Fired • Larry Jones as president of Feed the Children on Nov. 6 amid an ongoing power struggle with the charity's executives. Jones has filed a lawsuit and discouraged donations to the charity he founded in 1979.
Died • Billy Joe Daugherty, pastor of Victory Christian with a network of 900 schools in 93 countries, on November 22 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 57.
Appointed • Bruce Menser as president for Venture International, effective July 1. Leonard Rodgers, who founded Venture International in 1986, began as director for Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding on January 1. Rodgers and Menser met in 1982 when both were working for World Vision in Lebanon.
Elected • Martin Junge, as general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation. The Chilean pastor and former president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile will start the position in July 2010.
Elected • Carlos Campo, as president of Regent University starting in August 2010, following founder Pat Robertson's retirement. Campo works as the Virginia-based school's vice president of academic affairs.