GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH - MISSION NEWS
We will be starting our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering in the month of December.
Lottie's Story
Lottie Moon has become something of a legend, but in her time Lottie was anything but an untouchable hero. In fact, she was like todays missionaries. She was a hard-working, deep loving Souther Baptist who labored tirelessly so her people could know Jesus. Throughout her career, Lottie Moon wrote letters home urging Southern Baptists to creater missions involvement and support. One of those letters triggered Southern Baptists' first Christmas Offerings for international missions it was enought to send three new missionaries to China.
Lottie's vision wasn't just for the people of China. It reached to her fellow Southern Baptists in the United States. Like today's missionaries she wrote letters home, detailing China's hunger for truth and the struggle of so few missionaries sharing the cospel with so many people. In 1912, during a time of war and famine, Lottie silently starved, knowing that her beloved Chinese didnt have enought food. Her fellow Christians saw the ultimate sign of love: giving her life for others. On Christmas Eve, Lottie died on a ship bound for the United States. But her legacy lives on. And today, when gifts aren't growing as quickly as the number of workers God is calling to the field, her call for sacrificial giving rings with more urgency than every.