Jose Humphreys

In a world of Pentium processing and wireless access it’s nice to have “quick and dirty” learning at my finger tips.  I gloss and glean what others have already processed and then try to make it my own.  So every day I reap the benefits of an open source society.
My approach to learning  is recently [...]

Dialogues with Silence is a book of prayers and drawings by Thomas Merton. I read the prayer below after dealing with some crankiness and disorientation this morning and it helped to settle me.
The way You have laid open before me is an easy way, compared with the hard way of my own will [...]

The title of this post was part of a conversation I had with a group from Metro Hope Church while eating dinner at Mobays Restaurant on 125th Street, aka Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Some folks in the group mentioned deceased relatives they’ve never met. Other mentioned actors both alive and [...]

When people ask me where have I been? And how have I been doing? I respond by saying, “10035″. That’s my zip code. Ever since I’ve begun church planting this has been my reality.
I never knew how many fears and hang-ups I’ve had about unchurched/non-Christians people in NYC til I started planting. [...]

Some pics from our church launch team retreat. We had an awesome time…
1. Our space, Mount Laurel Lodge
2. Some of our people lounging
3. Saturday afternoon wagon ride.

Some pics over the summer:
1. My boy smiling, nothing like it…
2. With Mayra at a cafe (Sette Panni)
3. Some of our launch team after our 1st barbecue at Marcus Garvey Park.

Some great stuff has happened the last few days. Our church, Metro Hope, had its first annual barbecue at Marcus Garvey Park. We had friends, neighbors, and relatives come down for a great time. Mayra happened to overhear some people in the park talk about the diversity of the group, which was [...]

Having relationships only with Christians made it difficult to obey the teachings of Jesus about being on a mission for him and being salt and light to the world…I started to feel convicted that I had become a part of the Christian subculture, that strange bubble which little by little sucks you into it, and [...]

But not the Church…
I just received this book via Amazon.  At first glance some folks might think the author, Dan Kimball, is just another person who is attempting to deconstruct and criticize the church.  This aint the case though.  As I perused some of the chapters, you see that he’s a [...]

We’re into our second week of parenthood and things are great. I’m not so sure if the first week counted as much…we had lots of help from my mother-in-law.
Now it’s just Mayra and me this week with Javier. Changing diapers, lots of them. Along with bi-hourly feedings and some sleep deprivation.
It’s all worth [...]

Born May 12th at 9:17 pm, 6 lbs & 7oz.

I woke up this morning ready for my usual time of prayer. Instead, I decided to do a prayer walk with my Schitzu, Cafe. Spring time doesn’t last long in New York so we have to indulge every moment possible before Spring says “bye, bye”, and hazy humid says, “hello”.
I also walked because honestly, I [...]

“How do you love God?”
This was Isaiah’s question yesterday at the LLC cohort meeting. Isaiah is about 6 or 7 years old, I think. He happens to be the son of one our cohort members, Juan Carlos Morales. We were actually stumped with this simple yet profound question. Maybe because there [...]

I’ve been going through a blogging dry spell. I think it has to do with the amount of stuff on my plate at present. I’m not sure if it’s the actual stuff I’m doing, as much as simply feeling the weight of responsibility on the old shoulders . Managing projects for some [...]

In Denver at an Evangelical Covenant Church planter’s conference. This pic shows the view from the hotel. Since it was a phone camera, you can’t see the mountains in the background. One of our fellow church planters prayed for my family saying, “They’re pregnant with child, and pregnant with church. Lord [...]