TAMPA (AP) — Televangelist, life coach and author Paula White has returned to the pulpit of the Tampa megachurch she cofounded.

White will take over as senior pastor at Without Walls International Church, replacing her ex-husband, Randy White, who is resigning because of ill health. The couple started the church, initially known as the South Tampa Christian Center, in 1991.

"I'm not visiting," Paula White said at a service on Sunday. "I'm home. I'm here. I look forward to leading you into the place that God has designated and designed for us."

The couple announced they were divorcing in 2007, after the church came under financial scrutiny for the couple's failure to repay a $170,000 loan from an elderly widow, money borrowed in 1995 as a down payment on a house.