Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon was born December 1840 on the family estate, Viewmont, in Albemarle County, Va.
One of three views of Lottie Moon’s Viewmont Home, Charlottesville, VA (circa 1937).
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Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon was born December 1840 on the family estate, Viewmont, in Albemarle County, Va.
One of three views of Lottie Moon’s Viewmont Home, Charlottesville, VA (circa 1937).
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Portrait of Lottie Moon
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A portrait of Edmonia Moon, Lottie’s little sister.
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Rankin pauses at the plaque which identifies Lottie Moon’s birthplace. The plaque was a gift of Woman’s Missionary Union, Albemarle Baptist Association of Virginia. (From “A Journey of Faith and Sacrifice: Retracing the Steps of Lottie Moon,” Chapter 1, p. 31, 1996).
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Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon was born December 1840 on the family estate, Viewmont, in Albemarle County, Va.
One of three views of Lottie Moon’s Viewmont Home, Charlottesville, VA (circa 1937).
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Lottie Moon, one of Southern Baptists most famous missionaries, served as a missionary to China from 1873 until her death in 1912. Lottie’s legacy will now be preserved beyond the Southern Baptist realm. Wulin Shenghui Church of Penglai in Shandong province, where Lottie Moon was a member during her time in Dengzhou, China, has been designated as a nationally protected historical and cultural site by The State Council of the People’s Republic of China.
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Lottie Moon and Anna Safford lived in this house while teaching in Cartersville, Georgia. Anna Safford, a good friend of Lottie Moon’s, taught with her at the Caldwell Institute in Danville, Kentucky. With churches still uneasy about appointing single female missionaries, the two later carved out their own niches as principals of the Cartersville (Georgia) Female High School. Anna became a Presbyterian missionary to China. (From “A Journey of Faith and Sacrifice: Retracing the Steps of Lottie Moon,” Chapter 2, p. 38, 1996).
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Photo of a letter from Missionary Lottie Moon to friends in the United States (the first letter from Miss Moon from China dated October 9, 1873).
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Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon was born December 1840on the family estate, Viewmont, in Albemarle County, Va.
Three views of Lottie Moon’s Viewmont Home in Charlottesville, VA, circa 1937.
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Detail of a Lottie Moon letter.
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Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon was born December 1840 on the family estate, Viewmont, in Albemarle County, Va.
One of three views of Lottie Moon’s Viewmont Home, Charlottesville, VA (circa 1937).
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Lottie Moon having tea with a cohort from China.
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Photo Illustration of Lottie Moon
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A portrait of a Chinese worker, left, missionary Effie Johnson Sears, middle, standing alongside Lottie Moon, far right. The Searses arrived in China for missionary work in 1892. Effie died in 1904.
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Pingtu, Home of Lottie Moon in China.
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Lottie Moon with Students at Japanese commercial school where she taught English, 1901.
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The Rankins and Pastor Qin Jai Ye talk with children outside Monument Street Church, founded by T.P. and Martha Crawford — two of Lottie’s fellow workers. (From “A Journey of Faith and Sacrifice: Retracing the Steps of Lottie Moon,” Chapter 3, p. 53, 1996).
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1911, Famine in China.
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This trunk accompanied Lottie on her 1912 return trip to the United States and contained only some clothing, silverware, pictures, letters and a diary. Her family wept to see how little she had left.
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Detail of a Lottie Moon letter.
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