Kevin Pike Ministry Blog

July Update     Hey everyone! Hope you had a fantastic 4th of July! Superman and Fantastic Four are out in theaters right now, summer is in full swing! We had a lot of great things happen this month, let's jump right in! ACTIVATE:     ACTIVATE is a new program that we started that serves as a SICM refresher course for all of our students who we are considering to become leaders. SICM was our leadership conference that we sent all of our students to this past May, ACTIVATE is for all the students who went to SICM at anytime and want a reminder of all the information that was taught there. This is a weekend long seminar that goes over topics like; Spiritual Disciplines, Inductive Bible Studies, How to Evangelize on Campus, How to Lead a Small Group, etc. It was great to see some familiar faces. I  got to lead a session with one of my coworkers on a "Prayer Workshop". We taught the students what prayer is, why we should do it, and some prayer exercises that th...

June Update      Hello everyone! Hope your summer has been going great! The heat can't stop, won't stop Focus! I can not wait to tell y'all all that has been going on, let's jump into it :) Summer TNF (Thursday Night Fellowship)      This summer, we’re still meeting up every Thursday night! During the school year, we host the event just for students at Collin College, but in the summer, we open it up to all of the FOCUS campuses—and it’s a blast! We’ve had record numbers of students showing up. The church is packed with young adults who want to spend their summers with others rather than wasting it. The service usually consists of worship music, announcements, a sermon, and then ends with more worship music. I would love for y’all to come on down and join us for a service! You can find us at Care Church in Richardson every Thursday night at 7:30 PM. Hope to see you there—let me know if you want to come, and I’d be happy to show you around! Here are some pho...

May Blog  Hello everyone! Summer is here—get ready for the heat! I hope you enjoyed the rain while it lasted. As May wraps up, I’m excited to share how God has been working in our ministry this month. It’s been an incredible time for both our staff and students! SICM (Student Institute of Campus Ministry)      Every year, we take students with leadership potential to a week-long conference in Bellingham, Washington called SICM. There, they receive training in ministry and evangelism so they can return to their campuses in the fall equipped to be ambassadors for Christ. We partner with a ministry called CCF—essentially the FOCUS of Bellingham—whose staff generously shares their 40+ years of ministry wisdom throughout the week.      Each day includes three sessions designed to grow students as spiritual leaders. Topics this year included evangelism and campus outreach, intimacy with the Lord, critical Bible reading, Kingdom diversity, how to write a ...

April Blog       Hey everyone! I hope y'all had a great Easter and were able to spend some wonderful time outside as the weather is about to get real hot in Texas! The school year is coming soon to a close, but we are still going strong! Here is what happened this past month at Collin College.   TNF:      TNF (Thursday Night Fellowship), has been a blast! I mentioned last month about our new sermon series that we started, it is called "How do disciples think about..." which then every week we cover a different topic regarding topics that we best believe our students need to hear. We have so far done: How do disciples think about getting advice, their role in community, conflict, their bodies and mental health, and dating. This is our last week before our end of the year party and I will be finishing off the sermon series by preaching on commitments. We have noticed that there is an overall issue with commitments among our students and that they ne...

 March Blog     March is here! This month has been so much fun and I'm excited to let y'all in on it! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work full time doing what I love most, college ministry!  TNF (Thursday Night Fellowship):     Our weekly Thursday Night Fellowship meetings are going great! We are having an average of 80-90 students come every week which is amazing! We are so blessed to have such a great group of consistent students spend their Thursday evenings worshipping the Lord instead of being at home doing who knows what. We have just finished our sermon series on, "Disciples Are..." where every week we choose a different characteristic of Jesus to talk about. We talked about disciples being; humble, intentional, generous, servant hearted, sacrificial, and prayerful. We have realized as a staff team that our students are more engaged with and remember sermon series when there is a clear outline and direction that we are going with. For exa...

 February Blog       Hello everyone! I hope you have been able to stay warm during some of this month's turbulent weather. I am glad to be wearing shorts today as I write this instead of thermal pants. No matter the temperature, ministry at Collin College has steadily continued and it has been a great month!      Pizza Theo:      Pizza theology is an once a semester event where we allow students to take a college level deep dive into a specific topic while eating pizza. This semester our topic was on finances and what God says about them. The title for the talk was "Biblical Facts about Stacks on Stacks", that was to appeal to our students who are Gen-Z. Stacks on stacks refers to making a lot of money, it was a lit attempt to get them locked in. Sorry for that, but we were blessed to have our staff make some great lectures based on Biblical teachings on money. We talked about what the Old Testament says about money, what it means t...