Pike Mennonite Church

01/25/2026

Pike Church has cancelled its Sunday program (1/25). Pray for the first responders, for those facing health emergencies and bad roads, and for everyone who experiences today's weather with broken heaters, frozen pipes, or inadequate shelter. Stay home, stay warm, and stay safe! God bless you.

12/17/2025

Spotify Wrapped? Pike Church "sees" your annual summary, and "raises" you two years!

For your listening pleasure, here's an "Omnibus Edition" of the Pike Playlist. It includes nearly all the songs that we've sung together during our Sunday morning worship over the past three years.

Kudos to our music director, Wes Hartman, who — according to this "Omnibus" — has led more than eleven hours of non-repeating congregational song in this timeframe. We are blessed! Praise God! Listen here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1heIUnYDWMJL0l0suJZLtA?si=a6ede70d363a4c35

11/22/2025

Tomorrow morning, we’ll open the Bible to a difficult passage: the destruction of Jerusalem (2 Chron. 36). We’ll hear about the “yoke” that God presented to His people: submission to the king of Babylon (Jer. 27). We’ll also hear about the “yoke” to which God calls sinners like us, in Christ (Mt. 11). Come and see!

11/15/2025

👎 The bad news: Sungbin Kim won’t be able to join us tomorrow for a “missions spotlight.”

👍 The good news (…well, *some* good news): Earl, Steve, and Matt attended the Western Ohio MDS meeting today, and we have a great “missions spotlight” prepared for tomorrow morning’s service.

Show up at Pike tomorrow to find out about how is:

🔨 making a difference for folks whose homes were swept away by floods in Appalachia

🔨 partnering with to raise up a new generation of godly craftsmen

🔨 how *you* can get involved with what God’s doing, here!

Be sure to admire the display outside of the Pike sanctuary… before you pillage it for stickers, hats, keychains, books, and water bottles! See you at church, tomorrow!

11/08/2025

At Pike Church, we challenge individualism in spirituality and worship. Biblical Christianity is not a solo project: It’s not "just me and Jesus." It can’t be. God has made the church — the fellowship of His people in Christ — central to His purposes on the earth.

But challenging an *individualistic* faith is not the same as denying the importance of a *personal* faith.

We champion a personal trust in Jesus Christ, who leads men from the isolation of individualism, into deep communion with their fellow redeemed sinners.

Through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, Jesus makes us members in His Body: a community founded upon God’s grace alone; built upon the foundation of His cross — God’s pattern and provision for our salvation.

Somtimes, people will criticize contemporary “praise & worship” music for its perceived individualism: for how “me,” “me,” “me” can become the focus of the song, instead of a holy, holy, holy God.

If we were only counting words, maybe such critics would have point when it comes to “Amazing Love” by Charles Wesley.

Yes, each part in "Amazing Love" sings: "for me," "for me," "for me." But this, alone, is no evidence of individualism. Each part — each “me” — is skillfully arranged: woven to together, complementing one another; united into a song where each voice remains distinct, yet the beauty of each is enhanced, not diminished, by its relation to the others.

“Amazing Love” isn’t individualism. It’s an apt expression of personal Christian faith, and of the beauty of Christian community, which lives to proclaim the amazing love of God in Jesus Christ.

God is powerfully at work in the lives of individuals to bring salvation… of this, we have no doubt! And we are also confident that God’s saving work sets individuals free from their isolation; God carries them, rejoicing, into the fellowship of His New Covenant people, visible today in the local church… and at Pike Church.

Here, God is raising up a Body more wonderfully designed than Wesley's hymn… and He’s giving every sinner who turns to Christ a wonderful part to sing.

“Amazing love! And can it be... that Thou, my God, shoulds't die for *me*?”

Listen here:
https://youtu.be/PMCOyY0Rlus?si=xV5CBIB0KCxTMrLys aineaulwshondsib w

11/07/2025

Caffeinate, early and often. Pray, early and often.
Join us, men, at Haehn's in Delphos at 8am.

11/06/2025

Our friend Kiran Paul is visiting again from India! Join us at 9:30am on Sunday as we shine a "missions spotlight" on the work of Berachah Children's Home in Andhra Pradesh. Stay for the 10:30 service, and hear Kiran bring a message from the Book of Micah, as he joins in our Fall "Division & Defiance" series!

11/05/2025

Come to dinner, tomorrow night!

11/05/2025

Prepare for worship! Read the Scriptures and listen to the Pike Playlist for Sunday, November 9, 2025:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7bXsYcfALyooiTpJ9aDtKG?si=fa62dca4bf5a4570

11/01/2025