( m. 1978) Website Ted Arthur Haggard (; born June 27, 1956) is an American. Haggard is the founder and former pastor of in and is a founder of the. He served as President of the (NAE) from 2003 until November 2006.

Haggard made national headlines in November 2006 when male and Mike Jones alleged that Haggard, who had advocated against the legalization of same-sex marriage, had paid him for sex for three years and had also purchased and used. After initially denying the allegations, Haggard claimed to have purchased methamphetamine and thrown it away without using it. Haggard resigned his post at New Life Church and his other leadership roles shortly after the allegations became public. Later, Haggard admitted to having used drugs, participated in some sexual activity with Jones, and engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a young man who attended New Life Church. In 2010, Haggard and his wife, Gayle, founded St. James Church in Colorado Springs; as of September 2018, Haggard continues to serve as founding pastor at St.

James Church. The main entrance of New Life Church in Colorado Springs Haggard was born in. His father, J. Haggard, a practicing veterinarian in, founded an international ministry, which was featured in a documentary series. Haggard has stated that he was molested when he was seven years old. In 1972, at age 16, Haggard became a after hearing a sermon from evangelist in, Texas, and becoming acquainted with the of.

As a co-editor of his high-school newspaper in 1974, Haggard published remarkably frank articles that described services that were available to prevent and deal with increasingly prevalent pregnancies. These articles scandalized his small town and embroiled him in a free-press lawsuit. Haggard describes feeling the call of God on his life after his first year in college while he was in the kitchen at home. He had been a telecommunications major with a minor in journalism, but after this experience he believed he had been called to be a pastor. Haggard subsequently attended, a Christian university in, graduating in 1978. New Life Church [ ] According to Haggard, in November 1984, when he was an associate pastor of Bethany World Prayer Center in, his confidant and mentor Danny Ost, a missionary to, had a vision of Haggard founding his church in Colorado Springs.

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Accordingly, Haggard moved to Colorado shortly afterwards, and founded New Life Church. Initially, the 22 people who met in the basement of Haggard's house formed his church, which then grew to rented spaces in. Haggard was unconventional in his approach to ministering to people. Through random acts of kindness, Haggard would sometimes skip the morning offering and surprise needy people, like returning military personnel and single parents, with financial blessings by asking the congregation to lay money at their feet as they stood in front of the congregation. After 22 years, New Life Church operated from a campus in northern Colorado Springs and had a congregation of 14,000.

In 1993, during what Haggard describes as his 'first prayer journey,' he traveled with a group to. They stood on the, where Haggard felt the Holy Spirit speak to him.

'From that time until now,' Haggard writes in The Life-Giving Church, 'apostolic power has blessed me. My only problems are with me — not with the enemy, not with circumstances, not with people.' Under Haggard's leadership, New Life Church formed the Association of Life-Giving Churches. It has been listed as a denomination by the U.S.

As of 2006, Harper's Magazine reported that it comprised some 300 congregations. Programma dlya risovaniya shem. Sex and drug scandal [ ] In November 2006, escort and masseur Mike Jones alleged that Haggard had paid him for sex over a three-year period and had also purchased and used crystal methamphetamine. Jones said he had only recently learned of Haggard's true identity, and explained his reasons for coming forward by saying, 'It made me angry that here's someone preaching against gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex.' Jones made the allegations public in response to Haggard's political support for a on the November 7, 2006, Colorado ballot that would ban same-sex marriage in that state. Jones told, 'I had to expose the hypocrisy. He is in the position of influence of millions of followers, and he's preaching against gay marriage. But behind everybody's back [he's] doing what he's preached against.'