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Moon has come to personify the missionary spirit for Southern Baptists and many other Christians as well. The annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions has raised more than $1.5 billion for missions since 1888, and finances half the international missions budget of the Southern Baptist Convention every year.
She was an early feminist pioneer for women's equality, but her reputation in Baptist memory is one of a Southern belle who followed traditional gender roles. Her memory is used in the Union's main annual fundraising drive, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering which was set up in 1918. [4] [2] By 2023, the fund had raised over $5 billion. [5]
In addition to his controversy at Southern Seminary, Toy is also famous for teaching and once being engaged to Lottie Moon, for whom the SBC annual Christmas offering for international missions is named. Toy first encountered Lottie Moon at the Albemarle Female Institute, founded by Southern Seminary founder John Broadus. Lottie was a capable ...
Lottie Moon. On July 7, 1873, the board appointed its most famous missionary, Charlotte D. "Lottie" Moon, to China. Moon served many years among the Chinese and after giving her life to foreign missions. In 1888 an annual fund-raising effort, The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, was sponsored by the Woman's Missionary Union. [3]
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake. Amen.” — Robert Louis ...
Temperatures are dropping at Netflix. As rom-coms continue to rule the holiday season, the streaming service has begun to rival staple networks like Hallmark and Lifetime in its seasonal content.
A Christmas full moon? Not this year ... When can you see the first full moon of 2024? The January full moon, also known as the "Wolf Moon" will be visible at 12:54 p.m. on Jan. 25, 2024.
Charlotte ("Lottie") Diggers Moon (1840–1912, US/C), missionary; the SBC's Christmas missionary offering is named in her honor. [114] Abel Morgan (1673–1722, W), minister and religious writer; David Eirwyn Morgan (1918–1982, W), minister, college tutor and politician; William Morris (1843–1922, W) minister and President of the Baptist ...