Marcia Wood
Varnville, SC
Sound Off by Marcia
Christmas Bazaar
November 13, 2010
Varnville First Baptist Church
Varnville, SC
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
Under the leadership of Sylvia Freeman and Shirley Robinson, the church-wide participants – men and women – for weeks devoted their time to creating items and food groups as a fund raiser for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. At $5 per person, breakfast was prepared by men of the church as servers received menu orders from the visitors.
All funds are designated to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for the sole purpose of supporting international missionaries and their work.
Charlotte Digges “Lottie” Moon was a Southern Baptist missionary with the Foreign Mission Board. She spent nearly 40 years helping the Chinese. As a teacher and evangelist she laid a foundation for support of missions among Baptists in America.
Throughout her missionary career, she faced plague, famine, revolution and war. When funds were short in support of the missionaries, she shared her finances and food with those in need around her. This affected her physical and mental health. Weighing only 50 pounds in 1912, she was to go back home to the United States. She died en route at the age of 72 on December 24, 1912.
For more information on Lottie Moon, you may find resource material in your church library, public library or the internet.
We thank the visitors for supporting us by purchasing items which in turn will help the Southern Baptist Missionaries as they share the gospel overseas.
We also invite you to attend worship services at Varnville First Baptist Church and visit the web site www.varnvillefbc.org.
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"Lottie" Moon
December 12, 1840
Albemarle County, Virginia
December 24, 1912 (age 72)
Kobe Harbor, Japan
