Senior Music Major, Naveen Saxena, shares about his story of becoming a Christian and coming to Biola.
Alumna Gabby Odudu (’13) has wanted to work in medicine since she was a little girl. She was born with glaucoma and had numerous major surgeries between the ages of 18 months and five years old. “I basically grew up in hospitals, and I fell in love with the environment. I thought it was so fascinating, and I decided I wanted to be a pediatrician through that experience,” she says.
Biola alumnus Christopher Girard ('13) graduated from both Biola and USC through Biola's 3-2 engineering program. Now he is pursuing a Ph.D. at USC in biomedical engineering in hopes of working with a medical device company after graduation. Read more about how Biola uniquely prepared him for his advanced degrees and future science career.
For a graduating senior at Biola, the walk across Metzger stage to receive one’s diploma can be a blur. It’s a journey packed with meaning, yet it’s over in just a few seconds. When Dianey Burgos walked across that stage on May 26, however, it was the culmination of a much longer journey. For Burgos — the first member of her family to graduate from college — it was the end of a journey that began in East L.A., on a street bordered by gangs on one side and drugs on the other.
After his freshman season of college basketball, Andre Murillo got into a fight that collapsed his lung and scratched his heart. The blade missed his heart by one millimeter, the size of a mustard seed. That event sent Andre into a downward spiral until he finally surrendered his life to Jesus, determining to make life center on Christ instead of on himself. Andre shares his story of this journey towards faith and how Biola has played a role in shaping him into the passionate Christ-follower he is today.
CCT Pastor-in-Residence Kirk Winslow shares about how his experience with CCT has equipped him for his ministry among adults who are disenchanted with the Church.
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