Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard calls news conference at Colo. home to announce next career move

Ex-pastor Ted Haggard to announce next career move

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard has called a news conference to announce the next step in his career.

The announcement from the evangelical pastor who fell from grace amid a sex scandal is planned Wednesday at Haggard’s Colorado Springs home. It comes 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.