The Community Café embodies a radically simple idea: That each and every human being on planet Earth should be guaranteed the right to eat three nutritious meals a day.
And not just in the so-called “third world countries”, where hunger is most widely known and visible, but also in the so-called “rich countries”, such as the United States, where we held our first Community Café event in Rosamond, California, in December 2015.
People were so amazed by what we were doing – providing the entire town with delicious, nutritious, free food – that people were saying, “es un milagro” – it’s a miracle! And it IS a miracle, taught to us by Jesus himself, that there IS enough food for everyone; we simply have to share.
These Community Cafes become “centers for sharing” . . . starting with the most fundamental and basic of human needs, being the need for food and drink.
The central hypothesis of the Community Café concept, is that by starting with the provision of guaranteed food, to ALL the world’s people, we will create a nucleus, a “center”, around which, over time, we can incorporate the provisioning of other basic human needs:
- Health care
- Housing
- Education
- Child and family services
- Parks & Recreation
- Protection from predator-humans
- etc…
So at its core, the Community Café is focused on the needs of people: people as individuals, people as members of families, and people as members of a community.
Community Cafes & the Environment
There are two main ways in which Community Cafes will positively impact the environment, including reversing climate change:
- Efficiencies inherent in feeding multiple people . . . large numbers of people, in a single location . . . in terms of fuel use, water use, etc.
- The Community Cafes will source 100% of their food inputs from another “Regenerative Agricultural Networks”, which utilize a set of farming and ranching techniques which actually help to regenerate our ecosystem, vs. typical industrial methods which cause ecosystem damage on a massive scale.
