Wikipedia on New Life Church
New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. is a megachurch, founded by Ted Haggard and currently led by Senior Pastor Brady Boyd. Brady Boyd previously served on the Senior Pastoral Team at Gateway Church in Southlake, TX.
Haggard founded the church in his home in 1984, and the church has since grown through a succession of larger spaces. The ministry moved through a series of strip malls, for example, before establishing its current home. The old sanctuary at the current location seated 1,500; the current main sanctuary seats 7,500. The congregation is estimated at 14,000 as of 2006.
The current facility is adorned with work by artists such as Thomas Blackshear. Upstairs from the sanctuary is "Woo-Gah Land," a Bible-themed play land for the children's ministry. Internally, the church uses a small group ministry model.
New Life Church, along with Focus on the Family, established Colorado Springs as a conservative evangelical center in the 1990s. In 2005, Jeff Sharlet claimed that while New Life is "by no means the largest megachurch…[it] holds more sway over the political direction of evangelicalism" than any other church in America.
The New Life campus is also home to The World Prayer Center, which is responsible for (real-time) prayer for many people around the world. Open 24-hours a day for prayer and worship, The World Prayer Center is home to several ministry internships including theFurnace, YWAM Strategic Intiatives, TwentyFourSeven Worldwide and Desperation Internship.
On August 27, 2007, the church's Pastoral Selection Committee announced that Pastor Brady Boyd - formerly of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas - would replace Ted Haggard as the Senior Pastor of New Life Church. Pastor Boyd spoke at New Life Church during regular services for three Sundays prior to the decision. A two-third majority vote was required from the congregation to approve Boyd as pastor; he received more than ninety-five percent approval in the congregational vote.
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