Hinn is best known for his crusades in convention centers around the world. "The ministry is particularly sensitive to human frailty and especially attentive toward individuals who fail to live up to its high standards," the statement said. "Benny Hinn Ministries has given many people the opportunity for employment who have rebuilt broken lives through biblical principles, healing and a new way of life," the statement said. In a statement, the ministry said it had no knowledge of any drug use by Delgado or Williams, noting that the organization has 360 employees. Late Tuesday, a spokesman announced that Benny Hinn Ministries has instituted random drug testing of its employees as a result "of these tragic events."
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Leaders of the Hinn organization huddled Tuesday at his World Outreach Center north of Orlando, deciding how to respond to the disclosure of the deaths. Until this week, the circumstances of Delgado's and Williams' deaths had been known only in law-enforcement and church circles. Thirty-eight people have died of overdoses so far this year. More than 120 people have died in Central Florida since 1994 as heroin use has reached unprecedented levels. When her husband told her to tell Hinn that Williams had visited, Hinn told her that "the authorities" were investigating the death, she said. In the days immediately after Williams' death, Hinn telephoned Delgado's wife to ask whether Williams had visited her husband the night before Williams died, Mary Delgado said. Drug and homicide detectives tried to question Delgado afterward but were told he was out of state and unavailable, Miller said.