36 Facts About Ted Haggard

Ted Arthur Haggard is an American Methodist pastor.

Ted Haggard served as president of the National Association of Evangelicals from 2003 until November 2006.

Ted Haggard resigned his post at New Life Church and his other leadership roles shortly after the allegations became public.

Ted Haggard, a practicing veterinarian in Yorktown, Indiana, founded an international charismatic ministry, which was featured in a PBS Middletown documentary series.

Ted Haggard describes feeling the call of God on his life after his first year in college while he was in the kitchen at home.

Ted Haggard had been a telecommunications major with a minor in journalism, but after this experience he believed he had been called to be a pastor.

Ted Haggard subsequently attended Oral Roberts University, a Christian university in Tulsa, Oklahoma, graduating in 1978.

Ted Haggard became a minister in the Southern Baptist Convention for a few months.

Accordingly, Ted Haggard moved to Colorado shortly afterwards, and founded New Life Church.

In 1993, during what Ted Haggard describes as his "first prayer journey," he traveled with a group to Israel.

Many evangelical leaders initially showed support for Ted Haggard and were critical of media reports, including James Dobson, who, in a statement of support for Ted Haggard, said.

Ted Haggard said that he had bought the methamphetamine but then thrown it away, and added that he had never met his accuser.

On November 2,2006, senior church officials told Colorado Springs television station KKTV that Haggard had admitted some of the claims made by Jones.

On November 4,2006, the Overseer Board of New Life Church released a statement that Ted Haggard had been fired as senior pastor:.

On January 23,2009, less than one week before The Trials of Ted Haggard was released on HBO, officials from Haggard's former church announced that a young male church member had come forward in 2006 and that there was an.

Later reports were that the relationship did not involve physical contact, but that on one occasion Haggard masturbated in front of the young man.

Haggard acknowledged an inappropriate relationship with Haas on CNN and in other media; when asked whether he had had other, unreported gay relationships, Haggard did not give a direct answer.

Ted Haggard reached an agreement with New Life Church on a severance package that would pay him through 2007; one of the conditions was that he had to leave the Colorado Springs area.

Ted Haggard's last reported income was $138,000, not including benefits.

On February 6,2008, the new pastor at New Life Church issued a press release announcing that Haggard had requested to leave the team created to "restore" him and that as Haggard's restoration was "incomplete," he was not welcome to return to vocational ministry at New Life.

Questions surfaced about the tax-exempt group "Families With a Mission" to which Ted Haggard had urged people to contribute.

In June 2008, with the severance deal of the New Life Church at an end, Haggard was "free to live where he wanted" and returned to his Colorado Springs home.

Also in June, an email surfaced in which Haggard admitted masturbating with Jones and taking drugs, as alleged in 2006.

On March 11,2009, Ted Haggard attended a performance in New York of This Beautiful City, a play about him and the Colorado Springs evangelical community.

Ted Haggard portrayed his encounter with the male prostitute as a massage that went awry.

In October 2009, the Colorado Springs Independent published the first extensive interview with Ted Haggard to appear in the secular press since the 2006 scandal.

On November 4,2009, Haggard posted a message on his Twitter account announcing his intent to begin public prayer meetings in his Colorado Springs home.

The sale came after new allegations surfaced about Ted Haggard's alleged inappropriate relationships with boys in the church and more alleged drug use.

Ted Haggard founded a new church in his home in 2022 looking to capitalize on a trend of home-based micro churches.

Ted Haggard wrote a book, The Life-Giving Church, to expound on this difference, and said that motivations are the key difference between two types of Christians.

Ted Haggard felt that young and upcoming leaders of the church would bog down in "cumbersome systems" in their churches and decide to take their talents elsewhere, resulting in the church losing its "brightest and best future leaders".

Rather than a top-down command and control hierarchy where Haggard made all the decisions and people fell in line, he instituted a free market concept that encouraged young leaders to debate the best ideas and pursue God-inspired dreams and visions in their own departments and beyond.

In 2005, Haggard was listed by Time magazine as one of the top 25 most influential evangelicals in America.

Ted Haggard referred to the center as a "spiritual NORAD".

Ted Haggard appeared in the documentary Jesus Camp, the History Channel documentary The Antichrist, the documentary Constantine's Sword, and the HBO documentary Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi.

In 2012, Ted Haggard appeared in the reality television show Celebrity Wife Swap, where he "swapped wives" for one week with Gary Busey.