In September 1967 our family decided to open a small gift shop in downtown Wheaton, IL. The first name for our store was Wheaton Card & Gift. It was a modest store of about 1200 square feet, 60% of which was devoted to greeting cards and the rest to gifts. In that very first year, we carried icons and plaques with inspirational verses on them in the gift lines. We also carried an array of traditional gift store items like vases, mugs, plates, candles, etc. After about the first year we noticed that people were buying the more spiritual items and the rest were going pretty much un-noticed.
We then added our first line of religious jewelry, Fernand Py, for which we now are the exclusive North American Distributor. As we kept adding more religious items to our line, we noticed that we had a unique niche in the market place for religious articles. Approximately 5 years later we started to get requests for books and other materials . Shortly after that we changed our name to Wheaton Religious Gift.
As time went on, we found that no one outside Wheaton knew about us so we started printing our own catalogue designed to meet the need of the churches we were servicing.
In 1982 we moved our store down the street to a gigantic 5,000 square foot facility. We started in earnest carrying church supplies and learning that phase of the business. Our name changed again to Wheaton Religious Gift & Church Supply. In 1990 we made our latest move into a 17,000 sq. ft. facility still on the same block in beautiful downtown Wheaton plus we have warehouse space in other facilities.
In 2003 we started ChurchSupplyWarehouse.com to provide years of expertise, knowledge and service in this industry to the entire world via the internet. We have now been in business for over 40 years.
The business in now owned by the 2nd generation Joseph and Phil Jr., sons of the founder.
Whatever your religious goods needs, stop by our online store to see our product line and discover more of what we have to offer you at Church Supply Warehouse!
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