Dear Reader,

I am happy to share my testimony with you because my life would have been a completely different story if it wasn’t for Jesus! My testimony is connected greatly to my parents and all that God did in their lives.

My life, my story:

My personal testimony is that I was raised in church in a Godly home.  I am so grateful for my upbringing, but just because you are raised in church doesn’t mean you don’t have struggles.  Everyone has pain in this life, but God forms who you are through the hard times.  Life is so much better with God than without him!  I watched God put my parent’s marriage back together.  I’ve watched my parents in the ministry trying to help people to see the change in their lives that is possible with God.  It was a real eye opener for sure.  I’ve seen people make good decisions in life and bad and what the outcome of that is when you don’t choose Christ.  I have seen an awful lot and so at a young age I decided to turn my life towards God.  I knew the reputation Pastor’s daughters could have being the biggest sinners of all! Lol!  I decided to go in the other direction and see what God would do with my life.  God has blessed me beyond what I could have imagined!  If I had discovered music as a sinner I would have been so messed up, especially by now!  The night life could have left me in a terrible state of drug and alcohol addiction and the crazy life that comes with being a musician.  Instead, my testimony is that I have enjoyed music my whole life!  Sober!  Honestly I love singing because I feel God’s presence near me when I sing.  I just love it so much!  It is the best addiction to love God, to know God.. It can’t be explained you have to experience it.   I was a single woman for a while and I thought God forgot about me!  Then God brought my destiny to pass and blessed me with the man I prayed for, the man of my dreams almost 20 years ago.. the man I keep myself pure and waited for.. he was worth every minute of the wait!  God blessed us with two beautiful sons!  I have never regretted giving my whole life to God. It was the best, most important decision I ever made!  The life I am living right now was decided in my youth all those years ago.  I am so glad I decided to live for Christ!  My husband is the assistant Pastor for my Dad and the Cape Cod church (Victory Chapel).  We have been in the ministry full time for about 12 years.  I am so grateful to my Saviour who loved and died for me.  I would encourage anyone reading this testimony to press in and have that conversion experience when your life is changed forever!  God Bless you All!

My Roots:

My parents grew up on Long Island New York after their families moved from New York City.  Many families were trying to get out of the metro areas at that time and raise families out on the island.  My parents were baby boomers who grew up in the golden era of our country.  It was a great time for families and prosperity in our country after WW2, but along with all this many big changes were on the horizon.  When my parents were growing up some big changes in society and music occurred.  My Mom’s older sister’s were into Elvis but then later on came the Beatles and that changed everything!  People all over began to pick up instruments and experiment with music.  My Dad being one of them and his journey with music began.  Along with the radical change in music came the radical rebellion of the 60’s and the youth rebelling against the “establishment” as their “square” mom and pop’s watched in horror.  My parents were high school sweethearts and got married shortly thereafter.  They were part of the “Hippie” movement that was sweeping the nation at that time.  Along with the experimenting of music also unfortunately the experimenting with drugs also began with many young people.  Free love, free sex and everything that comes with a lifestyle void of God.  My parents started singing in the nightclubs together and were actively pursuing a career in the music industry, but along with the music came the drugs and drinking.  I was born in the middle of all this to two very young inexperienced parents.  Unfortunately they began to find out that the night life and family life do not mix and some serious problems began to emerge.

Leaving New York:

My folks thought New York was the problem!  When people start having issues in their life they think a change of location will change everything.  The problem is your problems pack their bags and arrive there before you do!  So my parents moved to Tucson Arizona thinking this would solve everything!  During this time they did a lot of mountain climbing, camping, parties, music, thinking this would fill the void in their lives and make them happy, but in reality things were falling apart fast and my parents after 6 years of marriage had to separate.

Salvation Experience:

My Mom had come from a family where her Dad abused alcohol all her years growing up.  She unfortunately had many sad memories in her childhood.  My Dad came from a more “normal” family in the fact that there was not substance abuse, but his Dad was a workaholic and didn’t spend much time with him growing up.  My parents married young.. kind of like an escape thinking this would be a good scenario.  They loved each other but life started going downhill fast especially without God in it.  (Everyone has baggage, and unfortunately the baggage drags into marriage big time.)  It was during this time that my Dad’s best friend, who was also a musician, started going to a little church his co-worker went to and gave his heart to Jesus!  He invited my Dad to church before Christmas time and my Dad had a powerful conversion experience with Jesus!  He stopped cursing, drinking, smoking!  The heavy chains of sin began to fall off of his life.  He immediately started talking to my Mom about what happened to him.  She just thought it was another fad or experience he was going through, but quickly realized something tangible had really happened to him.  My Dad finally talked her into going to church with him and my Mom also got gloriously saved! My parents after 4 months of separation decided to try to reconcile.  I will never forget when my Dad moved back into our house how grateful I was.  I was just under 5 years old and I will never forget that first Christmas after we got saved how wonderful it was to know Jesus that Christmas and have my family back together.  The song “Rescued Me” is my testimony song because that is what God did for my family.  My parents were 2 weeks away from their divorce being finalized when God reached down and saved my family from breaking apart!  I am forever grateful for what God did.  It’s like being saved from going off the edge of a cliff!

Ministry:

My Dad (Pastor Paul Campo) went into the ministry 4 years later and has been a minister of the gospel ever since.  My parents just celebrated 50 years of marriage and 40 years of ministry in 2019! What a joy!

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