Kevin L. Betton, Jr. was born in Niagara Falls, NY on April 22, 1979.  He is a 1997 graduate of Fort Meade Senior High School.  In October 2002, he enlisted into the US Army and served 17 years as a Religious Affairs Specialist.  On September 17, 2019, he was commissioned as a US Army Chaplain in the rank of 1st Lieutenant.  Chaplain Betton has been deployed twice to Iraq, serving six months in 2003 and a full year in 2005.  

In 2001, he accepted his call into the ministry and began preaching the gospel, receiving his ministerial license in 2004.  On June 14, 2007, he was ordained to the office of an Elder in the Kingdom Council of Interdependent Christian Churches and Ministries (KCICCM), headquartered in San Antonio, TX under the anointed leadership of Bishop David Michael Copeland.  In 2015, his credentials were transferred under the leadership of his father, Bishop Kevin L. Betton, Sr., the Senior Pastor of the Cathedral of Praise Church Ministries & the Presiding Prelate of the Kingdom Fellowship of Interdependent Ministries in Hinesville, GA.  ​

Elder Betton has dedicated his life to the study of the Word.  After several years of study, he graduated Magna Cum Laude (3.94 G.P.A.) from Liberty University, obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Religion in May 2012.  Elder Betton continued his education with Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and graduated with distinction (3.9 G.P.A.) in May 2015, earning a Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in the Chaplaincy.  He plans to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Bible Exposition in the summer of 2023. ​

In June 2016, Elder Betton founded the Greater Works Discipleship Academy, an online educational teaching platform where Christian disciples can receive seminary-level education and training.  He has dedicated his life to continuously fulfilling the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19) and the Great Commandment (Matt. 22:37) through the intentional education, equipping, and empowering of healthy disciples, leaders, churches, and movements to the ends of the earth until Christ returns, or he dies.  Elder Betton is a dynamic man of God who is anointed to make a difference in the world today– one person at a time.