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LOTTIE MOON –
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the namesake of Southern Baptists’ international missions offering — has become a legend. But in her time, Lottie was anything but an untouchable
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hero. In fact, she was like today’s missionaries. She labored tirelessly so her people group could know Jesus.
The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® is an annual offering collected by believers around the world to support international missions. The offering was officially named in 1918 by Woman’s Missionary Union in honor of the missionary to China who urged churches to start it and give sacrificially.
This offering is unique from other mission offerings in that 100 percent
of gifts provide for missionaries all over the world. It is a valuable part
of Southern Baptists’ 175-year history of reaching the nations with the gospel and vital to reaching the vision of a multitude from every language, people, tribe and nation knowing and worshiping our Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 7:9).
Well over 100 years ago, a single missionary named Lottie Moon, serving in China, began writing letters challenging the church in the United States to send and support more workers to go there. After her death on the field, her challenge was heeded in the formalization of an offering in her name. Her life is a reminder of why we must give to send and support missionaries serving among unreached peoples in unreached places.
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