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Moon was born to affluent parents who were staunch Baptists, Anna Maria Barclay and Edward Harris Moon. She grew up on the family's ancestral 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) tobacco plantation called Viewmont [1] near Scottsville, Virginia. Lottie was fourth in a family of five girls and two boys. Lottie was 13 when her father died in a riverboat accident.
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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]
Cynthia Charlotte Moon (1828–1895) was born in Danville, Virginia, on August 10, 1828. She and her sister, Virginia Moon are best known for their role as Confederate spies during the American Civil War .
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]
Lottie Moon (1840–1912), representing the Southern Baptist, was the most prominent woman missionary. Although an equality-oriented feminist who rejected male dominance, the Southern Baptists have memorialized her as a southern belle who followed traditional gender roles.
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C.W. and Ann Seward along with William and Effie Sears and Laura Barton were the only missionaries that remained loyal to Lottie Moon during a doctrinal dispute with Tarleton Perry Crawford that led to dividing the Southern Baptist North China Mission. T.P. Crawford believed missionaries should be self-supporting, but received criticism for ...