The honey for Mission Honey is collected by Maasai tribal communities in Kenya and is currently from the regions of Mount Elgon, Rift Valley, and Ol Jogi.

As we expand our ministry partnerships, we will be adding new regions and varieties of honey to our store from all over Africa.

The Maasai people collect the honey themselves. Most tribal communities have experienced beekeepers, as they have collected honey for their own use for generations.

Their collection process includes hanging hollowed-out logs in trees for the bees to build hives in and using dried cow dung in a tin smoker to calm the bees before collection. Honey is usually collected twice each year.

The Maasai use a “crush and screen” process to separate the honey
from the honeycomb. Then, once it has been transported to our warehouse
in Kenya, it is filtered to remove impurities and inspected by Kenyan authorities before it is shipped to the US. When it arrives at the RevelationMedia office in Richardson, Texas, it goes through one final stage of straining if necessary. None of these stages uses fine filtering, and the honey is still considered “unfiltered.”

All honey sold by Mission Honey is collected from the wild without the use of pesticides or other chemicals. However, it cannot be certified or marketed as organic in the United States due to USDA regulations.

Crystallization is a normal occurrence in raw, unfiltered honey. Crystallized honey is safe to consume as-is, or you may place your open jar in a bath of warm water (about 100 °F) for 15 minutes or so to return it to a liquid state.

It is also normal for your honey to be cloudier and have a stronger flavor than grocery store honey. This is because unfiltered honey retains all of its natural pollen, and African honey tends to be darker than American honey. We hope you’ll find that this all-natural honey is different in the best way!

The Maasai communities we partner with benefit from the sale of their honey twofold:

They are paid immediately upon the collection of their honey, which gives them the funds to send their children to school and to fund community projects like building and vehicle repairs.

RevelationMedia uses a portion of the profits from Mission Honey’s online sales to translate more iBIBLE content into the Maasai communities’ languages and send it, along with iBIBLE tablet kits, to pastors and missionaries working among the tribes for evangelism and discipleship.

RevelationMedia pays $100 to $125 USD per 20-liter bucket (about five gallons) of honey upon collection, which is significantly more than local wholesalers pay. We also supply the tribes with the buckets and pay for transportation of the honey to our warehouse.

Our partnership with the Maasai tribes of Kenya is only the beginning of Mission Honey’s ministry. If this partnership proves fruitful to both RevelationMedia and the Maasai, we hope to continue the program in Kenya as well as expand our partnerships to include tribes in other African countries.

Unfortunately, due to the legal complexities involved in selling and shipping honey outside the US, we do not offer international shipping at this time. We hope to resolve these issues and add international shipping soon.

Currently, this issue also applies to our donation option, but not our gift cards. We will do our best to iron out these logistics so our international friends can join us in supporting the Great Commission through Mission Honey!