Four Feet Three Inches
Charlotte "Lottie" Moon stood only 4 feet 3 inches tall. But her impact on world missions was enormous.
In 1873, she sailed for China, a single woman in a world that questioned whether women should be missionaries at all. She lived among the Chinese, adopted their dress, ate their food, and learned their language perfectly.
She Gave Everything
During the great famine of 1911, Lottie gave away everything - her food, her savings, her possessions - to feed starving Chinese neighbors. When colleagues found her, she weighed only 50 pounds.
She died on Christmas Eve 1912, on a ship heading home.
Five Billion Dollars
But her letters had awakened American Christians to world missions. The annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, started in her honor, has raised over $5 billion for international missions.
"I have a firm conviction that I am immortal till my work is done."
A tiny woman who gave everything became the catalyst for the largest missions offering in history.
