Kevin Serviss was born in Iroquois, Ontario, and raised in Guilletville near Sudbury. He moved to Hamilton as a young adult, and joined its Metropolitan Police Force in 1976. He returned to Sudbury in 1978 and worked for that city's police force until 1999, when he became a pastor at the city's Pentecostal Glad Tidings Tabernacle. He has also hosted a radio program on CJTK-FM, Sudbury's Christian station, and was a founder of the Elgin Street Mission and the Pregnancy Care Crisis Centre. He helped to organize a rally against same-sex marriage in 2005, and indicated that his belief in "traditional values" was a catalyst for his decision to run for office.