Middlefinger.  He readily admits Copeland has the Golden Goldfinger.
 


FROM WIKIPEDIA:
2007 Copeland was accused of using his $20 million Cessna Citation X jet for personal vacations and friends. The Copelands' financial records are not publicly available, and a list of the Board of Directors is not accessible as these details are protected and known confidentially by the Internal Revenue Service. 
Responding to media questions, Copeland pointed to an accounting firm's declaration that all jet travel complies with federal tax laws.  However, 
 
In December 2008, Copeland's 1998 Cessna B550, his second jet, valued at $3.6 million, was denied tax exemption after Copeland refused to submit to disclosure laws for the state of Texas.
"SIN-ATE" INVESTIGATION
 
On November 6, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, announced an investigation of Copeland's ministry by the United States Senate Committee on Finance. 

The Associated Press reported that Grassley said the investigation was a response to complaints from the public and news media. Grassley stated, "The allegations involve governing boards that aren't independent and allow generous salaries and housing allowances and amenities such as private jets and Rolls Royces." 
  And large cattle ranches with lots of livestock.
 
IRS guidelines require that pastors' compensation be "reasonable" and net earnings may not benefit any private individual. Grassley asked for the ministry to divulge financial information to the committee to determine if Copeland made any personal profit from financial donations, and requested that Copeland's ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007. 
 
The Copelands responded with a "Financial report from Kenneth Copeland Ministries." KCM created a website to help explain their side of the inquiry"

LAS VEGAS ODDS AND PROSPERITY
Copeland it is thought brought the prosperity thing to fruition. Oral Roberts started the movement. Small wonder. The Prosperity Gospel, in a nutshell, works as follows: God wants you to be rich, but He can not bless you unless you first send money (also known as a “seed-faith offering”) to whichever televangelist or teacher tells you about this scheme.
You reap what you sow, the preachers, many of them ‘televangelists’, former singers, cooks, cab drivers, claim, a return with varying denominations most centering around a ‘hundred-fold”  Now thats heavy, thats better than Vegas odds.  
Many of their followers don’t realize that if this scam worked as advertised, televangelists would be sending them money.
Meanwhile these same followers tend to defend the oppulent lifestyles of their heroes. To them it shows what they themselves may one day reach, if only they get good at Positive Confession and have enough faith that God will bless their offerings with a windfall. Yup, it only took a quarter to make the tooth fairy real.
The New York Times article quoted Jonathan L. Walton, a professor of religion at the University of California, Riversie, who has written about the movement. 

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