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EspañolSTEVE HILL
:''For Steve Hill the football player, see here.''
'Steve Hill' (born 1954 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American Christian clergyman and evangelist. He is best known as the evangelist who preached for more than five years in what became known as the Brownsville Revival, a series of meetings at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida that began on Father's Day, 1995. Though the meetings continue today in a somewhat reduced form, the main part of the revival is considered to have ended in June of 2000 when Hill moved to the Dallas, Texas area to resume travelling evangelism. In 2003, he founded Heartland World Ministries Church in the Las Colinas section of Irving, a suburb of Dallas.
As a teenager, Hill got heavily into alcohol and illicit drugs. At the age of twenty-one, due to the effects of drug abuse, his body began to shut down one Saturday morning. For three days, he suffered extreme convulsions; on October 28, 1975, Hill's mother invited Hugh Mozingo, a Lutheran minister, to come see him. Monzingo said to him, "Steve, I can't help you, but I know someone who can. His name is Jesus." In desperation, Hill reports that he began to say the name, "Jesus", and instantly the convulsions stopped. He also says that at that moment every addiction he had to drugs and alcohol was immediately gone. Hill reports that as the day he gave his life to Christ and never looked back.
A few weeks after his conversion experience, Hill was arrested at his parents' home in Huntsville, Alabama and was facing 25 years in prison for drug trafficking. In a testimony at Garywood Assembly of God in Hueytown, Alabama in 2005, Hill told the congregation that he would have gone to prison if it were not for the mercy of the presiding judge who agreed to remand Hill to the Teen Challenge drug rehabilitation program, instead of jail time. Hill graduated from Teen Challenge and eventually became a staff worker for the program.
Hill went on to graduate from a two-year ministry training school run by Teen Challenge founder David Wilkerson. From there, he served on staff with Outreach Ministries of Alabama, then as a youth pastor at several churches in Florida. In the mid-1980s, he and his wife became missionaries, holding crusades and planting churches in Argentina, Spain, and Russia. Early in 1995, Hill went to London, where a revival was happening at Holy Trinity Brompton Anglican Church. The pastor, Sandy Miller, prayed for Hill. A few months later, Hill stopped at Brownsville Assembly on Father's Day to preach one service, before heading off to minister in Russia.
A video of the Father's Day service shows the beginning of a mighty downpouring of God's Spirit on Pensacola Florida. During the revival, Brownsville sent more ministers into the mission field, than any other place in America.
As word spread of what was happening at Brownsville, Hill cancelled all plans to go to Russia, and preached several revival services each week for the next five years.
Hill had his share of detractors, as do many well-known evangelical Christians. The ''Pensacola News Journal'' ran a series of articles in 1997 about the Brownsville Revival and its leaders. It had written glowing reports about the revival when it first began, but began a four-month investigation after receiving word that all was not as it appeared. Brownsville Assembly of God answered the ''News Journal's allegations by publishing a two-page spread entitled "The Facts of the Brownsville Revival".
★ Heartland World Ministries Church (Hill's church)
★ ChristianWord.org interview with Steve Hill
★ List of articles (mainly critical) about the Brownsville Revival by Rick Ross Institute
'Steve Hill' (born 1954 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American Christian clergyman and evangelist. He is best known as the evangelist who preached for more than five years in what became known as the Brownsville Revival, a series of meetings at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida that began on Father's Day, 1995. Though the meetings continue today in a somewhat reduced form, the main part of the revival is considered to have ended in June of 2000 when Hill moved to the Dallas, Texas area to resume travelling evangelism. In 2003, he founded Heartland World Ministries Church in the Las Colinas section of Irving, a suburb of Dallas.
| Contents |
| Drug use and conversion |
| Ministry and revival |
| Criticisms |
| External links |
Drug use and conversion
As a teenager, Hill got heavily into alcohol and illicit drugs. At the age of twenty-one, due to the effects of drug abuse, his body began to shut down one Saturday morning. For three days, he suffered extreme convulsions; on October 28, 1975, Hill's mother invited Hugh Mozingo, a Lutheran minister, to come see him. Monzingo said to him, "Steve, I can't help you, but I know someone who can. His name is Jesus." In desperation, Hill reports that he began to say the name, "Jesus", and instantly the convulsions stopped. He also says that at that moment every addiction he had to drugs and alcohol was immediately gone. Hill reports that as the day he gave his life to Christ and never looked back.
A few weeks after his conversion experience, Hill was arrested at his parents' home in Huntsville, Alabama and was facing 25 years in prison for drug trafficking. In a testimony at Garywood Assembly of God in Hueytown, Alabama in 2005, Hill told the congregation that he would have gone to prison if it were not for the mercy of the presiding judge who agreed to remand Hill to the Teen Challenge drug rehabilitation program, instead of jail time. Hill graduated from Teen Challenge and eventually became a staff worker for the program.
Ministry and revival
Hill went on to graduate from a two-year ministry training school run by Teen Challenge founder David Wilkerson. From there, he served on staff with Outreach Ministries of Alabama, then as a youth pastor at several churches in Florida. In the mid-1980s, he and his wife became missionaries, holding crusades and planting churches in Argentina, Spain, and Russia. Early in 1995, Hill went to London, where a revival was happening at Holy Trinity Brompton Anglican Church. The pastor, Sandy Miller, prayed for Hill. A few months later, Hill stopped at Brownsville Assembly on Father's Day to preach one service, before heading off to minister in Russia.
A video of the Father's Day service shows the beginning of a mighty downpouring of God's Spirit on Pensacola Florida. During the revival, Brownsville sent more ministers into the mission field, than any other place in America.
As word spread of what was happening at Brownsville, Hill cancelled all plans to go to Russia, and preached several revival services each week for the next five years.
Criticisms
Hill had his share of detractors, as do many well-known evangelical Christians. The ''Pensacola News Journal'' ran a series of articles in 1997 about the Brownsville Revival and its leaders. It had written glowing reports about the revival when it first began, but began a four-month investigation after receiving word that all was not as it appeared. Brownsville Assembly of God answered the ''News Journal's allegations by publishing a two-page spread entitled "The Facts of the Brownsville Revival".
External links
★ Heartland World Ministries Church (Hill's church)
★ ChristianWord.org interview with Steve Hill
★ List of articles (mainly critical) about the Brownsville Revival by Rick Ross Institute
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