Kevin Pike Ministry Blog

 July Update      Hey everyone! Hope all is well and you all have enough sunscreen because it is really hot outside! We had a lot of great things going on this month as we prepare for welcome week next month! Let's jump into it! Activate 2026:     This month we hosted the second annual Activate Conference for our students. Activate is a refresher conference for our student leaders to get ready for the school year and go over information they were taught over the year and at SICM. We had around 70 students show up, which is so great to see students take a weekend off from their work and summer to be dedicated to learning more about the Lord! From Collin, there were 10 of our students who are ready to hit the campus running when school starts to evangelize and share the good news!      The topics that we went over were: The Role of the Holy Spirit, Living as Missionaries, Ministry Case Studies, How to Ask Good Questions, and Inductive Bible Stu...

June Update  Summer TNF:     During the summer, since school is out, the one main event we host on a weekly basis is Summer TNF (Thursday Night Fellowship) every Thursday night at 7:30pm at Care Church in Richardson. It would be great for you to join us! This summer, we are going over a sermon series called "Maturity" as we want to lay the groundwork for our students and help them become more mature spiritually. We have noticed that once students get out of the normal school year "Focus routine", they drift into a spiritual lukewarmness and do not know how to pursue Jesus on their own. So far, the students' reception to this series has been great! They engage with the sermons and feel conviction at the statements that our pastors have prepared for them. Here is one of the sermons if you'd like to listen to it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1DxfBrlpUlIwcdCgd4FCvp?si=8BvyijniRQCjKhZjYqtmWw     My role with Summer TNF this year has been Lead over the Apprent...

May Blog     Hey everyone! Hope all is well with you and your families! Here is what has happened in May! Fundraising :     Now that it is the summer and school is out, us pastors with FOCUS get to begin our fundraising efforts for the next school year. Currently, my wife and I are looking to raise an additional $3000 a month, or $36,000 , due to supporters leaving our team and adjusted goals due to our tenure on staff.      If you know of anyone who would be interested in hearing about campus ministry, let me know as we are trying to expand our network of partners so that we can be on campus full time. Also, let me know if you'd like to increase your donation, as that goes a long way as well! SICM (Student Institute for Campus Ministry):     Every year we send our students to SICM, a leadership conference in Washington to train them in becoming evangelists, not only on campus but for the rest of their lives. They are taught for seven d...

 April Blog      Hey everyone! I pray that the new year is treating you all well. Thank you so much for your prayers and support; all of you are truly a blessing to me. This month was a blast, let's jump into what happened! Assertiveness Workshop:     This past month, one of the staff members, Sandra, and I were tasked by our director team with leading an assertiveness workshop at all the campuses that have a FOCUS ministry in the DFW area. This was because our director team collectively noticed a lack of assertiveness among our students across the campuses. Our students were having difficulty engaging in conflict with their friends and/or families. They are afraid to call customer support and talk to someone over the phone, and to tell a food worker that their order is wrong and needs to be changed. Our students also do not know the difference between judging someone and calling out sin in someone’s life. Sandra and I developed a two-hour workshop to help...

 March Update     Hey everyone! I hope all is well, this month was a great one, so let's jump into it! General Ministry:     As of this week, I have started two more FOJ studies with guys in our ministry. FOJ (Focus on Jesus) is a ten-week study of scriptures that revolves around what Jesus said and did. These two guys were not interested in doing FOJ at the beginning of the semester for their own reasons, but on me asking them again recently, they agreed and want to study the Bible, which is exciting! Just in our first lesson, they have been asking a lot of good questions and are open to hearing what the Bible has to say. Recently, with two of the other men that I do FOJ with, we have finished the study and are now reading other books. With one of them, we are reading through a book called  More Ready Than You Realize . This is one of my favorite post-FOJ books to go through, as it provides practical advice on how to live a life that is full of evangelism ...

 February Update      Hey everyone! Hope you've been sticking with your New Year's resolutions from last month :) This month at Collin has been a blast, and I can't wait to share it with y'all! Pizza Theology: This month we had our bi-annual Pizza Theology. The subject was “How to Think Like a Christian.” We want our students to not only leave FOCUS with a better understanding of the Bible, how to be leaders, and how to build spiritual friendships, but we also want them to know how to think like a Christian. This will allow them to use wisdom from the Bible and their experiences in FOCUS to help make choices that align with Christ at every step of their adult lives. Schools are not always doing the best job of helping students learn how to think critically, so we are intentionally working to help train them in that skill. The students had a great time and learned a lot! Here are some pictures from the event: Here is the link to the spotify page if you would like t...