Facts About: Abundant Blessings

Hello and welcome to our first ever blog! Within our blog you may find a series of posts relating to product, upcoming events and event reviews, touching stories from our staff or customers, life events, or uplifting thoughts. We welcome your feedback and shared experiences in the comments section! If you would like to share your story privately or have something you would like shared, you may also email us.

As this is our first blog, we would like to introduce who we are as a store and as a people. First and foremost, our store name is Abundant Blessings Christian Store, based in Salina, Kansas. We are a private Christian retail store seeking to enhance the lives of people of all Christian faiths by providing them with the products for their Christian lifestyle thus seeking to bless those within central Kansas in their personal Christian faith journey. We seek to develop a personal relationship with our customers in order to provide them with a unique buying experience. We are here to care about you and support you!

From Left to Right: Sandy, Gerald, and Carolyn

Now a little about each of our current staff:

Carolyn Funk is the Store Manager. Along with two others, Carolyn opened the store in December of 2013. Carolyn has an extensive background in Christian retail as she has worked a few other Christian stores in Salina, Kansas. Carolyn works diligently to select and order unique, interesting gifts as well as the traditional and collectable gift items. Carolyn actively looks for book, music, and movie specials while bringing in new and favorites authors and music artists.

Gerald Funk is a part-owner and a great supporter around the store. If you couldn’t guess, Gerald and Carolyn are married and will celebrate their 35th anniversary this year! Gerald is in charge of hanging posters, building new displays, and keeping everything looking nice for us.

From Left to Right: Gerald, Carolyn, Marty, and Sandy

Sandy West is the third part owner. Sandy has many years of experience in Christian Retail with Carolyn and Marty. Sandy loves to talk and help customers find that perfect gift, book, or bible they may be looking for.

Marty is one of our retail clerks. She has worked in Christian Retail with Sandy and Carolyn for many years, in addition to working in retail for much longer. Marty is one of our expert display people (meaning she displays a lot of the product within the store!), is always smiling and willing to help.

Lee

Lee is one of our retail clerks. Lee has worked for Abundant Blessings almost since the store opened and worked at another Christian store previously in town, as well as having years of retail experience. She is always willing to help customers and help with any tasks needed to complete in the store.

Chris is one of our newer retail clerks as she just started working with us this summer. While Chris may be a newer staff member, she is always gracious and willing to help customers as she becomes much more familiar with our computer system and processes in the store.

Fred is one of our on-call staff. While Fred doesn’t work on a regular basis with us, he is always willing to step in when we need him to. Fred has a servant heart and loves to talk with customers and help them find what they need or to just be a listening ear.

Karla is one of our store clerks and manages our social media pages (and the primary blogger). Karla enjoys connecting with customers, assisting customers, and is learning more about how to utilize the social media pages to benefit you (the customer) most.

That is a little bit about us, our staff, and our journey as a store so far. Our upcoming post will be about a conference a few of us are attending in Nashville, Tennessee next week!