Church Supplies

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These days, despite the general decline of Christianity, significant demand for Church supplies is still in place. The major portion of this market is certainly shared by the Catholic believers, ministries and other church supply users. Greek Orthodox Christians also take a good piece of the church supplies pie. Among them Greek Orthodox Christians and Russian Orthodox Christians represent the largest groups. The purchase areas of these two, however, do not completely overlap. Greek Orthodox and Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese in North America probably by far exceed by the number of followers Russian, Romanian and Ukrainian Orthodox laity. The church supply area for the latter is located predominantly in Russia and Eastern Europe. Armenian, Coptic and other non-Chalcedonian Christians probably constitute a much smaller church supply market opportunity.

There are a few church supplies companies and when you're looking to a church supply product, you may find that it is not easy to find a reliable church supplies source. Hardware church supplies items, such as brass candle stands, candelabras, chandeliers, censers, gospel ...
... covers, vigil lamps are produced mainly in Russia and Greece. There are also a couple of companies in India and Pakistan. The above mentioned church supplies items made in Russia are well known for their relatively more solid metal parts and overall appearance. Brass church supplies items generally show only one problem during their use: they quickly acquire dark spots from water drops. These problems with metal church supplies products can be easily solved by special church supply polishing paste, such as Autosol Metal Polish. With gold-gilded church products the situation is not that easy. One has to be careful when purchasing gold or silver-gilded church supplies because there are out there some companies that want to achieve high visual effect without proper technical church supply making process. For example, it is not rare to encounter a church candle stand with only 2 mkm gold layers (instead of minimum 4 mkm) put on top of a nickel surface. That is, when a brass candle stand, censer or vigil lamp is first nickel-gilded and then gold-gilded, you get a bright shiny gold which will last, however, much less then less shiny but thicker gold-plating.

Buying sewing church supplies products may be also a tricky process. The general advice is to look for well-established church supply companies who own and operate real sewing facilities. One may want to stay away from basement sewing and alike offers. The reason for this is of a pure technical and quality nature. Despite the common honesty and sincere desire to serve the Church, or even make a living on selling soft church supplies, basement operators can neither invest in expensive industrial steam equipment required to stabilize fabrics before sewing and firmly glue up the backings, nor put such a large machine in a residential building. The quality of the sewing church supplies products made on industrial equipment and in the basements is certainly different. You may not notice it from the first look, but you will learn the lesson down the road when a home-steamed backings in the cuffs, stole or phelonion will pop up. The reason for this is that home steamers have much less heating ability and no pressure, whereas industrial steam-and-pressure table produces 180 degrees Celsius and 5 atmospheres in pressure. Needless to say those most industrial backings are designed to be treated by the industrial equipment.