Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard calls news conference to announce next step

Ted Haggard plans announcement about career

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Ted Haggard, the former megachurch pastor who fell from grace amid a sex scandal, has called a news conference to announce the next step in his career.

The announcement is planned Wednesday at Haggard’s Colorado Springs home, three weeks after he said he 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 after a male prostitute alleged Haggard paid him for sex over three years.

He’s being represented by a Los Angeles-based publicist who says she has promoted reality shows including “The Girls Next Door” and “Kendra.”