Hello climate champions!

If you already eat for total vitality, great! Your knowledge is welcome at the table. We encourage you to share your experiences and bring a favorite recipe with you. If you have extra seeds, we’ll have a seed exchange table. Your contribution to build upon our collective food knowledge and resources will keep our events interesting!

New to whole foods living?

You’ve come to the right place and we’re excited to have you! Whole foods don’t have to be boring, at least not at the Climate Cafe’. Our Focalizer chefs are comprised of foodies who are raw enthusiasts, vegans and vegetarians. Like our diverse and talented group of volunteers, and our food – variety is the spice of life!

Plant-based collective growing and food sharing is the most sustainable path forward to heal our bodies, our communities, and the earth – from the ground up. We hope to see you there. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Social Justice Committee.

The Power of Community

What if, anybody, in any budget, could afford the highest quality food available? What if, together, we can reverse the damage caused by unhealthy consumption that erodes our vitality and causes illness and death? What if, you can give and receive perfectly nutritious, and tasty food, based on what you can afford, and the benefits are exactly the same as those who can afford more or less? You would have little to lose, but everything to gain. Climate Café is a model of both giving and receiving based on whatever you can afford. Have you heard the term gift economy?

At Christ the Healer, we hear from many of our younger members who practice purposeful living and giving, and Climate Café’ is widely embraced for this reason. If you want to help others, desire a higher quality of life, seek deeper and more meaningful connections, and understand the value of healthful eating, Climate Café was made for you. We have farmers and chefs at the ready, and we are gearing up.

Growing together to create a low-carbon, sustainably sourced and produced, plant-based meals in a pay-as-you-go model.

When I first embarked on my healing journey, I was in so much physical pain and my vitality was low from a SAD (standard American) diet. After I began moving to a more plant-based diet, I asked Thomas Chavez, “How will I know if I’m feeling better? How can I tell if I’m improving? He said, “It’s not one thing you do, but everything you do. Compounded, your vitality will naturally rise.” Thanks to years of guidance with natural foods and a supportive community, my vitality continues to grow. So many people feel awful and lack vitality. Sickness is often a result of a poor-quality diet. Unfortunately, low-income households typically can only afford low-quality foods on their tiny budgets, so how can they experience true vitality? Climate Café seeks to help heal our health crisis and food injustice. – Julie Gorham

A philosophy and practice

According to CtH UCC Co-Founder, Gabrielle Chavez, Climate Café creates an opportunity for CtH to live out the ideal of the early church, as demonstrated in Acts 4:32: All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. ³³ With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all ³⁴ that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales ³⁵ and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.