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* John Van Diest, the founder of Multnomah Press, has formed a new publishing company in Gresham, Oregon, Vision House Publishing. Van Diest was publisher of Multnomah Press from 1974 until its sale to Questar in 1992.

* Jacob A. O. Preus, who guided the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) through its most turbulent years, died August 13 after suffering a heart attack. He was 74. As LCMS president from 1969 to 1981, Preus tried to halt theological liberalism and defended the authority of the Bible. The battle resulted in 100,000 people leaving the denomination.

* A. LeVon Balzer became president of John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, in August. He had been president of Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, for six years. George Francis Ford resigned as president of the school in April after 10 months. He had been the first non-Brown family member to head the 75-year-old school.

* Hiram Sanders, 58, became president of Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs, September 1. He had been superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene Missouri District since 1984 and succeeds Jerry Lambert, who became the denomination's education commissioner.

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September 12 1994, Vol. 38, No. 10