The four-man oversight board strongly urged Haggard to go into secular work instead of Christian ministry if Haggard and his wife follow through on plans to earn master’s degrees in psychology.

The former male prostitute whose accusations against New Life Church founder Ted Haggard led to Haggard’s dismissal as pastor visited the megachurch Sunday.

Ted Haggard lost more than his pulpit and reputation when he admitted in November to sexual immorality and buying drugs. He also cast into doubt his status as a Christian author who counseled readers to marital faithfulness and sternly warned that sexual activities like pornography and prostitutes are poisoning you.

The process includes counseling, in groups and alone, and prayer. Each restoration is unique, with a program tailored for the needs of the participant.

Speakers urged the church’s members to find a way forward without recrimination or bitterness. A letter from Haggard was read from the 8,000-seat auditorium’s center stage.

Less than 24 hours after being fired from the mega-church he founded, evangelical Pastor Ted Haggard confessed to a lifelong sexual problem.

Ted Haggard, the beleaguered pastor of a Colorado Springs evangelical church who had denied having sex with a male prostitute, has been fired by an oversight board, which found him guilty of sexually immoral conduct.

After denying that he had ever met a gay escort who claimed to have had a three-year sexual relationship with him, the Rev. Ted Haggard admitted yesterday that he had summoned the escort to give him a massage in a Denver hotel room and bought methamphetamine from him.

Senior church officials told KKTV 11News Thursday evening, Pastor Ted Haggard has admitted to some of the claims made by a former male escort.

The Rev. Ted Haggard, senior pastor at New Life Church, resigned Thursday as president of the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals, following allegations he paid a Denver man for sex over the last three years.

Pastor changing the way evangelicals think about public life