Kevin Pike Ministry Blog

October Blog      Hello everyone! I hope y'all have been enjoying a many of pumpkin spice lattes and apple cider to your hearts content. It is the fall season, halloween is here, and ministry has been boomin! Here is a look at what happened in the great month of October this year!  Fall Retreat!!!:     Every year, we take our students to Camp Lebanon in Cedar Hill, TX for 24 hours so that they can get away from all the stresses of being a student and completely commit to Jesus, friendships, and the outdoors. Fall Retreat is one of our events that I look forward to the most. Students, myself included, always get to have a neat experience when they decide to commit their weekend to the Lord.      We had 65 students come with us this year and it was a blast! Most of both my small groups were there and they had a great time getting to hangout with one another and the Collin ministry as a whole. A snapshot of the things we did were: Singing worshi...

 September Blog     The dust has settled from Welcome Week and now things at Collin are starting to get into a grove! There has been a lot of exciting things this month so let's jump into it!  Core (Small Groups):      I am leading two Cores this year with my co-leader Stian. It has been a blast! One of our goals at Collin College is to reach as many as possible this year and so everyone of our staff members are leading two Cores. We have around 6-8 guys at each of our Cores and it has been so fun getting to know them all. All of the guys in our small group are committed Christians so Stian and I are looking to create Bible study plans that really dive deep into our faith so that we can challenge our guys to really live a life of devotion to Jesus for not only themselves, but to the classmates around them so their lives can be changed as well. We plan on exploring the call of devotion that the gospel brings using Ephesians and Romans passages. Here's a...

 WELCOME WEEK     Hey everyone! The new school year has started and wow it has been a lot of fun! God has been doing some great things on campus just after one week at school! For the first week of school, our entire staff at Collin spent everyday on one of the campuses to talk to students and invite them to come check out FOCUS. I can't wait to share with y'all about Welcome Week and how it went, here we go! Welcome Week: Monday     On Monday, I was at the Plano campus and we had our "First Day of School Photos!". For this event we made a large photo-booth that looked like a notebook piece of paper and had students take their photo in front of it like most kids used to do when they were younger. It was a great way to welcome students and get them excited for the first day. We also handed them book markers that had all of our info from FOCUS on it so they could keep it and check it out when they had the time too. Here are some photos from the event that day! Tue...

 June Blog       Hey everyone! Since it is summertime, there is not as much going besides me fundraising for this next school year, but there still is some great things going on that I want to share with y'all! Let's dive in it!  TNF (Thursday Night Fellowship):     Even though school is out for the summer, TNF is still going on. Although, it is now with all the students that are in FOCUS from all the different campuses that we are planted at. We all meet at the Care Church in Richardson at 7:30pm. It is a load of fun and it is so cool getting to see students from all the campuses come together and worship the Lord as one.      Our sermon series this year is called Embracing Life . This series is directed towards getting our students to be more engaged and active with the events and the circumstances that they find themselves in. Something that we have been discussing with our staff about is the fact that students are becoming more ...

May Blog Update     Hey everyone! Summer is here, time for the beach, getting dip n dots, and seeing family! I have a lot of good news to share so lets jump in the pool! SICM:      Every year we take our students who we believe to have leadership potential on a week long conference in Bellingham, Washington to teach them valuable ministry and evangelism skills so they can come back to their college in the Fall and be an ambassador for Christ anywhere they go. We partner with another campus ministry called CCF, which is like the FOCUS of Bellingham, whose staff takes the week to teach them the wisdom of campus ministry that they have learned over their 40+ years of ministry experience in Washington. It is such a fun and amazing experience for these students to have!     Most of the days would consist of three sessions that are aimed at developing skills to teach the students about what it means to be a spiritual leader on campus. The rest of the night i...

 April Blog     Hey everyone! Wow, it is almost May already, school is about to be out! It has gone by so fast and our students are ready for summer to finally hit. I hope you all are doing well! Let's jump into what this past month has been like!     SOW Week:     Every other year or so we have students and pastors from a ministry that we partner with in Bellingham, WA come down during their spring break to spend the entire week doing outreach with us. It was such a blessing to have them come to spread the word to the students of our college.       It was like another Welcome Week, an outreach marathon every day on the first week of school in August, but during the week they were here. The pictures below show some of the activities that we did throughout the week. It was so cool getting to talk with them to compare and contrast with their experiences doing outreach in Washington. They told us that students in Washington are not oft...