Ron Pickell has spent most of his ministry experience working with students on public college campuses first at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN and currently at the University of California, Berkeley both as the pastor of the Berkeley Seventh-day Adventist church and chaplain of the Adventist campus ministry group at UC Berkeley. Recently, August of 2008, he assumed the added responsibility of providing pastoral leadership of the Alameda, Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In 2005 Ron was asked to give leadership to a new initiative for Adventist campus ministry groups throughout the North American Division (NAD) as Coordinator of Adventist Christian Fellowship NAD (ACF/NAD). ACF/NAD is the official NAD organization for Adventist ministry on public college campuses. Ron is currently in a DMin program through Andrews Theological Seminary completing the cohort for Discipleship and Biblical Spirituality. His project involves the development of discipleship curriculum for collegiate faith development. Ron is married with three children.