Over the last four years of working with Epic I have seen the Lord work in truly awe-inspiring ways. I have seen students embrace the truths of the gospel and follow Jesus for the first time. I have had the privilege of walking with students, learning and growing alongside them. More than anything, I have had the wonderful blessing to witness firsthand what the Lord is doing through this ministry at Cal Poly Pomona. Nothing has brought me greater joy than witnessing the Lord transform the lives of students as they step into deeper relationship with Him.

I am extremely grateful and blessed by all of you who have partnered with me along the way, through both prayer and the generous giving of your finances. I cannot put into words how truly thankful I am.

After much contemplation, prayer, and counsel from my community, I have decided to resign from my part-time position with Epic. Especially this past year, after getting married, increasing my course-load, and as my role at church has grown, my capacity to faithfully and responsibly steward what God has given me has been stretched thin. I ultimately concluded to pursue pastoral ministry, committing my time fully to my studies at seminary and my position at church. Honestly, I am sad to step away from this ministry that has been such a huge part of my life for the last 8 years. It is where I truly gave my life to Christ, was led to pursue vocational ministry, and met lifelong friends(including Jessica!) This decision was not an easy one and was not my initial plan when I first started with Epic; however, I am excited for what the Lord has in store for this ministry as well as for my future apart from it.

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If you are interested in redirecting your giving

and continuing your giving to the Epic ministry, the team and students I served with are continually raising funds to reach the campus and send students on missions. If this is on your mind please contact me for more information.

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Please let me know if you have any questions. You can reach me through email: dillon.kim3050@gmail.com or at 8182968373.

Blessings,
Dillon Kim

Hello everyone!

For the last month, I have been shifting my focus from ministry with the students on campus and am now raising support and funds for the ministry. For the next couple of months or until I reach my financial goal, I will be fully focusing my hours that would have been utilized for campus ministry towards raising support.

During this time, I ask that you would keep me in your prayers. God through many of you, has provided time and time again. More than just the finances, God has encouraged and molded me during these times so that I could more faithfully and effectively be his hands and feet. My prayer is that He would do the same during these next couple of months.

I do want to apologize to you all. The expectation was that I would be fully focused on the ministry and in a sense, this support raising was not expected. This is something I take full responsibility for and am hoping to avoid for as long as I continue to work with the ministry. Some of you may recall that I transitioned to a smaller role sometime in the summer, and therefore also required less funding. Because I wanted to avoid accumulating excess funds, I recommended you consider reallocating your donations elsewhere.

While I don’t regret this at all, I lacked wisdom in how I executed this and am now in this situation. I am however still thankful, as I now get a chance to connect with new people and share about this ministry that God has placed on my heart. I hope to get a chance to connect and share with new faces about how God is continuing to work in and through Epic movement at Cal Poly Pomona.

If any of you would be interested in beginning, restarting, or increasing your financial giving, please reach out to me either through email, text, or anything at all. I would really like to connect at least once before you even consider any of these things!

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Thank you all for understanding and if you have any questions or comments that were unaddressed please let me know! And lastly, even if it may not be convincing, I truly truly believe that more than anything, I am in desperate need of prayer. If you’re able, even if it’s just once as you finish reading this, I ask that you would pray for me and for our Epic ministry. Thank you!

Prayer Requests

• Prayer for faith that God will provide in his time
• That God will continue to sustain and prosper the ministry
• For my heart to be bold and patient regardless of the circumstance
• Wisdom in managing and allocating my time and energy well

And if you or your family also have any prayer requests you’d like to share with me, please reach out to me or fill out the form below! No pressure to add your name or email address if you’d prefer to keep it anonymous.

Hello friends!

A quick update on this past semester, as I mentioned previously, I have started my schooling at Talbot School of Theology. This meant that for the last semester of Epic ministry, I have switched into a part time role as opposed to my full time commitment in my prior two years of serving.

This transition as well as the addition of my two new fellow staff members made for a very new and transformative semester! Michael and Nicolas were two of my past roommates who began as part time staff alongside Jamie and I this past fall. Being able to serve alongside them has been so encouraging and refreshing for me. Having more capacity as a team has opened the door for us to begin new and exciting things as a ministry! With a total team of 4 staff members now, my specific focus has been on leading our weekly outreach events as well as helping facilitate the freshmen men’s bible studies.

Campus Outreach!

Having more leaders and staff members has opened doors and opportunities for us to be creative and bold in how we carry out our mission of proclaiming Jesus to our community. Almost every Wednesday one of the student leaders and I would gather a handful of our students to evangelize on campus. We decided to focus on two main objectives. One was to emphasize and prioritize prayer as something of an engine for any and all activities we did. Even though we were pushing for students to be present and participate, we also wanted to be clear about how and why we were doing these weekly events. Secondly, we sought to find the balance of pushing Epic students out of their comfort zones, while also trying to accommodate and understand the fears or discomfort they may experience while evangelizing. This was a learning process as certain events were met with excitement while others were not. Taking time to really understand the reasoning behind these feelings in our students helped us to not only lovingly challenge them, but to also equip them and encourage them where they most felt discouraged!

Despite the ups and downs and even my failures like half melted ice cream, I was so blessed and encouraged both by our students and the people we met. So many steps of faith, big and small were taken, and I couldn’t be more proud of how our students shine the love of Jesus to the campus.

Bible Study

The second large focus I was given for this semester was helping to lead and facilitate men’s bible studies. Initially, my role was to co-lead a freshmen men’s bible study with a student leader. This time was easily one of the highlights of my week! To see young men so eager and hungry for the word with genuine questions and curiosity reminded me of why campus ministries can be so impactful. I personally came to Christ through a bible study just like these as a freshmen so having the opportunity to be a part of one was extra special for me. Partway through the semester, we as leadership made the decision to combine all of men’s bible study into one larger group. This provided great opportunities for the freshmen to familiarize themselves with the rest of the ministry while studying the word and getting a chance to hear from others. For the upperclassmen, I witnessed a compassion and care for the newer faces and saw elements of sacrificial leadership emerge. These brothers who have been cared for and loved by the ministry were eager to pay it forward in a sense.

It was in these bible studies I got a chance to meet with one of our students who is not a believer but has been actively participating and has become a part of the community. I was shocked to hear that he did not believe and had never been to church because of how curious he was and how intently he studied the word during these times. Witnessing how we as a community are able to show him Christ-like love, and seeing how shocking and impactful these small acts of kindness are to our brother have reminded me in my own personal doubts and insecurities that God is moving through me and this ministry, and that His plan is great.

Prayer Requests

• Prayer for the ministries student leaders and us staff members
  • That we would continually be reminded of our need for the Gospel
  • For soft hearts that do not become jaded in the midst of serving
  • For boldness to stand firm for Christ in every situation
• Prayer for the campus
  • That God would prepare the hearts of those we will interact with
  • For our students to be courageous in spreading the gospel