Friendship Bookstore, a Christian bookstore in business for more than 50 years, is relocating this week to Reedsville, Pa., the Lewistown Sentinel reported.
The bookstore, which sells fiction and nonfiction along with Bibles, religious study resources, Christian music, choir gowns, church supplies, greeting cards, and more, had been located in Burnham, Pa., for 20 years. Store owner and manager Theil Kauffman noted that the bookstore is going from 4,500 square feet to about 1,000. "It's a nice, cozy quaint little bookstore here."
The bookstore has been closed since March 30, and Kauffman expects to be open in the new space this week. Kauffman, who began working full-time at the bookstore in 1978 and purchased it with his wife in 1987, explained that the store has "really slimmed down" in some sections, particularly CDs and DVDs. "We wanted to downsize since we've gotten a little older."