|
Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church
A church that supports World
Wide Missions. Fulfilling the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18 - 20) by
sending forth messengers of the Gospel is very important to Mt. Lebanon Baptist
Church. Much of our annual budget supports home and foreign Mission
projects such as the SBC Cooperative Program, Campus Crusade for Christ,
Christian Radio Stations, the Gideon's, Culpeper Pregnancy Center and much more.
|


Each year,
we honor the life and work of Annie Walker Armstrong (1850-1938) when we
give to the annual offering for home missions named after her. As a tireless
servant of God and a contagious advocate and supporter of mission efforts
throughout the world, Annie Armstrong led women to unite in mission
endeavors that ultimately led to the formation of Woman’s Missionary Union,
for which she served as the first corresponding secretary.
Annie believed in Christ with all
her heart, but it was her hands that expressed that belief in tangible ways.
She spent a great amount of time typing and handwriting letters in support
of missions. Many of these letters were quite lengthy and all were filled
with conviction that more could and should be done in our mission efforts.
In 1893 alone, she wrote almost 18,000 letters! Annie also never hesitated
to use her hands to reach out to hug a child or distribute food and clothing
and the Word of God to those in need. Her hands held her own Bible as she
studied to know how best to share God’s love with others. And, most
important, Annie was a woman of prayer, folding her hands in prayer to
intercede for the missionaries and for those they were helping discover
Christ.
Annie rallied churches to give more,
pray more, and do more for reaching people for Christ. As we continue to
unite to make her vision a reality in North America today, we can be
confident that her legacy will also be ours.
Baptist
History and Heritage Brochure: Annie Armstrong: Shaper of Missions
WMU Biography of Annie Armstrong
A
Day with Annie Armstrong
Maryland Women's Hall of Fame - Annie Armstrong
Southern Baptist Historical Commission -- Annie Armstrong

For further information on the life of Annie Armstrong, we suggest the
following resources, available from Woman's Missionary Union or LifeWay
Christian Stores.

Lottie Moon

Lottie Moon
|
|
|
Click on image to enlarge |
Lottie (Charlotte) Moon
(b. Viewmont, Albermarle County, Va., Dec. 12, 1840; d. Kobe, Japan,
Dec. 24, 1912). Missionary in Tengchow and Pingtu, China, for nearly 40
years; instrumental in instigating first Christmas offering, 1888. She
was educated at Virginia Female Seminary (later known as Hollins) and at
Albermarle Female Institute, Charlottesville. She was converted in the
spring of 1859 in a meeting by John Albert Broadus, then pastor at
Charlottesville. She taught at Danville, Ky., and Cartersville, Ga. She
volunteered for missionary service in Feb., 1873, in response to a
sermon on the text, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they
are white already to harvest," and she was appointed to China, July 7,
1873, by the Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. In 1888
she wrote to the Baptist women of the South, pleading for
reinforcements. The first Christmas offering in 1888 provided three
additional missionaries. She spent 14 years in China before taking her
first regular furlough. Toward the end of her days, she suffered with
her Chinese people in the terrible famine. She gave all she had. In the
time of deepest trials she wrote, "I hope no missionary will be as
lonely as I have been." Literally starving, she grew steadily weaker.
Before Christmas, 1912, Cynthia Miller, faithful nurse, started back to
America with Lottie Moon; death came to the frail missionary, Christmas
Eve, while the ship was at harbor in Kobe, Japan. The present Christmas
offering for foreign missions, sponsored by the W.M.U., is named for
Lottie Moon.

Biographical Sources:
Allen, Catherine. The New Lottie Moon Story, 1980.
Lawrence, Una Roberts. Lottie Moon, 1927.
"Lottie Moon." Shapers of Southern Baptist Heritage pamphlet series.
Southern Baptist Historical Society.
Archival sources in Southern Baptist Historical
Library and Archives.
Moon, Lottie.
Missionary Correspondence. AR. 551-2.

© 1998, Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives
Comments and
Questions
|
Top of Page |
|