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Ted Haggard Told to 'Get a Job'

According to the Rocky Mountain News, disgraced former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, now living in Phoenix, met this week in with the the four-man committee of overseers charged with his spiritual restoration. At issue: last week, Haggard emailed a Colorado Springs reporter asking that supporters send contributions to a nonprofit mission run by a twice-convicted sex offender. He was looking for financial support while he and his wife pursue two-year counseling degrees, and mentioned plans to move into a Phoenix halfway house to minister to the "broken people" there. "Mr. Haggard's solicitation for personal support was inappropriate," his church supervisors said. "Mr. Haggard will not be moving in or working with the Phoenix Dream Center. He will not be doing any ministry. He will be seeking secular employment to support himself." The 50-year-old Haggard, the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was fired last year as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs after he admitted to unspecified "sexual immorality" involving a male prostitute.