About Joey
SUMMARY
Joey is an author and activist for the oppressed and unreached with the good news of Jesus. He has been trying to serve Muslims with the gospel since 2000.
He has written three books: Burning in Babylon (poetry), All Authority/Toda Autoridad (theology/teología), and The Arab Region and Trade Liberalization Policies (economics).
He currently serves as the Executive Vice President of the Global Alliance for Church Multiplication (gacx.io). He has co-founded various ministries, including Coalición 21 and El Proyecto Puente. Previously, for ten years, he served as the Co-Director of an International Field Office that serves missionaries in the unreached world with care, coaching, and crisis management.
EXPANDED VERSION
Joey laughs when he calls himself a "poet." He doesn't have any tattoos, he's never lived in Portland, he gets embarrassed when his hair is disheveled, and he appreciates accountability to a good strategic plan.
Yet he writes. Well rather, he sings, complains, groans, and prays. And out comes poetry.
Both poetry and Christian mission usher true reality into our reality. They interpret shadows. That's why Joey writes poetry along the path of serving Jesus in his global mission. The best of both poetry and mission embody genuine love.
The city drips of beauty...and sewage. The noise of the city can only be interpreted in metaphors. Enter the metro and sing—an ode, or a jingle. Sex in the city? It might magnify God and bring equisit joy in the bed of covenant marriage, or it might magnify the self in the bed of so-called autonomy and so-real selfish ambition. Joseph writes from the city, in hope of a better city to come.
Love is communal, love is collaborative. So Joey's gifting and passion is to develop ministries and leaders who collaborate for God’s global mission of love. So currently serves as the Executive Vice President of the Global Alliance for Church Multiplication. He has co-founded various ministries, including Coalición 21 and El Proyecto Puente. Previously, for ten years, he served as the Co-Director of an International Field Office that serves missionaries in the unreached world with care, coaching, and crisis management.
Along the way, Joey wrote the following: Burning in Babylon (poetry), All Authority/Toda Autoridad (theology/teología), The Arab Region and Trade Liberalization Policies (economics).
But all that aside. If you want to see Joey come truly alive, come have dinner at his home. There you'll enjoy the subject of much of his poetry: his wife Krystal, their three boys, and Yoda their poodle (well, he hasn't written a poem about Yoda… yet).
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