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Dr. Charles E. Sharp, Executive Director of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, 1984-1993, passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 28, 2013. He was 77.

Sharp came to Colorado in 1982 as the director of Church Training and Music, a position similar to one he held in the Northern Plains Baptist Convention. In a 2004 interview, Sharp described his role. “When I got to Colorado,” he said, “it wasn’t long until I realized that my heart was really in the discipleship area. That became the primary responsibility as long as I was in Church Training and Music.” One of his favorite tasks was leading pastor groups through MasterLife, a discipleship class.

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 100^th 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