Candle Making

Beeswax Candle-Making for our 2023 Christmas season activities will commence this Fall on Tuesday, September 5 and repeat on Tuesday the 12th, Tuesday the 19th, and possibly Tuesday the 26th. Production begins at 9:00am and ends about noon, with a coffee & donut break around 10:30. We meet in the basement of the Central Moravian Church main office at 73 W. Church Street. Parking is available in the parking lot at the rear of the building.

We welcome all old hands and encourage newcomers to this fun and enlightening activity. Training for the uninitiated will be provided as even we “Old Timers” require some re-training in this annual mass-production of hand-made candles.

An overview of the process may help in deciding to participate. In the wick preparation room, wooden wick bars are cleaned and fitted with measured strings of wick. These are then taken next door, to the “hot shop”, where molds (12 candles to a mold) are strung, and wax is poured. These cool rather quickly, allowing the candles to be removed and hung to dry. The used wooden wick bars are then returned to the wick preparation room and the process repeats. There are many and varied jobs to choose from. We will pour between 2,500 and 3,500 candles each Tuesday.

Please e-mail [email protected] or text to 484-547-1596 noting the Tuesday’s you plan to participate and also whether you’d like to work in the hot shop (wax pouring area) or the wick preparation room. If you intend to work in the hot shop, long pants, a long-sleeved shirt and closed shoes are required. Please also provide your phone number and email address in case changes to our schedule need to be made.

We look forward to the sounds, smells, friendships, coffee and doughnuts, that are all part of our annual candle-making. We hope that you will consider being a part of it.

Harry Tachovsky, Bobb Carson, Nate Bissey, Tim Brady, Linda Thudium