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 [...]

If you’re in NYC and want to catch a Broadway play, well, In the Heights is the way to go. Besides winning 4 Tony awards it depicts the whole experience of the Barrio in Washington Heights in a way that was true to culture. Mayra and I had caught it on Valentine’s Day [...]

We’ve entered our 7th week as a church plant. God has been doing wonderful work in our growing community. There’s definitely a buzz and people are telling there friends about the church. Visitors are finding it to be a safe and welcoming place, while others are rediscovering and engaging Jesus.
The gathering [...]

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. [...]

I’m truly aware of energy drainers in my life.  For one, administrative detail tends to tax me.   Yeah I can get it done,  but I’m not wired for that stuff every day.  So yesterday was a breath of fresh air as I got out of the office.
I had breakfast with a new friend.  His name [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mayra wrote the term “micro agressions” on my note pad the other day. Mayra and I can be like two little kids exchanging notes in class when we sit together in a workshop. This particular talk was in Denver regarding the church’s role in undoing racism. Our friend Dave was the speaker. [...]

We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to be at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.
Archbishop Oscar Romero, Christmas Eve, 1979

I somehow screwed up my alarm set-up this morning. So instead of waking up to the usual cacaphony of church bells, my ears woke up to 98.7 Kiss F.M. an R&B/Classic Soul radiostation. This morning they happened to be interviewing a high ranking official of the Latino Officers Association, who has fought ardently [...]

To live is to dream.
In a sense it means we die every day as we find ourselves walking through graveyards of buried aspirations or storehouses of deferred dreams. As a second generation Latino I often feel the pressure to make up for “lost time.” I may end up carrying the dreams of [...]