Darrin Ruddy
Campus Minister

Darrin was born in Georgia, but did not live there long. He has lived in Louisiana, New Jersey, Texas, Florida, Kansas & Botswana.  He is a graduate of Kansas State University with two B.S. degrees.  He joined the Peace Corps and served in Gaborone, Botswana.  This is where he was baptized into Christ, met his beautiful bride, Cheryl, and they had their first child.  They then moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where their second child was born.  Darrin has served as a youth Deacon for over 17 years and volunteered with college students at SOMA for over 10 years.   He has served on the Executive Committee for Soma and in August of 2019 was honored to become the campus minister.   He has volunteered at Youth Villages for Spiritual Life, World Bible School teacher & has been blessed to travel on mission trips to Ghana, Liberia, Mexico, Ukraine & domestic destinations as well.  Darrin loves comic books, sci fi, all kinds of movies, games and spending time with college students.

Email: somamemphis@gmail.com

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