Interview: Bro Juan Campos

On Saturday the 23 of August, the Fire fell.
"Fire" was not just the word placed on a sign over the platform but it was the perfect description for this powerful youth service. There was a mighty visitation of God on that day. Dinah Salas caught up with the speaker Bro. Juan Campos to ask him about his life and ministry. The photos are by Sarah Duarte. The interview has been edited for the purpose of clarity.



Q: when did you first come to God?
CAMPOS: I've been raised in the church all my life but I came into a relationship with God at the age of seventeen.
Q: when did you first feel the need to preach to people?
CAMPOS: I felt the calling at the age of nineteen but I didn't get to preach a lecture until the age of 24.
Q: Was ever a time when God called you to do something but you were afraid to do it?
CAMPOS: Yes the first time God asked me to operate in the gifts of the spirit, He asked me to call out a sickness and I had never done that before and when he told me to do it, I was like ‘Who me? Why me? Pick someone else.’ but it was very scary the first time, even now it gets a little scary.
Q: Was there ever a time when it was too hard and you just wanted to quit?
Q: Yes there’s times in ministry that get difficult, you want to quit but God won’t let you. You know its like (when) Jeremiah said “I don't wont to preach the word any more. But you know its like fire shut up in my bones, I have to.” So the times you feel like quitting God will not allow you because there’s to much calling, there’s too much destiny, there’s to much purpose for you to quit.
Q: How do plan on continuing your preaching, do you plan on passing it on (to others) or do you plan on continuing until your last days?
CAMPOS: No I plan on being a mentor to those who want to learn, those you want to follow into the calling of God's word and I want to be a mentor to young men and woman who want to follow the calling of preaching and to impart that gift to others.
Q: How do you feel see so many young people together worshiping God?
CAMPOS: Excited, because young people--their the future, their the church of now and the future leaders and we need many young people full of the Holy Ghost to beget leaders full of the Holy Ghost. so yes I feel very excited about it.