Christiaan Funkhouser, M.Div. Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I took the opportunity to serve the students at Emory University as a Campus Minister with Bread Coffeehouse. Once I've raised my funding, I'll be on campus full time telling stories, cooking food, and helping point students, like Paul did thousands of years ago on Mars Hill, to the 'Unknown God.' Bread is extremely unique because they offer coffee, food, conversations, community, and the love of Jesus in an authentic and non-confrontational way that doesn't ask anything from the students. We get to serve them like Jesus did by having honest conversations and loving the students exactly where they're at, but too much for them to stay there. Because Bread doesn't ask for anything in return for the coffee, food, or community, ministers like myself depend on the generosity of prayer and funding of partners to be able to do what we do. If you're interested in learning more and how to help me, send me a DM.

• Delivered over 4.2k orders with an average rating of 4.99/5.00 across six platforms with high ratings for communication, friendliness, attention to detail, and going beyond expectations.

• Help clients discover and tell their brand story through new or improved marketing strategies, branding, copy, content, and websites to better describe their vision and audience.

• Speaking primarily at teen conferences across the southeast and internationally, I’ve spoken on topics about community, reconciliation, interpersonal relationships, and living authentically.• Feedback in consistently positive with remarks highlighting my ability to command the room, differentiated presentation style, and my ability to make the content memorable and relevant.

Canton, Georgia, United States

• Taught differentiated and developmentally appropriate lessons, Pre-K – College concurrently.• Oversaw recruitment, training, and scheduling of volunteers creating a Policy on Protecting Students.• Led worship, gave Sunday Morning sermons, performed hospital visitations, weddings, and more.• Developed authentic relationships with students helping them identify and achieve their non-theology based goals equipping them with tools and skills needed both inside and outside the church.• Broke down complex curriculum topics creatively to make them more digestible and retainable.• Redesigned teaching space to make it fun, productive, and conducive to a healthy place to explore the truth of scripture and ask questions.

• Balanced multiple areas of responsibilities including customer service, asset protection, and sales. • Engaged in an ask, listen, and recommend style of sales to identify customer’s needs to make appropriate and best solutions. • Regularly surpassed KPI goals and helped other co-workers meet theirs by focusing on continuing education on products and policies.

Acworth, Ga.

• Balanced multiple areas of responsibilities including customer service, asset protection, and sales. • Successfully de-escalated issues involving complaints and worked to get solid resolutions.• Recommend, selected, and assisted customers in locating merchandise based on their needs.• Focused on continuing education about both products and policies to be able to successfully manage customer expectations whilst ensuring the best solutions were offered. • Regularly surpassed KPI goals and helped other co-workers meet theirs. • Frequently chosen by management to have new hires shadow so they could learn excellent salesmanship and correct procedures.

Calhoun, Georgia

• Managed millions of dollars of assets.• Saved the company 6x salary in the first year through re-negotiating contracts, exploring different ways of doing things, and engaging with multiple C-level executives to further their initiatives and bring them to completion.• Responsible for overseeing and training interns. • Worked cross company to place purchase orders based on observed need and via submitted requisitions.• Responsibility for vendor management, including: set up, price and contract negotiation, and ISO compliance. • Worked closely with CEO's, VP's, and Directors of internal companies on special purchasing products, including a unified branding campaign, overhaul of purchasing practices, and out of the box sourcing leading to savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars in issued PO's, forecasted and YoY savings. • Designed and implemented training materials for new purchasing initiatives some of those initiatives were recognized by our parent company - Tarkett.

United States

• Worked closely with the planners and purchasing department ensuring production jobs had necessary supplies and minimized downtime of production. • Responsible for inventory management and enforcement of proper FIFO procedures leading to the elimination of hundreds of thousands of pounds of obsolete materials. • Increased efficiency of aspects of production to meet changing production timelines by building relationships with other departments to solve persistent problems creatively.

Calhoun, Georgia, United States

• Worked in the warehouse, building relationships between departments, examining processes, and finding opportunities for improvement. Specifically, I was hired to locate giant turf roles that had been misplaced throughout the warehouse.

Roswell, Georgia

• Promoted to interim position leveraging relationships made on social media to open pathways to new opportunities. • Solidified our presence in the social community and strengthened our adherence to correct SEO practices. • engaged in contract negotiation resulting in lower prices on advertising and press releases. • Wrote and edited copy for international press releases. • Spearheaded video advertising by writing, directing, shooting, and editing advertisements of our multi-million dollar lab leading to increased requests for usage and a strengthened place as an industry innovator.

Roswell, Ga

• Worked under direction of the Marketing Director to maintain and promote the social media presence. • Worked with management and owners to define social media branding and messaging, ensuring consistency and building recognition within targeted demographics.

Roswell

• Responsible for ensuring correct fulfillment of purchase order requests, packing of product and ISO adherence. • Streamlined shipping and international paperwork process to ensure on time delivery of goods.

Masters Of Divinity, Philosophy / Christian Education

International Studies, Political Science

Activities and Societies: On the forensics team (public speaking team), writer for The Sting (school newspaper), DJ for WGHR NO-FM.I.