New pain staggers New Life
As pastors gather to decide how to deal with media and logistics, an unprecedented Sunday worship looms large.
By Eric Gorski Denver Post Staff Writer
11/04/2006

Colorado Springs - The meeting place is the same as always: their boss' corner office on the second floor of New Life Church, with its wall-to-wall bookcase and sweeping views of Pikes Peak and the Air Force Academy chapel spires in the distance.

Seated around a long wooden conference table handcrafted by a parishioner, members of the Rev. Ted Haggard's inner circle sit before laptops and buzzing Blackberrys on Friday, contemplating the unthinkable.

Their spiritual leader and friend had been disgraced, his future is uncertain, the church's future is uncertain ... and then there is the matter of planning an extraordinary Sunday service.

"This is going to be like an unprecedented family meeting," said Lance Coles, who knew Haggard back when the church was no more than a few lawn chairs and paint buckets in a garage. "Sunday is a day of worship, a sacred day. It's when they'll find out what they've lost." the rest