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FBCW’S Giving to Lottie Moon

The people of Woodstock love the servants of the International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. We corporately give through normal offerings to the support of these organizations. Our partnership with these organizations goes further, however, in special offerings designated as the Annie Armstrong Easter offering and the Lottie Moon Christmas offering.

Our generous people set aside a time for special offerings every year in December. The Lottie Moon Christmas offering, named for a devoted missionary to China, is a lifeline for missions overseas—100 percent of the offering goes to the overseas mission budget. When people give to the offering, 100 percent of their gift also will be transformed into missionary salaries and ministry supplies.

Our people may designate monies for these offerings anytime.

For more information on the Lottie Moon Christmas offering: http://imb.org/giving

Lottie Moon
(1840 - 1912)

Lottie Moon: A heroine for today–a woman passionate about a lost world

Lottie Moon—the namesake of the international missions offering—has become something of a legend to us. But in her time Lottie was anything but an untouchable hero. In fact, she was like today’s missionaries. She was a hard-working, deep-loving Southern Baptist who labored tirelessly so her people group could know Jesus.

Her mission: When she set sail for China, Lottie was 32 years old. She had turned down a marriage proposal and left her job, home and family to follow God’s lead. Her path wasn’t typical for an educated woman from a wealthy Southern family. But Lottie did not serve a typical God. He had gripped her with the Chinese peoples’ need for a Savior.
For 39 years Lottie labored, chiefly in Tengchow and P’ingtu. People feared and rejected her, but she refused to leave. The aroma of fresh-baked cookies drew people to her house. She adopted traditional Chinese dress, and she learned China’s language and customs. Lottie didn’t just serve the people of China; she identified with them. Many eventually accepted her. And some accepted her Savior.

Her vision: 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 gospel with so many people—472 million Chinese in her day. She shared another timely message, too: the urgent need for more workers and for Southern Baptists passionately supporting them through prayer and giving.

In 1912, during a time of war and famine, Lottie silently starved, knowing that her beloved Chinese didn’t have enough 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 ever.

Read more of her story.

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