Billions of people around the world have never heard the name of Jesus. This year, we are stepping out in faith with a God-sized goal: to give $1 million through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering to support missionaries serving with the International Mission Board. Every dollar you give goes directly to the field—fueling gospel work, meeting needs, and making Christ known among the nations. Together, we can reach the billions who are still waiting to hear the Good News.
100% of every gift to Lottie Moon goes directly to support overseas missionaries.
Because of your faithful giving in 2025:
From the Mission Field:
In the West, many girls grow up dreaming of becoming a princess. For women trafficked into prostitution, those childhood dreams can become painfully distant. In South Asia, however, many girls from impoverished villages and urban slums never imagined such a life in the first place. Traffickers prey on vulnerable families with false promises of work, often selling girls into prostitution, trapping them with debt, threats, or child marriage. International Mission Board missionary Carlie Blyth has made it her mission to tell these women a different story: they are fearfully and wonderfully made, those who belong to Christ have an eternal inheritance, and there is a King who loves them. Working alongside South Asian ministry partners Anvi and Reyansh, Blyth helped begin weekly prayer meetings in a red-light district in 2021, filling a gap where rescue and rehabilitation efforts existed, but the gospel was not consistently being shared.
Since then, the ministry has grown through prayer meetings, women’s camps, children’s programs, discipleship, and a halfway house supported by Send Relief where women can learn job skills and prepare for a new life. Over the last three years, nine women have left prostitution because of their faith in Christ. At annual camps, women worship, study Scripture, fellowship, play games they never had the opportunity to enjoy as children, and spend time in fervent prayer. Several women have surrendered their lives to Jesus during these gatherings and walked away from the red-light district, often leaving behind nearly everything they know. The halfway house now provides sewing and tailoring training, discipleship, and instruction in sharing the gospel and making disciples. Blyth says their decisions are about much more than finding another job: “Because of Jesus, they wanted to leave that area.”
Among them are Prasana and Nabina, two women who now call one another sisters because of all they have endured together. Prasana spent years attending prayer meetings and saying she wanted to leave, but she remained in prostitution until finally surrendering her life to Christ at one of the camps. While she was learning to trust God with an overwhelming family crisis, her incarcerated son encountered a pastor in jail, heard the gospel, and committed his own life to Christ. Today, Prasana and Nabina live in the halfway house and are preparing for what may come next. They hope to return in 2027 to the village from which they were trafficked, using their sewing and tailoring skills to support themselves while helping plant a church. In a place marked by profound darkness and exploitation, Blyth says the ministry is also filled with tremendous joy because they are watching lives be transformed. Women who once had little reason to imagine themselves as princesses are discovering something far greater: in Christ, they are daughters of the King.
Names were changed for security.
Vennico is the only believer in his family and comes from one of the largest unreached people groups in Guinea, West Africa. His decision to follow Christ has brought rejection, ridicule, and isolation from family members who have called him a “fool” and “lost.” When International Mission Board missionary Tristan Liam asked what helps him persevere despite the persecution, Vennico answered simply: “I look to my right and to my left, and I realized that I am not perfect. My prayers are not perfect. But Christ! He is perfect.” Once living what he described as a reckless life, Vennico says faith in Christ has completely changed him. His church in Conakry and the faithful discipleship of other believers have become essential sources of encouragement as he grows in his faith.
Vennico’s discipleship journey began unexpectedly when IMB missionary Rees Morgan met him on a beach carrying a Bible. Morgan, discouraged and looking for a break from language study, invited Vennico to read Scripture with him. That simple invitation grew into a close friendship and months of studying God’s Word together. Although Vennico had previously attended a Catholic school and read the Bible, he said it was through these conversations that he began to truly understand the gospel. He eventually professed faith in Christ, was baptized, and joined Morgan in an outreach ministry that brought young men together for recreation and a weekly Bible study. When Morgan returned to the United States, he introduced Vennico to Liam so that the discipleship relationship would continue.
Today, Liam and Vennico meet each Thursday over a meal and spend hours studying Scripture, church history, the Reformation, and missions. Vennico is learning to write and teach sermons, leads a neighborhood Bible study each Monday, and continues sharing the gospel with others. Though much of his family still opposes his faith, some have slowly begun reconnecting with him. His vision now reaches beyond his own family and community: Vennico dreams of planting a church along the unreached border of Guinea and Sierra Leone. What began with a chance meeting on a beach has become a powerful picture of faithful discipleship, perseverance, and multiplication. Pray that God will continue strengthening Vennico and use the investment of these believers to establish a church among people who have little access to the gospel.
Names have been changed for security.
For more than 20 years, Stephen and Lyn Allwood and their three daughters have lived and served among primarily Buddhist people groups in the Himalayas, one of the most spiritually unreached regions in the world. Surrounded by breathtaking mountains, villages, monasteries, prayer flags, idols, and centuries-old religious traditions, the Allwoods are continually reminded that many people there have never heard of the Creator behind the beauty surrounding them. Both Stephen and Lyn felt called to serve in “hard, dark places” where Christ is largely unknown, and that calling has shaped their family’s life and ministry.
Their work takes them from local communities to remote mountain villages where there may be no churches at all. They build relationships, meet physical needs, share the gospel, disciple believers, and train local partners in practical and ministry skills. They’ve also helped provide food, water filters, winter clothing, medical and health education, and other resources through partnerships with Send Relief. Ministry in the Himalayas is physically demanding, with unreliable utilities, difficult travel, monsoon flooding, landslides, long treks, and communities that can be resistant to outside religious beliefs. Yet, over time, the Allwoods have seen people become more open as they hear about Jesus and experience His love through faithful relationships.
Support through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Cooperative Program allows the Allwoods to remain focused on reaching people with the gospel, providing necessities such as housing, transportation, homeschool resources, ministry projects, and solar-powered devices containing portions of Scripture for places without electricity or cell service. They ask believers to pray that God would open doors for His Word, give them boldness to proclaim the gospel, open hearts to receive the truth, turn people from darkness to light, and bring entire families and communities to faith in Christ. Their prayer is that these spiritually dark and difficult places would one day be filled with people transformed by the Light of the world. As Stephen said, “God, make me willing to do whatever is necessary to see the lost among this people come to be worshipers of you.”
Names have been changed for security.
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