NORFOLK, Va. – Brett Baddorf has been named Baptist campus minister at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Baddorf, who assumed the post Feb. 1, had been serving as interm campus minister for the past 18 months.
Baddorf will coordinate Baptist campus ministries on the 25,000-student campus, supported by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board and the Norfolk and Portsmouth Baptist associations. The BCM is housed in Sandford Hall, a building near campus named for Rob Sandford, who retired in 2009 after 39 years as campus minister at ODU.
Brett Baddorf
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An Illinois native, Baddorf is a graduate of Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., and Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta.
Until 2010 he had been high school student minister at Hope Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tenn., for four years. Earlier he was young adult/homeless minister at Northwoods Baptist Church in Chamblee, Ga. His wife, Sarah, is en emergency department resident at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk.
Susan McBride, team leader of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board’s emerging leaders team, which oversees Baptist campus ministry in the state, praised Baddorf’s gifts.
“When I called one of Brett’s references I was told that Brett was one of two students that had made a lasting impression on Samford University,” McBride said. “His zeal and commitment in sharing the grace of God is a game changer in the lives of those who share life’s journey with him. Virginia Baptists couldn’t be more enthusiastic in welcoming Brett and his wife, Sarah, to Virginia.”