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Pastor Ted Haggard's dream of ministering to fellow "broken people" at a Phoenix halfway house has foundered amid revelations that he urged donations to support his family be sent to a Monument group run by a twice-convicted sex offender. "He's not going to be moving into the Phoenix Dream Center," said Mike Ware, the head of a four-member panel of ministers overseeing the fallen preacher's spiritual restoration.Ware, a senior pastor at Westminster's Victory Church, spoke by phone before he met with Haggard in Phoenix this afternoon to investigate his fund-raising effort that Ware called "premature. "Ware stressed that he didn't want to prejudge the meeting; a second overseer,Pastor Tim Ralph of New Covenant Fellowship in Larkspur will attend the meeting, while two other panel members will join via teleconference."I can't really make any comment on that until after I've investigated ... and talked with the other overseers," Ware said.A minister for the church that runs the Phoenix Dream Center, said Haggard was mistaken when he stated in a fundraising e-mail that he and his family were moving into the halfway house where he and his wife would minister to residents, including the homeless, recovering addicts, prostitutes, ex-cons and other "broken people.""I identify," Haggard wrote of the center's troubled clientele, in the fundraising e-mail he sent last week to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs."That is not part of his restoration plan. I think he visited the Dream Center, saw it was a good place for people to rehab and got excited," Leo Godzich, minister at First Assembly church, told the Associated Press Monday.First Assembly Pastor Tommy Barnett founded the Dream Center and is a mentor to Haggard during his spiritual recovery.The revelation that Haggard asked supporters to give him tax-deductible donations via a nonprofit run by Paul Gerard Huberty, a registered sex offender from Monument, is just the latest twist in the bizarre saga of the fallen preacher...To read more go to:
PS:IT's really sad to read this report about Ted Haggard.I sincerely pray that he will submit to this restoration process and authority wholeheartdly and that repentance,and restoration can take place in his life and his family's life.
We have to be watchful of HOW we walk and we also need to be quick to repent and to go to the Lord in private.That way we'llwalk softly before the Lord and will avoid "inevitable crisis" to come to our lives along with shame and sorrow....
As in the days of Noah...
