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The Hopeful Neighborhood Field Guide: Six Sessions on Pursuing the Common Good Right Where You Live, By Tony Cook and Don Everts

The Hopeful Neighborhood Field Guide

Six Sessions on Pursuing the Common Good Right Where You Live

Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources

by Anthony Allan Cook and Don Everts

The Hopeful Neighborhood Field Guide
Paperback
$14.99
  • Length: 80 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.5 in
  • Number of Studies: 6
  • Published: March 02, 2021
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830847327
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We all live somewhere. And we all want our neighborhoods to flourish. Many of us hope (and even pray) for our neighborhoods' well-being. But how do we actually pursue that?This field guide answers this question by walking you through a simple, powerful process for blessing your own neighborhood. Tony Cook and Don Everts offer six sessions for discovering the gifts of your community, imagining the possibilities, and pursuing the common good. Exercises and assessments provide practical tools for bringing your hopes into concrete reality. Join with others so that together you can increase the well-being of your local neighborhood.

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CONTENTS

Introduction: You and Your Neighborhood
Session One: Focus on Possibilities
Session Two: Share Individual Gifts
Session Three: Value Neighborhood Uniqueness
Session Four: Long for Neighborhood Well-Being
Session Five: Imagine Possibilities Collaboratively
Session Six: Create and Work a Plan
Conclusion: Giving and Receiving
Acknowledgments
Notes

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ABOUT Tony Cook

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Tony Cook is the executive director of The Hopeful Neighborhood Project and has served as vice president of global ministries at Lutheran Hour Ministries. He has also served as associate professor of practical theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and has a PhD in curriculum and instruction from St. Louis University and an MDiv from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

ABOUT Don Everts

Don Everts

Don Everts is the senior pastor at First and Calvary Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Missouri, and has been serving in ministry for over thirty years—on campus with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and in the local church with the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians. He is also an award-winning author who has published over twenty books including Jesus with Dirty Feet, I Once Was Lost, and The Spiritually Vibrant Home. An avid reader, frequenter of rocking chairs, and amateur chicken farmer, Don and his wife, Wendy, have three adult children and live in a home solidly built in 1887.

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