Caffeine and Kingdom?

Emily Pollok  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  25 Mar 2026
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Caffeine and Kingdom?

Joel Barwick (left) and Luke Porter (right).

Can coffee fuel evangelism? If it’s Tommy’s Coffee, then “yes!” say directors Luke Porter and Joel Barwick, who founded the kingdom-building coffee ministry last year.

The coffee cart, based in St Thomas’ Church, Newcastle, first started serving customers in May with a mission to simultaneously caffeinate and connect with the city’s residents.

Both on staff at the church, Porter, the creative director, and Barwick, St Thomas’ youth pastor, had the idea for a church coffee shop back in 2019 after a free pizza outreach.

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