People of different faiths and worldviews often have one tenet in common, a belief in feeding people, spiritually and literally. You can feel that coming together of community at Tricklebee Café, the state’s first pay-as-you-can restaurant. Christie Melby-Gibbons, a pastor in the Moravian Church, guides the operation to bring healthy food to people in Sherman Park, but she’ll be the first to tell you she’s “no lone ranger.” The city’s top chefs do stints in the kitchen, volunteers chop vegetables, and everyone feels genuinely at home in what had been just another boarded-up storefront, at 45th and North. Tricklebee (that’s what she heard when her mother would say ‘the trick will be if we can get enough money”) opened in 2016, using church pews and other recycled materials. The plant-based menu changes daily and comes from donations of food that would otherwise go to waste, as well as produce from nearby gardens. Christie has turned the café into a community gathering place, with weekly artist gatherings and an Agape meal on Thursday nights. “I'm a raging optimist,” she says. “So I say that hope is always the thing that kind of goes out in front of me.”