WHO IS THIS LOTTIE MOON, ANYWAY?
Lottie Moon was a young woman from Virginia who went as a Southern Baptist missionary to China in 1873. For thirty-nine years she served sacrificially. In 1887 she wrote home suggesting the week before Christmas be spent in prayer for foreign missions. The next year she pleaded for money and missionaries to be sent. Baptist women responded be sending over three thousand dollars and three new missionaries to China.
Lottie Moon died on Christmas Eve, 1912, in Kobe, Japan. She was on a ship on her way home for medical treatment. She would not eat while so many around her were starving. Malnutrition caused her death.
In 1918 our annual Christmas offering for foreign missions was named after her. She was an inspiring example of self-giving.
Our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal is $15,300.00. Please pray about what God would have you give. (Envelopes will be provided for your use.)
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As we approach the end of this calendar year, I wanted to remind our members, as well as, inform the newer ones about our world Mission Club. This is an opportunity to give to missions on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis. This is collected throughout the year and distributed at the end of the year, as follows:
- Lottie Moon Christmas Offering 51.6%
- Annie Armstrong Easter Offering 16.6%
- Life Change Central (Oakhill Ministries) 10.0%
- State Missions Offering 10.0%
- State Camp Offering 8.8%
Our goal for 2016 is $ 30,000.
If you are not currently giving in this systematic way, please consider doing so in 2017. Boxed envelopes are provided by the church. You can designate World Missions Offering on your envelope (This is over and above our tithes). In addition, a special offering is taken for Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Annie Armstrong Easter
Offering which is added to the club receipts at the end of the year.
World Hunger Offering is a separate offering taken in the summer.
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Women on Mission will meet Monday, December 12th at 6:00 p.m. at the home of Jean Hitchcock. We will meet at the church at 5:40 p.m. to carpool for those who wish to do so.
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600 boxes of cake mix were collected for the Evansville Rescue Mission’s Gobbler Gathering. Thank you to all who made this possible.
