CEE Story From The Mission Field
Who Benefits from the LMCO?
December 2, 2003
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
TO: ALL SOUTHERN BAPTISTS CONCERNED FOR LOST WORLD
FROM: DR. RODNEY L. HAMMER, REGIONAL LEADER
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD
Who benefits from the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (LMCO) for International Missions? The Southern Baptist Convention? The International Mission Board? No. The chief beneficiaries of your gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering are the lost!
Do you not like a personality in convention leadership? Think the denomination and its agencies already have enough money? Tired of "battlin' Baptists"? Got some other beef?
The lost in Central and Eastern Europe -- and around the world -- don't know or care about these things. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is for them. It sends and supports those who deliver Good News. It provides for the Bibles, the tracts, the films, the starting of new churches.
Want to give to a worthy cause? There is no more worthy cause! Want to know there are still heroes worthy of your and your children's admiration? My colleagues -- your Southern Baptist missionaries -- are true heroes.
More than a century ago, a passionate missionary in China wrote to her fellow Southern Baptists in the United States, challenging them with the cries of a lost world and urging them to give their lives and money sacrificially so all peoples might know Jesus Christ. Her message may be even more relevant today than it was then.
In the December 1887 edition of the Foreign Mission Journal, Lottie Moon wrote: "How many there are... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God."
If you love the Lord Jesus Christ and the lost who are without hope that only the Christ of Christmas can give, then please give sacrificially and significantly to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.
They don't know it, but the lost are depending on you.
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