our Big Question Cafe next meets at 6pm on the 25th May, It’s a friendly, fun gathering where we first share a meal and get to know others around our table. Then, just after we get pudding, we hear a 15-20 minute presentation addressing one of the big questions facing our lives and community. We’re then invited to discuss a series of questions arising from the presentation around our tables, digging deeper. There’s opportunities to engage with the speaker as well.
Our food will be a full dinner from Magic Hat Café, a social enterprise not only tackling food waste in Newcastle, but creatively transforming that food into something delicious! It’s free, but we gratefully accept donations. Please RSVP on big questions cafe so we can best meet dietary needs!
The Café is sponsored by Jesmond United Reformed Church, with the Friends of Jesmond Library. Over the past year, we’ve engaged in community listening exercises and a ‘Futures Literacy’ session. What we heard was the need for improved community cohesion. We always think it’s best to have discussions around a table filled with good food, so we thought these ‘Big Questions Cafés’ might be a way to bring us all together. These cafés are offered up with no other expectation than for people to show up, share in a great meal together, and engage in discussion over big questions that help us identify what we can do together. There’s no charge as we see this as a ministry, but donations are gratefully accepted—just click the donations link when registering are contribute when you arrive.
Speaker on 25th May: Tim Evans, Nurture Development
Tim is passionate about enabling people to discover their passions, skills, gifts and talents, building a compassionate and connected life together in community. He’s a qualified Youth and Community Worker, who has worked alongside young people and communities since 1993. For 19 years he was the CEO of a small national organisation, delivering youth work, community work, and social enterprise, in particular with those who found themselves marginalised by society. He led that organisation to develop an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach to its work. Has an M.A in Community Education and an M.A in Theology. With his wife Ria has been a foster carer since 2002, as well as having two daughters, and enjoys sport of many kinds including his weekly ride with the community cycling club he helped found.