We want women to see God at work and feel encouraged, uplifted and connected.

founder & CEO

Rachael R. Wade

Chief Encouragement Officer

Rachael is a wife, mom of two, and teacher who is passionate about encouraging & equipping women and men with the word of God. She believes in the power of the "in process" everyday story. For this reason, she created Olive Us, a platform where women #recount2remember the goodness & faithfulness of God. Writing poetry, prose, and devotionals are some of her favorite ways to share God’s glory & love. You can read Rachael’s writing at She Reads Truth, The Fallow House, and Substack. Living, loving, and leading in San Francisco for the last eleven years, Rachael enjoys teaching at Epic Church SF, and neighboring SF churches. She enjoys a nice charcuterie board, laughing with girlfriends, sitting in the sunshine, and wine country!

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 The Roots of Olive Us

I’ve always known how passionate I was about encouraging women to see themselves the way God sees them. I’ve worked in event planning, health care, and ministry where all roads lead to women WINNING! As our national climate continued to point us towards division, comparison, and isolation…I began to feel an unrelenting sense of urgency to encourage women in who they are in Christ. Our struggles, our passions, our highs, our lows, our downright hard are pieces of us that need to be shared. It is so important to recount our stories so that we can remember God’s goodness, faithfulness, and steadfast love.

Because God is super cool….I had written in my notes to name this project “All of Us”. Then weeks later (maybe even months…time is blurry with two small children) I continued to be taken to passages in the Bible with olive tree references. As a tree lover this drove me to research the olive tree and I fell in LOVE. The olive tree represents peace, friendship, abundance, and protection. It’s roots are indestructible. Despite sweltering temperatures and drought like conditions the olive tree can not only live, but FLOURISH because of it’s connected root system that goes deep into the soil to the source to receive nourishment.

While vacuuming one day I yelled out to my husband, “Honey I don’t know how, but I gotta use the olive tree in some project that I start.” Then one day….out of nowhere(but really not outta nowhere…from KING JESUS) I looked at my notes and laughed. “Wait…All of Us…sounds like Olive. Is that dumb? Is this it?!” OLIVE US…..could this be the name?!

As women of faith we are connected. We are indestructible together because we are connected to the one true source…JESUS. We get our nourishment, our strength, our peace, and our provision from him. Our stories matter…YOU MATTER….and YOUR FELLOW SISTERS MATTER. We absolutely need each other to grow and flourish. We need each other to remember we are not alone. We were created to be in community with one another, to bear one another’s burdens, and most importantly to love one another.

Connect with Us

 

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Interviews

‘Olive’ our stories matter! On the 1st of every month, you’ll meet an every day woman of God who shares her ‘in-process’ story of God’s goodness & faithfulness.

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Seeds of Encouragement

A blog where words are written in hopes of encouraging, uplifting, uniting, and pointing back to Our Father.

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Free Resources

These are a few of our favorite things! Tools to help you grow in your emotional, spiritual, and relational health. Curated by Olive Us sisters in our community.

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