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Women On Mission - December 2023

Who is this Lottie Moon, anyway?                                                                      

Charlotte Diggs Moon, 1840-1910, better known as Lottie Moon, became a legend in her own time.  A daughter of old Virginia and one of the best educated women in the South, Miss Moon was a petite 4 feet 3 inches.  Her voice is described as deep, rich, gentle, and musical which she used skillfully as a teacher/missionary.  But no photographer ever captured on film the animated, attractive, charming, delightful, energetic, fearless Lottie Moon, although a few photos do exist.

For 40 years she represented Southern Baptists in China.  Again and again she wrote back to America, “Send on the missionaries.”  Once she wrote, “It is odd that the million Baptists of the South can furnish only three men for all China.  I wonder how this looks in Heaven.  It certainty looks queer in China.”

After the Japanese-Russian war, economic conditions in China produced much poverty, but there were some new missionaries.  Miss Moon welcomed them, advised them, mothered them, and loved their children, who adored her in  return.  The Chinese women and children came and went in her home as if it were their own.  If the Pingtu Christians were starving, Miss Moon would not eat.  By December of her seventieth year, she was so frail the doctors sent her back to the States.  But enroute on Christmas Eve, while the ship rode at anchor in Kobe, Japan, Miss Moon died.  The memory of such a life never ends.

In 1918, Annie Armstrong, the woman who refused marriage to a China missionary so she could fulfill her calling as the leader of mission support among Southern Baptist women in the homeland, wrote: “Miss Moon is the one who suggested the Christmas offering for foreign missions.  She showed us the way in so many things.  Wouldn’t it be
appropriate to name the offering in her memory?” And so it was.

Our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal is $12,000. Offering envelopes will be provided for each family.

Hallelujah! We received approximately 1139 boxes of mac and cheese for the Evansville Rescue Mission. Thank you Oakhill!

Women on Mission will meet on December 7th at 1:00 pm in the Grace classroom.

Women On Mission - November 2023

Our International Mission study is Wednesday, December 1st at 12:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall, led by Pastor Paul Willett. We will learn that Zambia is the land of Victoria Falls and David Livingstone, of termite mounds the size of trucks, of wildebeest migrations, and of copper and clear-cut emeralds. It is slightly larger than the state of Texas. Christianity arrived with European missionaries in the 1800’s.

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 19.6%
Life Change Central (Oakhill Ministries) 10.0%
State Missions Offering 10.0%
State Camp Offering 8.8%
Our Goal for 2023 is $35,000

If you are not currently giving in this systematic way, please consider doing so in 2024.  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 at Christmas and Annie Armstrong at Easter which is
added to the club receipts at the end of the year. The World Hunger Offering is a separate offering taken in the summer.

The Evansville Rescue Mission has asked us to collect mac and cheese for their Gobbler Gathering Thanksgiving Baskets.  Our goal is 800 boxes!  The deadline is Sunday, November 12th.

Women on Mission will meet Thursday, November 2nd at 1:00 pm in the Grace classroom across from the Fellowship Hall.  All ladies are invited to attend.