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American Bible Society Will Close Its $60 Million Museum
The Bible museum on Independence Mall in Philadelphia was open less than three years and had attracted fewer visitors than projected. “Fewer visitors than projected”. I’ll say. Supposed to attract 250,000 patrons a year. In its final year (year #3) ticket sales were 5,400. A slight shortfall.
ABS’s new CEO Jennifer Holloran, arriving last month to an organization with
a variety of financial and missional troubles, said in an email to staff on
Wednesday that she and the board had agreed at their February meeting that
“now is the time to proceed with this difficult but necessary action.”
She quoted Ecclesiastes 3, writing that “everything that happens in this
world happens at the time of God’s choosing.”
All this trouble in the world and God chose to go another direction. Well, isn’t that just like him!
