Campus giveaway is in hands of foundation
Christian institutions hoping to win a free campus in western Massachusetts might soon face competition from others who are willing to pay for it, according to terms of a year-end donation from the property’s billionaire owners.
Hobby Lobby Stores on December 28 donated a 217-acre campus in Northfield, Massachusetts, to the National Christian Foundation, a Georgia-based charity that administers donor-advised funds.
NCF now plans to do what Hobby Lobby has tried in vain to do since acquiring the property in 2009: give it to a Christian institution that will honor the legacy of its founder, 19th-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
