

Through the turbulence and maintained his heading and altitude without any

But he’s such an excellent pilot that he hand-flew that plane The knob to change the frequency on the radio. Situation this way: “The turbulence was so rough that I had trouble grabbing Recently, when flying the Citation X with his co-pilot, Duaneįlanagain, they encountered some intense turbulence. He has anĮxcellent record, and he is a very talented pilot. Him for having more than 50 years in aviation without an accident. Kenneth became a pilot in 1959, and in 2012 the FAA awarded He even remembers flying Rockefeller children to their Services for several large companies and their families, including the He workedįor a commercial company in Little Rock, Ark., where they provided pilot In ministry, he intended to pursue commercial piloting as a career. Most people know that Kenneth is a pilot, but before he was Of powerful gospel albums that testify to the goodness of God.ģ. Since then, Kenneth has recorded a number Instead of finding worldly fame, the Lord Two other young men had their first records “That kind of success would have destroyed Stood guard duty or some other task assigned him by the government.Īt the time, he was frustrated and didn’t Perform on national TV (The Steve Allen Show) and movie soundtracks, etc., he That record was on the move, instead of being available to accept offers to

Success, when Kenneth should have been releasing his next recording, he wasĪrmy, the song had dropped off the charts, and his name had been forgotten. And I was hoofing it as far from Him as I could get! I was so far from being where God wanted me to be and preaching what He wanted me to preach, that I might as well have been in the belly of a whale just like Jonah.”Ĭlimb on the charts each day until it turned gold. What I didn’t realize back then was that I couldn’t be a real success at anything in life as long as I was running from God. Then, in 1957, when I was 20 years old, I recorded a song called ‘Pledge of Love.’ I knew that song was going to make it and make it big. “I started out singing in nightclubs as a teenager. His first record reached the Top 10 and sold 300,000 copies-a gold record. He was being groomed by the same circle of people to be the next singing sensation and world-renowned superstar. But one thing most people don’t know is that he was almost the next Elvis Presley. If you’ve ever heard Kenneth Copeland minister in song or serenade his wife on live television, you know he has serious singing chops.
