Kevin Pike Ministry Blog

 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...

 January Update     Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are staying warm, as the snow has arrived here in the DFW area! My wife and I went sledding one day, and it was a lot of fun :) Here is an update on what happened this January! Winter Retreat 2026:     Every year, we have our Winter Retreat the weekend before school starts so that our students can shake off the mildew of the break and start the semester intentionally spending time with God and friends. This year was a huge blast! We had a record-breaking and campground-maxing 830 students from our 14 different campuses that FOCUS is on around the DFW area! We had around 60 students come from our Collin campuses, which is such a blessing! All of the students I talked to had a wonderful time, and they can’t wait for next year. This year, we had Marty Solomon come and speak to us for five one-hour sessions. He is the creator of the BEMA Podcast, which I highly recommend, and is a missi...

December Update     Hello everyone! The weather is getting colder, the jolly times are just are the corner and the Hallmark movies aren't losing their charm and getting any older. I hope you all get to have a Merry Christmas and celebrate the Lord's birth! Here is what happened this month with ministry at Collin College. TNF (Thursday Night Fellowship):     We had our Christmas end of the year party which was so much fun. We served them spaghetti and meatballs, in honor of the Elf movie as he likes to eat dessert spaghetti, and played a lot of fun games together. It was a great way to end the year and send off the students for the semester. Here are some pictures from the event:      CORE:      The semester ended off well for our small groups. I mentioned in a blog a couple of months ago that our small group attendance and consistency was shaky at best which was discouraging. This was because some of our students often did not show up du...

 November Update      Hey everyone! Thanksgiving is almost here! I pray you all have a wonderful time with your families and eat some good food together! This year has blown by so quickly, here is what happened this past month. Pizza Theo:     Every school semester we host an event called Pizza Theology where for five hours, students come and listen to collegiate level talks about a specific topic that Focus chooses. This semester, we had a Dr. Rikk Watts come and talk to us about the gospel of John. This man has been studying the bible for over 30 years in the New Testament and it was so cool to hear the results of his intensive studies. He went in depth into certain stories by providing the historical background and cultural significance of each passage which is right up my alley. He made the text come alive by asking certain questions to get us thinking about the story in ways I had not thought about before. Dr. Watts also made sure to bring up evidence ...