WATERLOO — It will take at least two more weeks before a judge decides whether any of Chris Coleman's employment records at Joyce Meyer Ministries will remain private.

Lawyers for Sheri Coleman's family want the documents for a wrongful death suit they filed against Coleman in May. The ministry is seeking to keep confidential the records of its former security chief — now accused of murdering his wife, Sheri, and two sons. The lawsuit names both the ministry and Ronald Coleman, Chris Coleman's father, as respondents in discovery, meaning they can be ordered to provide information.

A judge was set to decide the issue on Monday, but Ronald Coleman's recent change of attorneys sparked a delay.

Nevertheless, both sides agreed to meet on July 20 in Waterloo. There, Jack Carey, lawyer for Sheri Coleman's family, will be allowed to view the information he requested. But Carey will need judicial approval to use the information, if the ministry's lawyers object.

The information requested involves life insurance policies, safe deposit boxes, pensions, overheard conversations, travel records and flight plans. Joyce Meyer Ministries said some of the material requested contains "sensitive information" pertaining to the ministry or information the ministry is required to keep confidential.

Meyer is one of America's best-known prosperity-gospel televangelists. Chris Coleman often traveled with her throughout the world.

"I want to know what they knew, if anything, about what was going on with Chris Coleman," Carey said after the hearing.

Chris Coleman is the only defendant in the suit, which Carey said was filed to keep him from profiting from the deaths.

Coleman resigned the ministry job for a violation of "moral conduct" after the Post-Dispatch revealed he was having an affair with Tara Lintz, a friend of his wife's in Florida. Law enforcement sources said Coleman and Lintz had trysts in Hawaii and Arizona, while Coleman was working for the ministry.

Police have said that Coleman planned to divorce his wife and marry Lintz sometime next year. However, a police officer testified last month that Meyer had a policy against employing people who divorce.

"I'm looking for a motive there," Carey said.

The ministry has declined to discuss the policy, or confirm its existence. Meyer herself is divorced.

Mike King, a lawyer from Oklahoma representing the ministry, declined to comment to reporters after the hearing.