ChatColor method null?

Hello! I did something to my plugin that messed something up completely. I'm getting an NPE on ChatColor.
Error:

Code:

[14:50][[SEVERE]] java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.bukkit.ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes(ChatColor.java:206)
    at me.HeyAwesomePeople.kitpvp.LocalConfig.LocalConfig.<init>(LocalConfig.java:153)
    at me.HeyAwesomePeople.kitpvp.KitPVP.onEnable(KitPVP.java:130)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:250)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:324)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:404)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:441)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:375)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.n(MinecraftServer.java:352)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.g(MinecraftServer.java:326)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:282)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:182)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:436)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:628)

Line of error:

Code:java

mapChangingMessage = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', plugin.getConfig().getString("mapChangeMsg"));

Note that this is not the first method calling plugin, meaning plugin cannot be null. ChatColor itself is somehow null. I initialize this class doing this:

In main class:

Code:java

public LocalConfig config;

In onenable():

Code:java

config = new LocalConfig();

Pretty basic way. And I have been doing it this way forever. Any ideas on what could've gone wrong?

 

The value for the given path in your config must be missing, so a null value is being passed through that ChatColor method, resulting in an NPE.