page_title: Lottie Moon
section_title: Modern legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Lottie Moon / Modern legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: A monument to Lottie Moon, American Baptist missionary to China, on West Cherokee Street in Cartersville, Georgia.
context_page_description: Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon was a Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly 40 years living and working in China. As a teacher and evangelist she laid a foundation for traditionally solid support for missions among Southern Baptists, especially through its Woman's Missionary Union.
context_section_description: Lottie Moon has come to personify the missionary spirit for Southern Baptists and many other Christians as well. The annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions has raised a total of $1.5 billion for missions since 1888, and finances half the international missions budget of the Southern Baptist Convention every year.
  In terms of feminist historiography, Regina Sullivan argues that the decision of the Southern Baptists to allow women to engage in foreign mission work fit in well with the Protestant expectation that women ought to be the most pious members of society, influencing men to lead moral lives. However Moon was impatient with the usual restraints, and deliberately moved her China mission out of reach of male authority. Furthermore, she went so far as to persuade Southern Baptist women to form their own missionary organizations. However, Moon's feminist leadership was not followed by women back home. The women of the Women's Missionary Union manipulated her record to make her appear a martyr to the Christian cause rather than a feminist voice within the Baptist Church. In historical reality, Sullivan emphasizes, Moon was a pioneer for gender equality; as she wrote from China in 1893, "What women have a right to demand is perfect equality."
caption: A monument to Lottie Moon on West Cherokee Avenue in Cartersville, Georgia.
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