Lottie Moon's letters from China helped change how Baptists built their global work in missions.

Today marks the 175th birthday of Lottie Moon, a woman with Virginia roots who became one of history’s most prolific Baptist missionaries.

RICHMOND — Today marks the 175th birthday of Lottie Moon, a woman with Virginia roots who became one of history’s most prolific Baptist missionaries. Moon, who lived most of her life in China ...

For millions of Baptists, this sanctuary is famous as the church home of missionary Lottie Moon, who died on Christmas Eve in 1912.

For starters, the Southern Baptist project long known as the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering – with deep ties to the Women's Missionary Union – has raised $4.4 billion since 1888.

I do know this: Baptists will care because this is connected to Lottie Moon." Baptist historian Justice Anderson put it best when he wrote: "If they had a Pope, Southern Baptists would surely ...

Clearly, Lottie Moon still matters. Chuck Lawless is dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

In 1962, Lottie Moon funds also provided the $50,000 needed to buy the land and building for Grace Baptist -- where the church remains today.

For Southern Baptists, Lottie Moon is a missionary hero, and tales of her work spreading the Gospel in China are retold every year.

For millions of Baptists, this sanctuary is famous as the church home of missionary Lottie Moon, who died on Christmas Eve in 1912.

For starters, the Southern Baptist project long known as the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering — with deep ties to the Women’s Missionary Union — has raised $4.4 billion since 1888.