Haggard and her husband founded New Life Church in Colorado Springs, in 1985, with meetings in the basement of their home.
[1] In November 2006, Haggard's husband revealed to her that he had engaged in extramarital homosexual activity and drug use.
When Haggard subsequently lost her position as the Director of Women's Ministries due to her husband’s removal from his position as pastor, she told the congregation via a letter written to them, “What I want you to know is that I love my husband, Ted Haggard, with all my heart.
We started this journey together and with the grace of God, we will finish together.”[2] She went on to say that she wanted the women of New Life Church to “watch her” as she hoped to prove herself faithful.
[3] The book also teaches the fundamental Christian message of forgiveness and restoration while chronicling the events that took place during the three years after the scandal broke.