LITTLE ROCK – Volunteers gathered at the Arkansas Baptist State Convention office on Tuesday, Nov. 11, to pack materials for churches to use to promote the annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
The 2025 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Week of Prayer is Nov. 30 through Dec. 7.
Among the volunteers was Kimberly Windham, an International Mission Board (IMB) missionary, who recently returned stateside after serving 16 years alongside her husband in southern Africa. Two of their four children also traveled with them.
Windham said 100% of gifts given to Lottie Moon support missionary presence around the world, including childcare and child education, travel expenses, security, and more while on the field.
“It’s not just a percentage, which even if it was a percentage, it would be worth it,” she said. “You know that it is being handled with integrity.”
Arkansas Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) Executive Director Laura Bramlett said giving to Lottie Moon “makes it possible for our missionaries to serve all over the world without the burden of having to raise their own support.”
“As a former Journeyman, I personally want to say thank you for giving,” she said. “While serving in South Africa, you helped provide my apartment, car, salary, ministry budget, medical care, etc. Please don’t ever doubt if your giving matters! I guarantee that all of our more than 3,500 missionaries currently on the field would agree.”
According to the International Mission Board (IMB) resources, “Lottie Moon was sent as a Southern Baptist missionary to China from 1873 to 1912. She saw firsthand the world’s greatest problem — lostness. Meeting so many people who had never heard the Gospel compelled her to write letters to American churches describing the need for a greater missionary presence. She pleaded for increased prayer and financial support to send and sustain more missionaries. This challenge became known as the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.”
As churches begin their campaigns for the 2025-26 Lottie Moon offering, they can find free downloadable resources on the IMB website.