OUTSIDE THE BOWL

Jae and Debra Evans began discipling the Xhosa children living in the township called Mbekweni. After some time passed, they realized the importance of food for ministry and setting children up for successful futures. Debra and some of the Xhosa mommas started making hundreds of servings of soup in the community center where they ran their programs. Within a few weeks, the number of children attending the program multiplied from 60 children to more than 300.

In 2007, North Coast Church’s pastor Chris Brown visited the Evans in South Africa. Seeing how food was multiplying their ministry, he returned to California and raised the funds for the first Super Kitchen-a concept Jae had designed to mass produce hot, nutritious meals.

A food center opened in Paarl, South Africa in 2008 proving the concept of the Super Kitchens. This first centralized, industrial kitchen cooked 1.5 million meals in its initial year of operation.

Jae credits Chris Brown for the start of Outside the Bowl which became an official nonprofit a few years later. A little closer to home yet with extreme needs were Haiti and Mexico.

It is incredibly inspiring to look back on more than fifteen years of the Lord's prompting which has led to four Super Kitchens and one Vitakidz production facility with combined production of more than 8 million meals every year, which are transforming futures for thousands of individuals around the world.