Jorge de Campos was born in 1948 to Portuguese parents in Mozambique, Africa, and grew up speaking Portuguese. At age 16 he left Mozambique and immigrated to South Africa where he lived in a boy’s residence for 3 years and attended a Technical High School. That is where he learnt English and Afrikaans. He was baptized in January 1970, met his wife Kathy at the Feast of Tabernacles in the Poconos, Pennsylvania, in 1973, and they married in December 1974. Jorge and Kathy have five children and seven grandchildren.
In 1995 when the United Church of God (UCG) was established in South Africa, Jorge served as a member of the UCG South African National Council until he immigrated to the U.S. He was ordained in 2002 at the Feast of Tabernacles in Uvongo, South Africa, and served as an elder in Johannesburg. From the date of his ordination, God stirred his heart to lay the groundwork of the Portuguese language portion of God’s Work in UCG.
Jorge worked in the IT field in South Africa for 35 years. In 2005 Jorge and Kathy immigrated to the United States, attended Ambassador Bible College, and worked for three years as a financial advisor. At the end of 2008 Jorge was employed full time in the Church as a data entry clerk. When Dennis Luker was appointed President of UCG in 2010 he placed Jorge in a role dedicated to serve the Portuguese speaking brethren around the world. Since then Jorge has been committed to God’s Work in the Portuguese language.
Since 2004 he has organized eight Feast sites in Portugal, three in Brazil and has conducted various pastoral visits to Portugal, Brazil and Angola. During January 2011 he and his wife were asked to also pastor the Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, congregations. In 2016 God opened doors and provided favor for them to serve God’s work in Angola by being involved in engaging, assisting and providing spiritual meat to a large fellowship of brethren which shares the same 20 fundamental beliefs as ours in Angola, Africa.