Paul Barnes is the founder and former senior minister of the evangelical church Grace Chapel in Douglas County, Colorado. He confessed to homosexual activity to the church board, and his resignation was accepted on December 7, 2006. He started the church in his basement and watched it reach a membership of 2,100 in his 28 years of leadership. Barnes's resignation came about a month after the resignation of Ted Haggard on 3 November 2006 as pastor of the New Life Church, Colorado, for alleged homosexual activity.