Helping people move from survival to sustainability...
Imagine a ministry organization focused on helping people caught in poverty and hunger yet working to teach them how to feed themselves... "how to fish rather than just giving them a fish..." This is the mission of the Monte Christo Trust. We've created a plan to help people with a "hand up versus a hand out...." Promise Olives is the way this will be achieved...
This effort, started in 2003 at the farm Monte Christo in Porterville, led to the foundation of Monte Christo Ministries in Paarl, South Africa that amongst many other things provides healthy meals to about 5000 needy people every day across the Boland/Western Cape area.
And while basic needs such as food, shelter, health care, safety, etc. are responsibilities where we all are called to respond... building long term economic sustainability, hope for individuals caught in poverty and discipling a new revitalized generation of people is our goal.
Called "social entrepreneurship", the goal of the trust is to use our ministry hearts and our business skills together... to create economic returns to both support and teach ministries and people how to become financially self-sustaining based on biblical principles. Ultimately this leads to more people building fruitful, productive, faith-based, economically self reliant lives and to building a future of hope and vitality in once desperate communities.
Today, we celebrate the completion of phase 1 of the Promise Olives project begun in 2009 where about 2000 olive trees were planted thanks to the generosity of donor-investors from around the world. And we're grateful to so many people around the world who have heartily endorsed the concept of ministries and people becoming financially self-sustaining.
Other Monte Christo Farm sustainability projects include: the Western Cape Royal Rangers Camp, the
Monte Christo Family Resort and numerous agricultural products today being grown at the farm such as oats, lucerne, vegetables, melons, and table grapes. All of these products or projects today generate income to support the costs of ownership and operation of the farm and to increase the support of ministry programs across the communities we serve.
Buy a Promise Olives Tree
This effort, started in 2003 at the farm Monte Christo in Porterville, led to the foundation of Monte Christo Ministries in Paarl, South Africa that amongst many other things provides healthy meals to about 5000 needy people every day across the Boland/Western Cape area.
And while basic needs such as food, shelter, health care, safety, etc. are responsibilities where we all are called to respond... building long term economic sustainability, hope for individuals caught in poverty and discipling a new revitalized generation of people is our goal.
Called "social entrepreneurship", the goal of the trust is to use our ministry hearts and our business skills together... to create economic returns to both support and teach ministries and people how to become financially self-sustaining based on biblical principles. Ultimately this leads to more people building fruitful, productive, faith-based, economically self reliant lives and to building a future of hope and vitality in once desperate communities.
Today, we celebrate the completion of phase 1 of the Promise Olives project begun in 2009 where about 2000 olive trees were planted thanks to the generosity of donor-investors from around the world. And we're grateful to so many people around the world who have heartily endorsed the concept of ministries and people becoming financially self-sustaining.
Other Monte Christo Farm sustainability projects include: the Western Cape Royal Rangers Camp, the
Monte Christo Family Resort and numerous agricultural products today being grown at the farm such as oats, lucerne, vegetables, melons, and table grapes. All of these products or projects today generate income to support the costs of ownership and operation of the farm and to increase the support of ministry programs across the communities we serve.
Buy a Promise Olives Tree
