A large northern Colorado Springs event center, which hosts concerts by bands such as Friday night’s Dead Floyd, will be the location of Brady Boyd’s new public religious service that will debut Wednesday night.

The Phil Long Music Hall at Bourbon Brothers will host attendees starting at 6:30 p.m. on March 18 for prayer, studying Scriptures, “sharing the Lord’s table,” also known as communion, and fellowship, according to social media posts Boyd has made in recent weeks.

It is unclear what the name of the new church is or whether it will be connected to Boyd’s Christian parachurch organization, Psalm 68 Ministries.

Boyd did not respond to a request for comment.

Some people say the event seems more like a weekly Bible study – along the lines of Boyd testing the holy waters – rather than the startup of a full-fledged church where Boyd returns to the pulpit as a preacher.

The news comes nine months after Boyd was asked to leave his job of 18 years as senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs amid accusations by the church’s board of elders that he had prior knowledge of sexual abuse involving a 12-year-old girl and Robert Morris, a Texas pastor Boyd had worked for before taking the job at New Life. Shortly after arriving in Colorado Springs, Boyd appointed Morris an overseer of New Life Church and continued to have a working relationship with him.

But Boyd recently has posted on social media that he and his wife, Pam, who had been New life’s women’s ministry pastor and left when Boyd did, “believe we are still called to pastor in Colorado Springs,” indicating he is at the threshold of founding a new church.

“We received this mandate 18 years ago, and the calling has only grown stronger,” he wrote. “After careful prayer and discussions with trusted counselors and friends, we feel led to start a Wednesday night church service in Colorado Springs that will focus on some simple, but powerful ideas.”

Boyd denied claims that he was aware of the suspected abuse in the 1980s by Morris, founder of Gateway Church in Texas, and a minor child until the victim made her allegations public as an adult in 2024.

New Life’s board of elders referenced emails that they said showed why they believed Boyd was lying and called for him to step down.

In a criminal case, Morris pleaded guilty to child sex abuse in October 2025, was ordered to pay the sexual assault survivor, Cindy Clemishire, $270,000 in restitution, given a 10-year sentence with all but six months suspended, and is required to register as a sex offender. A $1 million civil defamation lawsuit continues.

Boyd resigned from leading New Life Church on June 11, 2025, and announced a month later he had started a Christian organization, Psalm 68 Ministries, out of his Colorado Springs home.

The organization, defined on its website as “a ministry for widows, orphans, wounded pastors, and families of our fallen heroes,” works on clean water, education and medical projects benefitting communities in Guatemala, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, as well as the Pikes Peak region.

Boyd also does a podcast in which he preaches, has been coaching pastors and business leaders and offers spiritual retreats.

Some members of New Life church, an independent, nondenominational and charismatic megachurch headquartered in northern Colorado Springs, have supported Boyd’s statements about his lack of knowledge in the sexual misconduct scandal and protested his forced resignation last summer at the main campus.

Today, Boyd’s Facebook page has more than 8,100 followers, some of whom say they are excited and can’t wait to attend his new endeavor.

Not all are happy about the development though.

The Rev. Kelly Williams, pastor of Vanguard Church in Colorado Springs, a Southern Baptist Convention affiliate, said he agreed with the New Life elders’ decision last year to ask Boyd to vacate his role as senior pastor.

“God may be in what Pastor Brady Boyd is doing but not how he is going about it, and he knows that,” Williams said. “He has yet to show any sense of remorse or repentance for the role he played in Gateway, New Life and the abuse of a minor.”

Williams believes Boyd should reconcile with the elder board at New Life and obtain their blessing before “launching any form of ministry in the shadow of the church he led. Until he does so, it appears to me he is repeating a cycle he once condemned as unbiblical.”

Formerly Boot Barn Hall, the Phil Long Music Hall is located less than 4 miles from New Life Church’s main building. The music hall was rebranded in 2024 and regularly hosts local events, corporate meetings, private parties and a varied concert lineup that incoming months ranges from a musical tribute to Led Zepplin to a Sploinky Rave party and a neon dance show.

Ted Haggard, the founder and former senior pastor of New Life Church whom Boyd replaced in 2007, also started a new church, Saint James Church, in Colorado Springs in 2010, after he was forced out in 2006 in a wake of accusations of sexual misconduct and drug usage.

“I believe what Pastor Brady Boyd is doing is not unsimilar to what Pastor Ted Haggard did, and just as Ted’s post-New Life actions cost him, sadly, so will there be a personal cost for Brady,” said Williams.

Among the books he’s authored is “The Mystery of 23: God Speaks,” in which Williams relates his interactions with Haggard and prophetic visions he had that religious leaders did not heed but would later prove to be true.