Kevin Pike Ministry Blog

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...

 January Blog      Hello everyone! Hope your 2025 is going so spectacular, Keep those new years resolutions up and running, I believe in you. This year is going to be a great one because we've already had a fantastic start, lets jump into it! Winter Retreat      Every year we host our much anticipated Winter Retreat the weekend before school starts and this year we had our biggest turn out yet. 700 students from our campuses around the DFW area came to spend a weekend seeking out Jesus and friendships. I had about ten guys from my small group come to the retreat and they have not stopped talking about it since.      The sermons were all centered on the topic of, "Who is Jesus?" Our director, Brandon Worscham, started the weekend off with telling us three stories about Jesus and what they said about his character. He chose Jesus's first miracle of turning the water into wine, the story of Peter almost drowning in water, and the woman touc...

  Christmas Blog     Hey everyone! I hope that y'alls Christmas was full of sugar canes and gum drops! We had a great December at Collin, ending the year with a bang. Here are some of the happenings that went on before the students headed to break!      Christmas Party:     To end the year we had a Christmas party with the theme being, "Christmas Morning", so students showed up in their pajamas, we served them hot breakfast, and we had a living room style photo booth so they could take pictures with their friends! It was super fun and a big hit among all the students.      We did have a Christmas themed, devotional message that Sarah, our director, gave which encouraged the students to remember the real meaning behind Christmas. That our God, the creator the entire universe, decided to save us by lowering himself to the status of a human and to die for us. His creation that did not deserve to be died for. Yes presents and sweet food...

 November Blog      Hey everyone! Hope y'all are heading into Thanksgiving with high spirits! This is a great time to meet up with family and to stop worrying about our day to day routines. As I am about to head into the break for Thanksgiving, I want to invite y'all in on what has been going on in our ministry this past month!     Pizza Theology:     Pizza theology is an once a semester event where we allow students to take a college level deep dive into a specific theology topic while also eating Cici's pizza. This year we invited a renowned, professor from Regent School of Theology, Dr. Rikk Watts, to come and teach us about the book of 1 & 2 Samuel. It is an honor to have this man come and expound all of his learnings and research unto us. He is a scholar of the Bible and we could not have been any more blessed to have him teach us a book from the Old Testament.      I was enamored with how Dr. Watts talked about prayer. He ...