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The Peoples Next Door

a blog by Keelan Cook

Tag: Hurricane Harvey

Where is the Kingdom of God in Disasters?

September 14, 2017Categories Peoples Next DoorLeave a Comment on Where is the Kingdom of God in Disasters?

The kingdom of God is already here, but not yet here fully. By no means is this concept new. You have heard it mentioned in a sermon, a Bible study, or in a classroom somewhere. One of the mysteries of the kingdom is the fact that it is both here and now and not yet…

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Refugees in the Storm

September 7, 2017Categories Peoples Next DoorLeave a Comment on Refugees in the Storm

A few days ago, I stumbled across an article I want to share with you concerning refugees here in Houston after Hurricane Harvey. Of course, the disaster has made thousands of people in Houston into refugees, in a sense. So many people have been displaced from their homes. The last account I heard reported over…

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Thank You for Being the Church

September 4, 2017Categories Peoples Next DoorLeave a Comment on Thank You for Being the Church

Over the last week, a number of people have reached out and asked what they can do to help out here. Thank you for the calls and emails. It is truly an encouragement to watch the body of Christ across an entire nation as it speaks with one voice concerning tragedy. The common refrain of…

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Recovery Is a Marathon Not a Sprint

August 31, 2017Categories Peoples Next DoorLeave a Comment on Recovery Is a Marathon Not a Sprint

Harvey has moved on, and now we begin to pick up the pieces. It's been said that Harvey passing was only the end of the beginning, and that is right. For churches here in the Houston area, the race ahead is a marathon, not a sprint. Houston has months and months of recovery in store,…

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Keelan Cook leads the Peoples Next Door project and is an Associate Director with the Union Baptist Association in Houston, TX. He also serves as instructor of North American missiology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

In previous years, he spent time as a church planter in West Africa with the IMB and doing ethno-graphic research in Washington, DC with NAMB.

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