Staff
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David Rogers
David Rogers has been serving as the BU Navigators Campus Director since 2016. David loves Boston and strongly feels God’s calling to live, work and minister among its students. He feels inspired by John 15:16, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last.” David believes that the investment in students is worth it: that God will work powerfully through the BU ministry to help people know Christ, make him known and help others do the same. David lives in Brighton with his beloved wife Rachael and adorable dog, Joy. He loves traveling and exploring new places (currently has been to 27 countries), loves good food, craft cocktails, deep conversations, exercising, yoga, the great outdoors and experiencing the goodness of God lived out in an abundant life. |
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Rachael Rogers (she/her)
Rachael Rogers completed EDGE Corps at BU and now is on staff part-time, assisting with Social Media Management and Communications. She works full-time in Education Technology as a Product Consultant at Veracross. Her life verse is Micah 6:8: “God has told you what he requires: do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.” This verse encapsulates her passion for discipleship, connection to the progressive arc of the gospel and boots-on-the-ground faith in Jesus. Rachael’s passions include social justice, local activism, instagram content creation, traveling (29 countries!), exploring, creative experiences and good food. Some of her life goals are to be the Chief of Operations of a large tech company, to live abroad, to visit every continent, and to learn how to keep a fiddle leaf fig tree alive. |
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Serene Chua
Serene Chua (Shake) is the Associate Campus Director and is from Ipoh, Malaysia. She graduated from Colby-Sawyer College in 2015 with a Multidisciplinary Studies major and minors in Philosophy and Psychology. She got involved with The Navigators in college and was discipled by Navigators Staff, Cindy Benson and her late husband Benny. It was there that she discovered her passion for student ministry and felt a strong call to be a missionary here! She also has a passion for worship and loves leading others into an encounter with Jesus and His love. Serene has a heart for the nations and loves meeting people from all over the world and seeing how the gospel truly transforms lives and crosses all kinds of boundaries. She loves singing, writing songs, food (she's a faithful Yelper), Liverpool, personality tests and games. |
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Rich Brzoska
Rich Brzoska is also an Associate Campus Director and is from Wilton, CT. He graduated from Maine Maritime Academy in 2015 with a degree in Marine Transportation Operations. After graduation he spent a year working on tugboats on the Great Lakes. It was while he was working on the boats that God called him to collegiate ministry and discipleship. He enjoys the outdoors such as hiking, camping, sports and being out on the water. When it comes to God, he is passionate about learning more about what it means to have a relationship with Him and who He is. Rich also has a heart for helping others to grow and mature in their walk with God as well. |
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Cora Welton
Cora Lu Welton is from Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in May 2020 with double majors in English and Film Studies. She was a BU student during her first semester of college in Fall 2016, where she met The Navigators and came to know Jesus. She then transferred back to Nebraska and spent the rest of her college career working with Navs and being discipled, while also investing in college women, especially within the Greek system (Go Phi Mu!). Cora has passions for banana bread, discipleship, exploring new coffee shops (but for a good iced matcha), watching pimple popping videos, writing, and starting seven books at once and never finishing them. |
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Rosie Gray
Rosie (Robbins) Gray is from Vero Beach, Florida. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020 with degrees in Religious Studies and Comparative Literature. Growing up she attended a Christian summer camp in upstate NY called Camp Tapawingo. It was there that she accepted Jesus and would experience Christ-centered fellowship with women her own age for the first time. In between her Sophomore and Junior year of college she took a gap year and went through the LIFT discipleship program. This training allowed her passion for evangelism to grow, as well as gave her opportunities to identify her unique spiritual gifts. Following her gap year of being fed she felt called by God to use her gifts to feed others by focusing on spiritual disciplines such as daily quiet time, prayer, and scripture memory. Rosie thoroughly enjoys trail runs, road trips, and cheap breakfast diners. She also just got married in June, and has since moved to Brighton with her husband Asher! |
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Maria Aitchison
Maria Aitchison is Associate Staff for the Boston University Navigators. She is originally from Newfoundland, Canada, and met and was discipled by the Navigators there as a university student studying Biology (long ago). She is (happily) married to Bill and has two adult children and a grandson! They have lived and worked in 3 countries and 5 states in the USA. She has worked as an executive and consultant in corporate settings, and along that journey, has led bible studies and mentored women one-to-one, usually in church settings. Now, Maria feels called to invest in building disciple-makers back in the Navigator Collegiate ministry – to help build another generation of laborers. “What I was taught as a college student in Navs long ago continues to make all the difference in my life every single day, even today, and I want to pass that on to another generation of women, that they too can have the tools, perspective and understanding – to make knowing and deeply following Jesus the primary purpose and driver of their lives as they navigate the details of their life on earth, and that they can experience all that God has for them, as I have”. |