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Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon (December 12, 1840 – December 24, 1912) was an American Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly 40 years (1873–1912) living and working in China.
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 .
The Moon family was the first and most famous family to reside at 220 East High Street. Robert Moon, Lottie's father, moved his family into the house in 1839, and they lived as a family in the house until 1849. In 1849, Robert Moon offered the house as a gift to Lottie upon the announcement of her engagement to James Clark.
The dominant personality was Lottie Moon (1840–1912) who spent nearly 40 years (1873–1912) living and working in China. 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.
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]
Virginia Bethel Moon (1844–1925) was born in Oxford, Ohio in 1844. When she was young, her family lived in what is now known as the "Lottie Moon House."She moved to Memphis, Tennessee with her mother in 1862 where she began a short but notable career as an espionage agent working with Memphis entrepreneur-turned-soldier Nathan Bedford Forrest and other Confederates, including her sister ...
This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.