Pastor Brock found the following story:
Oral Roberts University on Wednesday named the members of a transition team organized to help ORU's $70 million benefactors as the school transitions from having a board of regents to following the benefactors' shared governance plan. Under the plan from the Green family, which founded the Hobby Lobby and Mardel Christian and educational supply stores, ORU will be governed by a new board of trustees, to be made up of several ORU graduates, executives of Christian organizations, higher education officials and three regents.
The board of regents will turn into a nonvoting board of reference whose members will lend their names to ORU, said donor Mart Green, who will be chairman of the board of trustees.
In ORU's televised chapel service Wednesday, Fagin praised current Interim President Daugherty as a "man of ability and character," and both men said they would be working together. Daugherty has been serving as the interim president since Richard Roberts resigned Nov. 23, following a highly publicized lawsuit against Roberts, ORU and others, and following allegations that he misspent ORU and Oral Roberts Ministries money and poorly managed the university. Roberts has denied wrongdoing. Fagin said he would serve in the role "for a season, so that we can find a president who is worthy of Oral Roberts University."
Daugherty announced to students and employees that "a special day of prayer and fasting" "for wisdom, . . . for God to fulfill his intent in our lives" and more would take place on campus Thursday. Burton confirmed that regents are tentatively planning to meet Monday to receive, review and vote on the final version of the Green family proposal, revised bylaws and articles of incorporation. The date of the meeting will be determined by how soon the documents are finished.
ORU board of trustees:
* Chairman Mart Green, founder of Mardel Christian and educational supply stores and Every Tribe Entertainment
* Don H. Argue, chancellor of Northwest University outside Seattle
* Freddy Boswell, an ORU graduate, Bible translator and executive director of the Summer Institute of Linguistics International in Dallas
* Stanley M. Burgess, a professor at Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.
* Hal Donaldson, editor in chief of Today’s Pentecostal Evangel magazine in Springfield, Mo.
* The Rev. Robert Hoskins, founder of the Christian missions organization Affect Destiny Teams and president and CEO of Book of Hope International in Pompano, Fla.
* Lynette (Troyer) Lewis, a motivational speaker and ORU graduate who lives in New York City and Cary, N.C.
* Ron Luce, ORU alumnus and founder of Teen Mania Ministries in Garden Valley, Texas
* Charles W. McKinney, an administrator at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla.
* Oral Roberts, founder of ORU
* Russell P. Spittler, retired provost and professor of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.
* R. Lamar Vest, an executive of the American Bible Society in New York City (former General Overseer of the Church of God)
* William (Billy) Wilson of Cleveland, Tenn., executive director of the International Center for Spiritual Renewal, executive producer of Voice of Salvation Ministries and host of “World Impact” weekly TV show (Church of God of Prophecy)
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