Steve Hill

Reverend Steve Hill (January 17, 1954 – March 9, 2014) was an American Christian clergyman and evangelist. He is best known as the evangelist who preached in what became known as the Brownsville Revival. It was a series of meetings at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida that began on Father's Day, 1995 and continued for five years.

In 2000, Hill moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas to resume traveling evangelism. In 2003, he founded Heartland Family Church in the Las Colinas section of Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

Early life Hill was born in Ankara to a military family. As a young man he was arrested for drug trafficking; he then met a Lutheran pastor who led him to become a Christian. He was placed on the Teen Challenge rehabilitation programme, and after completing the programme, he joined the Teen Challenge staff.

Ministry and revival

Hill graduated from a two-year ministry training school run by Teen Challenge founder David Wilkerson. From there, he served on the staff with Outreach Ministries of Alabama, then as a youth pastor at several churches in Florida. In the mid-1980s, he and his wife Jeri became missionaries, holding crusades and planting churches in Argentina, Spain, and the former Soviet Union.

Death Stephen Hill died on March 9, 2014, from cancer.