Come check out what is new in the store, enjoy some food and fellowship and join us for our book signing of local minister Bishop John Aguilar and his new book "Keeping The Ministry Pure"Location: 2563 Whiskey Rd, Aiken, SC 29803If you are unable to attend, you can order your copy of Keeping the Ministry Pure, through Amazon.
Pauline Books and Media Manager Sister Margaret helps customer Ann Harrington with a book selection Wednesday, April 3, 2019. The store has been located at the corner of King and Beaufain streets for 35 years. Brad Nettles/Staff
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For more than a century, LifeWay has offered a wide selection of Bibles, books, Scripture reference tools, children's products, Christian music and movies, church signs and furnishings at its brick-and-mortar-stores.
But even as LifeWay Christian Resources shuts down all 170 of its shops, including seven in South Carolina with one in North Charleston, other Christian bookstores in the Lowcountry are staying open by offering non-Christian materials. The establishments are functioning less as a bookstore and more as community centers.
Sister Margaret Kerry, who manages the store at the corner of King and Beaufain streets, points to other Catholic bookstores across the state that have closed up shop as people purchase more books online.
The religious sisters say that the Bible and children's books are still popular, making up 40 percent of the store's sales. The group also depends on golf and bowling fundraisers to pay the bills, as well as donations from shoppers. Because the sisters work the store out of spiritual devotion and not pay, that helps save on costs, too.
The group also has kept up with the digital age, establishing an online store and using social media more to promote products. The sisters also created a Facebook page titled "My Sisters" that provides online teaching and prayer.
Rick Hegwood Jr., owner of Agape Christian Bookstore in Goose Creek, said business declined over the years, but offering school products and being privately owned has helped keep the bookstore afloat.
There are many options both online and in person to buy homeschool and educational resources. SC has several dedicated homeschool book stores, and you will find that many other stores often stock homeschool books and other educational resources as well. Here is a list of places that will hopefully help you find the perfect resources for your homeschool.
As a prospective Christian bookstore owner, you may have sensed a call to share your faith or serve your community as well as pursuing an entrepreneurial dream. You need focused planning on the spiritual, physical and commercial aspects for your store to be effective as both a business and ministry.
To shape what products and services you plan to offer, discern what you consider to be your call and identify your target customers. For instance, according to Cathedral Consulting Group, some Protestant bookstore owners decline to sell Catholic-themed items like statutes of saints, while more theologically conservative owners shun liberal publications. You might decide on more, but not necessarily exclusively, liberal works if you or your community leans that way on religious or social matters.
A Christian Booksellers Association survey says approximately 60 percent of bookstore sales in 2013 came from Bibles and books. Enhance your print offerings with categories such as fiction, Christian living and Bible study. Add gifts, music, movies, greeting cards, church supplies and wearing apparel to your initial inventory to increase sales. Focus on novelties that are more difficult to find online than books. Some retailers even sell materials for homeschoolers. While numbers vary by location, plan on an initial inventory investment of around $35 per square foot, according to ChristianTrade Association International.
To contain your launch costs, don't start with a 30,000 square-foot free-standing establishment. Start with a smaller retail space and build from there. Incorporate variety into your displays. Christian Retail Association recommends not placing gifts on bookshelves or books on gift racks, but instead converting dressers, drawers, windows and other materials -- which you can find at thrift stores -- to bookshelves, tables and jewelry display cases. Keep your color scheme basic, such as painting your main walls with neutrals like off-white and beige and using navy blue, vivid red and chocolate brown for accent or smaller walls.
Cultivate connections with local churches. Cathedral Consulting Group mentions a retailer who states that a quarter of his sales come from relationships with churches. According to the Christian Booksellers Association, 73 percent of bookstore owners back ministries. You can, for instance, announce to church members promotions in which you will donate a portion of their purchases to their church's ministry. Ask pastors or leaders to display posters, business cards or flyers in church lobbies.
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds . By Phillip E. Johnson. InterVarsity. 132 pages, $15.99 cloth, $9.99 paper. When the Supreme Court struck down “balanced treatment” of creation and evolution in public schools ten years ago, the Justices hoped they had closed the issue. Instead, they guaranteed that Darwinism would become part of the culture war. Rather than being a subject for rational discussion in the classroom, Darwinism is now protected orthodoxy-and has acquired all the bad habits of an established religion. Phillip Johnson, law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and author of two earlier books on Darwinism, hopes to teach readers to spot those bad habits and restore rational debate. His prime complaint is that Darwinism promotes philosophy under the guise of science. Evolution as understood by the scientific establishment is simply materialist philosophy applied to biology. And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence-as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation. Johnson is convinced that detecting such fallacies would go a long way toward defeating Darwinism. In this lively, tightly written book for a general audience, he teaches readers to train their “baloney detectors” on the doublethink, ad hominems, rhetorical tricks, and logical gaps that characterize the public propaganda for Darwinism. 2ff7e9595c
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