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Dear Colorado Baptist Pastors and Ministry Leaders:
It is time to prepare for this year’s CELEBRATION of the Nicy Murphy Colorado Missions Offering. I use the word “celebration” because this is a very special year for our offering. This year Nicy Murphy celebrates her 100th birthday and we want all Colorado Baptists to celebrate with her. It’s my desire that all our members have the opportunity to hear the impact this single woman has had and continues to have on our state and celebrate her life.
Not only is she a great missionary she is a gifted writer. Much of this year’s promotion will center on Nicy’s definition of Colorado Missions:
“It is ministering to souls who live in the midst of mountain grandeur, but who never lift their “eyes unto the hills” from whence their help might come; who enjoy God’s placid lakes, tumbling streams and majestic waterfalls, but who have never drunk of the Water of Life; who shepherd the sheep on a thousand grassy hillsides, but who do not know the Good Shepherd; who reap the golden grain from the fertile plains, but who are starving for the Bread of Life.” Nicy Murphy 1959 Read more
Ponderosa 50th Anniversary Celebration on June 4, 2011 
The stifling heat of summer makes you feel constantly moist; banana, coconut, and mango trees bearing fruit treasures on every corner; drenching monsoon rains swelling the enormous muddy rivers; dark skinned, brown eyed, black haired people everywhere giving you their “Salaam” (greeting of Peace); Not a mountain nor foothill in sight; This is obviously not Colorado.
"I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 
In the community near Wray Southern Baptist Church a 43 year old man had a stroke of his spinal cord and was paralyzed from the rib cage down. At the time the church was preparing a yard sale in order to raise money for new tables, but was compelled to instead use all the money collected for this man and his family.
