Keelan Cook

Keelan Cook is the George Liele Director for the Center for Great Commission studies. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Missions at Judson College at Southeastern. Previously, he served as the Associate Director for the Union Baptist Association in Houston, TX. Keelan’s areas of focus cover both North American and International missions. He teaches and writes on church renewal and replanting as well as developing healthy sending culture in churches. He has a passion for mobilizing the church to the nations, and a love for missions history. He leads the Peoples Next Door project, which is an initiative to equip local churches in North America to engage in cross-cultural missions among the least-reached peoples that now live in our communities. In previous years, he spent time as a church planter in West Africa with the IMB and doing ethnographic research in Washington, DC with NAMB.

BA, Union University
MA in Christian Studies, Union University
PhD in Applied Theology, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Professional and Ministry Experience

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
     George Liele Director, Center for Great Commission Studies; 2022 – Present
     Associate Director, Center for Great Commission Studies; 2021 – 2022
     Urban Resource Coordinator; 2013 – 2017

Union Baptist Association, Houston, TX
     Associate Director; 2017 – 2021

Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, NC
     Elder; 2014 – 2017

International Mission Board
     Journeyman – West Africa; 2009 – 2011