| Storyteller Kirk H. Neely has worked as a pastor
and pastoral counselor for more than forty years. In 2006, he teamed up with Hub City to
publish the title Comfort & Joy,
a collection of contemporary holiday stories set in the Carolinas.
It also includes illustrations by Neely's daughter, June Neely Kern. The book
has been a huge success, having already seen its second printing in December
2006.
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Neely has served as a Merrill Fellow
at The Divinity School of Harvard University, a chaplain at a state mental
hospital, and a past president of The Palmetto Council of the Boy Scouts of
America. He is the coauthor with Wayne E. Oates of Where to Go for Help (1972). In June 2007, he will publish When Grief Comes: Strength for Today, Hope
for Tomorrow.
Neely
lives with his wife, Clare, in Spartanburg,
where they have raised their five children. A Master Gardner, Neely currently
serves as pastor of Morningside
Baptist Church.
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