Jose Humphreys

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 [...]

Christ, Community, Call, Concern
Our Conversation yesterday focused on community.
The highlight? I think it was meeting new people with similar journeys and feelings about community. This included the good, the bad and the apathetic.
One thing we know for certain is that we all need community. At its best, community shapes us to be a [...]

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 [...]

About community that is… But community is hard work.
I don’t like to lose my privacy. I often want the world to be about my own concerns. Meanwhile it seems so much easier to hang around people we’ve known for years, and do life with them.
It’s so much easier to have church [...]

Should I not be concerned about that great city?
-Jonah 4:11
Mayra has some interesting prayers while we walk or drive through the streets of Harlem. Her prayers concern locally owned small businesses. The Mexican guy selling mangos in the corner, the street merchants on 1-2-5th Street, the black owned cafe, the soul food restaurant [...]

Four of us are in Minnesota for a church planters training with the Covenant. We got to visit Efrem Smith’s church, Sanctuary Covenant Church. Man, what an experience. It was Hip Hop Sunday and they did a great job of incorporating it into worship. Efrem Smith preached a message on Jesus and [...]

Did this at Starbucks yesterday using IMovie and some help from a good friend, Joseph Martinez. It’s a cool experiment…

The God of the universe was nailed to a tree. This is a historical event millions of people across the globe will ponder this week.
During a time where reality TV competition dominates the airways, and success is about outperformance (except in the case of American Idol & Senjiah), we come face-to-face with the cross again. [...]

I ran into an old pal, Marco, on Myspace. I got some feedback about Conversations from his Myspace blog. I had invited him to Conversations and he had alot to say about it. Here’s an excerpt.
So I went to “Conversations with God” hosted by Jose and his wife. It was an [...]