We are Olive International Trips

Our trips seek to embody the classical symbol of the olive branch: peace and connection. Our trips are designed to alleviate the overwhelming parts of travel, so that our guests can more richly engage the history and culture of the world around them.

Mission

The mission of OI Trips is to partner with Christian schools to provide a transformative travel experience which discovers truth, pursues goodness, and recognizes beauty, all from a Christ-centered worldview.

Vision

By immersing their students in educational travel, schools who partner with OI Trips will provide an opportunity for their students to build connections with each other as well as with culture and history, all of which enrich their worldview in a way that strengthens and deepens their faith and intellect. 

Philosophy

OI Trips believes that through intentional and customized itineraries, which take students to the source of history and culture worldwide, schools are enabled to complement their curriculum at home and continue the formation of their students abroad.  OI Trips seeks to:

  • Disrupt student travel by replacing cookie-cutter itineraries with bespoke tours that align with school academic programs.

  • Recapture the enduring tradition of the Grand Tour. 

  • Teach students how to travel- in the same way that the most effective teachers teach how to learn. 

  • Travail - Hold the paradox that joy and work live together.

Partner schools can expect that their groups who travel with OI Trips will enjoy the benefits of:

Expanded community

Groups will:

Encounter God and humanity in new contexts and wonder at the richness of God’s creation 

  • Negotiate a new understanding with others by engaging in new, corporate rhythms of life

  • Forge Christ-centered relationships through shared experiences

Instilled Independence

Students will:

Fortify one’s biblical worldview through reflection and action 

  • Seek opportunities to assume ownership of one’s learning and faith

  • Ignite self-confidence to step into future professional and personal opportunities

Broadened horizons

Schools will:

Explore deep questions that connect classroom learning to the Western narrative involving some combination of the humanities, fine arts, geometry, philosophy and theology. 

  • Develop new frames of reference to facilitate intercultural sensitivity and tolerance for the unknown

  • Increase global awareness and mindedness