Baptized with Fire: An Adventure of Stone Skryout

By Rebecca Otten

Did you hear what he just said? Can kids have the Holy Spirit too?

Stone is headed to Camp Champion for five days of fun. It's going to be a blast hanging out with his best buds and competing to see which church will be the Spring Break Tournament champion. But even better, he's going to learn more about the Holy Spirit and have an experie

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Dec 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685566265

Rebecca Otten

Rebecca Evans Otten was born in New Jersey and raised in Lakeland, Florida. She went to Victory College in Tulsa, Oklahoma where she studied Bible, missions, and worship.In 2001, she met Robin Otten while the two of them were working as counselors at a Christian summer camp. Married in 2002, they began working together and volunteering in ministry, in addition to working overseas as missionaries in India for several years.They now reside in Lakeland, Florida with their 4 children; Reece, Jason, Seth, and Junia.

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Contents

I Couldn’t Hardly Wait!

Monday’s Here!

It’s Fun to Be a Christian

I Got It!

Champions

A Great End

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Iwant to thank my husband and children. Many times, I said, I’m going to work on my book, and they had to fend for themselves. They have always had a good attitude and have been supportive, even when I said here, read this, and tell me if you like it.

Love and thanks to my parents, brothers, and friends who I have bounced ideas off and asked to read certain sections and get feedback.

And always, I would never be able to accomplish anything worth doing if it were not for God.

I Couldn’t Hardly Wait!

Iwoke up to the sound of rain outside my window, again. It seemed like it was going to rain forever this Spring. It had been three days since I had been able to play outside.

At least my best friend, Burner, got to come over to play inside at my house. Other than going to the playground at a fast-food restaurant the other day, I had been sitting in class at school or sitting inside at home.

Of course, there was gym on Tuesday, but that didn’t really count either because I sat most of the time and watched other kids try to climb the rope.

Eventually, the coach said Stone, it’s your turn.

I did fine, but not as good as some of the others.

What I was really looking forward to was the trip with Kids Life to the retreat the next week for Spring Break. We were going to stay in cabins, and the weather was supposed to be perfect. Since it had been raining almost all day every day for the last few weeks, Pastor Craig told us we should all pray and believe together for no rain that week.

I have gone to church my whole life. My parents took me for the first time as a baby once my mom was comfortable taking me out of the house. I heard about God and Jesus, and I have often thought that it is right to be a Christian.

Then one day in Sunday school, it hit me. I had always thought it was good to be a Christian, but I had never realized it was something I needed to do myself. My teacher asked who wanted to pray and ask Jesus to be their Lord and Savior, and I just knew it was time