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By Staff Reports
Published: 9/19/2009 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 9/19/2009 4:56 AM

Ted Haggard to appear at Sanctuary Church

Ted Haggard, the disgraced former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, will speak in Tulsa this weekend.

Haggard stunned the evangelical world three years ago when he confessed to sexual immorality involving a male prostitute and to buying methamphetamine. He is the founder and former pastor of New Life Church, a mega-church in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Haggard will be at Sanctuary Church, which meets in the Channel 47 building at 8835 S. Memorial Drive, at 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.

Sanctuary pastor Ed Gungor said that rather than a traditional sermon, he will interview Haggard and his wife, Gayle, on stage during the service. Churchgoers can text questions to the Haggards during the interview.

Gungor said the interview will focus on coming out of failure, the gay issue and other topics.

"He's doing really well," Gungor said. "Part of the impulse of our friendship is that I love stories that are redeemed, and to be a part of those stories."

Haggard appeared this year on "Larry King Live," "Oprah" and other national media.

Gayle Haggard's book, "Why I Stayed," will be released soon.

Pro-life advocates to hold rally Tuesday

Tulsa area pro-life advocates will rally Tuesday as part of the national 40 Days for Life campaign, said Tracy Callicoat, coordinator of the local campaign.

The campaign focuses on 40 days of prayer, fasting, peaceful vigil at abortion facilities and educational outreach, she said.

The Tulsa rally will be 6 to 8 p.m. at the Garden of Hope across the street from abortion provider Reproductive Services, 6136 E. 32nd Place. Catholic Bishop Edward J. Slattery will open the event, and the Rev. Scott Daniels, Priests for Life, will speak.

A midway rally on Oct. 10 will feature speaker Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

Woodlake Assembly installing new pastor

The Rev. Jamie Austin will become senior pastor of Woodlake Assembly of God on Sunday.

He is the fifth senior pastor in the church's 87-year history. He replaces the Rev. Ted Heaston, who served the congregation for 14 years.

Austin said he felt called into the ministry at age 16 while an active member of the Woodlake youth group, never suspecting that he would some day be pastor of the church.

A graduate of Southwestern Assembly of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, he served as children's pastor at Owasso Assembly of God for three years, and has been at Lawton First Assembly of God since 1999. He and his wife, Jen, have two children.

Former ambassador to Vatican speaks

L. Francis Rooney III, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will speak at a banquet at Muskogee's St. Joseph Catholic Church Parish Hall on Friday.

Rooney, who represented the U.S. from 2005 to 2008, is an alumnus of Sacred Heart School in Muskogee, a graduate of Georgetown University and Georgetown University of Law, and is the chairman of Rooney Holdings, Inc.

The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $100 per person, and sponsorship tables are available.

Ambassador Rooney is being honored with the first St. Joseph Endowment Trust Distinguished Alumni Award. The banquet is the beginning of an ongoing campaign for the St. Joseph Catholic School Endowment Fund.

For more, call Barbara at 683-6100 or e-mail StJoeEndow@gmail.com.

Downtown message reaches out

Morning services at Suncrest Baptist Church will look a bit different Sunday.

The congregation will now watch the Rev. Deron Spoo's message from First Baptist Church downtown on a big screen at 11 a.m. Sundays.

Suncrest is at 6110 S. 99th East Ave.

The downtown service is also shown at the Ninth Grade Center in Sand Springs.

Women's conference set for weekend

Jennifer Rothschild, an author, speaker and songwriter who lost her vision at age 15, will speak at the Fresh Grounded Faith women's conference next weekend in Tulsa.

The conference is a project of many area churches and will be held at the Northside Christian Church, 1201 N. Elm Place, on Friday and Sept. 26.

Rothschild has appeared on the "Dr. Phil Show," a Billy Graham television special, "Good Morning America," "Life Today," "The Hour of Power," Trinity Broadcasting Network, "Living the Life" and "The 700 Club," and has been in numerous national and regional publications.

Michael O'Brien, for years the lead singer for Newsong, will sing.

For more information or tickets call 800-859-7992 or go to tulsaworld.com/FreshGroundedFaith. By Staff Reports

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	Report Comment Tim Denver, Denver (9/21/2009 12:14:38 PM) I'd call him DISGRACEFUL not disgraced. Anyway, he hails from The Springs. What more can you say....they're a differenct breed in that part of Colorado.
	Report Comment Thunder196, Tulsa (9/20/2009 9:59:52 PM) My father-in-law was a minister. He definitely was not in it for the money. When he died he was poorer then the church mice. He lived what he preached. When he gave his sermons he never excluded himself. It was we shouldn't not you shouldn't. . It was the deacons that disgraced the church. One turned out to be a pedophile, one embezzled from the church. Great bunch of guys. Well maybe great isn't exactly accurate.
	Report Comment tulsa_common_sense, tulsa (9/20/2009 4:55:45 PM) most homophobes, themselves have strong homosexual tendencies. they are over compensating for there thoughts and desires they believe to be bad and wrong. look at all those pedophiles who themselves lobbied for laws trying to limit pedophiles.
	Report Comment rockfan, broken arrow (9/20/2009 4:37:02 PM) I'm reminded that the head of Hitler's Brown Shirts Ernst Rhome was a homosexual,his favorite activity besides beating up jews was to beat the crap out of homosexuals.
	Report Comment bholly, (9/20/2009 8:26:37 AM) Ted needs to find a new line of work...He's not a holy man, just a fellower sinner. Why would I want to listen to just another sinner.
	Report Comment redbeard, Stillwater (9/20/2009 12:29:54 AM) Just like Ted Haggard,most televangelists are scam artists.Sure there are a few like Billy Graham and Joel Osteen that are honest,good people....but most of them are in the business for the money and aren't any better than the rest of us.
	Report Comment Centrist, the burbs (9/20/2009 12:09:43 AM) It is in the knowing.
	Report Comment Centrist, the burbs (9/20/2009 12:09:01 AM) I agree Bullhead that he does forgive us if we truely repent with a heavy heart for what we did and not repeat the act. To be truely forgiven is not to repeat the same sin.
	Report Comment Bullhead, Nicut (9/19/2009 11:57:51 PM) Centrist, and yet we can depend on God to forgive us, right? At least this is how I feel about it. At the same time, you are right in that even if we are forgiven for what we may have done, it doesn't give us the right to think we can return in the same capacity we were when we fell from Grace.
	Report Comment Centrist, the burbs (9/19/2009 11:03:50 PM) All people sin. I don't know that any of us know if God considers one sin greater than the other but judging others or speck in their eye without acknowleging the log in our own is a sin. I do think that someone that behaves as Ted did loses credibility to pastor a church. Having said that I admit that I shouldn't lead a church as well because of my sins.
	Report Comment Bullhead, Nicut (9/19/2009 10:59:35 PM) I guess forgiveness is out of the question on this one, eh?
	Report Comment 2ndjoyce, BA (9/19/2009 10:09:36 PM) hahahahahahaha!
	Report Comment rockfan, broken arrow (9/19/2009 2:46:46 PM) If history is any guide to go by ,haggered will have his own christian tv show. Look at Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert they're still in the business with somewhat smaller audiences. Apparently the only sin christians won't forgive or forget would maybe be a Carlton Pearson going off the theological deep end.
	Report Comment WeThePeople, (9/19/2009 10:38:22 AM) Kinda interesting that Ted Haggard is showing up at a church pasored by Ed Gungor who was thrown-out of his mega-church for adultry. They're both a bunch of phoney hypocritical creeps! If channel 47 goes off the air on Sunday morning it'll probably be because of an unexpected lightning strike!

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