LITTLE ROCK – Volunteers came together at the Arkansas Baptist State Convention offices on Monday to pack materials for churches to use to promote the annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
The 2024 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Week of Prayer is Dec. 1-8, 2024. One hundred percent of gifts given to Lottie Moon support missionary presence around the world.
“Without the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, we would have less missionaries and it would be impossible for the current ones to do what they do. There would be fewer missionaries and less of the ministries funded,” Arkansas Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) Executive Director Debbie Moore said. “Lottie Moon is so important to all that we do as Southern Baptists.”
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 2024-25 Lottie Moon offering, they can find free downloadable resources on the IMB website.