THE CAMPBELL FAMILY HERITAGE PHOTO ALBUM

Alana recounts the following testimony of the visitation of angels to the rented duplex in which they lived. Two of the boys were struggling in school, and she was feeling somewhat discouraged, having been to the school for a conference with their teachers. She was awakened in the night by an angel who stood at her shoulder and pointed toward the open door of her sons room. There above their beds was a ladder that reached through the roof into the heavenlies. The angels of God were ascending and descending, and the angel showed her that God's angels watched over her children and ministered to her children even when they were asleep.

Soon after making our church her church home, Alana enrolled in a class I taught on evangelism. She joined the worship team, and we ministered in church services with other music team members and on several team outreaches together as a group. As we got to know one another, we fell in love, received God's witness to our relationship through several confirming words and were married. She graduated from college and we became engaged the following year. After marriage we were ordained by an organization. We have been blessed to serve the Lord in the community in which we live, teaching, counseling, and marrying couples as well as evangelizing, teaching and ministering on outreaches involving prophetic evangelism internationally to Europe and the UK.

ALANA'S FAMILY & UPBRINGING

My wife Alana was born in Los Angeles, California. Her Dad, Galen Hunt graduated from the Chicago School of Law, an attorney whose practice spanned the states of Illinois, Alaska and Hawaii. He was born again and filled with the Holy Spirit one weekend, when accidently locked in a sub-basement of his office building while retrieving some case files. He came out Monday morning praying in tongues. His testimony was that there in the darkness, below street level, God took him to task for the life he'd lived. The family came by train fromCalifornia to Seattle, when Alana was just 2 yrs old. While growing up, she lived in south Seattle, Wallingford, Ballard, Queen Anne Hill, and Eastlake. Her earliest years, were spent living in a rural community in the suburbs of Seattle. She attended Seattle area public and private schools.

Alana considers herself blessed to have a family background that includes godly parents and grandparents, and she has also been discipled by oneness apostolic holiness people, Frank & Dorothy Kuklenski, who taughter her the importance of water baptism in Jesus name, as foundational to the believer's life. (Acts 2:38, Acts 8:16, Acts 10:46-48, Acts 19:5) Frank's family were Polish immigrants, Frank and Bridgett Kuklenski. Frank & Dorothy KuklenskiDorothy's Mott family were French-German.

Alana is a grad of the Christian Writer's Guild; and as a published author, has sold articles to magazines. When Alana was expecting with our daughter Ami in 1986 we were living in a small white Victorian house in the country with some acreage, when she sold her first article. I bought her a typewriter and stamps and there were rejection slips as she first began to submit her articles to magazines, but she persevered and didn't give up. I remember her running from our rural mailbox one day, through the field of tall yellow grass, waving the letter from the Christian publisher with her first check for an article she'd written and sold for 10 cents per word!

She attended cosmetology school as a single mom, graduating from Renon's Cosmetology School in Lake City, Washington. During this time Alana recalls the clients she would share Jesus with, and how she prayed for them to receive salvation through Jesus Christ. One of the women students she worked with was Catholic and so was her husband. Today the entire family is born again, baptized in Jesus precious name and filled with the Holy Spirit, thanks to the Lord's mercy and saving grace. Another client and friend of those years was Elinore, who has since died and gone to heaven to be with the Lord. God brought Elinore into her life, shortly after Elinore's husband died, and she was plagued with fear. She overcame those fears and what a woman of faith she became. Rhea who was her room mate while in school, was a believer with a small daughter who is a grown woman now. She was a wonderful encouragment during this period of Alana's life. We are grateful for those enduring friendships through the years.

OLIVE PLANTS & POLISHED CORNERSTONES

Just as God directed my life in such a way that I was trained in various aspects of the stone trade, He has been at work in my entire family. After graduating from bible college with her BA degree in Theology, and marriage, Alana has blossomed as Christian, a wife and a mother. She has developed her God given talents as an artist in oils, watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic and mixed media. Some of her artwork is mural size. For several years, she owned her own business, Victorian Butterfly, which sold antiques, custom bridal hats and bouquets, etc. Her sister Anna once gave her an excellent book on hat making. Her Danish great-aunt Gladys owned a millinery business in the Victorian era, and her sisters, including Alana's grandmother Amy helped out in the shop at times, and a good living was made by making hats.

My mother-in-law was "The Hat Queen," and she inherited the title from her mother, Amy Laughlin. Kings have their crowns, and in bible days, women wore veils and men wore turbans. Alana's grandmother, Amy Laughlin was born in the 1800's, when hats were part of your everyday clothing. In New Zealand, where Amy was born and grew up though, the Victorian ladies helped make the Moa bird extinct by plucking it's tail feathers for their lovely hats. Her sisters millinery business provided a healthy, ecological alternative to the fashion industry of their day. Grandma's hats have provided hours of fun for Amber and her sister to play "dress-up."

Here are photos of our daughter Amber, at Birdsong Cottage, in Chemainus, and a picture of Ami at an early tea party with her brother Gabe. We have 6 children. Three sons and 3 daughters. Here's the latest photos!

God's training of our family has been a wonderful thing. My wife and I have been so blessed to observe God's dealings with our children as with ourselves. Anthony, Robbie and Gabriel attended an excellent Christian school in their early grades. We also home schooled Gabe, Amber and Zani, with bible based education. The children have exhibited spiritual gifts from a very young age. Anthony our oldest son was prophetic from his youth, receiving dreams from God and prophetic visions which he'd share. Robby another family artist, has been an exceptionally joyful individual.

Before marriage, I received a vision of myself worshipping at the piano with a small blond girl seated on the piano bench beside me. She was named for Ezekiel 1's amber colored cloud from out of the north, which speaks of the cherubim as a type of God's spirit filled people moving in the anointing, under His holy power and administration. We received a prophecy regarding our daughter Ami some 4 mos before her birth regarding the fact that she would "sing His praise to the ends of the earth, and God using her with the gift of healing." From infancy she lifted her hands in praise to God, and by age 5 would flow in the Holy Spirit with prophecy and spiritual songs. She loved drama and performed in plays at our church. From an early age, she was musical and artistic and evangelistic.

Zani our youngest daughter's name in Hebrew means "Gift of God," and she is always filled with praise and is very prophetic, seeing visions, and dreams from the Lord, and exhibits a love for teaching and evangelism, sharing her faith with others.

As far as their vocations, our children have received training and developed their talents in various ways, with all 3 of our sons completing training through the Job Corp on the Oregon Coast in their teens. After Job Corp, Robbie obtained his associates degree at Skagit Valley Community College. Lisa attended college at the University of Washington and obtained her teaching degree, and is now a public school teacher.

RECEIVING THE FULFILLEMNT OF GOD"S PROPHETIC WORD: ZANI

We lost a baby when our daughter Ami was 2 1/2. Following this our daughter Zani was added to our family. God gave us a prophetic word concerning our child, that was very encouraging. There were various disappointments but God watched over His word to perform it. To celebrate, I wanted to honour my wife, the mother of our 6 children, in a special way. So I took "Mom" and our daughter Amber, the youngest of our children at the time, on a special "Mother's Day" trip to Bird Song Cottage, in Chemainus, B.C. It's a place mothers and daughters of all ages love, because of the marvellous Victorian cottage on the water, the owner who is a classical Celtic harpist and the collection of vintage hats and dresses for gals, who love to dress up in them. It also proved to be an economical holiday with the discount on Canadian currency at the time. Alana's mother's family live in Canada on the Atlantic side, and we traveled through the provinces, visiting her mother's birthplace of Chatham Kent, which was a station on the Underground Railroad.

When our daughter Ami was small, she loved having tea-party's with her little friends, who would come from Granite Falls, Edmonds, and even Snoqualmie Falls, for a special Teddy Bear Tea Party during the holidays.

MY 30 YEARS OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE STONE TRADE

The stone trade is where I've been involved for the past 30 years, and I've gained experience in various aspects of this trade. For 3 1/2 years, I taught apprentices for the Bricklayers Union, at South Seattle Community College. I worked for several years companies in Seattle, and Bellevue, and have been with the company where I'm currently employed now for 10 years and my job takes me into innumerable businesses and residences on a daily basis, as I'm presently installing slab marble and granite counter tops. Our son Gabriel is a tile setter for this same company where I work. Frequently my work day is spent driving around in my van to install locally, but has even taken me out of state, such as to Lawrence Livermore Labs, a nuclear site near San Francisco. Or a job may require ferry travel, and these days are usually longer than others.