Now Available

a New Book by

J. Stephen Conn

 Growing up Pentecostal

Book 

     Growing up Pentecostal is the true confession of an ultimate insider among Pentecostal preacher's kids. Only a person with J. Stephen Conn's unique background could tell such a story.  It is insightful, at times uproariously funny, and told with the sensitivity of a true believer.

     Stephen grew up as the third of twelve children, in the home of one of America’s most prominent Pentecostal ministers.  This is a tale of his childhood antics and his spiritual odyssey.  He gives a disarmingly honest account of his struggle to come to terms with his own calling as he traveled throughout America as a teenage preacher. 

     This is an extraordinary and entertaining story of the Holiness/Pentecostal movement during the mid-twentieth century.  It gives a rare insight - a human face - to what has been the fastest growing branch of the Christian religion for the past one hundred years.

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 The Charles W. Conn Family, 1956.  Stephen is third from the left.