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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.
Lottie Moon died at 72 — ill and in declining health after decades ministering to her beloved Chinese. But her legacy lives on. And today, when gifts aren’t growing as quickly as the number of workers God is calling to the field, her call for sacrificial giving rings with more urgency than ever.
Learn about the annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering that takes place in Southern Baptist churches all over the world. Your gifts support gospel transformation around the world.
Christianity / Life / People / Lottie Moon: The Southern Belle Who Went to China. Lottie Moon gave up all to follow God's calling to China. She started schools, shared the Gospel in various villages, and helped raise the conditions for missionaries.
Read about the life of missionary Lottie Moon. From skeptic of Christianity to fearless missionary, Lottie Moon is remembered for more than the name of an offering. She is well-known in missionary history.
Lottie Moon, a native of Virginia, taught briefly in Cartersville, where she opened a school for girls in 1871 and ministered to the poor of Bartow County. In 1873 she traveled as a missionary to China, where she stayed for the next forty years.
Charlotte Digges (“Lottie”) Moon was the fourth single female missionary appointed by the IMB. She was born December 12, 1840 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and in 1873 joined her younger sister Edmonia in the city of Penglai Shi, Shandong Province (then called Tengchow).
It is important that the real Lottie Moon story find as enthusiastic an audience as the mythological story did. The real Lottie Moon was an articulate, forceful, determined and visionary woman who reshaped and probably saved Southern Baptist foreign mission efforts in China.
Charlotte “Lottie” Moon was a Southern Baptist born on December 12, 1840, in Virginia, who felt a calling later in her life from God to serve Him in China. Despite Lottie’s parents being stern Baptists, she was not a Christian in her youth as she enjoyed Shakespeare more than the Bible.
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.