Poignantly encouraged more workers to be sent
- Appointed as a missionary to China in 1872.
- Wrote impassioned letters describing the realities of mission work and the desperate need for more workers.
Expanded Work (1885-1894)
- Encouraged Southern Baptist Women to organize mission societies in local churches, which led to the formation of Woman’s Missionary Union.
- Advocated for the first international missions offering in 1888, which raised enough money to send three new missionaries to China.
Famine & Scarcity (1894-1912)
- Experienced firsthand the realities of mission work in a poverty-stricken, war-torn and starving country and gave of herself and her limited resources sacrificially.
Served in the Shandong Province for 39 years. Died en route to the U.S. on Christmas Eve, 1912.
- WMU named the annual missions offering after Lottie in 1919 to honor her passion and dedication to overseas missions and to inspire future generations.


