This newsletter is being sent as an educational service to your Church. Today, we are beginning a series of short articles on getting the most out of your altar candles. These will be excerpted from the booklet “The Light in Your Church – A Guide to Carefree, Money Saving and Green Use of Candles in the Church” authored by Mr. Ross Raby. We hope you will find this very useful.
This series comes from Ross Raby’s personal 30 years of experience providing church supplies to thousands of churches in North America. His goal of informing and educating Churches with the “inside scoop” on candles and other church supplies was often met with contempt from competitors, who relied on the naivety of church customers to sell cheap goods at high prices.
It is a common misconception that all Church supply companies operate as “Christian” businesses. For example, regarding the use of money-saving liquid paraffin candles, Ross learned that one distributor, concerned about losing margins on his products, was spreading “Fake News” and telling church customers that secretaries were “catching fire” because of liquid wax! In response to this, Ross comments, “Did grandma also catch fire when she used liquid wax to top off her strawberry preserve jars when canning? Did the Beach Boys catch on fire when they waxed their surfboards?”.
“If you pour liquid wax all over the floor and try to slide across it, especially if you’re my age, yes, you probably will end up in the hospital with a sore backside and a bruised ego. If you think I am joking, let me tell you that I had to go speak to a lovely pastor recently who refused to open his shipment (of wax for gosh sakes) because he might blow up doing it.”
In this series, you will learn how ridiculous this misinformation is and be able to make more educated choices. We hope that this series of newsletters does not just teach you about candles and become an important sacristy reference, we hope it is going to educate and empower you. You will be able to change the way you care for your church for the better, go green, and save money.
In our next newsletter, we will introduce the concept of “the Perfect Candle.”
