Jose Humphreys

I attended the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast & Conference this week sponsored by Esperanza. As a regional rep for New York, I was able to coordinate and lead delegations of pastors from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to meet with elected officials to discuss a bill on comprehensive immigration reform, and a path for [...]

Originally saw this video on Jeremy’s blog. Brian McLaren talks about God’s kingdom and the use or abuse of power in light of justice. It’s a great clip.

The title of this video is, Stuck in Limbo, directed by Joseph Martinez. Angie is a launch team member of our church plant. She’s also an advocate for the rights of the undocumented. Hear the story about those who were born here, educated here, but cannot pursue higher education.
Perhaps your church can [...]

My friend Gabriel, pastor down at the Lambs Church wrote a great article for the Sojo Blog on Latino Progressive Evangelicals.
It’s an excellent, impactful read. Here’s a taste.
Often when speaking to a new group of people, many assumptions are made depending on how I am introduced. If they lead with “Pentecostal” or “Nazarene” I’m pegged [...]

I recently read some core values that belonged to a certain missional church in the northwest. The church was a restart and looking to reach a new community with changing demographics. The core value that caught my eye at the time was, “A willingness to inconvenience ourselves for the gospel.”
It’s interesting, in a [...]

Caught the Al Gore documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. It’s worth checking out. He discusses how global warming has become a moral issue. This site also provides some things people can do to be more environmentally conscious.

Some great discussion on what it means for the church to be missional at Friend of Missional. [...]

As I prayed this morning I felt the weight of teaching.
There are two thing in particular we do as teachers. One of them is guide people through new learning in a way that makes sense. The other is provide an avenue for discovery. It’s the latter part that I believe becomes a weighty [...]

“To exist humanly, is to name the world.”
I’m teaching a class on social policy & economic justice this fall at Nyack College and its been a great time for me. Hopefully I can deposit something remotely useful into these future Christian social workers, organizers, policy makers or ministers. The questions we’re presently dealing with are: [...]