Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The International Mission Board and Woman’s Missionary Union invite all Southern Baptists to participate in the 2024 Week of Prayer and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®. Resources are now available at lottiemoon.com.
Throughout her career, Lottie Moon wrote letters home urging Southern Baptists toward greater missions involvement and support. One of those letters triggered Southern Baptists’ first Christmas offering for international missions—enough to send three new missionaries to China.
What is the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering? Lottie Moon was sent as a Southern Baptist missionary to China from 1873 to 1912. She saw firsthand the world’s greatest problem — LOSTNESS.
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.
All About Lottie Moon. For Southern Baptists, the name of Lottie Moon is always connected with the annual Christmas offering. Do your preschoolers know about Lottie’s amazing life and missionary work in service to God? This leaflet tells her story and explains the Christmas offering.
Her most conspicuous contributions, however, were her challenge to Southern Baptist women to form their own missionary organization for the support and promotion of foreign missions, and her admonition to young women to heed the call of China.
Lottie did not like to go to church. But because of a friend, she agreed to attend a missionary meeting. At that meeting the Holy Spirit showed her how ugly her spirit was. After praying all night, she confessed her bad behavior to God and to others. She decided to become a missionary herself.
Lottie Moon lived alone in a small Chinese town, adopting everything of Chinese culture that wasn't in contradiction to Christianity and developing her own innovative ways of preaching. The fruit was remarkable and she saw hundreds of converts and numerous churches begin.
One hundred years after her death, the sacrifice of early missionary Lottie Moon still inspires Southern Baptists to give millions to the international missions offering named in her honor. Lottie Moon was a four-foot, three-inch spiritual giant who pushed the absolute limits of service in China.
The simple facts are these: Lottie was a Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board for almost 40 years from 1873-1912. She was a strong woman whose love of Jesus and passion to follow Him caused her to break out of the restrictive roles that women of her generation were ‘supposed’ to play in world mission.