In 1967 when Sharon Chumney, Price was a 12-year member of Girls’ Auxiliary (GA), she visited Lottie Moon’s gravesite in Crewe, Va.
More than 30 years later her daughter, Allison Price, also a GA (now Girls in Action), made the same trip to see where the famous Baptist missionary is buried.
“My grandparents lived in Blackstone, Va., and I found out that Lottie Moon’s grave was nearby,” Sharon said. “When you think about what a world traveler Lottie Moon was, it was something that her final resting place was in a tiny town so close to where my roots are.”
Allison, who is 12, attends Spring Hill Baptist Church in Mobile with her family. She said she had heard about Lottie Moon’s work in China in GAs.
“I’d been learning about her since first grade,” she said. “She’s such a heroine and a great person. It was neat to see her grave.”
“We learned that she and other missionaries risked their lives going to China,” Allison said. “I know that talking about Christ and the Bible there is against the law now.”
Sharon said that her daughter’s enthusiasm for missions is evident already in her middle school life.
“She started a Bible study at school for kids in the seventh grade,” she said.
Allison said she’s had the opportunity to witness to a Chinese classmate, too.
“I gave her a Bible and when she started reading it she was so confused,” she said.
“So now I’m going through it with her.”
“Allison would like to go on a missions trip with our church one day,” Sharon said. “I told her that she doesn’t have to go on a missions trip to be a missionary.”
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