COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BP)--What could be better than serving as a North American Mission Board missionary in picturesque Colorado Springs? After all, the city of 380,000 backs up to the base of snow-capped, 14,000-foot-tall Pikes Peak on the edge of the Rocky Mountains.
Money and Outside magazines have both deemed it No. 1 on the list of the best places to live in the United States. It's perceived as a Christian "mecca" because so many evangelical Christian organizations are headquartered here, such as Focus on the Family, The Navigators, the International Bible Society and Young Life.
Colorado Springs is a military stronghold, the location of NORAD, the United States Air Force Academy, two Air Force bases and an Army base.
The 6,000-foot-high city is headquarters to the U.S. Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic Training Center and the national sports federations for Olympic bobsledding, fencing, figure skating, basketball, boxing, cycling, judo, hockey, swimming, shooting, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling.
The Colorado Springs area is also a vast wilderness of "lost" souls. Just ask Bill and Carol Lighty.
Bill, 53, serves as a NAMB national missionary and director of missions for the Pikes Peak Baptist Association, which includes about 50 Southern Baptist churches and church plants. Read More
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