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Tippecanoe Church Welcomes You! Home of "Living Waters Contemplative Life Center" ...offering spiritual formation opportunities to all people!
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The Interfaith Conference has chosen Tippecanoe Church to receive "The Rev. Herbert Huebschmann Urban Ministry Award* -- This award is given annually to a *congregation (or organization)* whose involvement typifies projects and outreach that are making significant contribution to the quality of life in the greater Milwaukee area.
CHECK OUT TIPPE'S NEWEST MINISTRY: TIPPECANOE COMMUNITY GARDEN including The Native American Healing Garden Tippe is also a FOOD JUSTICE SITE for the PCUSA's Hunger Program Scroll across the toolbar to find our TCG page!
Tippe Church is part of the "Emerging Church" Phenomenon Relevant and Responsive
Open and Affirming Engaged and Engaging Informal and Radically Traditional Honoring The Sacred Masculine and Feminine Embracing The Mystic Within Welcoming All
We Are Of One Spirit....not necessarily of one mind!
YES! Tippecanoe Church is the church providing All Night Prayer Vigils as Cold Weather Intervention to the homeless in the BayView - Cudahy areas of Milwaukee! SCROLL across top of page to find out more....NOW! "They" need YOUR support!
Tippe is an affiliate member of... The Center for Progressive Christianity An Approach to Christianity that is inclusive, innovative, and informed. To find out more, go to: http://www.tcpc.org/template/index.cfm and The Presbyterian Covenant Network
Tippe is Green! Tippe is a partner in the Interfaith Earth Network.
We really appreciate your being here. Our hope is you will get a sense of who we are and God's presence with us. We understand the importance of life stories, hopes, dreams, spiritual journeys. We would feel honored to share our story with you and to hear your story. Take a look around our site. We have lots to offer each other. Please give us a call or come Sunday morning at 9:30 AM to join us in worshiping. On a spiritual quest? Looking to develop a personal relationship with God while held within a community that challenges as well as nurtures you? Open to the diverse gifts and insights of others? Desiring to find your unique "way" to faith within a sense of "oneness" known in a depth community? Then.... - Come, try a church that sees life as an expression of worship - uplifted by prayer and grounded in care for others.
- We get it! For faith to support you, it has to work in real life situations....a confrontation on the job, a crisis with a friend, an attempt at reasoning with your two year old. At least, that's how we see it at Tippe. We're here to help.
- We not only recognize that God gave each of us a mind of our own, we believe that God expects us to use it, creatively! When you visit us, you'll hear the gospel preached with strength, gentleness, and insight. You will experience us praying, laughing and crying, singing and growing together.
- So, if you're looking for a religion that makes as much sense on Monday as it did on Sunday, and a place that's as good for your soul as it is for your mind, give us a try.
Life-Giving Sunday Morning Worship 9:25 a.m.
Tippe Cafe follows!Then the morning continues with thought-full education classes for all! (During the program year.) Click here for details
Nursery Care is provided throughout the morning.
Living Waters Contemplative Life Center is a mission ministry of Tippecanoe Church. It is an outreach to unchurched, dischurched and formerly churched peoples of any and many faith traditions. Further, its mission is to make spiritual formation opportunities affordable to all people, especially those of modest income and the working poor. Its offerings are funded through much appreciated donations and the generosity of the members and friends of "Tippe".
Coming As Our Worship Focus This Lent.... Pre-Occupied With The Gospel: A Season Of Self-Reflection! Accompanied by provocative Adult Education! See Passion Week Schedule on Special Events Page... Please come!
Our Advent Theme This Year.... Sacred Silences...What Isn't Being Said!
This theme will gather us in worship starting Sept. 19th:
FAITH: Try It on Everything! ...for the way we do anything IS the way we do everything!
A Week of Holy Breathing Palm Sunday Celebration at Summerfield United Methodist with Village Lutheran too! Three Churches....One Big Community! Worship, donkey walk, fellowship and Easter egg dying. Maundy Thursday...At Tippe: Simple dinner and Living the Story Together...Fellowship & Worship. 6:30pm into quiet. Good Friday Ecumenical Worship - Walking the Cross from Tippe to Prince of Peace Lutheran. Saturday Vigil...Vigil Blessing and Labyrinth Walk into the Vigil of Waiting. Easter Sunday at Tippecanoe..Easter brunch, egg hunt, worship with special music and dance celebrations..
Holy Breath... Our 2010 Lenten Worship Theme! Gathered within this breath-taking theme we are reminded that life is breath and God is life! Using the Aramaic teachings of the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes to support our journey, and breath work and special music, too.... explored Lent with the mindfulness of our deepest connection to each other and creation.... OUR BREATH! THE JOURNEY! Don't hold your breath another instant! EXHALE and BREATHE DEEPLY!
ADVENT 2009 up to the New Year... Followed Our Theme:
Before Your Cradle...Before The Creche How the stories of Jesus' family and our families shape us...And Not! And the season was complete with festivities: Hanging of the Greens, potluck community lunch Advent fun and games after worship (11/29/09) Christmas Caroling to our shut ins (12/20/09) Carols in the Sanctuary Christmas Eve followed by Christmas Eve Family Candle-light Service New Year's Worship (12/27/09)..a meditative service of simple song and prayer to usher in a new year of life and ministry! Epiphany Good News with the Garlic Mustard Pickers (1/3/10) a day spent de-hanging the Greens and enjoying chili lunch, Epiphany Kings, cake, song, dance & fun
Our Fall 2009 Worship and Gathering Theme... Through The Heart Of God: Recycling Our Thinking, Our Habits, Our Very Souls!
Eastertide 2009! Our Theme..... Allelujah! Yes, We Can! In God, we find our Easter-hope and are invited each day to live that hope! Allelujah, Yes, We Can! We are each reminded we are the ones who change lives… and the world…with our own two hands. The movement we’ve been looking for is here! We can make it happen! We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!
Last Year - Lent Our Lenten 2009 theme was: What If Church Were A “Movement” ….And You Were The First To Join? IT IS! AND, YOU ARE! Movements begin with some-one’s passion ….and create hope! Hope creates the thing ….that it contemplates. Yet…hope denied, sedates. So, find your hope! Don’t let it be denied! The movement you’ve been looking for is here! It is a socio/political/progressive movement... a psychological, emotional, spiritual movement within. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!
And there was Mardi Gras: Fat Tuesday into Ash Wednesday Celebration and Worship Expression! Pancakes, mask making, crowning the Queen & King.. before our moving into Lent
Bringing us together in 2008............. An in-between time in HIS life..Winter weeks of preparation.....for our journey with HIM through life....The wisdom teachings of Jesus from an in-between time in HIS life...the time between HIS call and the beginning of HIS ministry..an ordinary extraordinary time! During our journey with HIM, we ask ourselves What kind of help is help...now? preceded by... Advent Preparation for the Celebration of new life in HIS Birth: FRAMING THE SEASON with HOPE, PEACE, LOVE AND JOY....framing with birthing stories...Jesus' and our own!
Fall worship 2008 gathered in the theme.... The Fallow Way Fall colors, crisp air, and autumn aromas remind us we have much bounty in our lives, plenty even in these seemingly sparse times.
Lent 2008 “To Walk In The Garden” Walking the Garden as Families. God the Creator creates out of love, through families.
Long ago, but Not So Far Away.... our 2007 Autumn worship theme "Falling Forward" continued into October as we worshiped around the theme: "A Sigh Too Deep For Words" Eastertide at Tippe 2007, Our Theme for This Joyous Time was "If You Want to Walk on Water...You Have To Get Out of the Boat!" built from our Lenten theme: "We Don't Have to Travel in the Same Boat to Journey Together"
The People Of Tippe Celebrate Our Gifted Staff:
Pastor: Rev. Karen Hagen enlightened preacher and intergenerational educator, certified spiritual director, reiki master, interfaith justice acitivist, ecumenical retreat leader, Threshold Singer, member of Spiritual Directors International
Director of Music Ministry: Mark Wooldrage featuring specially enhanced worship music, the ministry of the Celebration Singers, children's music, special ensembles.
Mark invites you to join in the ministry with us. Mark writes much original music for worship based on our seasonal themes ....beyond praise.... and leads the Tippe Band which uses a blend of Celtic, Blue Grass, and Rock.
Mark works collaboratively with Richard Bruxvoort Colligan as we use much of Richard's music, as well as Karen Drucker's music, in all aspects of our worship life together. Tippe's Accompanist: MaryBeth Garrett
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