Keith Butler is the founding pastor of the nondenominational Word of Faith International Christian Center Church in suburban Detroit, which has a 22,000+-member congregation. He is a former Detroit City councilman, and the only Republican elected to the council since before World War II.

Butler has written several books, including a popular church best-seller, A Seed Will Meet Any Need. He has also obtained several awards for both church and community services. One of the many was "2005 Inductee- Heritage Hall of Fame" for international cultural excellence. He is also well-known for setting up satellite churches from San Francisco to Brazil to the UK, numbering well over 300.