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 one of the things in the gift lines we carried were icons and plaques with inspirational verses on them. We also carried the other 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 added books and other materials that we were now starting to get a call for. 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 www.ChurchSupplyWarehouse.com to provide our years of knowledge and service to the entire world via the world wide web. We have now been in business for over 40 years. The business in now owned by the 2nd generation Joseph and Phil Jr. Church Supply Warehouse is owned and operated by WRG Inc. an Illinois Corporation.