The Beginning of a New Life Work
Lottie Moon began her missionary work at the North China Mission Station in Shandong China. Her experience as a teacher gave her an opportunity to begin her work with confidence as well as an opportunity to learn the ways and lifestyle of the Chinese people in her region where she was sent to work. While making visits in distant villages while travelling with missionary wives she found in her heart that her true calling was to evangelism and creating new church communities
The Call of God to Missionary Work
Charlotte "Lottie" Moon held education vital to her work and life. In 1861 Lottie received one of the first Master of Arts degrees awarded to a woman by a Southern Baptist institution. Lottie, being gifted in language, learned Latin, Greek, French and Italian and in time she would become an expert in Chinese. Although in the mid nineteenth century there were very few opportunities for a women, but her sister Orianna became a physician and served as a doctor for the Confede