Televangelist Kenneth Copeland, college boosters, Hooters on stealth fliers list

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By Michael Grabell and Sebastian Jones ProPublica
In 2005, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds faced a controversy over his use of state aircraft after the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls reported that the Republican governor often combined personal and political trips with state business.

The following year, his administration took advantage of a Federal Aviation Administration program that lets aircraft owners block flights from tracking websites. Dan Mosteller, superintendent of South Dakota's Highway Patrol, said he took the action for security reasons on March 30, 2006. That was the same day Rounds announced his re-election campaign.

ProPublica obtained a list of blocked plane information from the FAA under the Freedom of Information Act. Those on the list had been known only to the FAA and the National Business Aviation Association, a lobbying group that runs the program for the agency.

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• Televangelist Kenneth Copeland and his Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas. In 2007, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, opened a Senate Finance Committee inquiry into tax-exempt ministries, questioning whether charitable donations had paid for mansions, Rolls Royces and private jets. He questioned layovers of Eagle Mountain church aircraft in Maui, the Fiji Islands and Honolulu. The church said the Fiji trip was for preaching and the others to let pilots rest.

The ministry's website says the planes are used for humanitarian missions. It has five planes whose flights are kept private, including a $17 million Cessna Citation X. Also on the list is a 1953 North American T-28B Trojan registered to Copeland. The ministry and Copeland declined to comment.

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One verse comes to mind in Proverbs and it says "he who trusts in his riches will fall but the righteous thrive like a green leaf"Pr.11:28..

I used to envy rich people and wanted to be like them before i was saved. Now as a Christian, I have all I need in Christ and these earthly possessions do not compare to the grace and mercy and love of God in my life. all the riches of the world pale in comparison to the matchless beauty found in Jesus.

I feel sad for people who hoard wealth and miss out on true riches...

"Wealth is worthless on the day of wrath but righteousness delivers from death"Pr.11:4