Unique Commission Details
Making visual connections to your ministry is vital to all. But it is especially worthy for the 40-60% of the people you minister to that are visual learners. So when requests are made at Carrot Top Studio for one of. kind stoles with very particular visual elements we are thrilled to be able to help. Of course in the nineteen years of business, we’ve had a lot of variety in the one-of-a-kind commissions. To inspire you, here are some of the highlights —
All the churches for one pastor
The request was to create a stole that visually connected the parishes the one pastor served. The landscape was fun too as we were able to include autumn hillsides and the fishing and boating industries of this particular coastal community.
A retirement gift
The recipient of this stole was gifted by a group that wanted to highlight his special interests. We’d never appliquéd a cyclist on a stole before, so that was special! This pastor, despite retiring, looks forward to new and different occasions to preach at so he will be able to use this precious gift.
Summer camp chaplains
A Christian summer camp had a lovely idea of commissioning a stole for their chaplains to wear during Sunday worship. Each week they welcomed a different visiting chaplain who would take turns wearing this stole. The stole was created with visuals connecting it to that summer’s theme.
Community connections
A congregation that mentored a newly ordained pastor commissioned this stole as a gift. The new pastor would be serving smaller churches that were an extension of the larger community church. This design connected that ministry with visual images of all involved.
Baptism stole
And last but not least — The wife of a seasoned pastor commissioned this stole to connect her husband’s ministry to the ritual of Baptism. She collected hand tracings from many, many of those that had been Baptized over the past decades under her husband’s leadership. Some hands were now adult size but one young one that had recently been prayed over is touching her own handprint in this picture. So sweet!
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