MUSIC TO FILL YOUR SOUL

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Raised in a small Alberta town, Sylvia thought little of God or going to church. She was the youngest of four children of Commodore & Beulahmae Allen. Her parents were good and descent people but lived a life void of God.

 

Sylvia’s mother suggested she had to take some kind of lessons. Trying to find the easiest way out and the least amount of practise, Sylvia told her mother she wanted to take singing lessons. Her mother looked surprised but made arrangements for vocal training. Sylvia was 14 years old.

 

After struggling through a year of local singing lessons, Sylvia’s parents sent her to a well-known vocal trainer in Calgary. Showing some kind of talent, her father faithfully drove her to Calgary about one hours drive every Friday for five years. She attended the Banff School of Fine Arts for two summers.

 

As a young adult singing became of lesser importance and life moved on. She married Robin Campbell in l972 and they had three children, 2 girls and a boy. Occasionally she would sing at weddings or funerals.

 

In l979, her life dramatically changed when circumstances lead both Robin & Sylvia to accept Jesus into their lives. This style of life was not unfamiliar to Robin as his mother was a Christian but for Sylvia it was very foreign. Sylvia began to remember that at 14 years of age she had given her life to the Lord in a small Pentecostal church in that prairie town. Without a supportive family or a spiritual mentor that experience was forgotten but God had not forgotten.

 

It took many more years of joy and sorrow to realize how important Jesus was in her life. God directed them to Vancouver Island, B.C. where they settled in Errington, just west of Parksville. They began to care for the mentally handicapped and founded a wildlife recovery centre.

 

Sylvia’s father had passed away several years earlier and her mother finally lived with their family in the last years of her life. Beulahmae knew who God was but could not accept the fact that God would allow such suffering in the world. Six months before her death, Sylvia’s mother accepted Jesus into her life. Her death was sad but also a joyous occasion. It appeared the Holy Spirit had plans for Sylvia, her mother’s death being a catalyst to begin a desire to sing for the Lord.

 

Both Sylvia and Robin acquired motorcycles and began a ministry to bikers and inmates in prison.

 

At the age of 52, Sylvia pursued her desire to sing for the Lord and released her first CD entitled “Real Freedom”. Inspired by the Gaithers. Her choice of songs is both traditional and contemporary. Being encouraged that you’re never too old to sing, her emerging ministry continues to glorify the Lord just as God had planned when she was fourteen years old.

 

“Sylvia Campbell has more than exceptional talent as a singer, she ministers through her music to the heart and soul.”

David Marttunen, Former Pastor of Parksville Fellowship Baptist Church

 

Coordinator of Member Care; FEBInternational