Gordon Fort (center), vice president of overseas operations for the International Mission Board (IMB), presented a letter from legendary missionary Lottie Moon to Wanda Lee (left), executive director of national Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU), and Kaye Miller, WMU president, June 10 at the WMU Missions Celebration and annual meeting.
The letter was a surprise gift to WMU for their role in the 2006 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, which reached a record $150.1 million. An audible buzz rippled through the room as Fort unveiled the 118-year-old letter, protected by a special glass frame.
An inscription on the frame read: "In appreciation to Woman’s Missionary Union for encouraging Southern Baptists to faithfully give through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering so that all peoples may know Him." (BP)
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