St Andrew the Great employs seven members of staff just to look after students – and we’re keen to be kept busy.
There are lots of ways we might be useful. You might book us up for a one-off coffee to chat about something that’s been troubling you. Many students meet up with us once a week to study the Bible together. Maybe you’d like to invite us round to chat to your friends about the Christian faith. Or use us to organise a Christianity Explored course for your college/sports team. Or perhaps you’d just like some mid-term TLC in a normal home!
You can find us at any of the services on Sundays or get in touch with us by email or phone. Anyway, here’s who we are...
Brian Elfick
Students’ curate
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In June Brian married Alice, so this year holds lots of changes for him. At the very least the food at 9 Victoria St has gone up several notches! He's a keen golfer, and his claim to fame is to have captained both sides in a Varsity Match (in a sport no-one has heard of). As well as looking after students, Brian runs groups for: men in the pub to ask the big questions of life; postgrads in the Arts and Humanities to help them integrate their faith; and people who want to learn how to preach. He's been in Cambridge eight years now.
Kath Rothman
Associate pastor (Students)
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Kath has been living in Cambridge for four years before which she spent 5 years teaching chemistry at a school just outside Bristol. She loves gardening and cooking and has recently started growing her own vegetables but with a total carrot crop of 8 she’s not going to be self-sufficient any time soon. Kath is always up for playing board games especially if they involve 2 letter Scrabble words and you let her win.
Leon Catallo
Student worker
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Since graduating from Downing College in 2006, Leon has put his Natural Sciences degree to good use. He spent a year working for a church in Bromley and two years at an accountancy firm in central London looking after the tax affairs of various rich and famous clients. He has cultured tastes and enjoys the finer things in life: Arsenal, Indian food, rap music, bad jokes and cards.
Catherine Lamb
Student worker
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Catherine left Jesus College three years ago to go and teach Maths and play table tennis in boarding schools, including one in Kenya--where she felt very British and made vain attempts to imitate the Kenyans’ rhythm and develop their skin colour. She likes to think she has an innate gift for memorising film scripts and is particularly keen on activities that involve any combination of DVDs, coffee and Ben & Jerry’s.
Rosie Lyus
Student worker
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Rosie decided fairly quickly that standing in a Chemistry lab making endless white powders wasn’t for her, so after graduating from Newnham she spent a year travelling around the country persuading chemists to buy lumps of aluminium, followed by two years in Sevenoaks as an Apprentice as St Nicholas church. Having been back in Cambridge for a year now she feels very much at home but is still on the look out for some good views...
Barnaby Monteiro
Student worker
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Barnaby used to think he had the coolest surname but is feeling a bit under threat since joining the staff team. He was brought up in the Chiltern Hills and was a mischievous child (he’d say adventurous), managing to break seven windows in four years. Barnaby studied engineering at Catz, went to Oxford to do some Christian work in schools before being drawn back to Cambridge. He enjoys all racket sports, Gardies, reading, hospitality and action films.
Chris Prekop
Student worker
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Chris is one of the few half Hungarian, half Northern Irish people in the world. His father frequently reminds him that he is a descendant of Atilla the Hun and Grand Prince Arpad of the Magyars. Despite his abnormal heritage, Chris has spent the last five years in Cambridge studying law, working at St Andrew the Great and losing his accent. He enjoys squash, football, bargains, board games and reading.
