Defending the Truth

Sat Aug 25, 4:12 AM ET



COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Rev. Ted Haggard, who left the megachurch he founded after admitting to "sexual immorality," has asked supporters for financial assistance while he and his wife pursue their studies.

The former New Life Church pastor plans to seek a master's degree in counseling at the University of Phoenix while his wife studies psychology, he said in an e-mail sent this week to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs.

The couple and two of their sons planned to move Oct. 1 to the Phoenix Dream Center, a faith-based halfway house in Phoenix, where Haggard and his wife would provide counseling, the e-mail said.

"It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years," the e-mail said. "During that time we will continue as full-time students, and then, when I graduate, we won't need outside support any longer."

Haggard left the 10,000-member New Life Church late last year and resigned as head of the National Association of Evangelicals after a former male escort accused Haggard of paying him for sex.

Mike Ware, an overseer for New Life Church, told The Gazette of Colorado Springs on Friday that it was premature of Haggard to release the statement without first consulting the overseers.

A New Life spokesman did not immediately return a phone message left late Friday by The Associated Press.
Haggard received a salary of $115,000 for the 10 months he worked in 2006 and an $85,000 anniversary bonus before the scandal broke, The Gazette reported. Haggard's severance package included a year's salary of $138,000, and he collects royalties on his book titles, the newspaper reported.

El Paso County records show Haggard's home, which has been up for sale, has a market value of $715,051.

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Yearly salary of 138,000...... assistance should not be given to h im. Karma works.

Fallen pastor seeks financial support - Yahoo! News

megachurch evangelist? all about the money?

what's new?

... yet there are poor schmucks living on 18k a year with three kids who will SACRIFICE and send him $50 a month for two years.

The weirdo has no dignity what-so-ever!!!

I was able to get through my masters degree on just a tad less than 140k a year

What IS it with these fools?

Mother Teresa's letters have just been released showing that for the last FIFTY years of her life, her 'closeness to God' act, was just that. An act. She talks in the letters about how she feels NO closeness go God and even doubts his existence, yet there are those who will ignore her written words and prefer to swallow the performance!

Karl Marx was right.

Wow! where do I send my check?

Come ON. He is going to counsel OTHERS?

Rather than supporting him directly, I believe I will send my annual pledge to HRC in his name this year. I just need to find his mailing address, so I can make sure he gets their correspondence.

I think that would be a fitting way to show my support.

WBC. LOL

Wow haven't heard much about him in a while, though I'm not completely surprised he's asking for more money from the flock. Old habits die hard I suppose.

I mean he's only making 138k/Year+royalties.(Though really, who's going to buy his books now?)

You can't support a family, college tuition for two at a state university, and a secret meth addiction with occasional covert visits to local "gentlemen of the evening" on such a pitiful income.