Randy Rodgers learned from his parents at an early age that the call to serve others is the highest calling. As a high school student, Randy accumulated more than 1,500 hours of volunteer work, mostly at summer camps across the state of Texas, teaching campcraft and outdoor skills to children in RAs and GAs, Baptist organizations for children and youth that are similar to scouts. He was recognized for his work with two National Service awards.

 

Randy grew up in Fort Worth. He attended Richland High School, then undergraduate school at Oklahoma Baptist University, and graduate school at the University of North Texas. Feeling a call to continue serving and working with children, he majored in elementary education.

 

Following graduation, Randy worked for 30 years as a public-school educator as an elementary and middle school teacher, instructional technology specialist, and district instructional technology and innovation administrator. His work brought him to New Braunfels in 2012. One of his proudest achievements as an educator was founding a student service organization, Students With a Purpose, at the middle school where he worked in Birdville ISD outside of Fort Worth. The organization did a range of community service activities, including trash pickup, campus beautification, graffiti abatement, and more, and is still active 20 years later. Randy retired from education in 2021 and went to work in the mortgage industry.

 

Randy joined Rotary Club of New Braunfels last year to grow new friendships and because of Rotary’s emphasis on Service Above Self. He jumped in headfirst, doing his first service project four days after his initial Rotary meeting. He has been at as many service activities as possible since, including blood drives, trash pickup, food distribution, and many more.

 

When he is not at Rotary activities, he’s working as a mortgage loan advisor with Trinity Oaks Mortgage. He attends River City Church and is a member of BNI Guadalupe Referrals, Seguin Elks, and the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce (as of this week). If he’s not at a meeting or working a loan, he is hopefully out on the water chasing bass or trout in his kayak.

 

Randy has been married to his beautiful wife, Missie, for 28 years. She is an elementary PE teacher in Seguin who is far too good for him. His 21-year-old daughter, Reagan, graduated from Tarleton State in May and is getting married to her Aggie fiancé on the 27th of this month. Donations accepted! His son, Reilly, will be headed off to Mississippi State this weekend for his freshman year. If you run into Randy at a local eatery, he’ll probably be drinking a skinny margarita or a Zero Sugar DP.