Ruben Schwieger is an ordained minister with the Church of God. He graduated from Anderson College, the University of Arizona, and Purdue University (Bachelors, Masters, and PhD in Mathematics). All his pre-college schooling was in Kenya where his parents were missionaries and where he and his wife, Jenny, (also a missionaries’ kid in Panama) returned as missionaries for the Church of God.

After returning to the U.S., he taught first at Anderson College then at a succession of Christian colleges and state universities, including serving as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Ghana, concluding as a tenured professor at the University of Southern Indiana. While teaching he also served as pastor of several congregations usually as co-pastor with Jenny. Summers provided an opportunity for him to be creator and leader of numerous mission’s ministry teams, many to Africa, but to the Caribbean and South and Central America too.

After retirement, still involved in missions, he served as a consultant for the Missionary Board and was the creator of 50 teams of workers in disaster relief who built over 100 homes for Haitians after the earthquake of 2010. He and Jenny were married for 62 and a half years before her death in 2025. She left behind, two children, two grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.