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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 learning 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 that 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

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.

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.

Monte Christo is an 800 acre farm located near Porterville, about 140 km (100 miles) north of Capetown, South Africa. Originally granted by the governor of the Cape Province in the early 1700's, the historic farm has long been the site of cattle, citrus, grains and vegetable farming.

The farm is unique in many ways by being partly mountainous and located in a highly desirable camping and recreational area north of Cape town. The Monte Christo farm is also uniquely blessed by having a ceaseless year round supply of pure fresh water coming from "fountains or springs" in an otherwise very dry, arid agricultural climate zone..

From the beginning in 2003, the farm has been the foundational element of Monte Christo Ministries based in nearby Paarl, which derives its name from the farm. Over the years, it has been used for agriculture, Christian camping, numerous recreational uses and now is the site of the Monte Christo Trusts' sustainability projects like Promise Olives.

In addition to the agricultural or sustainability projects now underway, the farm has been in continuous use, since its ownership by Monte Christo Ministries, as a Christian gathering place where numerous churches, community organizations and missionaries have come for camping, retreats, rest and to have a quiet, intimate experience with God's beautiful creation. In the future, the trust has plans to grow the farm as a center for ministry programs aimed at meeting the ministry needs of the surrounding farm worker communities and will be used by supporters world-wide to help uplift those in need.

Ministry at the Farm

2003... Purchase of the Monte Christo Farm in Porterville for hosting Christian Camps for youth and families and to initiate income producing agricultural projects.

2004... Founding of Monte Christo Ministries (MCM) in nearby Paarl, named after the farm, with emphasis on ministering to people's basic needs, discipleship, youth intervention programs and community development.

2005... Hosting of first youth camps and international ministry teams at Monte Christo Farm; rapid growth of the MCM team with people joining to help from across South Africa and many countries internationally.

2006... MCM receives South African PBO (public benefit organization) and Section 21 (non-profit) status; the farm is used mainly as a youth retreats center.
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2007... The farm begins a relationship with the
Western Cape Royal Rangers Youth Program and launches rustic camping facilities at the farm to serve children from poverty affected communities near Capetown and the Boland.

2008... MCM develops the Promise Olives project as the center of its new "sustainability strategy". The new goal is to make MCM a new model, economically self-sustaining ministry project while creating jobs, teaching jobs skills and funding community focused feeding and discipleship projects across the area.

2009... Promise Olives is launched first in South Africa and then in the USA to raise funds to plant thousands of olive trees that are aimed at yielding a ministry income for over 100 years all to support local ministry programs.

2010...After wonderful local and international response, ground breaking and planting of the first 2000 Promise Olives trees. The Monte Christo Farm trustees donate a portion of the farm land for the building of the permanent camping center for the Western Cape Royal Rangers...
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2011...The farm is transferred into a protective trust and its sustainability projects are expanded with the start of intensive agriculture, an attractive recreational camping facility and beautiful guest house and Promise Olives phase 2 begins to raise funds to plant the next 18,000 trees.

Buy a Promise Olive Tree for R200.00

To make an investment in a Promise Olives Tree in, our banking information is provided below for your convenience.

Thank you for your support!

MONTE CHRISTO PROMISE OLIVES
STANDARD BANK
PORTERVILLE
BRANCH: 050207
ACCOUNT NR: 137 684 185 (savings)

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