The Maasai tribes collect the honey themselves. Most tribes have experienced honey collectors, as they have collected honey for their own use for generations. They hang hollowed-out logs in trees or use handmade wooden hives for the bees to build hives in, and they use dried cow dung in a tin smoker to calm the bees before collection. Honey is usually collected twice each year.

We pay $100 to $125 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.

We completed our first collection of thousands of liters of honey in November 2025. From there, it was transported to our central warehouse in Kenya and approved for shipping by Kenyan authorities. The honey arrived at the RevelationMedia warehouse in Richardson, Texas in late May 2026. Since then, we have been testing and refining our packaging system, training volunteers, and fulfilling our first orders.

We hope to streamline this international process to shorten the amount of time between collection and fulfillment of future honey batches.

Mission Honey's Maasai honey will be available for purchase from RevelationMedia through our online store, www.MissionHoney.org. While the store is not currently live as reserved orders are being fulfilled, we expect to launch shortly for US purchases.

We do not currently have plans to sell honey from the Maasai through other retailers or internationally. Maasai honey is available in individual 14-ounce jars for all three varieties and in a sample pack containing one two-ounce jar of each variety. We may expand to offer bulk or other purchasing options for future honey shipments.

Maasai honey is available in three distinct varieties—Acacia, Olive Blossom, and Hibiscus. If you reserve a jar of honey through this page, you will receive one of these three varieties at random.

The Maasai tribes 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 fix their school buildings. Once the honey is sold in the US, RevelationMedia will use a portion of the profits to translate more iBIBLE content into the heart languages of our partner tribes. We will also send iBIBLE tablets with these videos to pastors and missionaries working among the tribes for evangelism and discipleship.

One hundred percent of the profits from Maasai honey sales will go toward RevelationMedia’s ministry. A portion of these profits will be directly reinvested in the Maasai tribes as we translate more iBIBLE content into the Maasai languages and send more solar-powered iBIBLE tablet kits to pastors and missionaries there. The rest will support other aspects of RevelationMedia’s ministry where it is most needed, such as iBIBLE production.

The honey is collected from the wild without the use of pesticides or other chemicals and only lightly strained. However, it cannot be certified organic in the United States due to USDA regulations.

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 the teams sees any remaining impurities.

None of these stages use fine filtering, and the honey is still considered “unfiltered.” As such, it will both look and taste different than the finely filtered honey most Americans are used to.

We want our Maasai honey partnerships to be an integrated part of our larger mission to bring the Gospel to every tribe, people, and nation on the planet. This is the basis for the name “Mission Honey,” as we see our partnership with the Maasai communities as a way to help fulfill the Great Commission.

We believe that by reinvesting funds earned from the sale of Mission Honey into the Maasai tribes’ spiritual and financial growth, this will become a self-sustaining part of RevelationMedia’s ministry. If all goes well with our Maasai partners, we also hope to expand the ministry of Mission Honey to other tribes in Kenya as well as other African countries. 

If we find that the honey sales are taking too much time and too many resources away from our core RevelationMedia and iBIBLE ministries, however, we will either stop the program or turn it over to another organization. We don’t want Mission Honey to be a distraction from the mission of RevelationMedia, but rather an enhancement on the path of the Great Commission.