Lottie

 

Me:  Merry Christmas!

Prodigal:  Merry Christmas!

Me:  Now is a time to here from Lottie Moon

This is from the book Great Women of the Christian Faith by Edith Deen

 

For forty years Lottie moon dedicated her life to Christian service among the women of North China.  The gifted, well-educated, attractive daughter of an old Virginia family, she could have chosen a comfortable life in her plantation home.  Instead, she chose privation, hardship and sacrifice among people who worshiped the mud idols of their ancestors.

Lottie received her early schooling from a governess at home.  In 1854 she was sent to the Albermarle Female Institute in Virginia, and later entered Hollins College, where she achieved the highest grades in her class.  She was one of the first Southern women to receive a Master’s Degree, awarded to her in 1861 by Hollins.

In the spring of 1873 when Lottie heard a sermon on the est, “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest,”  She made up her mind to go to China as a missionary.

Psalm 18:45

Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org.

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