By Warren Sager
Excerpt:
My name is Charlotte Digges Moon, and I was born on Dec 12, 1840 in Albemarle County, Virginia. Most people called me Lottie Moon. I am most well known for being one of the first single female missionaries appointed by the International Missions Board. I spent nearly 40 years serving on the mission field in Tengchow, China. After I died, the Southern Baptists named their annual Christmas offering after me. You can still give to the Lottie Moon offering today, and those funds will go to the International Missions Board to help further the gospel to foreign lands.
Let me give you a little history about me. I was born into a strong Christian home, but I would consider myself a rather devilish little girl. I was not respectful toward my parents, very outspoken, and enjoyed Shakespeare more than the Bible. I basically rebelled against the teachings of the church, and it wasn’t till I went off to college, that I became aware of my sinful state. I accepted Christ as my Lord and Saviour at the age of 18. I was invited to hear an evangelistic message at a church near the college campus. I was not that interested in going, but God somehow got me there and the Holy Spirit of God spoke to my heart that night. The speaker was John Broadus. He once called me the most educated woman in the South. Maybe that was because I was proficient in Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish and some Hebrew. But it was not my intellect that saved my soul.
My parents believed in education for their girls and we had the opportunities to study and prepare for life; to excel and grow into intelligent, thoughtful women. My sister, Orianna, was the first woman in Virginia to study medicine and be granted a medical license. My sister, Edmonia, became a missionary to China in 1872. It was practically unheard of for a single woman to go off to the mission field in those days.
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