The Lottie Moon Offering
 Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon December 12, 1840 – December 24, 1912 |
However, early on I attended whichever church appealed to Mama for she was the Christian anchor and family member who tended to my moral upbringing.
Later it was the Methodist denomination. Early on it was the Baptists who were those with whom we worshipped.
When I was a kid at Thalia Lynn Baptist Church in Virginia Beach Virginia one of those annual observances was the Lottie Moon offering and I noticed that she was held in high esteem by the church in general.
She was a Southern Baptist missionary in China under the auspices of the Foreign Mission Board and lived and worked in China from 1873 rhough 1912.
She is known for creating a solid foundation for missions among the Southern Baptist denomination through their Woman's Missionary Union.
As an early feminist pioneer she worked for women's equality — but she remains remembered as a traditional missionary and for all the moralist connotations that pertain to that calling.