Lottie Moon

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Lottie Moon
A Kingdom-Focused Life
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Quick Facts about Lottie

• Charlotte Diggs Moon (Lottie)
• was born on Dec. 12, 1840
• in Albemarle County, Virginia

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Quick Facts about Lottie

• Lottie rebelled against Christianity until she
  was in college.
• In December 1858, she dedicated her life to
  Christ and was baptized at First Baptist Church
  of Charlottesville, Va.

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Lottie the kolohe

• In 1854, Lottie was sent to a girls school run
  by leading Virginia Baptists. Early on April
  Fools Day her second year, she climbed the
  schools bell tower and muffled the bell with
  towels and sheets. Classes started late that day!

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Lottie still kolohe at 71

• As Lottie and new missionary, Jane Lide, walked
  one day beside the Tengchow city wall, a mounted
  Chinese soldier galloped toward them on the path.
  Jane prepared to step aside onto the narrow,
  slippery ledge between the path and a partially
  filled moat. Lottie stopped her. Dont worry,
  Jane, she said. Ill teach him some manners.
  Lottie stood fast, tightening her hold on her
  umbrella. As man and mount bore down upon the
  two, threatening to knock them into the moat,
  Lottie suddenly opened her umbrella. The horse
  shied, throwing the rider into the moat. The two
  women walked on, while the angry but chastened
  soldier picked himself up out of the water.

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Did you know

• Lottie Moon was only 4 ft. 3 in. tall.
• She was one of the first women in the South to
  receive a masters degree from Albemarle Female
  Institute, female counterpart to the University
  of Virginia.
• She wrote quotations in the margins of her Bible.
  A favorite was from Francis de Sales Go on
  joyously as much as you can, and if you do not
  always go on joyously, at best go on courageously
  and confidently.

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Lottie Moon in China

• Appointed in 1873, Lottie served 39 years, mostly
  in Chinas Shantung province.
• Lottie taught in a girls school, often making
  trips into Chinas interior to share the good
  news with women and girls.

The first graduates of the Baptist girls school
in Tenchow, China with diplomas in hand.
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Lottie in China
Lottie served in Shantung Province
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Did you know

• While two single women recruits studied Chinese
  life with Lottie, they noticed during devotions
  that her Scripture reading did not correspond
  with their Bibles. One asked what Lottie was
  reading from. Oh, the Greek, she replied,
  continuing her translation. She translated with
  the same facility from Greek to Chinese.

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Lotties Sacrifice

• When she set sail for China, Lottie was 32 years
  old. She had turned down a marriage proposal and
  left her job, home and family to follow Gods
  lead. Her path wasnt typical for an educated
  woman from a wealthy Southern family. But Lottie
  did not serve a typical God. He had gripped her
  with the Chinese peoples need for a Savior.

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Lotties Ultimate Sacrifice
During a time of war and famine, Lottie silently
starved, knowing that her beloved Chinese didnt
have enough food. Her fellow Christians saw the
ultimate sign of love giving her life for
others. On Christmas Eve in 1912, at age 72,
Lottie died on a ship bound for the United States.

• Workmen gather wheat in Pingtu, China, about
  1910.

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How Lottie changed China

• She organized many new schools, including the
  first school for girls and boys together in 1898
• She led Chinese Christians to combat the practice
  of binding girls feet

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How Lottie Changed China

• Her dreamestablish a chain of mission stations
  toward the interior of China

Starting in Tenchow
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Her dream begins

• Hwanghsein 20 miles away
• Established a church and Foreign Mission Boards
  first hospital on any field
• Pingtu 100 miles further
• Established a new church around 1898

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The dream continues

• Sha-ling 10 miles further
• Established the 4th Southern Baptist Church in
  North China

Persecution
Persecution broke out in Sha-ling in 1890 and
Lottie calmed the terrified believers. A young
convert, Li Show-ting, was persecuted by his
brothershe later became a great evangelist
baptizing more than 10,000 believers!
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Freedom

• After revolutionary forces won the Sino-Japanese
  War in 1912
• Under the lead of Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shih-kai,
  a personal friend of Lottie, a republic was
  established with a Christian calendar and a
  declaration of religious liberty.

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Her dream fulfilled

• By 1912, there were 273 missionaries supported by
  the Foreign Mission Board
• As of October 2006, there are 5,193 missionaries

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Lotties Impact on Missions

• At Lotties suggestion, the Foreign Mission Board
  adopted a new policy to provide furloughs to
  missionaries after 10 years on the field.

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Lotties Impact on Missions

• Lottie Moon wrote numerous letters home, urging
  Southern Baptists to 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.

One of Lotties many letters
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The Lottie Moon Offering

• In 1918, Womans Missionary Union named the
  annual Christmas offering for international
  missions after Lottie who had urged them to start
  it.

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IMB facts

• 5,193 missionaries supported (as of 10/31/06)
• 1,193 people groups engaged
• There are over 4,000 people groups unengaged

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How Your Gifts are Used

• 100 percent of the offering is used in the
  overseas budget to support missionaries and their
  ministries.
• Costs to support a missionary for a year
  40,866.61 for a month 3,405.55 for a week
  785.90 for a day 111.96 for an hour
  4.66 for a minute .08
• Missionary support includes housing, food,
  missionary children's education and more. None is
  used for stateside administration.

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Lotties Challenge to Us

• How many there are who imagine that because
  Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing,
  forgetting that the prime object of their
  salvation was that they should follow in the
  footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost
  world to God.
• Lottie Moon
• Tungchow, China
• Sept. 15, 1887