Before becoming a preacher, he was the owner and president of the Long Oil Company, he worked for the CIA[1][3] during the Korean War and was also CEO of Kingsport Times-News,[1][3][5] He was an atheist in his youth.
[7] He also spoke on the Radio Bible Study Hour, succeeding Donald Grey Barnhouse of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
[8] When Graham’s mother was honored at the White House by President Nixon in 1971, she asked that Haden preach there and this was permitted.
[9] Haden served the church in Chattanooga for 31 years before resigning in 1998 to pursue Changed Lives.org, an internet streaming video and audio on-demand ministry.
This supported one of the aims of Changed Lives, which is to reach the many Americans who claim to be Christians, but do not belong to a physical church.