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Southern Baptist. Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon (December 12, 1840 – December 24, 1912) was an American Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly 40 years (1873–1912) living and working in China. As a teacher and evangelist she laid a foundation for traditionally solid support for missions among ...
On July 7, 1873, the board appointed its most famous missionary, Charlotte D. "Lottie" Moon, to China. Lottie served many years among the Chinese and after giving her life to foreign missions. In 1888, the annual fund-raising effort, The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering sponsored by the Woman's Missionary Union is established and latter take her ...
She was an early feminist pioneer for women's equality, but her reputation in Baptist memory is one of a Southern belle who followed traditional gender roles. Her memory is used in the Union's main annual fundraising drive, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering which was set up in 1918. [4] [2] By 2023, the fund had raised over $5 billion. [5]
Cicero Washington Pruitt (1857–1946) was among the first Southern Baptist missionaries to Northern China. He was born in Barrettsville, Georgia, on January 31, 1857, the son of John Wesley and Hannah (Rodgers) Pruitt. He was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister at the age of 14 and began his evangelical work by preaching to Native ...
Virginia Bethel Moon (1844–1925) was born in Oxford, Ohio in 1844. When she was young, her family lived in what is now known as the "Lottie Moon House."She moved to Memphis, Tennessee with her mother in 1862 where she began a short but notable career as an espionage agent working with Memphis entrepreneur-turned-soldier Nathan Bedford Forrest and other Confederates, including her sister ...
Hebrew scholar. Crawford Howell Toy (March 23, 1836 – May 12, 1919 [1]), American Hebrew scholar, was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He graduated at the University of Virginia in 1856, and studied at the University of Berlin from 1866 to 1868. From 1869 to 1879 he was professor of Hebrew in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (first in ...
Phoenix officers under scrutiny after video shows Tasing and punching of deaf man. 03:47. All charges have been dismissed against a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was shocked with a Taser ...
Cynthia Charlotte Moon (1828–1895) was born in Danville, Virginia, on August 10, 1828. She and her sister, Virginia Moon are best known for their role as Confederate spies during the American Civil War. When the girls were young, their father sold their slaves and moved the family north to Oxford, Ohio, where they lived in the house that is ...