By Adrienne S. Gaines  US (Charisma):

A Dallas-area pastor is calling prodigals home through a website that has received tens of thousands of hits since it launched last year.
Steve Hill, pastor of Heartland Church in Irving, Texas, said thousands had returned to faith in Christ since he started ProdigalsOnly.com in April 2009.  “They write us from all over the world,” he said. “Many of them feel like they drifted too far. This website helps them come home.”

A former drug addict turned evangelist, Hill spent five years preaching nightly services during the Brownsville Revival, which drew four million visitors from around the world to Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida.  Hill left Brownsville in 2000 and later founded Heartland Church. But since being diagnosed with a “vicious” melanoma in 2001 that has spread into his bloodstream, forming two tumors near his lungs, Hill has increasingly been using the Internet to evangelise. In addition to ProdigalsOnly.com, he has developed “cybertracts” that he posts on YouTube. “I’ve taken the Gospel and I’ve put it where the world is,” Hill said. “The world is right in front of that screen watching.”

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