Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour

On November 2, 2006, Gayle Haggards life changed forever when her husband, Ted Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was publicly exposed in a scandal. In the days and months ahead, everything in Gayles life was at stakeher beliefs, her marriage, and her relationship with the church community she had been a part of for more than 20 years. In Why I Stayed, Gayle walks us through the choices she made in her darkest hour and shares her renewed passion for the central message of the Biblethe liberating message of forgiveness and love. Why I Stayed reminds us of what less-than-perfect people desperately needa community of family and faith that offers healing love and a path to restoration.