Promise Olives is a South Africa located "all-denomination" Christian ministry project aimed at planting 20,000 olive trees in an ideal setting where as the trees grow and mature, the harvest from the trees will be used to provide funds to uplift the poor, feed hungry children and create jobs and skills development programs. Our goal is to teach disadvantaged people learn how to support themselves.
The olive trees are being planted on an 800 acre farm today protected in a trust created by the founders of Monte Christo Ministries (MCM), a Paarl, South Africa based ministry. MCM was founded in 2004 by a group of American and South African team members and since then has developed an international following due to its innovative social-entrepreneurial approaches to serve the needs of thousands.
A gift that keeps on giving... The Promise Olives trees being planted now have an expected life span the goes well beyond 100 years... so we say "buying a Promise Olives Tree is like making an investment"... In addition to being a donation that supports the needy children of South Africa today, Monte Christo's Promise Olives future harvests will support the ministries that are serving the needs of people over the next 100 years
Thank you!... Phase One of Promise Olives was supported by hundreds of people, churches and organizations world-wide and led to the planting of the first 2000 trees in mid 2010 on about 25 acres of land on the Monte Christo Farm in Porterville, South Africa. In five years this first phase will begin to bear olives and yield highly valued pure organic olive oil... The oil will be packaged and sold into the rapidly growing world market seeking natural healthy olive oil or will be turned into a number of high value Monte Christo branded consumer olive oil products.
Phase 2 expanded... With the initial success of the first phase, the goal of the Promise Olives program has been expanded. Today, Phase 2 launched in early 2011, plans have grown to now plant another 18,000 Promise Olive trees on an additional 225 dedicated acres at the Monte Christo farm. This next planting will fully utilize the olive growing capacity of the farm as it exists today and will allow Monte Christo to serve numerous other ministries and people's needs across the area.
Sustainability... The unique strategy of Promise Olives is to see all profits from the Promise Olive trees will go towards feeding hungry children, teaching people caught in poverty today new job and life skills and helping individuals and families move from lives of hopelessness to ones where they have a future. Thus we're building a "self -sustaining ministry program" while teaching people formerly trapped in poverty how to support themselves. Please join us in the project to teach people and show ministries how to grow and support themselves.
Buy a Promise Olives Tree and join us in this project to help people become self sustaining and reach lives of significance.
The olive trees are being planted on an 800 acre farm today protected in a trust created by the founders of Monte Christo Ministries (MCM), a Paarl, South Africa based ministry. MCM was founded in 2004 by a group of American and South African team members and since then has developed an international following due to its innovative social-entrepreneurial approaches to serve the needs of thousands.
A gift that keeps on giving... The Promise Olives trees being planted now have an expected life span the goes well beyond 100 years... so we say "buying a Promise Olives Tree is like making an investment"... In addition to being a donation that supports the needy children of South Africa today, Monte Christo's Promise Olives future harvests will support the ministries that are serving the needs of people over the next 100 years
Thank you!... Phase One of Promise Olives was supported by hundreds of people, churches and organizations world-wide and led to the planting of the first 2000 trees in mid 2010 on about 25 acres of land on the Monte Christo Farm in Porterville, South Africa. In five years this first phase will begin to bear olives and yield highly valued pure organic olive oil... The oil will be packaged and sold into the rapidly growing world market seeking natural healthy olive oil or will be turned into a number of high value Monte Christo branded consumer olive oil products.
Phase 2 expanded... With the initial success of the first phase, the goal of the Promise Olives program has been expanded. Today, Phase 2 launched in early 2011, plans have grown to now plant another 18,000 Promise Olive trees on an additional 225 dedicated acres at the Monte Christo farm. This next planting will fully utilize the olive growing capacity of the farm as it exists today and will allow Monte Christo to serve numerous other ministries and people's needs across the area.
Sustainability... The unique strategy of Promise Olives is to see all profits from the Promise Olive trees will go towards feeding hungry children, teaching people caught in poverty today new job and life skills and helping individuals and families move from lives of hopelessness to ones where they have a future. Thus we're building a "self -sustaining ministry program" while teaching people formerly trapped in poverty how to support themselves. Please join us in the project to teach people and show ministries how to grow and support themselves.
Buy a Promise Olives Tree and join us in this project to help people become self sustaining and reach lives of significance.
