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- Lottie Moon revisited. . . The auction last night brought in over $9,000 for the Lottie Moon international missions offering. It was a beautiful thing, and so much fun! It gave everyone an opportunity to share the things that they do for fun, and also professionally. One house painter, a friend of ours, offered to do a room, or one faux-painted wall. And he's good! One girl offered babysitting and housecleaning help, one gave the chance to go on a F-16 simulator. . .That one went for $600! There was a huge hand-made ship. . .like the ship in a bottle, but HUGE, and no bottle, that went for $300 something. Lottie (Charlotte) Moon (b. Viewmont, Albermarle County, Va., Dec. 12, 1840; d. Kobe, Japan, Dec. 24, 1912). Missionary in Tengchow and Pingtu, China, for nearly 40 years; instrumental in instigating first Christmas offering, 1888. She was educated at Virginia Female Seminary (later known as Hollins) and at Albermarle Female Institute, Charlottesville. She was converted in the spring of 1859 in a meeting by John Albert Broadus, then pastor at Charlottesville. She taught at Danville, Ky., and Cartersville, Ga. She volunteered for missionary service in Feb., 1873, in response to a sermon on the text, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest," and she was appointed to China, July 7, 1873, by the Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. In 1888 she wrote to the Baptist women of the South, pleading for reinforcements. The first Christmas offering in 1888 provided three additional missionaries. She spent 14 years in China before taking her first regular furlough. Toward the end of her days, she suffered with her Chinese people in the terrible famine. She gave all she had. In the time of deepest trials she wrote, "I hope no missionary will be as lonely as I have been." Literally starving, she grew steadily weaker. Before Christmas, 1912, Cynthia Miller, faithful nurse, started back to America with Lottie Moon; death came to the frail missionary, Christmas Eve, while the ship was at harbor in Kobe, Japan. The present Christmas offering for foreign missions, sponsored by the W.M.U., is named for Lottie Moon. Found here- http://www.sbhla.org/bio_moon.htm
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