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Lottie Moon Christmas Offering Hits Cumulative $5 Billion BY MYRIAH SNYDER
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nternational Mission Board leaders are celebrating a monumental milestone in Southern Baptist life: On March 31, 2021, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering surpassed $5 billion total gifts since collection to send missionaries to China began in 1888. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is an annual offering collected by believers around the world to support international missions. The offering is unique because 100 percent of the gifts are used to provide for missionaries who are spreading the Gospel to the ends of the earth. “I praise God for this significant milestone in giving through the Lottie offering as it indicates
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that the love of Southern Baptists for the lost has not waned, nor has their commitment to sending and supporting missionaries through the IMB,” said Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board. “It also reveals the incredible success of the WMU in advocating, since 1888, for every nation, tribe, people, and language to have the opportunity to hear the Gospel—a partnership for which we are so grateful.” Gifts were calculated from the inception of the Woman’s Missionary Union in 1888, when the organization first began raising money for international missions.
