Our Story
Two Businesses. One Family. One Purpose.
“Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.”
— Romans 15:17 (NIV)
Why the Sunflower?
Every year, we plant roughly two hundred sunflowers in our yard. So when we sat down to name what we were building, we asked the kids for ideas. Our oldest daughter said "something with sunflowers," and that was that. But the name stuck because of what it means to us, not just how it sounded.
Sunflowers start as small seeds and can grow anywhere from six to twenty feet tall. Children start out as seeds too, growing in their mother's womb and long after — not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Sunflowers represent family and friendship, and in some cultures, strength and longevity. Spiritually, they turn their heads from darkness and follow the light of the sun — a good symbol for keeping our eyes fixed on our God in Heaven. The sunflower is also the national flower of the country we adopted our youngest daughter from. Children and adoption are at the center of our family, so the sunflower carries all of it: growth, family, faith, and home.
One Family, Discovering God's Gifts
We've been blessed with a very creative family — instrumental music, painting, singing, woodworking. All of us discovering what we were given and figuring out what to do with it. Our co-founder, Adam, has always been passionate about building things. As a kid, he took pallets and built a fort in the backyard, much to his father's dismay. As a homeowner, that turned into remodeling — with the projects getting more ambitious every year. He'll tell you it's all about "the thrill of the build."
That thrill didn't stay contained to the workshop. The same hands that were happiest building a fort out of scrap pallets were just as happy tearing out a wall or rebuilding a room the right way. So when the woodworking side of things took root, the home side came right along with it — same builder, same standards, same reason for doing it. Add in Kara's heart for children and adoption, and the kids' talents across every discipline under the sun, and you get an organization built to use every gift God gave this family for His will and His glory. Perfection is the goal. Humanity is the reality. We're imperfect, we're sinners, we make mistakes — and we learn, and we grow.
🌻 Sunflower Woodworx
Handcrafted wood goods — keepsake boxes, games, clocks, furniture, and the occasional idea that shouldn't have worked but did. Every piece is built by real hands, in a real shop, veteran-owned and faith-guided from the first cut to the final finish.
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Home repairs, renovations, and improvements, handled with the same "thrill of the build" and the same integrity as every piece that comes out of the Woodworx shop. Responsive, trustworthy, and guided by the same faith that built the business next door.
Request Home Services →What Holds It All Together
Three things sit at the core of both businesses, no matter which one you're standing in:
Do it for God's glory, not our own. We'd love to take credit for the good that comes out of this — but that praise belongs to our Heavenly Father, because everything comes from Him.
Learn, learn, learn. Be humble, be imperfect, and keep striving to be better — as Christians and as craftsmen. We will make mistakes. We embrace them, and we learn from them.
Give. God has given us much — our time, our talents, our treasures. We use them to provide for and help others, the way God provides for us.
So Sunflower's journey started with woodworking, grew a second business out of the same values, and — as the Lord guides our path ahead — will keep adding, subtracting, and evolving. Come along with us on this journey.