Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard calls Colorado news conference for undisclosed announcement

Ex-pastor Ted Haggard plans announcement in Colo.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard has called a news conference to make an unspecified announcement.

The announcement from the evangelical pastor who fell from grace amid a sex scandal is planned Wednesday at Haggard’s Colorado Springs home, three weeks after Haggard said he had filed incorporation papers for a new church.

Haggard has said he and his wife incorporated the church for accounting purposes but predicted they would return to some type of ministry one day.

Haggard resigned as senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals in 2006 after a male prostitute alleged Haggard paid him for sex over three years. Haggard confessed to “sexual immorality.”

The Haggards held two prayer meetings at their home last year.