our staff
The Pastoral Staff:
James de Costobadie - Senior Pastor
James (or 'Costa') is married to Teresa and is dad to Victoria and Charlie. He studied history and theology in the UK before moving to Christchurch in 2005 to work with St Saviour's Sydenham / Beckenham.
Costa leads the staff team at Campus Church and is involved with preaching and small group work.
You can contact him through the church office or by email.
Nick Duke - Pastor
Nick is the husband of Kristie and the dad to five exceptionally cute kids: Annika, Sarah, Ryan and ‘the twins’ – Thomas and Lottie.
Nick & Kristie have a great love of work with university students and moved to work at the University of Canterbury in 2006. Nick has studied Psychology and Theology. He has a background in IT, but please don’t hold that against him. For a number of years he ran a software development business and through that has an interest in the Christian understanding of work and business.
Nick’s role at Campus Church involves preaching and co-ordinating the small group Bible studies. With Agnetha he leads the Christianity Explored groups. He is also an Associate Staffworker with TSCF / Christian Union at UC.
Contact him through the church office or email him.
Agnetha Korevaar - Ministry Apprentice
Agnetha was born in a little country called Holland, and immigrated to New Zealand as a toddler. Home for her is on the farm in Balclutha with her parents and younger sister. She came to Christchurch to study mechatronics engineering (aka professional robot building) at university. Whilst at university she enjoyed living at Bishop Julius hall, loved being involved in bible study groups, spent too many hours in computer labs and learned to eat marmite. She enjoys the outdoors, particularly exploring the port hills by bike.
This year, she is the apprentice at Campus Church and is learning more about what it means to build people up in Christ through her new role. Around church she has a particular responsibility for evangelism as well as developing others’ gifts in this area. Most weeks Agnetha is involved in Bible Study leading, Christianity Explored and meeting up with girls from Sunday nights.
You can contact her through the church office or by email.
Kris Muir - Music Co-ordinator
Kris is employed roughly 6 hours a week to head up the music team for Campus Church. He works hard to best use music to help us to respond together to God in both heart and mind. Kris works with the music team to pick music and words that fit with the theme of our meetings. We’re really thankful for both his wisdom and godliness in this area.
You can contact him through the church office or by email.
For admin queries contact:
Lydia Newman - Administrator
Lydia is finishing off a Science degree at UC in Biology and Psychology. She comes from Blenheim and loves the colour purple. Recently she's been getting into cycling with Agnetha and achieved her goal of completing ‘The Grape Ride’ up in the Marlborough Sounds. Lydia works roughly 2 days a week doing a lot of the behind the scenes preparation for our Sunday night meetings and small group ministries. If you’re interested in serving at Campus Church – a chat with Lydia is a good place to start.
You can contact her through the church office or by email.