The Rev. Ben Kinchlow, a Methodist minister’s son who belatedly became a believer and preached to a global congregation as a host of “The 700 Club” with his fellow television evangelist Pat Robertson, died on July 18 in Virginia. He was 82.

His death was announced by the Christian Broadcasting Network, which still produces the program that he co-hosted from 1975 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1996. CBN, which is based in Virginia Beach, did not say specifically where he died.

By his own account, Mr. Kinchlow was a black nationalist firebrand and a philanderer before he became a born-again Christian in his mid-30s, in the early 1970s. He went on to found a youth ministry and a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Killeen, Tex., about 75 miles north of Austin.

“That is the place where I saw bona fide miracles take place in the lives of people,” he recalled in an interview.