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VISION

A WORLD IN WHICH ALL CHILDREN ARE PHYSICALLY
AND SPIRITUALLY NOURISHED

Dear Friends,

Jesus’ calling to take care of the least of these which played out on the public streets and halted
(Matthew 25) continues to motivate Outside the commerce. The country reports (found on pages 6-9)
Bowl in all that we do. A theme we discussed at the provide more details on the challenges, difficulties,
beginning of 2019 was the idea of reaching beyond: and victories Outside the Bowl saw in each country.
reaching beyond our then current ministry partners, There are many reasons 2019 is a year we are
kitchens, donors, and even countries. We’re happy celebrating. The walls of the 10th Super Kitchen
to share that those goals were achieved. Reaching went up in Juarez, Mexico with expectations of
beyond brought some unexpected changes that we cooking the first quarter of 2020. Vita Kidz Porridge
are excited to share with you in the 2019 Annual is becoming our new tool to fight food insecurity (see
Report. pages 4-5). An entire shipping container was sent to
feed a school for an entire year in Uganda. We are
As we look back, there was a lot of movement that exploring adding porridge production facilities to
took place within Outside the Bowl in 2019—both other Outside the Bowl kitchens.
strategically and physically. In January, the Super
Kitchen in Port-au-Prince became fully operational In the following pages you will read about the
in a new facility in an area known as Delmas. In progress made within each country this year. Thank
May, OTB’s headquarters in Oceanside moved from you for making all of this possible.
an office space near Oceanside Boulevard to space
within MC Painting’s building. This summer the Jae & Debra Evans Chris Brown
Paarl Super Kitchen relocated to a larger facility that Founders Board Chair
was renovated to the highest of standards for food
production. This move allowed the operations to
expand to include an industrial bakery and brought
the production of Vita Kidz Porridge in-house. In
September, the Tijuana kitchen manager, Vilma
Jacinta moved with her family to Guatemala City
to explore the expansion of OTB into Guatemala, a
dream we have had for years.

Feeding the hungry both physically and spiritually is
never as easy as it sounds. In fact, in some parts of
the world it seems to be getting more complicated.
Haiti experienced economic instability in 2019

4 countries 10 super 300+ ministry 21.8 million
kitchens partners meals served