Lottie Moon

The majority of missionaries around the world, there are predominantly more single young adults and predominantly more single women than men on the mission field.

And how many young women? Lottie Moon, she was a Baptist missionary.

She came back after a mission trip and told...

the person that she was in love with.

Here's your quote of the day.

"How many there are who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God," Lottie Moon.

Let's get started with some espresso shots.

But before we get to those headlines, quick announcement.

Simple answer, because of the gospel and the lostness in the world.

I know after decades of serving as a Southern Baptist pastor and professor and so forth and missionary, I know how those cooperative program funds and Lottie Moon and North American and state mission offerings, I know how they are used and how effectively they are used.

And so I just, you know, this is what I've known.

And this is who I am.

So someone shared these numbers with me just the other day.

Okay.

that this past year for the Lottie Moon Christmas offering, for example, what, it was over $205 million, give or take a few million, something like that.

And if you divide that by the number of members of the Southern Baptist Convention, it comes to a little over $13 per person given.

When I think of short people, this never escapes my mind.

And it's seeing Brother Willie having a cardboard cutout of Lottie Moon up here and having Elizabeth Maple stand next to it and give a missions update.

Do we still have that cardboard cutout? We need that back.

Yeah.

Poor Elizabeth, right? Elizabeth Maples was probably shorter than Lottie Moon.

Maybe shorter than Zacchaeus.

But some of you old-timers remember, was there any bigger spiritual giant than Elizabeth Maples at this church? Her and Fred were a force of ministry in this church.